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Old 10-19-2019, 03:45 AM   #49
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
Thank you for confirming. Your idea of prioritizing and way of thinking is indeed difficult to rationalize. It almost looks like... Wait, let me rephrase that. I suspect that you are often times setting yourself up to be misinterpreted. It blends in perfectly with cherry picking. You are upset that I used the term? And you even throw a definition in my direction. One I was aware of in meaning, not necessarily in your wording. What I said here, which you also quoted, but didn't respond to (bold added for emphasis):


Is a perfect example why this definition:

Applies. It will take time to fix it, but it is against your wishes if you don't want the Nobel Prize to (re)gain importance.
Why would I bother to respond to every little twist you try to throw out?

Let's see now, you try to throw up straw men then claim that I went out of my way to set myself up to be misinterpreted? Maybe you need to look in a mirror and ask yourself why you spent so much effort hurling yourself at a conclusion about what I meant without confirming it one way or the other.

I think that my first post was quite clear. I questioned if the Nobel prize was the most important event in literature [note that I did not say it was not, I questioned if it was. A very deliberate distinction]. Then I gave two examples of why it didn't appear to be. I was not trying to write a thesis or build a case, I was simply questioning if a statement was true or not.

Perhaps a more productive tact might be simply to say why you think that it is indeed the most important event in literature, if that is what you think, and engage in a discussion, rather than go into standard internet attack mode.
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