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Psychobabble Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry

Oh, how could the good doctor, or anyone else, forget this little gem:

English: I refuse to show you any evidence that could back up my argument.
Psychobabble 1: I just know it's right, so I don't have to tell you.
Psychobabble 2: You would just abuse the evidence anyway.
Psychobabble 3: You wouldn't be able to understand the evidence anyway.
Psychobabble 4: It's my personal evidence, so don't question it or demand that I share it with you. That's rude.
 
Hawk one said:
Oh, how could the good doctor, or anyone else, forget this little gem:

English: I refuse to show you any evidence that could back up my argument.
Psychobabble 1: I just know it's right, so I don't have to tell you.
Psychobabble 2: You would just abuse the evidence anyway.
Psychobabble 3: You wouldn't be able to understand the evidence anyway.
Psychobabble 4: It's my personal evidence, so don't question it or demand that I share it with you. That's rude.
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I'd suggest a more accurate English translation might be:
"I don't have any evidence to back up my argument."

Of course, I don't have any evidence that they don't have any evidence. But then again, they don't have any evidence that I don't have any evidence that they don't have evidence!
 
delphi_ote: Well, I feel that my sentence is good enough as it is. Because people can have more than one reason (or rather, more than one excuse) not to divulge the evidence. The first reason can, like you said, be that they have none. Or at best, some really, really poor evidence that they know won't stand up to the scrutiny it will be subjected to. Or they refuse to give up names because they're afraid we'll harass any medium/dowser/whatever the person they believe in is currently claiming.

Anyway, no matter what the excuse is, it will boil down to this: They refuse to show any evidence. So I think I'll leave it as it is, unless you can give me other reasons to change it. ;)
 
I submit to razor sharp logic, Hawk.

I guess I'll just have to take my pointless infinite paradox elsewhere! (but I could convince you if I threw in some gibberish about incompletness theorems and quantum mechanics!)
 
Haha, I managed to trick Delphi_ote with my smokescreen of logic and reason!*

And I also have a new one, by the way:

English: You keep asking me for actual evidence to back up my claims with while I only bring up strawmen and anecdotes,or I simply avoid answering you:
Psychobabble 1: You're too closeminded to accept my evidence.
Psychobabble 2: You're harassing me with your sceptobabble.



*delphi_ote: This is somewhat of an inside joke referring to a troll called 1inchrist that once spammed these forums. You may have noticed how several members are having quotes by him in their signatures. ;)
 
Janice said:
Would closed mind = sceptobabble?:)
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You really are stupid, aren't you?

I meant that the phrase "open minded" is psychobabble.

The phrase "closed mind" is also psychobabble, as you would have learnt had you the attention span to read a few lines through my post.

And that... that was your attempt to be witty.
 
Dr A,

I hope you write this stuff professionally.

It really is good.

You know what I don’t get.. why these people REFUSE to argue reasonably.

I remember recently disagreeing with you (panicking all the time that you would “shred’ me with that acerbic wit).. but I stuck it out (probably mostly lost the argument) and even modified my stance somewhat due to reasoned argument from you and others.

How can somebody be shown SOOOO clearly that asking to prove a negative is impossible and still consider it a tenable position just staggers me. (oops digressing off topic badly)

Back to the psychobabble (which BTW I do become guilty of when I get frustrated with non-answers)
 
Janice said:
Mighty Thor - keep guessing.:p
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Well, the only other paranormal-related boards I have been on are the terrible Most Haunted one, Fortean Times and one called Paranormal Discussion (which pretty quickly became Paranormal Sycophancy, as anyone who disagreed got banned). I can't be bothered to guess which identity you are. I have a life. ;)
 
Oh Rambling - forgot to say, I believe Paj was one of the biggest posters on that forum, so if he is a member of all the others, he probably spends most of his life on these.
 
Dr Adequate said:
Thanks, The BoyPaj --- you're right --- in psychobabble "aggressive" and "defensive" are synonyms.

Oh, I forgot my all-time favourite. You can see how this one would annoy me.

English: "You only ever say things which you believe to be true."
Pschobabble: "You always think you're right."

Moreover:

English "You don't think I'm right."
Psychobabble: "You can't even admit the possibility that you're wrong."

English: "What you've said is confirmed by the world's greatest authority on the subject (of which I am completely ignorant)."
Psychobabble: "I think for myself."

English: "What you have said has been confirmed by science a dozen times over."
Psychobabble: "You are locked in the straitjacket of the dogmatic Western linear dualistic reductionist paradigm."
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I would say a first class example of sceptobabble.:)
 
Janice said:
I would say a first class example of sceptobabble.:)
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I, of course, defined "psychobabble" when I introduced the word, and explained why it is stupid.

And with the quick wit of a parrot, you have imitated the form of my words. Who's a clever girl then?

But the word "sceptobabble" is a meaningless noise out of your lips. We can tell it's meant to be an angry kind of squawk, but you have assigned no meaning to the word.

So as of this date, it's a squawking noise you make when you're upset.

If you can retrospectively think of something which in hindsight you would have liked it to have meant, please come back and let us know.
 
Dr A - sceptobabble is just as meaningful a word as your wonderful psychobabble, which is just an example of your fictituous posts. You post your opinions on this forum, and when other people respond to them, who may not agree with them entirely, then the attack begins. If a spirit landed on your lap, you would still claim there was no afterlife whatsoever. With regard to anger, I have nothing to be angry about, I think some of your postings are rather amusing, if not a little long. The stage is all yours.
 
Dr Adequate said:
I think you'll find that who you hear this from will depend on which groups of people you argue with. That is, if you agree with conservatives and disagree with liberals, than you are much more likely to hear liberals telling you that you have a closed mind than conservatives.
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True enough.
I still want to know at what point American conservatives adopted "liberal" as their hate-word.
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Basically, I think this happened when "liberals" stopped being liberal. You won't be able to find a point, though; this is a process that started in the 60s and continues to this day. And it's a generalistion, obviously. Many "liberals" are still liberal in various ways, even if they have veered from the classical understanding of political liberalism.

Oh, and it also required the adoption of the branding "liberal" by the "liberals". Wouldn't work at all without that.
It really tells you all you need to know about them, doesn't it?
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No. No, it doesn't.
 
Janice said:
Dr A - sceptobabble is just as meaningful a word as your wonderful psychobabble
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No it is not, because as I have pointed out, I have defined what I mean, whereas you are just making a noise. In order for a word to mean something, it must have a meaning. Do you understand now?

I asked you to say what you mean. You still won't. Why not?
If a spirit landed on your lap, you would still claim there was no afterlife whatsoever.
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This is the same stupid lie you have been droning out ever since you shambled on to these forums. At first, I thought you had just made a mistake. I corrected you. I explained what I thought. You are still droning out the same lie, knowing that it is a lie. I take it your intention is to give offense? But people can read what I have posted, and know that you are lying, so it is a very stupid lie to tell.

So now everyone knows that you are:

(1) Stupid.
(2) Malicious.
(3) A liar.

When will you learn that lying to people about their opinions just makes you look like a fool?

Why will you not debate my actual opinions? Why do you have to lie about me and pretend I'm someone I'm not? Why do you have to live in a fantasy world where I'm a figment of your imagination --- and still try to talk to me?

Listen --- I am not the figure in your delerium whom you call Dr Adequate. I am a real person. And in order to find out what I think, you must listen to what I say, instead of making up stupid lies.

Do you understand now?
 
Janice said:
Oh Rambling - forgot to say, I believe Paj was one of the biggest posters on that forum, so if he is a member of all the others, he probably spends most of his life on these.
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1: After the many, many honest replies I gave you on these forums before I realised you were ignoring me this is the post you choose to respond to?

2: I was complimenting TheBoyPaj on a joke - he was using a piece of psychobabble he himself defined:
English: "I can't be bothered to do research on this issue."
Psychobabble: "I have a life."
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3: If you are aware of how much time he spends on the Mia Dolan Forum, it strongly implies you spend that kind of time on it too. Interesting, isn't it?
 
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