Robert Hairless
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Dorryn:
Dorryn:
Dorryn, I assume you were responding in part to what I said too. If so I wasn't slandering you: "casting aspersions" on your ability to do your career. I commented negatively on the abilities you demonstrated here, extrapolated them according to what I know of good teaching and gun rights, and offered evidence for my negative judgment of your abilities. I said, as clearly as I know how, that what you said gives people reason to think "you don't know much about either teaching or gun rights."
Competent teachers need to know what they are talking about and have at least minimal ability to think clearly. From the two messages you posted here and that I've quoted above, you evidently say things that are patently false and unsupported, you don't understand that you can't brush them away with comments such as "poor argument or not," and you don't think at all well.
Who cares whether you think that the NRA is a "waste of money." You're entitled to think it even if I disagree. That's an opinion and in American all people have the right to an opinion on everything and it doesn't matter whether they know anything at all.
What I responded to was the "proof" you volunteered for your opinion. Your "proof" was your assertion that the reason why people become NRA Life Members is "To claim you're part of the NRA without actually sending (any more) money that "funds" the NRA." It's in your head so it must be true.
But in fact that's not the reason why people become NRA Life Members. I became an NRA Life Member to demonstrate more than ordinary support for it. That's the reason. Before then I donated substantial additional money to the NRA/ILA and after then I continued to do the same. Other NRA Life Members here have said it too. You're wrong and you don't even care.
It's what helps me to recognize that reality and facts can't be as important to you as what takes place in your head, because even on the face of it your assertion is absurd. You state as fact something you can't possibly know, and you offer it as "proof" for something it doesn't prove. You might as well assert that the snow never falls on teachers in Buffalo, NY, because you have it in your head that summer is eternal there.
Elsewhere you asserted that because a Gander Mountain store's management told you not to carry a loaded firearm in the store you know that Gander Mountain would cause trouble for anyone who stopped a crime in that store. It's in your head and comes out of your fingertips, and presumably out of your mouth when you teach, and it's knowledge that is unwarranted supposition and fact that isn't true and proof that isn't anything at all.
The little man in your head doesn't know what he is talking about, but you believe him and spout his nonsense, and if that's what passes for teaching in Buffalo, NY, the educational system there must be a hopeless wreck.
You exaggerate, offer nonsensical statements as facts, utter absurdities with no basis in reality, and can't make connections, then you complain that those who counter your foolishness are following The Low Road. It's a performance that might be excusable from an unsophisticated or incapable high school freshman, but not from a teacher at any level.
I think the NRA is a waste of money.
To prove this assertion, I need only point to all the "Life Members". Why be a life member? To claim you're part of the NRA without actually sending (any more) money that "funds" the NRA.
Dorryn:
Poor argument or not, ive never found any convincing reason TO send money to the NRA.
But sure, go low road and cast aspersions on my ability to do my career and what you think it "implies" about my hobby.
Dorryn, I assume you were responding in part to what I said too. If so I wasn't slandering you: "casting aspersions" on your ability to do your career. I commented negatively on the abilities you demonstrated here, extrapolated them according to what I know of good teaching and gun rights, and offered evidence for my negative judgment of your abilities. I said, as clearly as I know how, that what you said gives people reason to think "you don't know much about either teaching or gun rights."
Competent teachers need to know what they are talking about and have at least minimal ability to think clearly. From the two messages you posted here and that I've quoted above, you evidently say things that are patently false and unsupported, you don't understand that you can't brush them away with comments such as "poor argument or not," and you don't think at all well.
Who cares whether you think that the NRA is a "waste of money." You're entitled to think it even if I disagree. That's an opinion and in American all people have the right to an opinion on everything and it doesn't matter whether they know anything at all.
What I responded to was the "proof" you volunteered for your opinion. Your "proof" was your assertion that the reason why people become NRA Life Members is "To claim you're part of the NRA without actually sending (any more) money that "funds" the NRA." It's in your head so it must be true.
But in fact that's not the reason why people become NRA Life Members. I became an NRA Life Member to demonstrate more than ordinary support for it. That's the reason. Before then I donated substantial additional money to the NRA/ILA and after then I continued to do the same. Other NRA Life Members here have said it too. You're wrong and you don't even care.
It's what helps me to recognize that reality and facts can't be as important to you as what takes place in your head, because even on the face of it your assertion is absurd. You state as fact something you can't possibly know, and you offer it as "proof" for something it doesn't prove. You might as well assert that the snow never falls on teachers in Buffalo, NY, because you have it in your head that summer is eternal there.
Elsewhere you asserted that because a Gander Mountain store's management told you not to carry a loaded firearm in the store you know that Gander Mountain would cause trouble for anyone who stopped a crime in that store. It's in your head and comes out of your fingertips, and presumably out of your mouth when you teach, and it's knowledge that is unwarranted supposition and fact that isn't true and proof that isn't anything at all.
The little man in your head doesn't know what he is talking about, but you believe him and spout his nonsense, and if that's what passes for teaching in Buffalo, NY, the educational system there must be a hopeless wreck.
You exaggerate, offer nonsensical statements as facts, utter absurdities with no basis in reality, and can't make connections, then you complain that those who counter your foolishness are following The Low Road. It's a performance that might be excusable from an unsophisticated or incapable high school freshman, but not from a teacher at any level.