User talk:Pellucid

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[edit] Image of dinosaurs

Turned out it was on conservapedia after all. Andjam 04:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Even if it was, it isn't now. Pellucid 05:05, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unreasonability

"Apologies, I'm just very used to dealing with unreasonable people and tend to assume that most people I have a disagreement with will be unreasonable about it. When I have the time, I'll look for a source, as I said below"

Translation: "I'm very used to considering people who disagree with me as being unreasonable, and most people I have a disagreement with I usually just call unreasonable."Yeago 19:51, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Sending people private messages specifically designed to attempt to insult them, I see. Doesn't that strike you as a little unreasonable? I love it when someone's own argument proves itself wrong. -- Pellucid 03:38, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not insulting you. I'm pointing at something. Namely, that you seemingly write off everything that you disagree with as being 'unreasonable', just like you call me now that you have found something you need to defend about yourself. And yes, I love it when someone's own argument proves itself wrong. You haven't really explained why its unreasonable, you're content to condemn it as such and move on. Also, this message is far from private. Good day.Yeago 13:49, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Alright, what is the REASON, then, for you coming here and insulting me? You don't even know me. You saw one conversation I had with one person who, in case you hadn't noticed, started whipping out the ad homs and sarcasm in an otherwise rational discussion. Based on this ONE conversation, and, furthermore, based on me APOLOGIZING for my tendency to assume that people are unreasonable until they prove otherwise, you have concluded that no argument that I am capable of putting forth has any substance, and that I am in denial about the validity of my opponent's arguments. Does that just about sum this nonsense up? Or would you like to have a few more moments of sarcasm before you go about your business? -- Pellucid 13:54, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I already said I didn't come here to insult you. But it didn't register the first time and I'm not sure it will the second. Also, no, that does not sum anything up. I never concluded that you're incapable of presenting an argument with substance. What prompted me to reply to you was an isolated glimpse of your behavior in a heated topic--far from comprehensive. Now, you're projecting motivations onto me which are imaginary. Its not entirely your fault that you're currently in defense/argue mode, but isn't there a surplus of that already? Do you see that this conversation is 1 part discussion to 3 parts arguing? (as opposed to the conversation in 1/2Hour:Talk, which started out bad and degraded to worse).

When you ask the opening question of your last message in a humane, nondefensive manner, I will answer it. If its full of the same defensiveness/imagination, I will just have to spend my time dealing with those, instead. We only have so much energy/attention, and I've already more than spent this round's.Yeago 16:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, what is the point of you coming here and being disrespectful? -- Pellucid 02:32, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Once again, I cannot agree. I am simply making an observation, and I've been very respectful. If you could get passed the idea that I'm trying to be insulting, we could really talk. But you can't. Strike 3.Yeago 05:05, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Well if you're not trying to be insulting, then you're pretty bad at being respectful. I'm not going to get "passed" the idea that you're trying to be insulting, because you ARE trying to be insulting. That, or trying to talk down to me. Either way, you're being disrespectful. At any rate, if you don't have a reason for coming in here and being a jerk (and you don't), then you are being unreasonable, and therefore you are proving my original statement correct. Most people I have to deal with (including you) are unreasonable. -- Pellucid 11:06, 17 March 2007 (UTC)