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PIRIE, MADSEN (2006)(2015) How To Win Every Argument, Bloomsbury, London.
'If you cannot attack the argument, attack the arguer.' Pirie (2006)(2015: 122). The author states that an insult in itself is not fallacious, (122) but ad hominem is used in a way to attempt to undermine an opponent's argument. (122).
So, therefore, in my opinion, someone could be rightly and justly called a 'jerk' because he/she is acting in such a negative way in an argument and this would not be the use of the fallacious. A fallacy being the use of poor and invalid reasoning; as well it is the use of an invalid structure of argument.
But if someone is called a 'jerk' in an attempt to undermine the opponent's argument then it is fallacious.
The argument is not treated by its merit. (122).
Blackburn explains that ad hominem is an attempt to argue against a person via personal attack, it is less commonly used by praising a person, or it may or may not be used by forceful attacks against a person's position but they do not advance matters intellectually against a person's beliefs and views. Blackburn (1996: 24).
Douglas Walton writes that argumentation ad hominem is an argument against the man. It is a personal attack against an arguer to refute the argument. In the abusive form the character of the arguer is attacked. These arguments are often used to attack an opponent unfairly. Walton (1996: 374).
BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
PIRIE, MADSEN (2006)(2015) How To Win Every Argument, Bloomsbury, London.
WALTON, DOUGLAS (1996) ‘Informal Fallacy’, in Robert Audi, (ed), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
“If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.”
ReplyDelete-Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller”
“Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it.”
ReplyDelete-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Do you know how many times single men say to me, "Arica I just want to find a good girl?"
ReplyDeleteI want to find a field of non-fattening chocolate too.
When I hear my clients say that, my response is "That's not going to cut it babe."
The same holds true with you. If you're saying "I just want a good girl", the chances of that "just" happening are slim.
Read this blog I wrote that shares why asking for a good girl isn't enough.
I Just Want a Good Girl
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Your Love Confidant,
Arica Angelo
Two hunters were dragging their dead deer down a trail back to their truck.
ReplyDeleteAnother hunter approached pulling his along too.
"Hey, I don't want to tell you what to do, but I can tell you that it's much easier if you drag the deer in the other direction. Then the antlers won't dig into the ground."
After the third hunter left, the two decided to try it.
A little while later one man said to the other, "You know, that guy was right. This is a lot easier!"
"Yeah," the other added, "but we're getting farther away from the truck!"
…..Mikey's Funnies (funnies-owner@lists.MikeysFunnies.com) by way of “Christian Voices” (ChristianVoices@att.net)
“Setting the gently sloshing tank on the dresser, Ellsworth sprinkled in some food and spent a few minutes watching the little fish dark up and away from the surface, over and over again. Like always, it did something to him, something he could never quite figure out. It seemed to put one part of him to sleep and wake another part up, the part that sent ideas bubbling up and out.”
ReplyDelete-Janet S. Anderson, The Last Treasure
Hello!
ReplyDeletePerhaps somewhere, there is a man who will be an ideal match for me. I'm here to find my luck.
I want to meet a gallant, intelligent, caring man who is self-confident and firm of purpose. I'm a gentle, amiable http://qitweq.summerhost.info and beautiful girl.
I might add that I am sociable, kind-hearted and honest. I need a strong partner who respects me but who is also telling me his own opinion.
Regards, Nadezda.
I decided to purchase the main (not only) Fight Smart paid program, as opposed to simply watching the free vids.
ReplyDeleteIt seems a good deal for $100.
I emailed with the MMA trainer and he told me from what I stated about myself that I basically was advanced, but he would be able to assist me with more knowledge of leg holds and related. So, I decided there would be more to learn with the course as opposed to just free videos. Not so much that I want to do leg holds in a street situation if I am attacked, I explained to him that I thought on the street as opposed to a softer ring or mat, even the defending person could be injured performing a leg move on concrete. I am more interested in learning to defend the moves. But one move may be the best one to use at some point.
Thankfully, having taken the first part of the online course today, my punches, kicks and strikes are quite close to what he does. As are my defences. That is pretty good for me as I am mostly self-taught. I took 1.5 years of karate when I was late teen but soon reasoned that would not help enough in a street fight. This was verified further when Chucky and I were attacked in Manchester in 2000 on Christmas Eve with everything closed and I ended up being jumped by three 'blokes'. They could not beat me, but out of frustration after I roundhouse kicked one guy he threw a wine bottle at my face from distance while the other two were trying to hit me.
I have received compliments on my back training more than once, but I did not have the finishing moves. A problem with karate...
Winning the fights on points did me no good, so I realized that I needed to learn and use more finishing moves, quickly, if I was ever attacked again and I needed to know how to use and defend weapons. I have spent the last 15 years learning these things with Karate largely downplayed. I now use more judo type moves, some karate and weapons and defences. I also grapple, but as stated I would like him to teach me some better leg holds as the ones I have seen online and in books are typically too difficult to do on the street.
This knowledge is very good for corp. security work.
On the negative side, I did not do well enough in my actual fight, getting bottled, even while winning on points. On the positive side, I basically fight according to the standards of a MMA trainer being mostly self-trained. Interestingly he stated on one vid that one could do very well just training by self, although I have worked out with others.
I looked the trainer up and he ties into my last marijuana story. He apparently was arrested in regard to that topic...
“So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.”
ReplyDelete-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Some interesting Focus on the Family material...
ReplyDeleteCited
Two-thirds of Americans believe in soul mates or this concept of “the
One.”1 This is the idea that there’s one ideal match for you in the
world, and he or she is “out there” somewhere. It’s the person you’re
most compatible with, who’ll complete you, and who has been reserved
(by God, fate, or the universe, depending on your worldview)
exclusively for you.
The problem is, we have a bunch of people expecting a soul
mate, but we have a lifetime divorce risk of more than 40 percent
(thankfully mitigated by a number of factors, including faith, so
don’t despair).
Personally, I think the idea of the One is completely bogus. It’s
neither biblical nor practical. And it sets us up for one of two huge
potential failures.
Stop the craziness. Know that there are a number of women
in the world (we don’t know how many, but let’s conservatively say
hundreds and hundreds) whom you can be attracted to, love, live
with, serve with, share a calling with, start a family with, and honor
God with.
Focus on the Family cited cont...
ReplyDeleteHooking up is never okay. Just look at STD rates, abortion rates,
and emotional and attachment disorders to see that. Oh, and don’t
forget the Bible’s perfect script for sex and relationship. Hanging out
is appropriate for certain levels and stages of friendship. But it’s not
dating. It’s not going to get you into a committed relationship that
goes the distance.
In Christian circles, we tend to err on the side of not dating. Guys
don’t ask girls out for a number of reasons. Some are still being boys.
They’re caught up with their toys, their friends (buds, bros, homies),
and their hobbies. They’re not even in the spheres of mature, eligible
women. That’s probably for the best. Boys shouldn’t be dating.
Others are scared. They don’t want to fail. They don’t want to
be the guy who asks girls out but gets rejected. And rejected. And
rejected.
Still others treat dating as if it were a sequel to Mission: Impossible.
They don’t want to show their hand, so they do a lot of vague reconnaissance,
fact-finding, and second-guessing. They get into a girl’s
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circle, and in an unobtrusive, completely risk-free way, they try to
scope her out. But the next thing they know, she’s coming to them
to get advice about dating another guy—the guy who actually asked
her out. Meanwhile, Mr. Stealth has been friend-zoned. And it’s very
difficult to get out of the Friend Zone.
Focus on the Family cont. Cited
ReplyDeleteGuys, I believe the power to ask a girl out is in your hands. It’s
a great act of leadership and service at the same time. Don’t worry
about whether she’ll misinterpret a date as a marriage proposal. If she
goes home and writes her name with your last name, it’s not the end
of the world. If she picks out china patterns or tells her girlfriends
how wonderful you are, consider it a compliment. You’ll survive. You
went on a date. You’re a step ahead of most of your buddies.
That said, ladies, stop writing your name with guys’ names.
Don’t pick out china patterns. Stop debriefing a coffee date as if it’s
Watergate or an episode of 24. Do yourself a favor and be normal,
for crying out loud.
Focus on the Family cont...Cited
ReplyDeleteWhile we’re at it, let’s talk about why you don’t date. Yes, one
reason is you’re not being asked out. We covered that. But some of
you are unnecessarily turning guys down.
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Five Reasons Your Love Life Is a Disaster (or Doesn’t Exist) 79
Some of you are too attached to the fifty-point list you, like me,
created in junior high. If a guy doesn’t measure up to the list, you
turn him down. Some of you have put arbitrary requirements on
men, be they vague levels of spirituality and what that should look
like, the type of job they should have, or their correct use of grammar
and punctuation—one transgression and he’s banished from the
realm of possibility. Or you’ve already labeled a guy as “weird” based
on what you’ve observed or the gossip you’ve heard.
You also may not be dating because you’re “one of the guys.” It’s
the female version of being friend-zoned, and it’s not fun. I used to be
there. I was always debating guys and trying to one-up them. I used
my humor to cut them down. I refused to show emotion. I acted as
though I knew everything. I never asked for help. And I stood by as
the guys I liked asked other girls—the warm, kind, interesting girls
who weren’t afraid to be girls—out on dates.
End Citations
I would state that in my case, even as my social life has picked up, that an estimated 50% of my problem has been me being more shy in my past, being a student for 19 years and also being too focused on a certain type.
ReplyDeleteThe above criticism of the women I think is roughly 50% of my problem.
Too many Christian women, even the Godly ones, obviously in my mind have a pre-set agenda, likely in God's permissible and not perfect will, not based on the Bible, and they reject men if they do not fit their pre-set agenda.
This includes
Age
Looks
Father and family expectations
Being homogeneous
Income
Ethic origin
Nationality
Social views of society, friends and church
Strength to Comprehend
ReplyDeleteWhy is your life worth living? What do you pray for? As your life winds down, what’s most important for you to get right? As we yearn for Awakening again, we know of two things: the followers of Jesus should get their priorities straight, first things first, and not-yet-believers should trust Jesus to be at their sides—so they too would have first things first! (Avoiding forever in Hell is a good move, but when you do that, then you’re voting for forever in Heaven, spending your time doing what?)
The Lord’s priority commandment is that we love him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. That’s where we find the meaning in our lives. God also tells us if we love him we should keep his commandments. So it’s never, love him and ignore the rest, but do everything in your life God’s way and always out of love for him. Throughout your complicated life keep your heart on him! That’s why we need to wake up. It’s too easy to think like this: that was a good week, I heard good stuff from the boss, played ball with the boys, did my running, kept up with Bible reading, painted the porch—but then Amy was sobbing, I don’t know why, haven’t asked her in a while how she’s doing. Out of touch with the Lord is like out of touch with Amy. First things really first.
If it’s hard to know what loving the Lord is like, can you pray that he’ll show you by using Psalms? Tell him you’ve found one you identify with, and read it to him, aloud. I’ve been working through II Corinthians, talking to myself about the hard things in my life, finding the Lord’s comfort for each one, and then I love him for giving me so much. Most moving of all, we can hear those last words of Jesus to us disciples in John 14 to 16, then listen in to his prayer for us in 17.
ReplyDeleteI try to put together the Word and where I am today—but since I can be easily content with how interesting that is, then I have to pray and work to see my Father’s love, and how to respond to it. Keep up that prayer and watch the Lord keep on surprising you! Just keep on asking him to show you how to love him back, more and more.
Loving the Lord fits the other priority, love others the way you love yourself. The alternative is Pharisee identity, where who he thinks he is, is how he’s better than you. When he sees Jesus having lunch with traitor and crook Zachaeus, all he can think about is what a fool that Jesus is, he can’t even see that I’m a lot more worthy. What a tiny Jesus a Pharisee sees, instead of the real one, big enough to love the worst there is! There’s the issue, how can you love the Lord with all your heart when your pitiful ego keeps getting in the way? The way you see yourself is the way you see the Lord—so why not begin with seeing the Lord first!
Now that is hard. Being a Pharisee is so natural and normal, isn’t it? Doesn’t God just ask too much of us? Wouldn’t a straight self-esteem identity and religion make more sense? Now we’re getting close to seeing why we desire Awakening so much—left to ourselves, where we too often are, we can never get beyond identity idolatry. If we want reality and not self-deception, if we want to honor and worship God and not ourselves, if we want Glory to fill our lives and not boredom—then it is only Father, Son, and Holy Spirit who can do the great work. That’s why the heart of Awakening is learning to pray that the Lord would work powerfully in your heart, bringing you ever further along in trusting and obeying.
ReplyDeleteSo much has to happen! What should we ask God to do? What do we need to do? What can we do together? Working that out is hard, possibly divisive. Calvinism seems to leave out you and me, Arminianism seems to leave out God, and we need to take both very seriously, not to be theologically neater but to do full justice to the Word of God. Don’t think the people on the other side are more unbiblically consistent than they really are! Remember how John Wesley and George Whitefield couldn’t agree theologically, so someone asked George if he thought he’d see John in heaven (is he a true believer?) and he said: no, he’ll be so close to the Throne and I’ll be so far away.
But there are crucial theological issues we must look at. What should you do when you bring the gospel and no one is interested? My student Marq said, we must pray. His leader responded, no, we don’t do that, we believe in free will. I can hardly believe that really happened, but isn’t it helpful—what is it we ask the Lord to do to bring an unbeliever to Jesus Christ? If we take Bible language seriously, that he is dead in sin, the answer is clear enough, everything! For godly life to begin only the Lord can do it, isn’t that so close to, what would it take to wake us up again?
Much confusion has come from Calvinists! I come back to two books: C. F. Allison’s Rise of Moralism (the rise in English Calvinism) and Joseph Haroutunian’s Piety versus Moralism (in New England Calvinism). When it seemed hard to become a true believer, they would ask weird questions like: Am I getting close, do I have any reason to hope that I’ll make it? How far along am I in the ordo salutis, the way of salvation of election to regeneration to repentance to faith to justification to sanctification to adoption to union with Christ?
ReplyDeleteJohn Murray gave me so much, but the best came in his explanation of what it means that regeneration precedes faith—does it mean you could be born again but not yet a believer in Jesus? a regenerate unbeliever? Theological monstrosity, he bellowed to shake the room! The ordo is about logical sequence, this causes that, he said, not about where God’s grace is in our lives. His wise and godly insight changes all our thinking as we keep on working it through, while we just stop asking those unbiblical and weird questions: don’t I have to find out if I’m elect before I even try to believe? (where’s that in the Bible?) have I repented enough so I can go on to believing? (just think repentance/faith, turn from sin to Jesus without stopping halfway); now that I’m justified by trusting Jesus and his righteousness for me, how can I possibly move ahead to sanctification, with so much more for me to do (just move union with Christ from way off at the end back to the beginning where we receive both together with Jesus, where sanctification too has a accomplished “definitive” side).
Most of that confusion is blessedly obsolete by now, but some will stay with us, especially our understanding of election, God’s choice of his people. It does make sense, doesn’t it? If only the Lord can set us free from the bondage and oppression of world, flesh, Devil and our own idolatrous hearts, and if none of us are “more worthy” than others, then the Bible’s teaching that God chooses those he will save, that his kindness is personal comes out just right. He chooses not ways of salvation, but his own beloved people! But how does that fit into our lives? Or is election just mysterious?
ReplyDeleteWe know not to do that phony issue, how can I believe if I don’t know if I’m elect? Don’t try to be wiser than God, bringing up things he doesn’t talk about. That isn’t God's plan, to tell us how his election starts—no, what he wants you to know is, how can you possibly keep going, how can you persevere in your love for Jesus, in your joy in him?
We find that in Romans. The opening chapters, 1-5, give us the “Roman road” of our justification through the righteousness of Jesus Christ, so much love and grace of God—but not the end of the story. For then comes the ongoing battle between the Holy Spirit and our sinful hearts, a battle that goes wrong so often that it leads to Paul’s cry at the end of chapter 7, o wretched man that I am! immediately followed by his joyful, thanks be to God! What happened in between, do you think? Wretched looks back to the hard struggle, thanks looks ahead to all that Paul will proclaim to us about the riches of our salvation in Jesus, culminating in 8:26-34:
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
You heard how the Lord underlined all those blessed realities: According to the will of God, called according to his purpose, predestined, called, God’s elect, who shall separate us from the love of God! Wretched, but I’m so thankful that the Lord wants me with him forever!
The reality of the Lord’s personal choice of his own people is so amazing, so meaningful, so kind. We can pray for anyone, no matter how indifferent to the gospel they are right now. Also, that in our own discouraging battle it is the Lord’s own choice of us that wins out, as we persevere on to the end.
Now see Hosea 11: 5-9:
ReplyDeleteThey shall not return to the land of Egypt,
but Assyria shall be their king,
because they have refused to return to me.
The sword shall rage against their cities,
consume the bars of their gates,
and devour them because of their own counsels.
My people are bent on turning away from me,
and though they call out to the Most High,
he shall not raise them up at all.
How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
My heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender.
I will not execute my burning anger;
I will not again destroy Ephraim;
for I am God and not a man,
the Holy One in your midst,
and I will not come in wrath.
God changed his heart toward his people, that’s even more surprising and heart-melting! His people are set in their ways against him, his anger burns toward them, so justifiably, he will never hear their prayers again—but then the Lord proclaims from his throne, How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel?
You didn’t see that coming, did you? The only way to begin to understand it is through what God says about himself, I am God and not a man. His love is over the top, you don’t have to understand it before you can joyfully receive it.
ReplyDeleteHere I almost identify with Jeremy Taylor (see Allison), Better keep this a secret, he said, reserved only for people about to die. It’s bound to be misused and make people complacent when they shouldn’t be. (You can hear that today from the “too much grace” folks). This is what helps: when you read Hosea don’t do what I just did and jump to chapter eleven. Begin at the beginning, and you’ll learn about your sin and unbelief--but that the Lord with his steadfast love will be at your side.
This is what is now clear to us: the Lord asks of you and me so much, that we love him and everyone else in a radical way, far beyond our ability or ordinary desire; and that our sure hope of being and living that way comes from his own radical and very personal love for us. There is our world, the Lord’s own world for us, and we desire and hope to enter further into it as we become more and more Awakened to it.
May Father, Son and Holy Spirit open our eyes wider to see that most real world they are giving us, in Ephesians 3:14-19:
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
That you, already rooted in love, “may have strength to comprehend” how large the love of Christ really is! Amen O Lord, we know our feebleness, give us the strength we need so much, never to make small in any way the love of our Savior Jesus to us. Amen again.
D. Clair Davis