Wooly Thinker's Guide to Rhetoric


	Wooly Thinker's Guide to Rhetoric

abailart

11-25-2007 4:06 AM

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rhetoric, thinking ineptitude

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or How to Be a Woolyback and Convince Yourself and Others that You are Rational

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11-25-2007 1:33 PM

Antara

Great find...lots cool articles on site.

11-25-2007 1:38 PM

abailart

Yes, i had it on my old computer years ago (it was the dark ages and i was still on windows) and visited every day to butterflies and wheels but only remembered about it again today!

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              As employed by the world's best woolly-thinkers. Learn, for example: 
              how to play the 'biological reductionist' card to maximum effect; 
              how 'language games' can help you out of a sticky situation; and 
              how lucky it is that 'truth' is relative to particular discourses 
              (especially yours).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoric.php"><UL>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=22">Be Courageous</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=14">Be dismissive</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=3">Cheers and catcalls</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=16">Claiming is Succeeding</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=17">Clumsy sarcasm</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=21">Define words in your own special way</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=19">Develop sudden hearing loss</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=13">Do a Procrustes</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=7">Embrace contradiction</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=26">Emotional Blackmail</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=1">Evasive Tactics</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=4">Fly under the radar</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=24">Go Ahead, Contradict Yourself</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=9">Histrionics</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=12">Imply</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=18">Mention the Armchair</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=27">Moral One-upmanship</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=2">Pat yourself on the back</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=15">Pave With Good Intentions</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=10">Play the theory card</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=11">Pretend to be amused</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=8">Repetition</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=20">Say the methodology was flawed</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=28">Say the outcome was predictable</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=6">Translate</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=25">Translate Even More When the Subject is Religion</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=23">Use 'Obscure' as a First Name</A></LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/rhetoricprint.php?num=5">Use obscurity</A></LI>
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