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Then all you're doing is throwing the argument into more disarray, making the thread useless.
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Imples the thread was not already rendered useless by Joelsdad. I contend that it was already useless meaning I could not render it useless and all I've really done is waste some space.
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When unargued, phrases like "fiction" and "bend the populace to their respective wills" are just spite.
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I understand what you are saying.. but I think I'd place the "spiteful" criteria on more varied a contextual cue than weather they are argued points.
I think in this case, the comment made statements of direct relevence to teh sub-issue... If I wnt through a discussion on "how big the burning bush was" and kept using discrimitory language like "fictional"; I would agree.
Without going back several pages and re-looking at the post; I belive it was a response to a question about what I thought the Bible was, or something similar. If the comment was completely unrelated to anything being disussed, the entire sentance by be "spiteful" (bordering on ad hominim); but I don't think that's the case in this instance.