The lunacy of the Darwinists

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It's so satisfying to be proved right over and over again. Z is challenged, he tries diversions (in this case some weird posts from his image library) and then slinks away.

In this case the open questions include challenges about his evocation of Nazism. Like a coward, he refused to answer any of them. Instead, in a bizarre twist, he claimed that he didn't know what the phrase 'like taking candy from a baby' meant. It is unclear how he got from one to the other.

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It's so satisfying to be proved right over and over again. Z is challenged, he tries diversions (in this case some weird posts from his image library) and then slinks away.

In this case the open questions include challenges about his evocation of Nazism. Like a coward, he refused to answer any of them. Instead, in a bizarre twist, he claimed that he didn't know what the phrase 'like taking candy from a baby' meant. It is unclear how he got from one to the other.

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why stir the pot? he might come out from under his rock again.
 
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Hey folks.

If you want this thread to survive, keep it civil.

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Hi resinate

Just wondering of your post was directed at me?

If so, is asking Z to clarify his charge that a person or group is acting like a Nazi considered uncivil?

Don't get me wrong, I have made some less than civil posts to Z, I admit that. In fact I am kind of surprised that I haven't been censured for it already. I know that Z has made several complaints about me, asking for either a suspension of my privileges or a deletion of my posts.

I am hoping you are referring to my calling him a liar as opposed to my asking him to clarify his evocation of Nazi Germany in these threads, or his claim that the phrase 'goose stepping' isn't associated with Nazism, or his contention that if someone says 'like taking candy from a baby', it means that the person intends to do harm to a child, or his denial of his mystical use of the phrase 'pure potentiality'.

And yes, if you are just tuning in, these are all statements and claims made by Z in this thread...
 
Quote from traderNik:

Hi resinate

Just wondering of your post was directed at me?

If so, is asking Z to clarify his charge that a person or group is acting like a Nazi considered uncivil?

Don't get me wrong, I have made some less than civil posts to Z, I admit that. In fact I am kind of surprised that I haven't been censured for it already. I know that Z has made several complaints about me, asking for either a suspension of my privileges or a deletion of my posts.

I am hoping you are referring to my calling him a liar as opposed to my asking him to clarify his evocation of Nazi Germany in these threads, or his claim that the phrase 'goose stepping' isn't associated with Nazism, or his contention that if someone says 'like taking candy from a baby', it means that the person intends to do harm to a child, or his denial of his mystical use of the phrase 'pure potentiality'.

And yes, if you are just tuning in, these are all statements and claims made by Z in this thread...
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Hi Nik,

Yes I am just tuning in in response to a complaint.

The comment was not directed specifically at you, but at you, Z, and others I saw flaming back and forth as I glanced over the last few pages.

And yes, name calling will bring in moderation. Energetic debate and challenging of ideas is fine and will not.

ET recently updated their member conduct rules: http://www.elitetrader.com/conduct_rules.cfm
 
Can you guys change your forum code so that if I put a goof on ignore, I also won't see his stuff in quotes in other peeps' replies? The auto-quote I'm talking about, of course.
 
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Hi Nik,
Yes I am just tuning in in response to a complaint.
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Hi resinate

I am assuming that the complaint was made by Z. I understand that even though Z can evoke the spectre of Nazism in this thread without censure, he will ge action on a complaint that someone is calling him names. I don't like it, but I understand it.

The question must be asked - who else would have any earthly reason to complain about the way this thread has gone other then Z himself?
And yes, name calling will bring in moderation. Energetic debate and challenging of ideas is fine and will not.
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Ok. In that case I will be reiterating my challenges to Z to explain the contradictions, evasions, flip-flops and now the evocations of Nazi Germany contained in this thread. I will also point out to readers that Z's response to my repeated requests for clarifications of his positions, clarifications supported with direct quotes from his posts, have been answered with bizarre image posts from his personal image library. Here is a part of the sequence in question

Z invokes Nazism in reference to those who question his views
Maybe because they know I don't need any help in dealing with the goose step talking points of the right wingers
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I challenged Z on his evocation of Nazism. He responded with a denial that the phrase 'goose-stepping' evokes images of Nazi Germany
For the hard of thinking:
From Mirriam-Webster:

goose-step
One entry found for goose-step.
Main Entry: goose-step
Pronunciation: 'güs-"step
Function: intransitive verb
1 : to march in a goose step
2 : to practice an unthinking conformity
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I couldn't believe what I was reading
Oh, ok... so the phrase 'goose stepping' isn't associated with the Nazis?
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Here is Z's incredible response!!
Apparently you associate goose stepping with Nazis....
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I don't have time to repost all the other questions I have posted for Z, including his flip-flop on the import of the phrase 'pure potentiality' which he previously used in a mystical sense but is now claiming refers to fertilization of the ovum.
 
Food for thought?


http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/03/wasp_performs_roachb.html

Wasp performs roach-brain-surgery to make zombie slave-roaches

Ampulex compressa is a wasp that has evolved to tackle roaches, insert a stinger into their brains and disable their escape reflexes. This lets the wasp use the roach's antennae to steer the roach to its lair, where it can lay its egg in it. Parasite Rex author Carl Zimmer tells the story in gooey, graphic detail: The wasp slips her stinger through the roach's exoskeleton and directly into its brain. She apparently use ssensors along the sides of the stinger to guide it through the brain, a bit like a surgeon snaking his way to an appendix with a laparoscope. She continues to probe the roach's brain until she reaches one particular spot that appears to control the escape reflex. She injects a second venom that influences these neurons in such a way that the escape reflex disappears.

From the outside, the effect is surreal. The wasp does not paralyze the cockroach. In fact, the roach is able to lift up its front legs again and walk. But now it cannot move of its own accord. The wasp takes hold of one of the roach's antennae and leads it--in the words of Israeli scientists who study Ampulex--like a dog on a leash.

The zombie roach crawls where its master leads, which turns out to be the wasp's burrow. The roach creeps obediently into the burrow and sits there quietly, while the wasp plugs up the burrow with pebbles. Now the wasp turns to the roach once more and lays an egg on its underside. The roach does not resist. The egg hatches, and the larva chews a hole in the side of the roach. In it goes.

The larva grows inside the roach, devouring the organs of its host, for about eight days. It is then ready to weave itself a cocoon--which it makes within the roach as well. After four more weeks, the wasp grows to an adult. It breaks out of its cocoon, and out of the roach as well. Seeing a full-grown wasp crawl out of a roach suddenly makes those Alien movies look pretty derivative.
 
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