Quote:Kyberean Wrote:
> Tolkien's work
> "is shallow to the shallow"; "those who can't,
> teach": Are you implying that those statements of
> calonlan's are not childish, disrespectful and ad
> hominem, far more so than "lol"?
Ghoti23: No, I'm not implying it, I'm stating it explicitly. A child will not say and might not even understand what Dr Farmer said. Or are you claiming "lol" counts as Wildean epigram?
You're also rather selective in your replies; you clearly prefer to avoid answering many of the points I raise. That's quite understandable, though, since I'm sure that, like the person you defend, you
have no answers for them, and, like him, all you can do is make empty, haughty assertions in reply.
You're kind of a one-trick pony in this exchange, in fact, aren't you? Your sole forensic tactic consists of clinging with bulldog-like tenacity to three little letters, "lol". How much more clearly do I have to explain that, by the way? "Lol" simply indicated my amusement at Calonlan's reply, because it indicated peevishness on his part, despite the fact that the professor whom I mentioned actually agreed with him that
The Lord of the Rings is a Christian apologetic. To construe "lol" as "jeering" is your projection and your misinterpretation. A child wouldn't have written or understood the rest of what I wrote, either, but that inconvenient fact seems to escape you, as well.
Quote:Why don't calonlan's statements raise your ire?
Ghoti23: Because I don't feel the need to jeer at someone for disagreeing with me, either by myself or, like you, with a collaborator.
First, your reply makes no sense whatsoever. It doesn't come close to answering my question.
Second, I have no "collaborator": Mef's replies are his, and mine are mine.
Third, it would seem, then, that Calonlan's "jeering" is just fine with you, but when others repay him in his own coin, then, oh, what an awful thing! Thank you for confirming what I stated earlier: That you have a double standard. Your position is so manifestly absurd that I am not going to waste any more of my time with you.
Quote:There are thousands of places to discuss Tolkien, very few to discuss CAS and he's the author we're all interested in. What I'd like to know is whether CAS ever read Tolkien and what he thought if he did.
If you are so concerned with keeping this forum on the subject of CAS, then let's see you prove it by refraining from replying to my post.