Does Islam belong in Germany?

[ddt]

And his assassins used a calendar era called AUC (anno urbis conditae) which started with the foundation of the city of Rome in 753 BCE.

[nitpick]
Ab Urbe Condita
[/nitpick]

For the rest, it's amusing to see how Toontown keeps digging holes and shred his credibility, starting with pulling a definition of Islamism out of his arse, to now even not even knowing primary school stuff like which years belong to which century.

 

[Toontown]

I'd settle for you simply reading this book that I recommended to you earlier. I'll even send you an Amazon gift card for the full price of the Kindle version, if you'll read it. I'll even send it via email to a completely anonymous email address of your choice.

I once made Skeptic the same offer, for this book. He never even responded to my offer. What will you do, Toontown?

Tell you to get lost, of course. Your offer is condescending and insulting. You're coming across like a zombie-left propagandist out to drill a hole in the top of my head and pour indoctrination in. And you're using a flimsy-assed excuse for doing it.

 

[Toontown]

[nitpick]
Ab Urbe Condita
[/nitpick]

For the rest, it's amusing to see how Toontown keeps digging holes and shred his credibility, starting with pulling a definition of Islamism out of his arse, to now even not even knowing primary school stuff like which years belong to which century.

Not nearly as amusing as your pathetic eagerness to discredit me after the shellacking I've given you for your initial pathetic bullying, browbeating, and strawmanning attempts.

BTW, the highlighted lie can easily be disproven. I've just shown Angrysoba the online dictionary link. And also pointed out that you can find the link by simply cutting and pasting the entire quote into the search field.

 

[Mycroft]

That's right. People not prone to obsessive browbeating would have long since released the meatless bone of contention. It's nothing. There is nothing to it, and no rational reason to go on with it.

You know, this is not wrong.

People, is there anything to win that's worth winning in this argument?

 

[ddt]

Not nearly as amusing as your pathetic eagerness to discredit me after the shellacking I've given you for your initial pathetic bullying, browbeating, and strawmanning attempts.

Evidence? With your entrance in this thread, you wrote some disturbing things, and for my part, you've not taken the impression you made there away.

BTW, the highlighted lie can easily be disproven. I've already shown Angrysoba the online dictionary link. And also pointed out that you can find the link by simply cutting and pasting the entire quote into the search field.

I see now, our posts crossed. I retract that allegation. I note though that (a) you had several days to point that out, and (b) you selectively only quoted the second meaning there. It's obvious you skipped the first meaning there to willfully misinterpret my posts.

 

[A'isha]

Tell you to get lost, of course. Your offer is condescending and insulting. You're coming across like a zombie-left propagandist out to drill a hole in the top of my head and pour indoctrination in. And you're using a flimsy-assed excuse for doing it.

I'm offering you the most valuable gift I know, Toontown. The gift of completely free knowledge.

I believe so strongly in it that, despite your above rejection, I'm willing to offer it to you again.

I will give you, sent to a totally anonymous email address of your choice, an Amazon gift card covering the full price of a Kindle version of Dr. Ali's book. You don't have to believe it. I don't even believe it. I'm a non-Muslim atheist.

All you have to do is read it, Toontown. And maybe even learn something that doesn't even have to affect your current religious views. For free.

What do you say?

 

[Toontown]

Evidence? With your entrance in this thread, you wrote some disturbing things, and for my part, you've not taken the impression you made there away.

You must be very thin-skinned, unable to tolerate offenses against your stiff, inflexible ideology, and prone to want to browbeat anyone who offends your belief system.

I see now, our posts crossed. I retract that allegation. I note though that (a) you had several days to point that out, and (b) you selectively only quoted the second meaning there. It's obvious you skipped the first meaning there to willfully misinterpret my posts.

Aww. Poor diddums. I didn't use the definition that suited you?

Well, I used the one that suited me.

 

[ddt]

You must be very thin-skinned, unable to tolerate offenses against your stiff, inflexible ideology, and prone to want to browbeat anyone who offends your belief system.

It's not my ideology that matters. It is that you try to paint Muslim immigrants as second class citizens, much in the same way and with the same tactics as, say, Geert Wilders.

Aww. Poor diddums. I didn't use the definition that suited you?

Well, I used the one that suited me.

You used another definition than I intended and than is commonly meant. You knew, or should at least should have known, the difference.

 

[Moss]

You know, this is not wrong.

People, is there anything to win that's worth winning in this argument?

No. But it is awfully cute to see Toontown stamping his foot while proclaiming he has the truth.

 

[Craig B]

[nitpick]
Ab Urbe Condita
[/nitpick]

That's what I thought, too, but the wiki entry on calendar eras, to which Toontown drew our attention, gives

anno urbis conditae (Latin: "in the year of the founded city" (abbreviated AUC), where "city" meant Rome). (It is often incorrectly given that AUC stands for ab urbe condita, which is the title of T. Livy's history of Rome.)

I found this intriguing, and plausible. I will check it out more thoroughly when time permits.

For the rest, it's amusing to see how Toontown keeps digging holes and shred his credibility, starting with pulling a definition of Islamism out of his arse, to now even not even knowing primary school stuff like which years belong to which century.

Yes, he does seem to jump from one blunder to another.

 

[baron]

Just for the record, my imagination - extensive though it is - doesn't stretch to the idea of bring browbeaten any more than it accommodates the concept of sucking up. Failure to rant is not a sign of deficiency.

 

[Toontown]

I see the date-nazis are still at it - proving that all the bad things I've said about them are true.

 

[Toontown]

It's not my ideology that matters. It is that you try to paint Muslim immigrants as second class citizens, much in the same way and with the same tactics as, say, Geert Wilders.

That's your ideology talking, so I guess your ideology does matter, with all your posts dripping with it.

Not to mention the fact that the highlighted part is a lie.

 

[Moss]

I see the date-nazis are still at it - proving that all the bad things I've said about them are true.

It seems to prove the point that you tried to make before, namely that nothing "pisses people of like the truth". The truth being that you seem to be unaware of some basic facts.

 

[Toontown]

It seems to prove the point that you tried to make before, namely that nothing "pisses people of like the truth". The truth being that you seem to be unaware of some basic facts.

As are you. As is everyone. Let he who is without ignorance cast the first stone.

But that's pretty slim pickings you've managed to dredge up. And it took a pack of you 7 pages to manage it. With my help.

You must be very proud.

 

[A'isha]

As are you. As is everyone. Let he who is without ignorance cast the first stone.

The difference is that we're willing to accept when we're incorrect, and and are grateful to be directed towards or provided with resources which will help us learn how we were wrong and will increase our knowledge so that we hopefully won't be wrong about that in the future.

 

[Moss]

As are you. As is everyone. Let he who is without ignorance cast the first stone.

But that's pretty slim pickings you've managed to dredge up. And it took a pack of you 7 pages to manage it. With my help.

You must be very proud.

Currently I'm perplexed. Because for some odd reason you believe that criticizing your blunder somehow proves the claims you made about our motives and reasonings. It would appear that does not follow.

 

[Toontown]

No. But it is awfully cute to see Toontown stamping his foot while proclaiming he has the truth.

The highlighted part is a flimsy lie based on a pathetic misinterpretation of a general observation.

 

[Toontown]

Currently I'm perplexed. Because for some odd reason you believe that criticizing your blunder somehow proves the claims you made about our motives and reasonings. It would appear that does not follow.

Well, keep doing it. Keep doing it all day long. The more you obsessively fixate on the date blunder, the more you prove me right about your motives and reasoning.

 

[Toontown]

The difference is that we're willing to accept when we're incorrect, and and are grateful to be directed towards or provided with resources which will help us learn how we were wrong and will increase our knowledge so that we hopefully won't be wrong about that in the future.

Are you? I hadn't noticed that behavior.

I might be grateful under other circumstances, but by the time I realized the horrendous date-blunder, the browbeating which had occurred in the interim had effectively precluded any possible feelings of gratitude on my part.