From: mrh@centerline.com (Mike Huben)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.marrou
Subject: Re: Marrou shows his true colors!
Date: 6 Nov 1992 22:01:18 GMT
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In article <Nov.6.14.50.37.1992.690@foglet.rutgers.edu> josh@foglet.rutgers.edu
(J Storrs Hall) rants:

>mrh@centerline.com (Mike Huben) writes:
>
>>If you'd only accept JESUS as your LORD and SAVIOR, and open your mind to
>>the WORD of the LORD in the HOLY BIBLE, you'd see the error of your ways
>>and no longer believe in EVILOUTION!  :-(
>
>Maybe you should read "Bionomics" and discover how close a
>parallel there is between evolution and the market economy...

Maybe you should consider the parallel between evolution and the global
competition between governments.

Oh wait: your comment must be "mindless sarcasm".  Pardon me for retorting.

>>Why is it that libertarians here (like you) seem to be incapable of
>>transmitting these TRUTHS in their postings?
>
>Perhaps because the anti-libertarians here (like you) perceive truth
>as consisting in those messages containing the most capital letters?

What?  More "mindless sarcasm"?  Is that all you are capable of?

>>Why do I suspect that "Economics in One Lesson" is as complete and rigorous
>>as a Chick Publication?
>
>Because you haven't read it.

Give this man a cigar for making a deduction!

I can see the promo for "Economics in One Lesson" now: "No need to get
advanced degrees in expensive colleges: learn valuable economic skills
in your own home.  Win Nobel prizes, advise presidents, and MORE!"

Most college intro economics texts run more than 500 pages.  Please tell me
how much is crammed into how few pages of this self-proclaimed masterwork.

>>Look, if you would like to rebut me, why not be specific?  
>
>You haven't said anything to rebut.  Your postings consist entirely of 
>mindless sarcasm (see above).

Like a typical libertarian, you have removed the other parts so that they
won't contradict your argument.

Tim Starr made a claim.  I proposed that he support his claim because the
burden of proof lies upon the proponent.

First, I showed (through sarcasm) exactly why his claim was unconvincing.
That's hardly mindless, though it might be called so by people who read
with their glands, rather than their brains.

>You have given no evidence of mental 
>processes beyond those of a parrot.  Your stock of "knowledge" consists
>entirely of popular untruisms, statist propaganda, and jingoistic slogans.
>
>You apparently cannot understand anything that is said to you, nor do 
>you even try.  Trying to rebut you is a task similar to rebutting TV
>commercials:  no matter what one says, the same commercial will play
>again in 20 minutes.  The long-suffering patience of the people who
>have continued to try is, frankly, quite amazing.

Oh gee.  I've been chided.  Shucks.

You need much more practice flaming.  This hardly even warms me.  You really
need the Matt Wiener remedial flaming course.  Maybe he'll give you a
discount out of pity.

>Grow up.  Learn to read.  Think.

Did 'em all.  Probably before you were out of diapers.  Your turn to try
them now, little fella.

Mike Huben

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point
than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.  The happiness
of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."  George Bernard Shaw
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