Re: Eat

What I mean to say, as someone who's been perpetually involved in these sorts of arguments on a high-stakes basis, is that you need to keep in mind what you're after when you engage in a debate. The goal of a debate is to emotionally damage the other person (which is why I've discontinued the debate with Joe Carter, whom I now like) and this is best done with a certain subtlety; you have to let the opponent get mad while not getting mad back. Debates are necessary because one can only kill so many people but one can easily hurt them emotionally. You should see what I and others have done to that Jeff Goldstein fellow, who now lives in a sort of endless cycle of despair and dwindling masculinity. It's actually a funny story. You win the debate when the other person threatens to come beat you up, because then that sort of impotent threat exists forever on the internet and, if one knows the ways of Google and has the ability to ensure that a certain page rises to the top, one can ensure that one's children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will be painfully aware that their ancestor was a giant douchebag, and more importantly, the douchebag himself will know this in advance. Remind me to tell you about Encyclopedia Dramatica sometime, which is kind of like my a-bomb. I once used it to successfully receive payment from a fellow who owed me $700 and wouldn't pay up until I used ED to ensure that the first Google result for his name would be whatever I wanted it to be.

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:43 PM, emilieduchatelet8@gmail.com <emilieduchatelet8@gmail.com> wrote:

I thought you seemed dismissive. I know I'm far too easy and get upset about things which is probably why I come across as passionate and like I'm *haranguing* people, like he said, but I do feel strongly and I am right. People hate that, I suppose. I was quite taken aback at his rant at me and wish I hadn't replied. But I see he has replied in turn so now I can decide not to reply. Which even as I write, sounds frankly ridiculously juvenile.

I am sick of having this same argument about Islam whenever I write about it. What is to defend? Are people really so blinkered and taken in? That guy even admitted he would not be a Muslim (like, duh) so I can only assume his attack was personal. Now that I think back to what he wrote I am incensed by it and want to go and punch his face in.

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Lol wut? Why would I be mad at you?

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:15 PM, emilieduchatelet8@gmail.com <emilieduchatelet8@gmail.com> wrote:

I feel like that now. I wish I had not retaliated. I realise he was
just trying to antagonise me because his post amounted to not much
more than a personal attack. I just feel stupid and i'm not. I'm just
hot headed. Are you mad with me?

On 11/16/10, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't worry about disagreeing with Rufus or anyone else there; trick is to
> let them throw the punches and then ignore the punches entirely. I'm off to
> the office for a bit.
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> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:07 PM, emilieduchatelet8@gmail.com <
> emilieduchatelet8@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Im going out to eat with Jessica. I love you.
>>
>> I have pissed somebody called Rufus off at the Gentlemen site. I have
>> replied but I hate leaving it because I know he will undoubtedly come back
>> at me and I want to reply straight away. Anyway, no matter. People always
>> get pissed off at me about Islam. Because they are pussies.
>>
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> Regards,
>
> Barrett Brown
> 512-560-2302
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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302