- I think that I really do have to give up to Jay -- I simply can't keep up with him.
Hogwash.
Six months ago I gave you an assignment I told you would take an hour to complete. If you're taking more than an hour to do it, you're not following my instructions. Now you are trying to tell me you don't have as little as a hour to set aside to actually participate in the debate in a way that's not self-aggrandizing. I haven't set you a task that would be inappropriate for the first day of an undergraduate philosophy class. I haven't set you a task you cannot do.
You simply don't want to do it. I think you won't do it because it denies you the tool you've used most effectively -- drawing out losing debates into shoals of endless repetition and pointless detail in order to avoid having to admit the defeat that's staring you in the face.. When it comes to simply stating and defending your case against a well-prepared opponent,
you can't do it. In a nutshell, you suck at the intellectual process.
Look at you even now, conceding the debate but trying to blame your critics as usual. You're not wrong, according to you, but your critics are just too much for you to handle and so you're going to keep ignoring them and preach from your pulpit, hoping to gain some converts to the Cult of Jabba.
In addition, I will plan on ignoring everyone who tends only to insult me and my ideas.
Oh, stop being such a prima donna, Jabba. You are patently obnoxious, rude, and pompous, and you have no business attempting to comment on or correct the behavior of others. You have made it abundantly clear that you are seeking only sycophants and the illusion of victory, so quit blaming others for your unwillingness to face the real world. Rest assured I'll be here every day reminding you of the failure you've just admitted.
Anyway, I'm going back to responding to those of you who can keep your claims and insults down to a minimum per post.
No, Jabba, we tried this before. You were given the opportunity to debate in a limited forum against a single well-behaved opponent, and you proved you could not do it. You proved that your bad behavior has nothing to do with how others behave toward you. You're not even close to the saint you seem to think you are. Quit trying to regulate and limit the debate to things you think you can handle, and to rebuttals coated with sugar to make them easier for you to swallow.
You have been given twelve dispassionately stated refutations, each of which is fatal to your argument. There's no rancor or insult to them, just your stated inability to answer them. Now you're trying to frantically save face and suggest that you have been so unjustly put upon by hordes of mean-spirited skeptics. To all those whom you have insulted and ignored, that's quite a laugh.
I'll try to dredge up all the different issues and sub-issues...
In other words, back to business as usual. Which means you concede I've proven what I set out to prove. You can't provide a twelve-sentence summary of how you plan to deal with your critics at the most fundamental level, so you're back to finding some niggling detail you can wallow around in.forever. You have no actual argument; you have only this now-tedious performance art that fools no one and accomplishes nothing except feeding your ego.
...and provide my best answers.
You've already done that. Your best answers aren't good enough, and you admit you have been shown this in a way you cannot fix. Explain why the debate is not simply over at this point.
You lose and I win, Jabba. Man up and admit what the facts have already borne out. Have the grace to resign the debate with a semblance of dignity left, rather than as the laughingstock you presently are.
