I would think that this would tell you all you needed to know about a candidate's character
and someone who would vote for that candidate
Except I didn't vote for him in the past election and neither you nor chrys lauded your sudden elevation of estimation on that particular. Rather, you're using anything you can spin to the negative and if you have to point to one decision two elections ago, so be it. Even though I've explained why I didn't vote that issue in the election and how I believe the issue will actually be decided.
not really oh, he spews out an impressive volume of crap, but when you deconstruct it there's hardly any substance
You're just bitter. Even people who disagree with me have credited me on that count. You can't because you're that personally invested. I thought that was the reason you could debase your own faith in relation to our differences, then I saw you ask anna if she was done pretending to be a Christian and saw your "witness" to Rusha and realized it was worse than that and even less excusable.
It's who you are. And it's low, warped, dishonest and dishonorable. It's how you relate to everyone who doesn't agree with you and that's tragic.
He impresses himself and his followers
I don't have followers. You see it that way because you see people as utility. And that's also tragic.
but consider this - for a man who claims to have gone to law school and worked as a lawyer,
See, I don't simply claim to. I've demonstrated the fact of it. AMR can and has made that clear and I made it a point on a perma ban challenge that you ran from like a girl with her hair aflame.
his skills at persuasive argumentation are dismal
Because you've demonstrated an honest ability at unbiased assessment of anything where I'm concerned.
Have you ever seen him persuade anyone to change their point of view?
I've changed a few, though that's hard to do in a forum setting that tends to draw people in with hard set notions ready to argue them. Bybee has said on a few occasions that I've broadened her perspective on a thing. Wile changed his mind on a couple of points. I've had a number of experiences like that and I've had my own horizons broadened by any number of people here on both the political and religious considerations.
Sure, we've all seen him browbeat his opponents into ceasing to respond - I believe he calls it "pounding them into silt"
Rather, I've answered people who answered me in return and so on. I've ended more than one conversation by walking away having made the points I felt I could. It's not about last word or winning, but I never leave a field knowingly when someone is misrepresenting me.
But actually persuading them that their viewpoint is wrong? :nono:
Like I said, I doubt that happens much. Point me to the thread where we can find you, in any incarnation, over more years than I've been here, having that said to you.
Here's one for posterity: you changed my mind on you. I am convinced by your method and argument that you're a bad guy. I hope you're saved and I hope you change, but I know you're a bad guy and I started out thinking the opposite. You've convinced me.
