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1. about 1 hour ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “I do not pretend that logic has no meaning”

   Of course you do. It’s a fundamental principle of logic that a premise that leads to a contradiction must be false. Your premise is that Hobbes is an objectively real, objectively large (you have agreed that by “large” is meant five feet) living tiger. It is a PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY for a living animal that’s objectively that size to fit in the tub of a household top loading washing machine. Yet the OBJECTIVE FACT is that he DOES fit in it. THAT IS A CONTRADICTION. THEREFORE, YOUR PREMISE MUST BE FALSE. LOGIC DICTATES THAT HOBBES MUST OBJECTIVELY BE THE SIZE OF A DOLL.

   As I said, you continue to ignore logic and pretend that it has no meaning. The only response you could come up with was to claim that if Calvin sees something, it must be real, a claim that is utter nonsense, since he saw himself as the size of a galaxy, saw himself going to Mars in a toy wagon, etc etc etc., and not even you would be insane enough to claim that those things were real.

   “As I have explained before, I did not know the full quote.”

   Your excuse is pathetic, because I’ve given you the full quote several times, so you can’t claim you don’t know it, yet you STILL omit it EVEN AFTER I GAVE IT TO YOU. It’s obvious why you persist in doing so. You KNOW that it disproves Watterson’s assumption about his “suspicion”.

   “The fact that Calvin is shown to have enjoyed some of his fights with Hobbes does not disprove Watterson’s point”

   It DOES disprove it, because it shows that Calvin DID enjoy an argument with Hobbes, and he obviously WOULD do something he enjoys, so when Watterson claimed that “It would seem to me, though, that when you make up a friend for yourself, you would have somebody to agree with you, not to argue with you”, he CONTRADICTED himself.

2. about 3 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “Watterson admitted that the washing machine strips show that Hobbes has no definite reality.”

   “On the contrary, he states in The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, “Hobbes going into the washing machine and Calvin’s acceptance of this is one of the stranger blurrings of what Hobbes is.”

   Watterson’s quote doesn’t contradict what I said. It CONFIRMS what I said. He is ADMITTING that what Hobbes “is” is “blurry”, meaning Hobbes has no definite reality. Calvin’s acceptance of a contradiction is his acknowledgement that he only IMAGINES the size of Hobbes. Thanks for CONFIRMING what I said.

   “He had explained earlier in the book, “Calvin sees Hobbes one way. Everyone else sees Hobbes another way. I think that’s how life works. No two people see the world in exactly the same way.”

   The washing machine strips annihilate Watterson’s “it’s all about subjective perception” claim. The machine can perceive NOTHING. It can ONLY HOLD WHAT IS OBJECTIVELY SMALL ENOUGH TO FIT IN IT. Watterson KNEW that the washing machine strips disproved his claim. It’s why he had to resort to saying that the reality of Hobbes is “blurred”, an acknowledgment that Hobbes has no definite reality. But, of course, you’ll “do a Calvin”, and pretend I didn’t say what I just said. You do that a lot.

   “I do feel an affinity with a kid who loves to pretend. Many of us do”

   I know you do. You pretend that you didn’t admit that Calvin imagined Hobbes being large enough to fit Calvin in his mouth. You pretend that I haven’t already refuted claims that you continue to make ad nauseum. And you pretend that logic has no meaning.

3. about 3 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “Bill Watterson confirmed my suspicions with his comments “I suspect he’s more real than any kid would make up”

   It’s truly astounding how you keep citing that quote even after I demonstrate that you ALWAYS attempt to mislead by ALWAYS omitting the ENTIRE quote, and even after I demonstrate that Watterson himself disproved his own “suspicion”. You’re much like Calvin in your denial of reality. The ENTIRE quote is:

   “It would seem to me, though, that when you make up a friend for yourself, you would have somebody to agree with you, not to argue with you. So Hobbes is more real than I suspect any kid would dream up.”

   But Calvin ENJOYED his argument with Hobbes in the treehouse, and he obviously WOULD do something he enjoys, so the entire basis for Watterson’s “suspicion” has no foundation.

   and “I do not see Hobbes as a stuffed doll who miraculously comes to life when alone with Calvin. Neither do I see Hobbes as a product of Calvin’s imagination.”

   Watterson contradicted himself when he admitted that the washing machine strips show that Hobbes has no definite reality, and when he said:

   “I would hope that the friendship between Calvin and Hobbes is so complex that it would transcend a normal fantasy”, which is him admitting that the friendship is a fantasy, since he didn’t say the STRIP is a fantasy.

4. about 3 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “I know that it is possible for Calvin to imagine Hobbes doing things on his own.”

   Your acknowledgment means that logically, citing Hobbes doing things on his own is proof of nothing.

   In contrast, the washing machine strips logically PROVE that Hobbes CANNOT be the large (meaning five foot) living animal YOU claim he “really” is. It is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for a five foot living animal to fit in the tub, yet Hobbes DOES fit in it, a fact that can ONLY be explained by his TRUE, OBJECTIVE size being that of a DOLL. Calvin seeing a physical IMPOSSIBILITY MUST mean that he only IMAGINES Hobbes being five feet. This is NO different from Calvin IMAGINING the PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY of traveling to Mars in a toy wagon. You stubbornly cling to the notion that Calvin “accurately” perceives the size of Hobbes in defiance not only of logic, but in defiance of YOUR OWN ADMISSION that Calvin imagines and pretends almost all the time, AND YOUR ADMISSION that Calvin imagined Hobbes being large enough to fit Calvin in his mouth.

5. about 4 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Thanks for demonstrating that you’re more interested in red herrings and an ad hominem attack (ie racial profiling) than in a sound argument.

   Racial profiling:

   Racial profiling is the act of suspecting or targeting a person of a certain race on the basis of observed or assumed characteristics or behavior of a racial or ethnic group, rather than on individual suspicion.

6. about 21 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I don’t need to guess to know that you believe in treating people not as individuals, but as members of a class. I suspect you have the mindset that says, for example, “math is racist”. A recent example is from the Oregon Department of Education. It advertised a “Pathway to Math Equity Micro-Course” that espouses “ethnomathematics” in order to begin “dismantling racism in mathematics,” because mathematics reflects “white supremacy culture.” In contrast, ethnomathematics would help overcome the “unequivocally false” belief in “mathematics being purely objective” and counter “the idea that there are always right and wrong answers,” which “perpetuate[s] objectivity.” Alleged evidence includes that “the focus is on getting the ‘right’ answer” and that students are “required to ‘show their work.’”

   Instead of focusing on a right answer, the training urges teachers to “come up with at least two answers that might solve this problem.” It also suggests “unpacking the assumptions that are made in the problem,” and “identify[ing] and challeng[ing] the ways that math is used to uphold capitalist, imperialist, and racist views.” IOW, objectivity is “racist”.

   It also would not surprise me if you think logic and the Socratic Method are “sexist”.

7. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “Sweden and Fauci have nothing to do with my original point about libertarian thinking.”

   Of course it does. Sweden having LOWER death rates than countries with mask mandates and lockdowns demonstrates that the draconian measures were NOT necessary. Fauci wrote: "Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection.” “The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you.”

   He added: “I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a very low risk location.”

   A scientific review of 78 randomized trials studying the effectiveness of physical interventions in lessening the spread of respiratory viruses found “little to no” evidence that large-scale masking efforts were effective at preventing the wide spread of Covid-19.

   The meta-analysis, published by Cochrane Library and led by 12 researchers, found that the difference between wearing a regular surgical mask or not wearing a mask at all “may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness / COVID-like illness.” It also “probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu /COVID confirmed by a laboratory test.”

   The research drew upon data derived from hundreds of thousands of participants.

   Your claims aren’t back by science. Yours is a POLITICAL stance.

8. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “I read a book called The Encyclopaedia of Cartoon Animals and read Watterson’s quote “I suspect he’s more real than any kid would make up” which I wrongly remembered and misquoted as “could make up”.

   You ALWAYS attempt to mislead by ALWAYS omitting the ENTIRE quote (the reason why you do so is obvious). THE ENTIRE quote is:

   “It would seem to me, though, that when you make up a friend for yourself, you would have somebody to agree with you, not to argue with you. So Hobbes is more real than I suspect any kid would dream up.”

   But Calvin ENJOYED his argument with Hobbes in the treehouse, and he obviously WOULD do something he enjoys, so the entire basis for Watterson’s “suspicion” has no foundation. I have pointed this out to you before, but much like Calvin, you like to pretend that my doing so doesn’t exist.

   Watterson said “I would hope that the friendship between Calvin and Hobbes is so complex that it would transcend a normal fantasy”, which is him admitting that the friendship is a fantasy, since he didn’t say the STRIP is a fantasy.

   Watterson admitted that the washing machine strips show that Hobbes has no definite reality. Another thing you pretend doesn’t exist. No wonder you have such an affinity for the kid who loves to pretend.

9. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   “So we both agree that Calvin loves to pretend most of the time. I don’t think there has ever been any dispute over that.”

   Yes, and you’ve admitted that Calvin can imagine Hobbes alone, and you’ve also admitted that Calvin imagine Hobbes being large enough to fit Calvin in his mouth. And, of course, Calvin imagined the PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE, which was a five foot Hobbes fitting in the tub. This is absolute proof that your claim that Hobbes is “really” a large living animal (you’ve agreed that “large” means five feet) is FALSE.

   “I have also said that a psychological reading of the same strip could interpret it as Calvin imagining he had made it snow and then “rationalising” his fantasy by imagining it as a trick Hobbes had played on him.”

   Another admission by you that Calvin can imagine Hobbes doing things.

10. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

    “I do not justify accusing someone falsely of a crime based solely on belief. I am pointing out that when someone believes someone is guilty of a crime and accuses them it is not a FALSE accusation but a WRONGFUL accusation. When someone accuses someone of a crime without really believing the accusation, it is a FALSE accusation.”

    The FACT is that Calvin’s accusation was FALSE. When someone FALSELY accuses someone of a CRIME, that is WRONG. It was WRONG for Judy Johnson to FALSELY accuse Ray Buckey of sodomizing her son, and that wrong CANNOT be excused because she “believed” it was true. Her belief was disconnected from reality, the kind of disconnect from reality that Calvin frequently engages in. You are indeed attempting to justify falsely accusing someone of a CRIME based solely on belief.