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Fred C. Dobbs wrote:
On 6/24/2010 12:33 PM, oxtail wrote: Fred C. Dobbs wrote: There's a great scene in the novel _Marathon_Man_ in which it is described how it isn't always necessary to overwhelm a seemingly superior opponent in order to defeat him. Goldman gives as an example how a lesser basketball player could make Kareem Abdul-Jabbar miss a shot simply by giving him a nudge at just the right moment. Of course, Abdul-Jabbar was one of the greatest players of his age. Some goof claiming to have superior credentials in philosophy and law, but who spends 12 hours a day playing a brainless and ****witted "zen game" in Usenet, certainly isn't a formidable intellect or a demonstrably superior opponent, and it doesn't require much of a nudge at all to get him far off his game. It was fun being the one doing the nudging anyway. Preparing to run away? *You* ran away, fat boy. "Crushed", indeed! Just remember that we don't want your uneducated guesses. Kindly learn some humility, and post quotes from famous thinkers, please. What did the Buddha say about farm animals? -- Oxtail is not doing what he thinks he is doing here. |
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