And... you still don't get it. Don't worry, I didn't expect you to. I tried to help but I can only do so much. Forget about tutoring, you have to do some stuff on your own. How else will you learn?
Sort of amusing to read your latest work, though, especially where you try to categorise and compare my posts. It's embarrassingly clear that you just don't get it, but amusing nevertheless. But then again, I'm having a beer, it's Friday evening and my only purpose now is to relax.
And... next!
Al:
How about us letting go of this thing now? I don't see anything good can come out of it, only bad stuff, and it's just not worth it.
"Try"? Hey I did fantastic. Especially considering it was Friday night, Bourbon Night.
I think you give yourself far too much credit and me far to little, but then that in itself amuses me too. I had a good laugh picking through the previous replies.
Contradictions reigned supreme and I had yet to collate them all together. I had a suspicion Just like how you previously adopted the mantra, now you would go to your new catchphrase "You just don't get it".
I read this as
"You have shown my previous points wrong or weak or contradictory....its your fault you do not see them as worthy, not mine. They were good points all along"The irony of course underlying all of these interactions is that were I Intellectually dishonest, it is HIGHLY unlikely that you would be having a hard time pointing out where I was intellectually dishonest and you sure as Hell would not be saying "You just don't get it". I imagine it could be theoretically possible for someone who IS intellectually dishonest to not get it and for the person accusing them of being so not to be able to do so effectively after 2 or 3 months, BUT it is not likely.
Far more likely is that the Intellectual dishonesty is blatant if it was noticed enough to be called on the months earlier and the accused once pointed out would not be able to extricate themselves from their actions AND would be aware of exactly what they were doing. Not so here.
What is more likely? "You don't get it". Maybe, just maybe, there was nothing to "get". Maybe the efforts you have gone to and the contradictions you have made along the way, the points you have dropped, the similar behaviours you have portrayed, the sheer amount of time and energy you have made defending weak positions weakly was NEVER about Intellectual Dishonesty.
Its only my thoughts. I, unlike you, have remained pretty consistent on this. Maybe I was never Intellectually Dishonest in this. Maybe YOU had an ill-thought out position that you uncharacteristically ran with and then equally uncharacteristically doubled down on BECAUSE you had simply reached the point of your endurance with what was happening with Zegh and I. Any more cat pictures or me not reading Zegh when I "should have" or commenting when I "shouldn't have" and you would give me a piece of you mind and try shaming me into inaction. Maybe in doing so I would stop fighting Zegh or maybe it would encourage the board through the Peanut Gallery to condemn me and my actions and/or arguments. Hell maybe you even believed your arguments a little.
But it did not work. The Peanut Gallery remained pretty silent. I doubled down. I exposed the weakness in your overall argument and other tangentials you introduced. Though you tried stepping away from the worst of the tangential arguments and you asked many many times for me to drop it - it did not work, you even apologised for upsetting me - that did not work, you tried condescending to me like a tutor - that did not work. You now try to threaten things getting nasty if this keeps going on. I am fine with that, Odeon. Bring it to the table.
I resolved things with my beef with Zegh but not you, not nearly. You want to get nasty? That is your choice but that will not give me cause for concern nor would I shy from it. Alternatively you could keep your "You don't get it shield" up high against anything I say. A third option is far less radical. You COULD address the points I make and make your own. You know.....back yourself on IntensitySquared. I know what you were trying to say with this "I can't tutor you, tutor yourself" (Paraphrased .... yes, yes, that thing I have no idea about. LOL) But it comes across as "I cannot make any points I can adequately defend and my attempts at condescending you failed miserably. Stop picking out flaws in what I said about you".
As a last point
Al:
How about us letting go of this thing now? I don't see anything good can come out of it, only bad stuff, and it's just not worth it.
It was worth it for you in the first place to say, it is worth it for me to defend against. The fact you misjudged the outcome is not on me in the slightest. Simply a bad choice to say it and then double down on it.