(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

[David Stockhoff]

Case in point.

I predict that you will continue to make bizarre assertions and never 
once explain them or explain why we should care.

brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> Why is this a problem?
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> People do these things.
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> I have done all of these things.
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> I do some of them quite regularly.
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> What the hell do you think you are saying?
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> Do you think that the stuff that you describe is somehow esoteric?
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> Do you believe that everyone in the World is as isolated from Reality as
> you are?
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> I assure you that there are several people who are not.
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>> Um, yes it is, actually. Unless you can explain how it is that the
>> person not only puts on a mask and changes his clothes but also
>> disguises his voice. Has he learned to control his own habitual gestures
>> and verbal tics? How? Where? Has he practiced the vocabulary and
>> inflections of another age and social level? Where?
>>
>> If you can answer those questions, you have a theory. If you don't,
>> you're merely asserting and following that up with complaining.
>>
>> On 7/7/2010 5:02 PM, John Watkins wrote:
>>     
>>>     Same with Inire. His physical absence in conjunction with his
>>>     omnipresence means "LOOK FOR SIGNS" to me, because that is in
>>>     keeping with the literary style of Grandma Dorcas. In fact, it's
>>>     PRECISELY the type of thing Wolfe is asking of us.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure that anyone has said that there's nothing to be found in
>>> all the various clues about Inire.  The question is whether it makes
>>> any sense to assume that every candidate for being Inire-in-disguise
>>> is in fact Inire-in-disguise, and the dialogue has gone much like this:
>>>       
>> This is not really the course of the argument as I saw it. I can come up
>> with an equally tendentious synopsis of the course of this argument from
>> the other side. To a large extent (not in every case) the course of the
>> argument has been people showing how smart they are by coming up with
>> counter-evidence that is totally beside the point.
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>>     
>>> "X might be Inire.  They both look like monkeys!"
>>>
>>> "Well, X doesn't act much like Inire."
>>>       
>> Well, that's not really surprising for someone in disguise.
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