Too late, Droopy. I already started on my reply before you did the delete:
Droopy wrote:
Chap wrote:What the heck does Droopy mean by 'renewed valence'?
Nothing.
Snarky moron.
It was a typo, of course, but thanks for pointing it out, as I missed it when I spell checked the post.
Perhaps he realized that 'valence' was just not a convincing typo error from 'valiance'?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Droopy wrote:I keep having to remind myself that both reading comprehension levels and general educational levels here are plateaued at around seventh to eighth grade, so, now and then, I need to make explicit reference to some of the terms I use that more mature, educated people will be quite familiar with.
We all know what it means, Droopy. It's just the repeated superfluous use of the word that I find amusing. That you can't see that your overblown "prose" marks you as an insecure buffoon is not my problem.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
I keep having to remind myself that both reading comprehension levels and general educational levels here are plateaued at around seventh to eighth grade, so, now and then, I need to make explicit reference to some of the terms I use that more mature, educated people will be quite familiar with.
Every child knows this. However, you overuse it and it comes across as sophomoric. Often a simple employment of the word "as" would do.
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
Tarski wrote:Every child knows this. However, you overuse it and it comes across as sophomoric. Often a simple employment of the word "as" would do.
Yup. But that would require too much valence.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
We all know what it means, Droopy. It's just the repeated superfluous use of the word that I find amusing. That you can't see that your overblown "prose" marks you as an insecure buffoon is not my problem.
You're just a pure, unrefined (and quite obviously, as is common around here, not very well read) bigot, "Bob," and that has not been difficult to ascertain since you've been here.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Droopy wrote:You're just a pure, unrefined (and quite obviously, as is common around here, not very well read) bigot, "Bob," and that has not been difficult to ascertain since you've been here.
Droopy, are you coming...or going....? I get confused which phase of the cycle you're in at any given time.
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
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Droopy wrote:You're just a pure, unrefined (and quite obviously, as is common around here, not very well read) bigot, "Bob," and that has not been difficult to ascertain since you've been here.
A bigot dislikes classes of people merely for belonging to those classes. It's not bigoted to dislike someone because he is a pompous and mean-spirited ass. That you can't write worth a damn is just gravy. And I was better read twenty years ago than you will ever be.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
I keep having to remind myself that both reading comprehension levels and general educational levels here are plateaued at around seventh to eighth grade, so, now and then, I need to make explicit reference to some of the terms I use that more mature, educated people will be quite familiar with.
Every child knows this. However, you overuse it and it comes across as sophomoric. Often a simple employment of the word "as" would do.
Or not using either "qua" or "as" at all. Consider this recent gem, for instance:
Droopy wrote:... the overthrow of freedom, liberty, the rule of law, gospel-grounded morality and ethics, and civilization qua civilization, and a Zion society, in any degree of development.
What substance would be lost if Droopy had simply left out the 'qua civilization' entirely, and simply referred to the overthrow of civilization? Or if the 'qua' does add something (what?). why not write it in everywhere:
SuperDroopy wrote:... the overthrow of freedom qua freedom, liberty qua liberty, the rule of law qua law, gospel-grounded morality and ethics qua morality and ethics, and civilization qua civilization, and a Zion society qua society, in any degree of development qua development.
?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
SuperDroopy wrote:... the overthrow of freedom qua freedom, liberty qua liberty, the rule of law qua law, gospel-grounded morality and ethics qua morality and ethics, and civilization qua civilization, and a Zion society qua society, in any degree of development qua development.
?
Because that would make him look ridiculous.
But I guess saying so makes me a bigot.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
