[mdlug-discuss] [Fwd: OIL - $5.gal Check this out]

[Raymond Ingles]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> amkowalczyk wrote:
> You fail.
>
> ANYTHING concerning politics, Snopes is unreliable for anything other
> than to toe the leftist's line.

"You must show *that* a man is wrong before you start explaining *why*
he is wrong. The modern method is to assume without discussion that he
is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real
issue) by busily explaining how he became so silly... Suppose I think,
after doing my accounts, that I have a large balance at the bank. And
suppose you want to find out whether this belief of mine is 'wishful
thinking.' You can never come to any conclusion by examining my
psychological condition. Your only chance of finding out is to sit
down and work through the sum yourself. When you have checked my
figures, then, and then only, will you know whether I have that
balance or not. If you find my arithmetic correct, then no amount of
vapouring about my psychological condition can be anything but a waste
of time. If you find my arithmetic wrong, *then* it may be relevant to
explain psychologically how I came to be so bad at my arithmetic, and
the doctrine of the concealed wish will become relevant — but only
after you have yourself done the sum and discovered me to be wrong on
purely arithmetical grounds." - C. S. Lewis