{"id":1662,"date":"2009-07-29T07:34:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T14:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2009-07-29T07:34:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T14:34:55","slug":"sophisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/sophisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what they are?<\/p>\n<p>First, though, the background, in the form of two trimmed screen grabs from WorldMagBlog&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.worldmag.com\/2009\/07\/27\/pray-for-your-enemy\/\">Pray for Your Enemy<\/a> discussion.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sophism_1-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sophism_1-s.jpg\" title=\"Is Mark Roth of military background and experience?\" alt=\"Is Mark Roth of military background and experience?\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude2f The portions of Comment #12 pertaining to me were amazing to read!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude44 And dangerously ego-inflating as well. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>But then comes the reality check in Comment #18 (after my &#8220;cover&#8221; has been blown at the end of Comment #17). <!--more No more for the home page, so click here to keep reading! --><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sophism_2-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sophism_2-s.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Roth: Determination and grit...like a US Air Force pilot\" title=\"Mark Roth: Determination and grit...like a US Air Force pilot\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I utter sophisms?! Well, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/sophism\">what the dictionary has to say<\/a> about that word:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sophism_3-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mvp\/wp-content\/sophism_3-s.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Roth: a sophist instead?\" title=\"Mark Roth: a sophist instead?\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I need to be careful what I say (always a good idea!). And maybe I was slammed or slandered or something. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>As usual, click the images for larger, clearer versions.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.worldmag.com\/2009\/07\/27\/pray-for-your-enemy\/#comment-447501\">here&#8217;s what I posted in reply<\/a> at WorldMagBlog.<\/p>\n<p>I got no answers or clarifications. Perhaps none are needed.<\/p>\n<p>(But I really would like to read some examples of my &#8220;short, but weighted sophisms&#8221;!)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what they are? First, though, the background, in the form of two trimmed screen grabs from WorldMagBlog&#8217;s Pray for Your Enemy discussion. \ud83d\ude2f The portions of Comment #12 pertaining to me were amazing to read! \ud83d\ude44 And dangerously ego-inflating as well. \ud83d\ude41 But then comes the reality check in Comment #18 (after &#8230; <a title=\"Sophisms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/sophisms\/\" aria-label=\"More on Sophisms\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/srJUJ-sophisms","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}