p.s. 

I also thought that your conflating a second-hand opinion concerning young 
James's debilitating depression and feeling of helplessness with a mature 
discourse on freewill versus determinism was ridiculous.   






On Jun 27, 2011, at 12:41 PM, MarshaV wrote:

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> Dmb,
> 
> Since I did the reposting,,,   
> 
> You left off your last statement the "You freakin weasel" part., which was 
> way out of proportion.  Now your neglecting to include the last statement is 
> even more ironic, but not surprising.   Here's the entire quote:   
> 
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> 
> On Jun 23, 2011, at 12:22 PM, david buchanan wrote:
> 
> dmb says:
> James and I are imagining an omniscient super-being? Huh?
> 
> I don't expect all that much from you, Steve, but I didn't think you'd stoop 
> so low. My main argument has been that freedom and constraint are both real 
> because both are known in experience. Super-beings, whatever that's supposed 
> to mean, don't have anything to do with it. I would accuse you of 
> misconstruing my position but that would be too generous. You're just making 
> stuff up, probably to avoid the burden of addressing the actual argument. You 
> freakin weasel.             
> 
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> 
> 
> On Jun 27, 2011, at 12:29 PM, david buchanan wrote:
> 
>> 
>> dmb says:
>> Hey Steve, here is one example wherein I complained about your tactics 
>> precisely because they spoiled any chance of having a real conversation. I 
>> accused you of inventing the omniscient super-being, the one that supposedly 
>> keeps me and James awake at night. (James hasn't had any concerns for over a 
>> hundred years, of course.) If you make stuff up instead of disagreeing with 
>> the things I actually said, then isn't fair to say your tactics have spoiled 
>> the conversation? I think it's more than fair.
>> As you can probably see, I'm only pressing this point again because Marsha 
>> re-posted these earlier complaints. How you get irony out of this is a 
>> mystery to me because I think it clearly shows that my complaints are valid 
>> and that your tactics are bogus. Your comments can only be justified if you 
>> have a legitimate reason to believe that I was pressing an omniscient 
>> super-being. I'm sure you have no evidence of that because there isn't any 
>> evidence of that. And so it's more than fair to say you're making stuff up 
>> and then attributing it to me. And since that's the case, who is the 
>> offended party?
>> It's like you want me to apologize for saying "ouch" too loudly when you 
>> stepped on my foot.
>> 
>> 
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>>> On Jun 23, 2011, at 12:22 PM, david buchanan wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Steve said to Matt:
>>>> Then there is the issue of _pre_determination which I think is only a 
>>>> concern if you imagine an omniscient super-being, but it still manages to 
>>>> keep James and dmb awake at night.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> dmb says:
>>>> James and I are imagining an omniscient super-being? Huh?
>>>> 
>>>> I don't expect all that much from you, Steve, but I didn't think you'd 
>>>> stoop so low. My main argument has been that freedom and constraint are 
>>>> both real because both are known in experience. Super-beings, whatever 
>>>> that's supposed to mean, don't have anything to do with it. I would accuse 
>>>> you of misconstruing my position but that would be too generous. You're 
>>>> just making stuff up, probably to avoid the burden of addressing the 
>>>> actual argument. 
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