On Sunday, April 27, 2014 6:37:44 PM UTC-4, Aratzio wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:47:35 -0700 (PDT), in the land of
> alt.arts.poetry.comments, George Dance <
george...@yahoo.ca>
> Pleasantly Postulated::
> >On Sunday, April 27, 2014 12:54:11 PM UTC-4, Aratzio wrote:
> >> On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:14:19 -0700 (PDT), in the land of
> >> alt.arts.poetry.comments, George Dance <
george...@yahoo.ca>
> >> Pleasantly Postulated:
>
> >> >On Saturday, April 26, 2014 2:29:46 AM UTC-4, Aratzio wrote:
> >> >> On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 22:14:11 -0700 (PDT), in the land of
>
<snip Ratty's pretence that he apologized for lying earlier>
>
> >I did however, eventually read the
> >> response where you admitted that
>
> ><quote>
> >I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your life.
>
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.arts.poetry.comments/j4acQCHsZRI/qptPCoI4ea0J
>
> ><paraphrase snipped>
>
> BWAAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAA
>
> Dense is far to embarrased by his own admission that he and the rest
> of the drivel scribblers are fake poets
No, there's no one namesd in that statement, and nothing about anyone being a "Drivel Scribbler" or a "Fake Poet". Now everyone has the chance to read that for him or herself, rather than taking your word for it (since they've seen by now what your word is worth).
> to leave it in.
That statement is what you were calling my 'admission', imbecile.
>
> >>I did however, eventually read the
> >>response where you admitted that you and the other drivel scribblers
> >>are not real poets.
>
> Just one sentence,
that doesn't call anyone a "Drivel Scribbler"
using goggle gropes that he HAD to replace with his
> own words.
>
Actually, it was Ratty who just tried replacing that statement with his own words.
> The original statemnt in akll its glory that Dense cannot admit he
> wrote:
>
> :"I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your life. "
>
That's the very same statement I just added to the thread, imbecile; the only difference is that I gave a link so it can be read in context. How can it be that you claim I "cannot admit" I wrote it, when you're the one who keeps snipping it (and pretending I wrote something else), while I'm the one who keeps putting it back in?
>
> That would mean that none of the people with whom i have communicated
> are real poets.
No, that's fair. I haven't seen any "Real Poets" or "True Poets" on usenet; just people who write poetry.
> Unless you have an alternate explaination of rather
> simple (as if Dense could drivel otherwise) English.
>
> >> Yeah, that was a total hoot.
>
>
> >I'm glad to see you enjoyed your own joke. Please note, though, that I substituted what I actually wrote for your dishonest paraphrase. As long as you continue to pretend I said things I didn't, I'll have to keep doing that.
>
> Here is the quote, Dense. Do tell how you are your fellow drivel
> scribblers can be anything other than fake poets since by your claim I
> have never communicated with a real poet.
>
> :"I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your life. "
>
That's the very same statement, imbecile. What the fuck is wrong with you?
> Dense, you also fail to give yourself sufficent credit for failing so
> wonderfully. I couldn't have had nearly as much amusement without your
> admission of you and your fellow band of drivellers lack of talent.
>
Once again: that statement doesn't call anyone a "driveller" or say anything about anyone's 'talent'.
>
> >> >I don't think any of the gentelemen on your lits o'haet (including me) has ever called himself a "real poet". You've been the only one claiming there are "real poets" on usenet (though you haven't been able to give any examples).
>
> I did forget to point out your spelling of gentlemen, you are all
> about how using a spellchecker as a necessity for proper posting here.
>
No, I'm "all about" posing as an authority on poetry, as you are in this thread, works better if you can spell correctly. Since you can't, I advised you to use a spellchecker.
Do you have to lie about everything I write?
> Must be difficult hauling those petards everywhere with you.
>
>
> >> So, you are a fake poet.
>
> >No, I didn't say that, either. Or imply it: It doesn't follow that everyone (or every poet) who's not a "Real Poet" is a "Fake Poet"; that's the fallacy of False Alternative.
>
> Let us revistit the quote:
Again? This is the fourth time it's been posted in this one message. But, at least, it helps distinguish what I really wrote from what you've been saying I wrote; so let's go for it:
>
> :"I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your life. "
>
> Couple ways we can look at this:
>
> Opposite of real is fake
> Opposite of poet is you
>
That's one. Here's another:
*"poets" is a subset of "people who write poetry"
*"Real Poets" is a subset of "poets"
Or here's another:
"Real Poets" is a name given to some people, that has nothing to do with the quality of their poetry, or even whether they write poetry at all.
> Alternatively:
> If I've never communicated with a real poet, then, given the current
> communication, you are:
> 1. not real poet
> 2. real not poet
>
> as we can only negate one time which is it?
>
Not a "Real Poet", obviously. But that gets us nowhere.
>
> Maybe you have some super duper awesome delusion that can explain how
> you didn't insult all of your fellow drivel scribblers.
>
Actually, by your logic, I insulted everyone you've communicated with on usenet. But I can't see that I insulted anyone but the ones who go around calling themselves "Real Poets" (or the like); and none of the people you've been calling 'drivel scribblers' is in that group.
>
> >> I think you are into semantics now.
> >
>
> >Semantics are unavoidable. It's impossible to agree on who's a "Real Poet" and who's a "Fake Poet" without agreeing on what those terms even mean; and it sounds like we don't.
>
> :"I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your life. "
>
Five times.
>
> So, we can agree then you do not consiider yourself a real poet.
>
Not a "Real Poet", anyway; don't equivocate.
>
> >> Fake Poet/Not Poet would be the same for this discussion.
>
>
> >In that case, "Real Poet" and "True Poet" can be the same for this discussion.
>
>
> Yes, and lets go to the record
> :"I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your life. "
> replace real with true
> :"I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'true poet' in your life. "
>
>
> That means since we agree that real and true for this discussion are
> the same, you admit you are not a true poet either.
>
Not a "True Poet", anyway.
> Works for me.
>
Good. Now, to see who I've allegedly insulted, let's look at the people you've written to who've been called "Real Poets" or "True Poets". Who are they?
>
> >> >> Brilliant how you proved exactly what I said in the original post.
>
> >> >Actually, you're lying again. Let's look at what you said in that original post:
>
> ><restored>
>
> ><q>
> >> >Aratzio:
> >> >Something I learned a long time ago on USENET, the real poets are able
> > >to weapnize language and use it in ways an old Engineer like myself
> >> >can appreciate, even when on the receiving end. Skill at language is
> >> >interesting.
>
> >> >I have to say, as poets go, most of you bore me. Yeah, you know of whom I write...
> >> >
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.arts.poetry.comments/j4acQCHsZRI/tltERDRzwioJ
>
So there are people who call themselves (or whom you call) "Real Poets" or "True Poets", and with whom you've communicated on usenet (since you've been on the 'receiving end' of some of their flames).
I didn't 'prove' that claim of yours: I said I doubted it.
>
> >> So, if I have "written to" you then in your estimation you are one of
> >> the drivel scribblers that I consider not poets.
>
> >Wrong. Perhaps you think that only "Real Poets" are poets, and everyone who isn't a "Real Poet" is a "Drivel scribbler"; but that doesn't mean that I do.
>
> No, Dense, I was pretty specific as to who are the drivel scribblers,
More lies, Ratty. What you said was "as poets go, most of you bore me. Yeah, you know of whom I write..." IOW, (1) you admitted your targets were poets (just not "Real Poets"); (2) you did NOT call them 'drivel scribblers'; (3) you did not give any names.
> you even whined about the lits of drivel scribblers
You mean your lits o' haet, right? In fact, you came up with that only after I'd made this quote, to (falsely) claim that I'd been talking about those half-dozen gentlemen, and that I'd
> when I pointed out to you which drivel scibbers were the drivel scribblers.
You mean, when you *called* six people "drivel scribblers" (once again, that's an opinion of yours, not a fact, and one 'points out' facts, not opinions. I did point out (since it's a fact) that this was just a lits you'd made up, not a list of every would-be poet you've written to on usenet (since that is a fact).
> You really
> need to work on your short term memory, it seems to be eroding quite
> rapidly.
Not in that respect. Maybe in this one, though:
> I did, however, include myself in the *NOT* poets
I haven't seen that. I have noted you including yourself in the list (and maybe as the only member of that list) of those qualified to say who's a "Real Poet" and who isn't; but that doesn't make you not a "Real Poet" or "True Poet" (much less not a poet), since most of those who claim they can judge who's a "True Poet" do include themselves as such.
>
> but the specific classification for drivel scribblers is for people who
> believe themselves poets, post poetry and in the process prove that
> they are talentless hacks.
IOW, it's your opinion, that has nothing to do with what I said, or this quote of mine that you keep trying to misrepresent.
>
> One does not have to be a poet to recognize
> your utter lack of talent.
>
One has to have learned something about poetry -- at minimum, one has to at least have read some poetry -- to be able to say which writers have skills or talent, and which don't. There's no sign you've done either.
>
> >> "I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your
> >> life. "
Is that six times, or seven. Anyway, it makes it clear: there's nothing in there about your lits of so-called "drivel scribblers" you dislike so much that you're obsessing even over the ones who are long dead; nothing about anyone's skills or talents; and nothing about who's a poet.
> >Which means only that neither I, nor anyone else you've "written to", is someone I'd consider a "Real Poet" (or "True Poet").
>
> Since your belief is that anyone with whom I may have communicated
> cannot be a real or true poet.
"Real Poet" or "True Poet", if you please. That's just a label for some people, meaning (at this point) only that they call themselves (or someone else calls them) "Real Poets".
> That only leaves your belief that you
> and the drivel scribblers are fake or false poets.
>
No. As I said, people can write poetry without claiming to be (or being called) "Real Poets" or "True Poets". People can even be poets without claiming to be (or being called) "Real Poets" or "True Poets".
>
> >> You did write that statement, right, Dunce?
>
> >Certainly. That's why I didn't snip it, the way I've been doing for your paraphrases.
>
> :"I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your life. "
>
Eight.
>
> Yep, you do not believe anyone I have ever had communications with is
> a real poet.
>
Correction: a 'real poet', or "Real Poet". Can you think of anyone you've communicated with who calls himself one? Or whom you'd all one?
> That would include the drivel scriblers.
> Not real poets
>
Not "Real Poets"
>
>
> Keep spinning
Stop with the PKBs. In fact, you're the one trying to spin my quote: first pretending I wrote something else, and then, when caught, trying to pretend I meant something else.
>, drivel scribbler, I find your efforts quite amusing.
>
So you've been lying and misrepresenting for fun? Thanks for the brief moment of honesty.
>
> >> That would mean at this
> >> point in time I am not writing to a real poet
>
> >To someone who doesn't consider himself a "Real Poet" or "True Poet", anyway (others may disagree).
>
> Let us refresh the record:
>
> :"I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your life. "
>
> Appreciation and recognition of talent does not require one to have
> that talent.
Judging the quality of a work of art does require one to know something about that art. There's no sign that you do.
> Therefore identification of those who lack said talent,
> like you, also does not require said taent.
>
If the art form uses the English language, it requires not only some knowledge of the art form (which you don't have), but also the rudiments of English, such as the ability to spell (which you also don't have).As I pointed out, you don't even have the ability to fake the latter by using your spellchecker).
>
> Unless you believe only poets can see the talent of poets?
>
>
> >> and therefore you are a
> >> talentless hack that is not a real poet.
>
>
> >That doesn't follow, either; just because someone isn't a "Real Poet" doesn't make them either talentless, or a hack.
>
> In your case, as I was quite specific, it does.
No, it doesn't follow (ie, isn't an implication) at all.
>
> Nothing you have ever
> written, unless you stole it, describes you as talented.
>
Why would I describe myself as talented?
>
> >> >All you're claiming there, is that there's a group of people you call "real poets". So, you lied again.
>
> >> But Dunce, if you are not one of the talented
>
> >I didn't say anything about being one of the 'talented'
>
Nor did you. You were talking about "Real Poets".
>
>
> There is little opportunity or evidence for you to have claimed that.
>
There's little reason to believe people who call themselves talented (or recruit friends or allies to do that for them).
> >> then you are in the untalented and boring grouping.
>
>
> >Not necessarily. That's another False Alternative.
>
> Dense's reading fails him as always.
>
> Let us go to the record and compare the alternatives as originally
> described: interesting or boring:
That's true enough. Though a reader's 'interest' in a poem depends more on the reader than on the writer.
> "Skill at language is interesting." (added the missing space)
>
> "I have to say, as poets go, most of you bore me."
>
Which sounds more like your problem than theirs.
>
> Your lack skill as a poet, you are boring in your writing.
>
>
As I've explained to you, repeatedly; you're no judge of that.
>
> You would make a better pot than poet.
>
Is that meant to be an example of "weapnizing language"?
>
> >> Which are not real poets.
> >> The clause
> >> where real poets are defined as having talent with language?
>
> >"on USENET, the real poets are able to weapnize language and use it in ways an old Engineer like myself can appreciate, even when on the receiving end."
>
> >That just sounded like an empirical claim about "Real Poets"; that you enjoy reading their usenet flames. But now suddenly it's your 'definition':
>
> >You're *defining* a "Real Poet" as someone who 'weapnnizes language' on usnet to make flames you enjoy ('appreciate') reading. Noted.
>
> The point, you illiterate tool, is you cannot use language in any way
> that differentiates you from thousands of other net.kooks.
It differentiates me from some net.kooks: you and Cujo, for two.
> That the
> ability to use language in both poetry and flaming indicates an
> understanding of both language and human nature that totally escapes
> simpletons like you.
>
>
> >> that? Part where I mention skill, that part?
>
> >> You know all the things
> >> you do not have.
>
>
> >IOW: you don't enjoy reading flames I write on usenet, and that means I'm not a "Real Poet" by your new definition.
>
>
> BWAAAAAHAAAAAhAAAAAhAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>
> Dense thinks he is a flamer?
>
Maybe not a "Real Flamer"; but I've written flames, just as I've written poetry.
>
> Seriously, THAT is hilarious.
>
>
>
> >
>
> >That's nice, but it has nothing to do with what anyone else considers a "Real Poet". It certainly has nothing to do with this sentence of mine: "I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your life."
>
>
> Only your firends who think themselves to be real poets could be
> insulted by that, Dense.
>
But, AFAIK, no one on your lits o'haet ever called himself a "Real Poet", "True Poet," or the like, nor does anyone else. So no one's insulted, right?
>
> You know, the drivel scribblers, your pals.
The people on your lits o'haet, dead or alive.
> The ones who, in your
> estimation, are not real poets.
>
And who don't call themselves, or each other, "Real Poets" or the like.
>
> >It does reinforce what I've said: you're not a competent judge of poets or poetry.
>
>
> Well, your respect for your fellow drivel scribblers is quite evident:
>
> :"I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your life. "
>
>
> >> Yep, that was my point, Real Poets can use language, you drivel.
>
> >So your point is that anyone who writes flames you 'appreciate' reading is a "Real Poet", and that's all that you mean by "Real Poet". That's what it means to say it's your definition.
>
> Not even close. But funny.
> "Skill with language is interesting"
>
"Skill" being the ability to "weapnize" language and use it against people (those on the "receiving end"); ie, trolls and flames.
> The fact that I was expressly using Poets ans an example was lost on
> you.
>
>
> >> But as you stated, you don't feel any of your contemporaries are real
> >> poets. Rather rude of you don't you think?
>
>
> >If we're using your new definition -- that a "Real Poet" is someone whose usenet flames [you] appreciate -- then it's no wonder that everyone on your lits o'haet is not a "Real Poet": you don't appreciate their flames, by definition.
>
> Well, you just stick with that delusion and prove that you lack any
> "Skill with language" and are therefore in the boring classification.
>
Are you now pretending it's a 'delusion that you wrote:
"real poets are able to weapnize language and use it in ways an old Engineer like myself can appreciate, even when on the receiving end."
And that you just called that your *definition* of a "Real Poet"?
>
> >But, of course, there's no reason to think I was using the same definition when I wrote:
>
> ><unsnipped>
> Real poets have skill with language.
For flaming, perhaps. You can't judge the skill of anyone's poetry, but there is a chance you can judge their trolls and flames; since you do have some experience with that.
>
>You don't. Not even a little.
>
In flaming and trolling, possibly.
>
> >> :I doubt that you've ever talked or written to a 'real poet' in your life.
>
>
> >> But if you feel denigrating the non-existant talent of your only
> >> friends is the route you should take,
>
> >But implying that the half-dozen or so people on your lits o'haet aren't "Real Poets" doesn't say anything about the quality of their poetry, by my definition or by yours.
>
> Their utter and complete lack of identifiable talent when you and they
> post your drivel does.
>
That's your claimed opinion, and (as I've pointed out) not one worth paying attention to. The subject here is your dishonest pretence that it was my opinion.
> >> I can heartily agree with you
> >> that they are not rreal poets.
>
>
> >On the other hand, though, we would disagree on whether you and your slurp-buddies Ross and Cujo are "Real Poets": since you enjoy reading their flames, to you they are, by definition.
>
> You really are delusional.
>
> I never once equated flaming and poetry you moron.
More lies from you, Ratty: you did in your original *definition*
"real poets are able to weapnize language and use it in ways an old Engineer like myself can appreciate, even when on the receiving end."
And you've continued to do so, as recently as in this post of yours:
"the
> ability to use language in both poetry and flaming indicates an
> understanding of both language and human nature "
>
> I pointed out that given the real poets facility with language they
> were also quite excellent at flaming. Only a complete moron could fuck
> that one up, moron.
>
But you can't judge their poetry, remember? (That's why you came up with this "Real Poet" nonsense in the first place, right?) All you *may* be able to judge is the quality of their trolling and flaming; which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with their poetry, as it's a completely different skill set.
> "Skill at langiuage is interesting"
>
> But the part I love is now that you have developed that delusion you
> will continue to use your delusion to my amusement.
>
Good. I'll continue to post the quotes you claim don't exist, just as I've done for things in the past you've called delusions. (Then you can claim you were only joking, of course, just as you've done in the past.)