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I never borrowed a kettle, Sigmund Freud, Jokes and the Unconscious |
B's arguments contradict each other. Freud's insight was that the contradictions tell you something about B's (maybe unconscious) motivation. B wants to escape paying for the kettle. In real life the insight is that folks whose arguments contradict each other probably have an agenda they're not coming out with. To this day, self contradicting "reasoning" is called Kettle Logic. And it still tells you there's a hidden agenda. Thanks Sigmund. |
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Does the fact someone uses kettle logic mean they are a bad person, a liar maybe? Nope. It just means they're human. We can still be friends. But kettle logic is worth spotting, because it points up hidden agendas. |
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reasoning for us and them This analysis contradicts
itself: either differences disprove borrowing, or they don't. When people
use reasons that contradict each other, they generally have an agenda.
Agenda-driven judgments are not to be trusted. |
Kettle
Logic and the Christ myth
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"The
use of identical and similar words, gestures, rites in the Christian and
the Hellenistic cults does not imply derivation of one from the other.....
they are simply
usages that the various cults drew quite independently from daily life."
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'When
we open the Septuagint and the New
Testament
we find at once a strange vocabulary . . . Such usages are the product
of an enclosed world living its own life, a ghetto culturally and linguistically
if not geographically
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B
borrowed a copper kettle from A. After he returned it, A sued him because
the kettle now had a big hole in it. At trial B's defense was:
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There were no dying and rising Pagan Gods.
