[Peace-discuss] Corn Festival -- RE: Sweet Corn Fest Fri & Sat!

[Stuart Levy]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:17:37AM -0500, Karen Medina wrote:
> > By far the hardest people to argue with are those who are quite sure of
> > their own impressive mental stature.
> 
> The thing that gets me is that this Vietnam Vet guy and his wife think
> they found an irrefutable argument for their side, because my jaw
> dropped and I was flabbergasted. So they walked away all pleased with
> themselves.

They may have fled thinking that they had run out of arguments,
and that discretion was the better part of valor.

There was an encounter a bit like this at the Quad Day ISO table with
an apologist for Israel.  ("Why concentrate on small problems when
you could be worrying about Darfur?" for example.)
The apologist looked disgusted and hurried off when he got
arguments in reply -- including US extravagant military support
for Israel -- which I suspect he had no answer to.

> In reality, I had not heard adults say things like that for quite
> awhile. And it was taking me a few seconds to even begin to see where
> along the path to enlightenment they had veered off. Then I had to
> sort through all the things that I could say but should not because
> those ideas would be too evolved for them to grasp.
> 
> -karen medina
> 
> > You can't get them to stop exclaiming, "Thank god I'm not like those lesser
> > folk!"
> Ooops. Sometimes I am tempted to think this myself. Grrr. (I am
> growling at myself).
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