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Not really.




I know what the analogy was. The analogy was wrong.

See, your purpose would be to fastening something. You do so using the nail or screw. That would be fine I suppose, as they would represent social networks, blogs, and forums.

However, the place where you screw up your analogy is when you introduce two tools. The hammer and screwdriver. Because of this, you fucked up trying to make it a valid analogy. Since one would represent the internet, the screwdriver, the other would have to represent another, snail mail and hammer.

Do you see why it doesn't work?

Now if you had an analogy where you had a screwdriver, and say two different type of screws you would have had a proper analogy.



Do I need to stipulate people in this? I guess I need to stipulate people in this.

All three of them are means by which you communicate information between people on the internet.

Should I go a step further? Ok.

Their primary purpose is to communicate information between people on the internet while using handles as a means of creating an internet persona with which you use to communicate.



You mean the definition you provided with qualifiers that mean along the lines of "often". Yeah, that's not called a set definition.

You forgot they were also animals, and even mammals.

Though that's the point I'm making, is they don't have set definitions like you could get with humans and dogs. You just have vague definitions that create a lot of overlapping between the two and you go more of "this is the typical one" than "this is what they are."

And lo, the wall hath spoken. Unmoved and unshaken, clinging to its place despite someone suggesting the ground which it occupies is littered with horseshit.

I don't know if that is possible, retardium is pretty cohesive.




Anyone looking at this argument can see it. Unfortunately, the only thing that matters is if you see it yourself.



Depends on how you view it. Yes, the analogy is wrong, because it illustrates your methodology of thinking. As for representing what your argument was, it is not wrong.



They represent blogs and forums.



No, no, no! What? How did you even come up with that? The purpose, as you said, is communication over the internet. This analogy is YOUR philosophy, keep in mind. Not mine.



No, because the screwdriver is not the purpose. The purpose is to secure two things together by means of a thin metal implement.

Also, since it is clear you misunderstand my analogy, I will explain it to you. YOU think that two things, because they have a similar purpose, are, in fact, the same thing. I am telling you this is wrong.



Dear god, so now messengers, IRC, e-mail, and countless other services that fall under that purpose can be equated to blogs and forums?



Here is your set definition:


I also don't recall using "often" as a qualifier for anything.

This thread

Hey guys, did you know boats are cars? They both take a person from point x to point y, therefore they are the same thing!

Oh man, that means I don't have to buy a car as I have two attached to the ends of my legs.

Cars are pretty much planes anyway. Wow, thanks TMS, I've always wanted a flying car.

Ok, let's go over the analogy slowly with you so you can understand how you fucked up.


The purpose, let's get this, the purpose of a nail or screw is to fasten something together. This would be the purpose of the social networking sites and so on.

The nail or screw itself would be the social networking sites and blogs and forums.

So you move onto the tool, what you use to have the nail or screw perform its purpose. What you use to allow the social networking sites and blogs and forum to perform their purpose.

And wait, there's two of them? There's only one tool between the social networking sites and blogs and forum, so why are you using more than on in the analogy?

Oh, because it's fucked up that's why.

Then you go on to put words in my mouth.



No, I'm saying something with a vague definition will have overlapping themes with things of similar purpose which will often have certain aspects fall into multiple categories because of the vagueness.



Depends on how you want to look at it. A lot of the aspects are indeed like a thread in a forum. Take an e-mail for example. You could have it set-up to send between multiple recipients who take turns posting about the particular set-up at hand. And just like with a thread on a forum, there could only be two people communicating with each other. It would be akin to a pm on a forum which is basically just a private thread between two people.

IRC and messengers could indeed be equated in the same manner. Of course you could arque because they don't use a browser and webpages they could easily be separated through that or not. Of course this would be a physical feature of separation and not by means of "purpose".

Hence "along the lines of" and not "you used often." Though the article you posted which you said says what you mean does use often if you want to get uppity about it.

>my face when u mad

Gee, it almost sounds like you have a point except that.

Boats are meant for water and cars are meant for land.

It's about the same as the separation between internet and snail mail.

But thanks for trying.

I kept that vague for a reason. The purpose of putting a nail or screw into something to hold it to another is akin to communicating over the internet. There was no deeper meaning to that part.



But ignoring all that, let me try to boil down your argument to a single point:
Two things that have very similar purposes are very hard to distinguish. Is this it?

Nope, they both take you from one place to another, so by your definition a boat is a car.

Awesome, that means my feet really are cars as they travel on land just like a car. It also means they are boats as they can propel me through water. I'm fucking amazing.

SERIOUS SHIT IS GOING DOWN HERE.

Kalistean, concede that you fall into the same category as a wall, because you're a solid object and a wall is a solid object (as you can see, the common themes overlap here, so it's hard to tell the difference between the two).