Tired of games

Prove it

As one of the 3…

Yes, I ask for proof.

I post links to references anytime I am asked, such as in the thread that included CIA prison deaths thread where I was asked to prove the DOD was the source of info regarding deaths… I did so with multiple sources.

Being able to post some sort of link to back uo claims simply makes your arguments more viable.  If you can substantiate your claims, you are seen as being more rational, and your posts worth more consideration.  Without the ability to back things up… well, a lot of folks just dismiss you as irrelevant rantings.

That is how I see it anyway.

Jenn - people ask for proof because they don’t believe your claims.  It’s not that we are all crazy, demanding, or want to knock you down.  You make an outrageous or obscure claim, never provide sources (or tell US to look for proof on YOUR claim), and tell us we are either too dumb or demanding to know the truth.  It happens again and again.

If you can provide at least ONE source, then people wouldn’t be so upset.  But you fail to do so consistently.

So the choices are:

A - Provide proof.
B - Don’t make a silly statement that is verifiably untrue.

We only make demands that each of us are willing to do if asked.

I’m assuming I’m one of the three-

ditto switch and jermo…Jen- if you didn’t make claims that were obscure/outlandish, people would probably take your word with fewer promptings for sources. everything you post on here is testimony. stupid is the man who accepts anything purely on testimony, unless it syncs with his background knowledge of the issue. most of what you post that gets calls for “source” is something that does not sync with most people’s background knowledge.

post sources for your factual claims when asked, or dont make them. its your responsibility as arguer to source all the claims YOU argue. if someone else makes an argument and you question their source, ask for it. i know i will gladly post a source when asked for verification. the source doesnt have to “prove” you either, since even when you post all your sources, you (collective you) may still make claims that people disagree with. but with your source posted, we know where you got such ideas, and if we think they are wrong, we can tell you why rather than just say “you are wrong”

so stop posting sources if you like, but thats just childishness/laziness talking.

Hmmm… I am the fourth member of the group of three  8-)

I have nothing else to add.

I’m happy to post my references when they are available.

I’m just as happy to explicitly identify my opinions.

I do get frustrated when the responders don’t bother to check the references for the answers to their idiotic questions.

I would be delighted if there were more people here who actually made an effort to provide references to support their statements.  Even if the sources are wacked out loony web sites, there is at least the begining of a conversation as opposed to some totally off the wall statement such as “Bush is just like Hitler”.  With the references there can be discussion.  With the wacked out statement, it is like someone took a fart in an elevator.  Do you point out that they stink or does everyone just hold their breath until the door opens?

@Soon_U_Die:

Maybe if you weren’t a liar and a plagiarist…

Wow.  I completely missed where she claimed it for herself/group.

P.P.S.  Did you miss me?

I actually did wonder what happened to that snarky SUD guy.  :lol:

I had caught one of the earlier cut and paste jobs on another of her “essays”, but I had not bothered to search this one.

All I can say is WOW!

Twice now, definitive proof of outright plagerism on Jen’s part in posting articles to this site without credit to the original authors.

I have to correct a previous comment I made regarding re-taking Political Science Prob Stats…
NOT POSSIBLE, this student would be EXPELLED for two counts of plagerism: one in Math, one in Political Science.
:mrgreen:

(did any of y’all click on the sources link on the website above to see the sources the actual author used?  Exactly the same, down to the formating, abbreviations, spacing, and even the division of articles and the numbering not re-starting at 1 for the second set of sources…)

BUSTED!

@Scarface:

I haven’t studied this thoroughly, however it seems that Jennifer is getting ganged up on by a wild pack of liberals! I wish I could help a fellow conservative. Why is plagarism a sin on this site? I’m drunk now, so just tell me to shut up!

Where isn’t plagirism a sin?

There is nothing wrong with taking someone else’s words and presenting them. The problem comes when you present them as your own. You just took credit for someone else’s ideas- even if you had similar ones of your own- no one knows your ideas, because you cut and pasted someone else’s. You’ve done very little work to present ideas that someone else probably put a lot of work into, and you tacitly take the credit by not giving the credit to the person who did the work. Despicable.

Because it is an intellectual fraud.

Jen made claims that “none of us could understand her reasoning” when she went into her zero rant, when it turns out that SHE can’t explain it either.  She just did a cut and paste from 2 guys published article (which by the way is a CRIME, and because it is a CRIME can result in the plagerist being banned from this website…)

But forget the criminal ellement for a minute…
She used an intelectual LIE to try to claim superiority over everyone on these boards, and she got CAUGHT.  And now, instead of trying to lord her superior knowledge, those of us who have dealt with Jen for a logn time have effectively just placed her and any of her arguments into the trash can.

The one thing I will say now though…
Her assertion that zero has a polarity may be correct in this case…
Jen has ZERO credibility left.
And in that case, zero definitely has a negative polarity.
:mrgreen:

That’s why it’s just better to come up with your own sh*t.  If you HAVE to quote someone else, make sure to give them credit after all is said and done.  Like, when I repeat a joke my roommate told me to some other friends of mine, and they all laugh, I feel obligated to let them know who told me.  (Now, I doubt that my roommate would SUE me for not crediting him here, the concept is still the same…  :wink:)

I wish i could remember the bizaare “fact” that Jen had generated about Canada.  When i challenged her on it using actual sources from historical pages, her source was her grade 3 teacher. 
i laughed and laughed . . .

@Jennifer:

Prove that I ever quoted my 3rd Grade teacher.

I think that may be the least of your worries.

I find quite often that someone has said before more eloquantly and more famously something that i believe - often i will quote this person and either reference them, or hope that it is well enough known that i don’t have to bother quoting them.  When i hear/see a bizaare, likely untrue fact that i think lends credence to my argument, if i use it, then i will cite the source if i can find it again.  Occassionally someone “known” has similar opinions to me coincidently and i do not believe that i borrowed from them - in this case i tend not to quote.
@Jennifer:

@Jermofoot:

@Jennifer:

Prove that I ever quoted my 3rd Grade teacher.

I think that may be the least of your worries.

You mean unwarranted, inflamatory attacks is the least of my worries?

well,
it is just one of a number of warrented, possibly inflamatory, possibly an attack.  I guess unless i can pull the old post out of the pre-crash server, then i could demonstrate something that was just amazing to me and as i recall at least one other Canadian with any insight into history.  Given that the post does not exist anymore - i humbly retract my statement and issue a new one:
Jen may or may not have quoted her grade three teacher and her bizaare take on Canadian history in the past.  if she did - it’s simply another piece of evidence on the ever growing pile.  If not i’m sure it doesn’t make any difference, but i would apologise if i believed that it never happened.

Or the fact I have to provide sources when I make a statement like “My favorite color is purple.”  And it’s really come to that.

Prove that anyone ever asked you to source an obvious statement of opinion like “my favorite color is purple”