tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post4167864041619646847..comments2023-09-30T09:43:28.162-07:00Comments on Bucking the Dominant Paradigm: Arguments I am Tired OfAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02619018164909616871noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post-5797036942587154902007-05-31T11:39:00.000-07:002007-05-31T11:39:00.000-07:00Belle: I'd love to read what you have to say. I ...Belle: I'd love to read what you have to say. I will poke you with the polytheist stick if you leave us out. ;)<BR/><BR/>Kai: Artfully done ANYTHING is better than non artfully, but then I'm a hedonist.<BR/><BR/>Melinda: You're welcome! Thanks for coming by and commenting. Comments make me feel important, and a fed DeoEgo is a happy DeoEgo.<BR/><BR/>Amber: <3Deoridhehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17235419292633778692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post-10664104056868257932007-05-26T06:27:00.000-07:002007-05-26T06:27:00.000-07:00*applause**applause*Amber Rheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02109708537597646450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post-10015714531983864562007-05-25T17:11:00.000-07:002007-05-25T17:11:00.000-07:00Kai - I'm glad you said that, because it allows fo...Kai - I'm glad you said that, because it allows for me to feel okay about one of my posts! :D<BR/><BR/>Or when you say "literary" are you excluding blog platforms? I hope not.<BR/><BR/>If you wrote out more of your thoughts on this, I'd love to read them. (But it looks like you don't have a blog.)<BR/><BR/>Deoridhe, thanks for introducing me to this phrase and the further explanation of the context (the religious blogs & it sounds like political ones you read).Sour Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01970720171089778917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post-25643346207623500802007-05-25T07:29:00.000-07:002007-05-25T07:29:00.000-07:00I love carrot shots. Especially after tequila shot...I love carrot shots. Especially after tequila shots.<BR/><BR/>And in any case, in my opinion there's an appropriate literary place for carom shots and indirection; a total moratorium is not required. There's an artful, clarifying way to do it. There's also an inartful way, a way that blurs or conflates or misdirects. If this post contains any carom shots (which I'm not saying it does), it's done artfully. So there.<BR/><BR/>:-)Kaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18029372828318292725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post-72178214272756896832007-05-24T18:32:00.000-07:002007-05-24T18:32:00.000-07:00woohoo!i'd been meaning to post about the religion...woohoo!<BR/><BR/>i'd been meaning to post about the religion/the loosely defined left thing myself. one of these days.belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post-25349272391815096842007-05-23T05:50:00.000-07:002007-05-23T05:50:00.000-07:00It's such an apt name! Plus, when you have a joke...It's such an apt name! Plus, when you have a joke with something, you're likely to remember it, and I definitely want to remember to avoid carrot shots.<BR/><BR/>^^ Hi Nezua!Deoridhehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17235419292633778692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post-5148448895783690022007-05-22T20:51:00.000-07:002007-05-22T20:51:00.000-07:00jeje..."Carrot Shot!"it lives on.jeje..."Carrot Shot!"<BR/><BR/>it lives on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post-30954158121187014302007-05-22T18:25:00.000-07:002007-05-22T18:25:00.000-07:00Hmmm... not so much letting of steam as... this is...Hmmm... not so much letting of steam as... this is like tyring to describe mist.<BR/><BR/>I read several religious blogs of various stripes. They are heavily atheist populated, and a common trope is essentially that religious people are irrational, irrational people are stupid, thus religious people are irrational. Logical fallacies aside, that's the sort of argument where I'm always inclined to blink at the person twice, turn to someone else who has said something intelligent and say, "So, as I was saying..."<BR/><BR/>Then I started thinking of other things which provoke the same response, and debates I refuse to get into due to my rapidly devolving to sputtering and "but, that's just STUPID." This was a partial list.<BR/><BR/>I got a little over-wrought at the free trade one, though. It's such a... such a gross misframing of the whole bloody issue.Deoridhehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17235419292633778692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post-88046493438365364472007-05-22T16:55:00.000-07:002007-05-22T16:55:00.000-07:00I read it as letting off steam, not avoiding namin...I read it as letting off steam, not avoiding naming people. <BR/><BR/>I think most people will pick up on this.Sour Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01970720171089778917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post-16905820788771295642007-05-22T16:37:00.000-07:002007-05-22T16:37:00.000-07:00*sweatdrop* I hope this doesn't come across as a c...*sweatdrop* I hope this doesn't come across as a carom shot (aka carrot shot). Some have specific recent triggers, but I've heard all of them from a wide range of people and circumstances.<BR/><BR/>This is a no carrot shot location, though. Well, an attempt at one. When i call people out, I prefer to name them. ^^Deoridhehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17235419292633778692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696765918888834793.post-75725276768653849842007-05-22T16:31:00.000-07:002007-05-22T16:31:00.000-07:00Fantastic. I'm getting the reference on some - not...Fantastic. I'm getting the reference on some - not so much on others. All are pretty good, though.Sour Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01970720171089778917noreply@blogger.com