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lightbleeder on 23 March 2009

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TheRealMafoo on 23 March 2009
Final-Fan said:
TheRealMafoo said:
Final-Fan said:
@ Mafoo: Without conceding anything, particularly in regard to your view of what is or isn't socialistic or communistic etc., I believe that the matter is not so easily resolved that I want to remain in this cesspool of a thread and discuss it. I had wanted to see if it was something that could be resolved within a few relatively brief exchanges and it apparently is not.

Sorry if my withdrawal disappoints you. (I reserve the right to change my mind but I doubt I will in this thread, or at this time.)
What? I didn't even know you were “in” this thread. the only post I saw was questioning Wikipedia's definition (or our I applied it).

You have made no comments about the subject.

Ahem.  http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=1925748  Discussing the proper definition would (by definition ) involve "what is or isn't socialistic/communistic", I would think. 

 

The only point of your post was to question if I applied the correct logic to a definition, and another posters objection to it. It had nothing to do with the post, or socialism for that matter. It had as much to do with cars as it did the topic of this discussion.



Final-Fan on 24 March 2009
TheRealMafoo said:
Final-Fan said:
TheRealMafoo said:
Final-Fan said:
@ Mafoo: Without conceding anything, particularly in regard to your view of what is or isn't socialistic or communistic etc., I believe that the matter is not so easily resolved that I want to remain in this cesspool of a thread and discuss it. I had wanted to see if it was something that could be resolved within a few relatively brief exchanges and it apparently is not.

Sorry if my withdrawal disappoints you. (I reserve the right to change my mind but I doubt I will in this thread, or at this time.)
What? I didn't even know you were “in” this thread. the only post I saw was questioning Wikipedia's definition (or our I applied it).

You have made no comments about the subject.

Ahem.  http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=1925748  Discussing the proper definition would (by definition ) involve "what is or isn't socialistic/communistic", I would think. 
The only point of your post was to question if I applied the correct logic to a definition, and another posters objection to it. It had nothing to do with the post, or socialism for that matter. It had as much to do with cars as it did the topic of this discussion.

You don't think whether you are using the words correctly is relevant to the discussion?  I disagree.  Suppose you are using them incorrectly; this will create huge problems for the discussion. 

My comments were relevant to the subject in that they were on the topic of whether the relationship between certain subjects was understood. 

Still, perhaps it could be argued that I was not "in the discussion" as much as "dipping my toes into the discussion" and, upon feeling the water in the pool, changing my mind about jumping in.  I'm not sure where our current meta-discussion (if that's the term, or even A term) fits into the analogy.



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TheRealMafoo on 24 March 2009
Final-Fan said:

You don't think whether you are using the words correctly is relevant to the discussion? I disagree. Suppose you are using them incorrectly; this will create huge problems for the discussion.

My comments were relevant to the subject in that they were on the topic of whether the relationship between certain subjects was understood.

Still, perhaps it could be argued that I was not "in the discussion" as much as "dipping my toes into the discussion" and, upon feeling the water in the pool, changing my mind about jumping in. I'm not sure where our current meta-discussion (if that's the term, or even A term) fits into the analogy.

 

Now this is getting silly.

The only reason I started this little side talk is because you started with:

“Without conceding anything, particularly in regard to your view of what is or isn't socialistic or communistic etc”

You have not in this thread made an argument about what those terms mean, or how you feel about what I think those terms mean. All you did is question if I applied the correct logic to Wikipedia's definition (A in a subset of B, thus anything A is B). I explained how I did, and you went on this weird tangent.

 

 



Final-Fan on 24 March 2009

Well ... I was gonna. Basically, all I wanted to say with that post was "I started posting in the debate, but now I'm gonna stop, but it's not 'cause I agree with you or couldn't argue your positions if I felt like it." And then you were like "but you weren't even posting in the debate" and I replied, partly because I was tired.

If I understand you right, you objected to my declaring non-concession of points I had yet to dispute? That's where the silliness started IMO



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