Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:52:07 -0800
From: "Evan A. Leeson" <evan-AT-xfind.com>
Subject: Re: Christians, Murderers of Jews - among others.


I'm trying to find something of benefit to the rest of us in this exchange,
but it seems like a face-saving exercise and nothing more. Dick jousting.

At 03:09 AM 3/23/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>Apparently, Paul, according to your own past practice, PARAPHRASE does in
>>fact mean CITATION. Do you want me to dig up the actual posts and replay
>>them for the list?
>
>Go ahead.  You will only show the list how you have consistently ducked my
>challenges.
>
>I can, but I would prefer not to, in that none of this
>>really has anything to do with Nietzsche. It would however make perfectly
>>clear to everyone why you have spent every waking moment since trying to get
>>back at me.
>
>Well, you have written more in response to me than I have in response to
>you.  But, perhaps, you type faster.
>
>>Actually, the real reason you hate me so is not because I showed you up for
>>the intellectual fraud that you are, but because I took pity on you and
>>dropped the matter when I should have pressed the issue all the way home.
>>About pity Nietzsche was right, it would seem.
>
>Well, if it makes you feel better, Mr. Callihan:  yes, you did show me up
>as an intellectual fraud, great muckraker of the internet that you are.
>It's always best to humour types like you.
>
>>This may surprise you, Paul, but I don't hate you. You really don't matter
>>to me at all. I, on the other hand, would seem to loom quite large in your
>>universe. Large enough, anyway, to be deemed by you as your "enemy." The
>>thing is, Paul, there is really nothing that you can say about me or to me
>>that is going to bother me in the slightest. You cannot hurt me. All you
>>succeed in doing is being a pest. I, on the other hand, seem to have wounded
>>you quite deeply.
>>
>Oh, well, if what I write does not matter to you, then why do you continue
>to write heaps of paragraphs to me, especially when you have stated many,
>many times that you would ignore my posts.  I find it very curious.
>
>Oh,  I call you my enemy only because you threatened some time ago on this
>list to denounce me.  Denounce me as what? I wondered.  As a Roman
>Catholic?  Oh, that would hurt.  As an intellectual fraud?  Well, to be
>denounced as such on this list would be, er, an honor of sorts.  But, even
>though your threat was as empty as it was shrill and ludicrous, that you
>bothered to threaten me at all did make me think that you were not
>indifferent to me at all, but positively hostile.  That's why I got it into
>my head that you were my enemy.  But I was wrong because you say that I am
>wrong.  That's more than enough for me.
>
>Toodles,
>
>Paul S. Rhodes
>
>N.B.:  That Mr. Callihan continues to address me by my first name does not
>mean that he is a friend or close associate of mine.
>
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>My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
>To children ardent for some desperate glory
>The old Lie:  Dulce et decorum est
>Pro patria mori.
>                              --Wilfred Owen
>
>Patriotism is the last refuge of a scroundel.
>                              --Samuel Johnson
>
>Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot.
>                              --Al Franken
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