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uriel1972

(4,261 posts)
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 01:29 PM Dec 2015

No true-Scotsmen are running loose in the 'Other' place....

Sheesh, did they think we wouldn't notice, are ignorant, or disengeneous.
Or maybe a combination of the above.

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No true-Scotsmen are running loose in the 'Other' place.... (Original Post) uriel1972 Dec 2015 OP
All of the above. mr blur Dec 2015 #1
Is this all from misbegotten folk skepticscott Dec 2015 #2
As long as they aren't naked. Curmudgeoness Dec 2015 #3
Huh? Translation for scandinavian descended Midwesterner please. -- nt Freelancer Dec 2015 #4
Heh sorry:) uriel1972 Dec 2015 #5
Oh, okay. I get it. Thanks for explaining it to me. -- nt Freelancer Dec 2015 #6
Hey no problem... uriel1972 Dec 2015 #7

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
3. As long as they aren't naked.
Fri Dec 25, 2015, 06:38 PM
Dec 2015

You must understand that they are always running loose there. It is the best argument they can come up with. That is why I normally avoid that place. Such a waste of my time.

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)
5. Heh sorry:)
Sun Dec 27, 2015, 06:18 AM
Dec 2015

A No True-Scotsman logical fallacy goes like "No True Scotsman would do x. If he did x then he is no True Scotsman.".
In the Religion Group, the Other Place, this appears as someone denying that a christian who does something that a poster disagrees with, is not really a christian.
In other words noone who does something bad is a christian, which is poppycock.

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)
7. Hey no problem...
Mon Dec 28, 2015, 12:52 PM
Dec 2015

now you know, you're part of the kilt-spotter club.
Won't have to go far there are a lot of these NTS's all over DU.

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