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I'm you're only friend, I'm not your only friend, but I'm a little glowing friend, but really i'm not actually a friend, but I am.
"I agree with everything you said except the conclusion. It doesn't make any sense to me, and I can not accept it. I am trying, but your brain must work much differently than mine."
*L!*
I LIKE this site!
Fortunately, though I am not fully familiar with terms such as "Ad Hominem", I am familiar with the principles behind them. I love raising the "BS flag" when people start spouting spurious logic such as this.
--Baloo
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"Someday your ship will come in...and you'll be at the airport "
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*never realized his term studying logic would be useful*
Wait till I tell you about Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
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"They don�t call it show business for nothing. This is an ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly town in many, many ways. But big f*cking deal. Big business is ugly. The world is ugly. Our job is to make our little piece of it better. Whenever you get into the general, it�s not going to be all beer and Skittles and Christmas trees."
-Ira Stephen Behr on the Moore fiasco
Memories of...Philosophy 120...
Ad populum...that was a fun one.
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"We kid around a lot about people who are cyclopses, but seriously; if you're a mythic figure you've got challenges that no one should have to deal with."
--
John Flansburgh
F'r instance: "First of Two prefers punishing the naughty to passing unnecessary laws that will weaken the nice! He's a right-wing crackpot!" is an Ad-Hominem argument, one that will get you laughed at by me.
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"When we turn our back on our principles, we stop being human." -- Janeway, "Equinox"
Laughter works better in groups.
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"Someday your ship will come in...and you'll be at the airport "
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Taurik: "He's convinced Commander Riker doesn't like him."
Ben: "Why? You crash the ship into something?"
-TNG: "Lower Decks"
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WHO ARE YOU?
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"Angels, answer me,
are you near if rain should fall?
Am I to believe
you will rise to calm the storm?
For so great a treasure words will never do.
Surely, if this is, promises are mine to give you.
mine to give........ "
~ Enya
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Nurse: Can I help you?
Stan: We're here to commit our friend, Kyle.
Nurse: Reason?
Kyle: I'm a clinically depressed fecalpheliac on Prozac.
Nurse: JACKET!!
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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
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WHO ARE YOU?
(It's a joke people, like the phrase "don't swear god damnit!" before you think I'm in a mood again. Well, I am in a mood, but I'm trying to be nice)
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"When we turn our back on our principles, we stop being human." -- Janeway, "Equinox"