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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7407381" data-attributes="member: 82106">Look, NORMALLY, I might agree with you! Seriously! However NOT WITH THIS POSTER. This guy doesn't play by the rules of interpreting things in the way they should be meant. He plays with and twists words and INSISTS on alternate and often nonsensical readings of things, not what is obviously meant. You HAVE to engage like this if you want to engage at all. Otherwise its pea soup and suddenly the whole conversation became absurd.I'd VERY strongly advice, if you were to take an interest in that particular dialog, to go back and read the parts of the thread Max contributed. I think you'll VERY QUICKLY find that [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] is fully justified in his approach. I mean, honestly, don't bother, you can take it from me. It would be pretty tedious to do (though sometimes kinda amusing in a certain way).Truthfully there are times when Max also says things that are illuminating, but I half think its by accident, I just don't know. Mostly I take him to be a hard case example of a contrarian, he's just GOT to 'win' any exchange of words.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7407381, member: 82106"] Look, NORMALLY, I might agree with you! Seriously! However NOT WITH THIS POSTER. This guy doesn't play by the rules of interpreting things in the way they should be meant. He plays with and twists words and INSISTS on alternate and often nonsensical readings of things, not what is obviously meant. You HAVE to engage like this if you want to engage at all. Otherwise its pea soup and suddenly the whole conversation became absurd. I'd VERY strongly advice, if you were to take an interest in that particular dialog, to go back and read the parts of the thread Max contributed. I think you'll VERY QUICKLY find that [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] is fully justified in his approach. I mean, honestly, don't bother, you can take it from me. It would be pretty tedious to do (though sometimes kinda amusing in a certain way). Truthfully there are times when Max also says things that are illuminating, but I half think its by accident, I just don't know. Mostly I take him to be a hard case example of a contrarian, he's just GOT to 'win' any exchange of words. [/QUOTE]

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