Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5342373" data-attributes="member: 7006">So in other words... you basically agree with the two rules of thumb, but don't like having to admit it.  That's okay.  We all understand it.  Sometimes the truth hurts.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Look folks... I'm sorry to have to burst everyone's bubble here.  But I'm not posting my two rules of thumb to make people feel bad... I'm doing it to inspire people to be a little more critical in their thinking.  If you find yourself arguing a 4E rule and five other people are telling you you are wrong with your interpretation... I'm just suggesting you go back through the thread, read what they have stated (plus all the evidence they have provided to back it up) and then really think about how they are coming to their conclusions (especially when it comes to Rules-As-Written, not Rules-As-Common-Sense-Would-Dictate-They-Probably-Should-Be).  At the end of that, I believe you'll find you've PROBABLY been incorrect in your reasoning.  Not definitely... not absolutely... not 100%... but just... probably.  Now one out of every four arguments you have, you might indeed be right.  So good for you!  That's 25% of the time.  But it also means those other three of four (or 75%) you were indeed wrong in the end.  And that's as good an indication of probably as we're gonna get.</blockquote>

Verification