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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: What do you call someone who... #14642 01/05/01 07:58 PM 01/05/01 07:58 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 35 C Chickie OP newbie Chickie   OP newbie C Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 35 Grinning! Re: What do you call someone who... #14643 01/05/01 07:58 PM 01/05/01 07:58 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 46 Tol Eressëa N nemo newbie nemo   newbie N Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 46 Tol Eressëa In reply to: The survey at http://www.speakout.com/VoteMatch calls me a moderate conservative. Isn't that an oxymoron? Re: What do you call someone who... #14644 01/05/01 08:13 PM 01/05/01 08:13 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen   Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Jazz enlightened me with this: And by the way Max, I wouldn't consider myself a staunch republican. The survey at http://www.speakout.com/VoteMatch calls me a moderate conservative. There are some republican ideas with which I don't agree, but when it comes to arguing, I go with the GOP. Plus, the way Al Gore makes a speech makes me sick. Fairy nuff, I sit corrected. I'm not sure it's right to speak so disrespeckfly 'bout the father of this here electrical Internet thingumabob, but! Re: What do you call someone who... #14645 01/05/01 08:33 PM 01/05/01 08:33 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... J Jazzoctopus old hand Jazzoctopus   old hand J Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... The survey at http://www.speakout.com/VoteMatch calls me a moderate conservative. Isn't that an oxymoron? Well, since you think it is, could you please tell us all why exactly it is an oxymoron? If this is an oxymoron, then we have to be fair and say that moderate liberal is as well. I see it as perfectly plausible for someone to agree with most, but not all, of a certain party's beliefs. Re: What do you call someone who... #14646 01/05/01 08:51 PM 01/05/01 08:51 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 130 Virginia S Solamente, Doug. member Solamente, Doug.   member S Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 130 Virginia My mom, a former RN at a nursing home, used to speak of "empathy fatigue". After working all day dealing with other people's complaints she would find it difficult to empathize with her own families' problems. God bless her, we empathized and forgave her. Re: What do you call someone who... #14647 01/05/01 09:02 PM 01/05/01 09:02 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Half the nounal-adjective/noun combinations used in the English language could be called oxymorons. My personal favourite is "military intelligence". As an oxymoron it's right up there with the ultimate circumlocution, reputedly from the CIA, which defines "peace" as "permanent prehostility". Let's not start arguing over the possible combinations of nouns which produce possible oxymorons - especially politically-related ones such as that one-word oxymoron, "politic" ... that way lieth madness The idiot also known as Capfka ... Re: What do you call someone who... #14648 01/05/01 09:32 PM 01/05/01 09:32 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen   Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 The very un-delooped CapKiwi sagely suggested: Let's not start arguing over the possible combinations of nouns which produce possible oxymorons - especially politically-related ones such as that one-word oxymoron, "politic" Agreed! Avoiding politics seems a politic course of action. Jazz, you are the one who has expressed your politicak opinions most forthrightly to date, and I think that you are to be commended for the restraint you have shown in this thread. I suspect that our little Miss nobody just likes to needle people a bit, from behind the sanctuary of her anonymity. Given that we have atheists and at least one cleric (of course, one can be both simultaneously) sharing this board very amicably, I'm sure that we can continue the tradition of leaving such matters as politics and religion where they belong - not here. Re: politics and religion #14649 01/05/01 09:50 PM 01/05/01 09:50 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York ... for all we know, could be a little Mister nobody ['delicate cough' emoticon]. But yer point is taken and seconded, Max. ['hear, hear' emoticon] Re: There's a place for this #14650 01/05/01 10:04 PM 01/05/01 10:04 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 2 B bear-tiger stranger bear-tiger   stranger B Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 2 Okay, then. How about empath-path?--as an analogue to psychopath, sociopath.... Re: There's a place for this #14651 01/05/01 10:25 PM 01/05/01 10:25 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk   Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Oh, I think bear-tiger has it. I recall the word sociopath being used to describe a young boy who showed no empathy towards anybody and was only concerned with the things that affected him. He did not understand, say, why it was bad to hurt someone. Hello bear-tiger and chickie ... welcome on Board. 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