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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
translation: you refuse to acknowledge the truth and validity of my statements of fact and will therefore attempt to discredit them by calling them neither nice nor neat.
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You are trying to pass off clumsy rhetorical questions as statements of fact? Now I now for certain: I don't know what you are talking about, and neither do you.
Now, I suggest you say something that isn't self-discrediting. Seriously,
all power comes from the barrel of a gun, yet
persuasion is "powerful, [but] not ultimately powerful"?
You do know that
power and
influence are synonymous, right? Look to Gandhi when thinking of power and influence. Look to Wal-Mart. Look at the non-violent power that China is exerting over the world right now.
What do you think it is that enables guns?