Thread: Einstein and some of his philosophical views.

Originally Posted by Minervas Phoenix

Whatever you say. How ridiculous. I was quoting Einstein not Pinocchio. That was only a joke because you were so paranoid that you thought it might be Pinocchio.

And now you say you have verified that it was quotes by Pinocchio but you don't want to post the evidence because you will appear paranoid? I think you already appear paranoid enough.

How can you so misunderstand everything you read? I will break down my post for you, since it doesn't seem to make sense to you.

Have you ever heard the saying "Turnabout is fair play?" It means, in a nutshell, that if you do something to further your aims, it is equally fair for someone else to use the same means to further theirs. In this case, the "turnabout" in question was the use of unsupported claims, and a flat-out refusal to support them when questioned.

Obviously Pinnocchoi didn't say those things. Only the simplest of minds would think that that was the point of my post, or even that I believed it to be so. The argument served only to show you how meaningless it is to make a claim without being able to support it.

If your goal is to be believed or even listened to, you should strive to make a more convincing argument than someone on the other side. Here, the other side was presented by Sandform. He gave full quotes in context and sourced them. You, on the other hand, provided snippets of quotes from unknown contexts and refused to delve any deeper. It's not whether or not Einstein said them (and I believe he did), but that we have no larger context within which to understand what he was getting at.

It is this larger context that would have supported your position, but you refused to supply it. Why on earth would I want to look it up when I'm already on Sandform's side? Why would anyone want to look it up if you yourself were too lazy to supply the information?

You give me no choice but to conclude that you either have no idea of the context, or have realized that supplying the context would destroy the point you were trying to make in the first place.

In the end, it won't matter if you're right or wrong... a bad argument will make you appear wrong anyway. If your only alibi in a murder case is a person you refuse to reveal to the judge, you'll end up in jail innocent or not.