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i might be cruel at times, but one thing is for sure: truth always is, esp. when drinking. i find the concept of the "rhetorical" question slightly bewildering,   it's simple enough - whenever a "rhetorical" question is asked you rarely hear a counter -     the person asking the "rhetorical" question in all instances continues the "conversation" - by a rhetorical question i'm sure the implication states (as asked): that i invite you into the discussion - and, from what i've heard or seen, that's rarely the case!     why ask a rhetorical question when only the rhetorician asking the question is the only person answering it?   the smug punctuation mark and cliche that a "rhetorical" question has become is just that, a semicolon in a monologue...      how about asking a solipsistic question? you know, pierce the membrane, get someone out of their head, out of the pronoun hemisphere - and into: hey, john, what's your take on it? to ask a persuading question to later add that it is a "persuading" question, does not really invoke a persuasive counter answer - this entire "rhetorical" question is a pompous double-under-cut against dialectical fluidity - fuck's sake, people had to found debating societies to speak in godot's terms,   and as ever, a man in his 30s and a man in his 70s, and a park bench, is all it takes to be civil...     obviously the 30s man asking permission of the 70s man if he can continue drinking his beer and smoking a cigarette. rhetorical my ***    just say it plainly: it's not a question, it's a self-empowering answer -                 to continue the monologue - there is no such thing as a "rhetorical" question, simply because once the "question" is asked, it's swept under the carpet - because whenever a rhetorical "question" is asked, it's embedded in a quick-answer dynamic of the person making such a bogus request... no one has ever answered a "rhetorical" question, simply because the only person who can answer such a question, is the rhetorician himself... codswallop... that's what it is...      it's also called the barometer tactic of checking if you're insane, when you talk to yourself when you're alone...                               hazelnuts 'n' all... by the way... you want to stage a horror movie scene? have a drink, no, have lots of drinks, drink the whole **** bottle of wine... but! but...                      have a mirror in front of you - nothing shows as much truth as a drunk narcissus -                then again, if it was a puddle of ***** do you think he would have fallen in love with his visage?   like any mug of a man after five pints and six shots later: she was a 4 when i began, but now? she's a tenner, an alsatian stunner! oh right, they always say: it's not a rhetorical question... so?    it's not really a question at all,                                                              is it? it's a self-serving answer...     and that always seemed to bother me,    why ask a question you already know    the answer to? oh, right: to gain rhetorical momentum, and double-up on hushing the oppositional argument.
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Sep 22, 2017
Sep 22, 2017 at 11:26 AM UTC
the rhetorical "question"
i might be cruel at times, but one thing is for sure: truth always is, esp. when drinking. i find the concept of the "rhetorical" question slightly bewildering,   it's simple enough - whenever a "rhetorical" question is asked you rarely hear a counter -     the person asking the "rhetorical" question in all instances continues the "conversation" - by a rhetorical question i'm sure the implication states (as asked): that i invite you into the discussion - and, from what i've heard or seen, that's rarely the case!     why ask a rhetorical question when only the rhetorician asking the question is the only person answering it?   the smug punctuation mark and cliche that a "rhetorical" question has become is just that, a semicolon in a monologue...      how about asking a solipsistic question? you know, pierce the membrane, get someone out of their head, out of the pronoun hemisphere - and into: hey, john, what's your take on it? to ask a persuading question to later add that it is a "persuading" question, does not really invoke a persuasive counter answer - this entire "rhetorical" question is a pompous double-under-cut against dialectical fluidity - fuck's sake, people had to found debating societies to speak in godot's terms,   and as ever, a man in his 30s and a man in his 70s, and a park bench, is all it takes to be civil...     obviously the 30s man asking permission of the 70s man if he can continue drinking his beer and smoking a cigarette. rhetorical my ***    just say it plainly: it's not a question, it's a self-empowering answer -                 to continue the monologue - there is no such thing as a "rhetorical" question, simply because once the "question" is asked, it's swept under the carpet - because whenever a rhetorical "question" is asked, it's embedded in a quick-answer dynamic of the person making such a bogus request... no one has ever answered a "rhetorical" question, simply because the only person who can answer such a question, is the rhetorician himself... codswallop... that's what it is...      it's also called the barometer tactic of checking if you're insane, when you talk to yourself when you're alone...                               hazelnuts 'n' all... by the way... you want to stage a horror movie scene? have a drink, no, have lots of drinks, drink the whole **** bottle of wine... but! but...                      have a mirror in front of you - nothing shows as much truth as a drunk narcissus -                then again, if it was a puddle of ***** do you think he would have fallen in love with his visage?   like any mug of a man after five pints and six shots later: she was a 4 when i began, but now? she's a tenner, an alsatian stunner! oh right, they always say: it's not a rhetorical question... so?    it's not really a question at all,                                                              is it? it's a self-serving answer...     and that always seemed to bother me,    why ask a question you already know    the answer to? oh, right: to gain rhetorical momentum, and double-up on hushing the oppositional argument.
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Sep 22, 2017
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