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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 4318463" data-attributes="member: 284">How can you reliably divine my intent merely from my written text?    I thought a major contention of the RAW viewpoint was that such a thing could not be done. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />*shrug*  I didn't respond to you or directly refer to you in any way in my initial post.  You are the one who chose to respond to my post with your "witty comeback".  You are the one who is now discussing the poster (rather than what was posted), which is what you are accusing me of.  Ironic, some might say. (Others might describe it otherwise, but I prefer not to dwell on such things.)If you would prefer to discuss the topic at hand, then I cordially suggest you do so, rather than waste your time replying to me.  Since my simple statements seem to be upsetting you on some level, I apologize for causing you distress.   (Not that I want to make any assumptions about your state of mind based on your written word, of course.  You may have been enlightened and invigorated instead of upset, in which case: kudos.)But I don't apologize for my statements, as I believe they are accurate regarding the general "RAW" contingent, even if they may not apply to certain individuals within that august body of sophisticated and detail oriented debaters. With all due respect,Caliban</blockquote>

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