freediver wrote on Aug 16
th, 2014 at 6:03pm:
Quote:When you state, "Muslims believe this," or "Muslims do that," you are speaking of the collective, plural, implying all Muslims believe or do something, FD.
How do you know exactly what I mean Brian? Is this another demonstration of your amazing ability to know what people think without asking them?
There is this thing called language, FD. It is how we convey ideas and concepts to one another. I have assumed up until this point that we were conversing, electronically, through the written form of the language of Australian English. It is how you tell me what you mean when we are debating a particular issue on this electronic bulletin board. It appears perhaps that I was mistaken.
Quote: Quote:English appears to be a second language to you, FD or are you merely being deliberately obtuse and attempting to wriggle out (again)?
This is nothing to do with the meaning of English and everything to do with you imagining things I don't actually say. You even admitted you were "forced to fill in the gaps".
And you have had the opportunity to correct me, FD. You have instead decided to focus not upon the issue under discussion and instead turn this into a general discussion about the usage of language. Everything I have said is quite reasonable but you've decided that it would be useful to dispute every point in an effort to escape censure for your comments.
Quote: Quote:Why is the most populous Muslim nation a democracy?
Gandalf was recently complaining about the 'evil west' interfering to make it that way. When the most populous Muslim nation is a democracy, that is Islam, but when they slaughter communists to get there, that is all our fault.
I asked for a link to that comment. You still haven't supplied it, FD so in the spirit of amicable conversation that you've decided no longer to take part in, I'll ask for it again. Prove to me that was that Gandalf said or even implied, otherwise I'll assume you are lying.
BTW, the CIA admitted two decades ago that it was complicit in the slaughter of up to 2 million Indonesians who were linked to the PKI in the days of the coup and counter-coup that brought their protégé Sukarno to power, so if by "our" you mean "the west", I think if Gandalf did in fact actually claim that, he's close to being on the money, FD.
What I find interesting is how easily you keep being tripped up by even recent history, FD. It keeps happening, time after time, over facts which are even easily checked. It's as if you're not even really paying attention and are only going through the motions.
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