@neologist,
Quote:At least you would be willing to admit.
Romeo is "never wrong"
How can he be when he resorts to claiming he doesn't understand an argument when he is shown to be wrong and ignores pointers which will show him that he is.
He is wrong in that he believes that an international debate forum is pitched at the level he has become accustomed to and from which he has derived his mistaken self-confidence.
It is highly likely that his attacks on the Catholic Church are caused by him disagreeing with its teachings on sexual morality in early manhood when a chaste girl was having her last line of defence undermined for reasons too obvious for a wordly audience to need an explanation of. And his brilliant insights as a callow youth have since spun somewhat out of control. To have "scored" implied a defence existed. It still does to the extent of "scoring" when a defence does not exist as one often does not on the lawn in the back garden of a suburban villa. The term has become washed out now the last line of defence--"but its a sin Sir" --is in desuetude. It used to carry chutzpa when I was young. When it was believed I mean.
Like when Tony Curtis paid a visit to his hometown and passing an old mate from school he pulled over, wound the window down, and shouted--"Hey--I fucked Olivia de Havilland." And drove off.
The same literary thrust, so to speak, exists in expressions such as "did you get it on", "did you make out" and "did you get the leg over". Even "****" contains it. "Did you get home in time to catch the late night news?" is a less virile expression.
The question is that the situation is dynamic, as are all things, and imo, and I stress it is an opinion, dogging is only the start of a slippery slope into ruination when the undermining of the Church's teachings on sexual morality is complete, done and dusted, dismantled, and only remembered within the hallowed halls of academic history as a quaint old-fashioned custom which prevented the awarding of Honours Degrees and Peeaitchdees to the female students. Male students graduating in rowing, football, golf and such like under the guidance of professors who were foolish enough to think that keeping fit has anything going for it.
Which doesn't much sound like ruination I know. But it is what necessarily accompanies such a temptation when it is as gradual and as pleasant as just having one more drink is.
"Care for the future" is what is written all over Raphael's Sistine Madonna. That's the sum of the Faustian culture and we see on the News every day the evidence that it is in abeyance.
What do you think neo?
