XPost: alt.usenet.kooks, alt.astrology   
      
   Sofa King wrote:   
   >CFA wrote:   
   >> Sofa King wrote:   
      
      
   >>>all i have to say is that maybe you know this person in real life and they   
   are a great person most   
   >>>of the time, but they are a fucking dickhead on usenet and i would expect   
   that secretly, though   
   >>>cujo might play the part of the happy-go lucky actively social   
   30-something? person, i would bet   
   >>>he has a personal hell of problems that torment him in his private life   
   which cause him to   
   >>>misdirect all of that toward his usenet "targets".   
   >>   
   >> Still speculating...   
   >   
   >of course i am.  i do not deny this.  is there something wrong with me that i   
   wonder why some dude   
   >would hide behind a pseudonym for 15 years and rail against some   
   inconsequential astrologer.   
      
   You haven't been paying attention. It's been said to you, several   
   times.   
      
   >>>> He started the whole thing of going RL on people in aa.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> He and his buddy Kettler xposted to sci.sceptic, daring people to   
   >>>> prove them wrong about astrology.   
   >>>   
   >>>so?  did anybody on your supposed "side" of this stupid "internets war"   
   actually put forth the   
   >>>scientific integrity and do such a thing?  ...or did you guys just go   
   apeshit and lob feces and   
   >>>that was just awsm?   
   >>   
   >> There was never any point in trying to 'convince' others.   
   >   
   >yes there is.   
      
   Participation in usenet, especially high-velocity groups, tends to   
   harden positions, not change them.   
      
   > because the dark ages are over and this sort of witchhunt mentality has been   
   replaced   
   >with scientific reason and scientific method.   
   >   
   >i don't believe in astrology, but if you want to disprove it, try using   
   science not namecalling and   
   >appeal to ridicule.  less people will question your motives.   
      
   Oh, you think this is about astrology.   
      
      
   >>>yes.  *STORY*   
   >>   
   >> As in, you weren't here when it happened.   
   >   
   >YES: as in, you can't prove you were there when it happened.   
      
   You can see my handle littered through responses in aa from '97 on,   
   and a few in '96. If you'd bothered to look.   
      
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