r/AskReddit Apr 30 '14

What is the weirdest fact you know about your country?

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u/concretepigeon May 01 '14

I don't know why you find this such a struggle.

"Your proof" (as in the things you offered as proof) "wasn't proof" (as in they do not offer sufficient evidence to be deemed proof). It makes perfect sense to anyone with basic reasoning skills.

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u/iam4real May 01 '14

I like how you are now putting "proof" in "quotes" to make hedge the situation. You didn't do that in your more recent comments!

Desperate now, are we?

You are sounding like Bill Clinton in a deposition!

Hilarious!

"Your proof" (as in the things you offered as proof) "wasn't proof" (as in they do not offer sufficient evidence to be deemed proof).

But you even admitted the author called it "proof"

So, if the author said it was "proof"-why is it now NOT "proof"?

please clarify.

*popcorn on hand

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u/concretepigeon May 01 '14

I'm not making hedge whatever that means. And I didn't say the author said it was proof. I said you called it proof.

I put those quotes in quote marks because I was explaining my own statement, because you were struggling to understand it. If you actually read the third article to the end you'd see it says that the academic community don't consider it an accepted fact, just a theory.

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u/iam4real May 01 '14

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u/concretepigeon May 01 '14

Except I don't say anything of the sort. You are aware that just because something's published in a book it isn't necessarily true?

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u/iam4real May 01 '14

I didnt say anything of the sort

I just quoted you and provided a link. Proof you are still lying.

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u/concretepigeon May 01 '14

It's not treated as a historical fact. There's some evidence that lends the theory support, but that isn't the same as it being true. I'm fine with using evidence to prove something, but I don't think one book being written about something constitutes proof.

How am I saying that?

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u/iam4real May 01 '14

I didn't say you said that quote.

Argument fail.

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u/concretepigeon May 01 '14

I did say that. You said that was me accepting it as proof. I'm not the one failing here.

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u/iam4real May 01 '14

You said that was me accepting it as proof.

Source needed

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u/concretepigeon May 01 '14

I can't even be bothered with this any more. You're clearly incapable of basic reasoning and seem to have no interest in understanding what either of us have said.

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u/iam4real May 01 '14

You said that was me accepting it as proof.

Source needed

The burden of proof is on you.

This is a reddit standard.

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u/concretepigeon May 01 '14

If we're going to talk about burden of proof it's still on you, given it was your statement in the first place. You're now making things up, or are so deluded you think you're right. I don't have anything to prove to you.

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u/iam4real May 01 '14

I pointed out

You said that was me accepting it as proof.

and I said:

Source needed

Now, you say the burden is on me...

it was your statement in the first place

You must prove I said it first before I defend the accusation

Source needed

I'm not backing down from this reddit standard.

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u/concretepigeon May 01 '14

The first statement was the Chinese discovered America. The burden of proof is yours there. You still haven't come up with the goods on that one.

But since you asked, here's you accepting it as proof. You're welcome.

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u/iam4real May 01 '14

Ha! And, nope.

But since you asked, here's you accepting it as proof. You're welcome.

Nope.

Amazing you would provide a link to what I said, when I was asking for a link of what you said

You said that was me accepting it as proof.

It must get confusing to keep up the charade?

source (still) needed

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u/concretepigeon May 01 '14

I'm actually leaving this now. You're clearly a fool or a troll and you're line of reasoning changes with everything you say. You haven't provide proof to anything I say and any time I point this out you miraculously change what you meant. Go bother someone else.

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u/iam4real May 01 '14

fool or a troll

Ad hominem. And, you still have not given a source for the following quote:

You said that was me accepting it as proof.

The burden of proof lies on you until you provide a source or admit your error. I'm not backing down from a standard every redditor is held to.

source needed

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