Comments on: Universal Wealthcare

By: Blake

Blake — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:09:19 +0000

He was a nutjob- I guess that would fit- he was a heretic, yeah, that’s right- and the church treated him in a proper fashion at the time, so I guess we will allow you to keep the name- its you.

By: Savonarola

Savonarola — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:38:57 +0000

BLAKE
And you choose to use this nom de online?

SAV
He became a real thorn in the church’s side… so they killed him. Seems to me you should understand: You find me thorn-like enough to want to kill me.

BLAKE
You see, I interpret [Yaciw'] statement differently,

SAV
Yes, that was my point.

BLAKE
You are correct?

SAV
Yes, that was my point. You can call it arrogance, but that doesn’t actually support your argument that my interpretation is incorrect. Maybe you can find a 11th grader to interpret it for you?

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:14:02 +0000

I would guess that none of your students know your on- line name, or its history. Must be your feeble attempt at a joke.
Girolamo Savonarola allegedly never lost faith- while you apparently never had it.
He might have been a “reformer”, but he believed in God- he just believed he was the arbiter of God’s word- he faked “prophecies”, forbid all “frivolity”- this led to what is now known as the “Bonfires of the Vanities”.
And you choose to use this nom de online?
How telling.

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:57:30 +0000

I guess we go as nuts as you do. So where’s the difference?

By: Savonarola

Savonarola — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:20:23 +0000

The classes I teach aren’t default classes. Students have to ask to take them. My enrollment is up, so it seems that they disagree with you, and of the people who take my class and the people who don’t, who is in a better position to pass judgement?

And you guys go nuts when I “draw conclusions” about you when I don’t actually know you? Priceless.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:06:22 +0000

Poor students. I wish them better fortune than to have you as their instructor.

By: Savonarola

Savonarola — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:19:44 +0000

BLAKE
you berate others who do not share your “enlightened” opinion

SAV
I berate stupid, indefensible opinions. I notice that you’ve elected to berate me instead of to defend your opinion. That’s not a coincidence.

BLAKE
Your students must be SOOOOO privileged to have you as a taskmaster.

SAV
They are! Enrollment in my classes has risen significantly since my arrival. I have more students in my mid-level course and more students continuing into my upper-level course.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:18:09 +0000

One might think you could at least have the manners of a human, but that is beyond your ego, unfortunately, so you berate others who do not share your “enlightened” opinion. Your students must be SOOOOO privileged to have you as a taskmaster. I pity them.

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:13:48 +0000

You see, I interpret his statement differently, but you are theone who claims I don’t read for comprehension,just because I come to a different conclusion than you? You are correct?
How Arrogant, how ignorant, how intolerant you are.
You are far less intelligent than I suspected, and certainly far less enlightened.

By: Savonarola

Savonarola — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:21:30 +0000

DOG
There is nothing wrong with people who have faith.

SAV
I’m not sure anyone is arguing that there’s anything inherently wrong with people who have faith; rather, I find faith inherently illogical and its consequences often disproportionately dangerous. Faith — acceptance of positions unsupported by evidence — opens the door to abandoning logic and reality.

You want everyone to respect others’ opinions, but sometimes opinions simply aren’t respectable. I don’t respect the opinion that red-haired people are inherently less human than others, for example, and nobody should; I’ll attack it unabashedly. Could you, if you tried, really attack the position of not accepting positions unsupported by evidence?