The wiki article didn't say, "he didn't fire shots" nor did it say "he didn't ring bells." It didn't mention anything about that. You're appealing to ignorance.
Show me a source that says he didn't fire a shot, and I'll happily admit I am wrong.
Doesn't work that way...You have to show me one that proves what you said, 'Revere didn't fire a shot or ring bells, Israel Bissell did'. YOU made the claim, and utterly refuse to back it up. You are therefore a liar.
You're the one making the claim that I am wrong, and you brought nothing creditable that honestly proves I am wrong.
When you make a claim, you have to provide evidence and support of your claim.
You mean like the evidence you provided to support your claim, 'Revere didn't fire a shot or ring bells, Israel Bissell did'? Oh wait... you refuse to provide evidence to back up your claim. You're breaking your own rule. Gee, what a surprise.
It's called burden of proof. If there were a jury judging this conversation, they'd say evidence was inconclusive on both sides and would take neither of our sides.
And the burden is on you, as you made the claim, 'Revere didn't fire a shot or ring bells, Israel Bissell did'
I have since abandoned saying that claim is factual, because I am not sure what is accurate and historical fact. Until you show me the historical facts that prove I am wrong, I won't admit I am wrong.
So, you wanted me to provide evidence your claim was not factual, because you refused to provide evidence your claim is factual, and now you admit that your claim is not factual after all. You really do suck at this.
Now here is one source stating he fired shots... albeit it is a blog, and a blog isn't very creditable, nor is wiki. :shrug:
Sounds like the firing and ringing is attributed to him... as if he personally did it. In any case,
it's highly likely that he would have directed some people to ring church bells, rather than jumped off his horse to do it himself at every stop. Alerting others and directing them to ring bells would have been more practical, although it's not entirely impractical to think he may have stopped to ring the first initial bell or jumped off to alert others to do so.
But that wasn't the claim you made, now was it????
Likewise it is not it impractical to believe he fired off a shot to initially alert people... :shrug: but that isn't the highlight of his ride of course, so finding details about how the task of ringing bells and firing shots and delegation of such duties is vague online. It would take a detailed reading into the ride from beginning to end to find those answers.
We're not discussing 'belief' here. We're discussing a factually inaccurate statement YOU made. You only recanted when you realized after frantically searching for days that you have ZERO EVIDENCE to back your claim up.
I can't find anything substantially saying that I was wrong in my original statement,
nor can I find anything creditable saying I am right and you are wrong. I simply find nothing going into detail about the bells and musket on Bissell's ride or how it was coordinated.
I am not making **** up or just writing stuff without thinking. If I am wrong, then I have been misinformed, and if that is so,
I sure as **** am not going to act like Palin and try to find a way to insist the facts are different. lol
1: Not how it works. You are supposed to find evidence you were right.
2: Thus your recanting well after the fact.
3: Sure you were. If you had thought about it, you would not have made the statement as fact, without having the evidence to back it up.
4: But dear, that is what you've been doing since I called you on your factual error. You tried very hard to make it LOOK like you were not wrong, then you tried very hard to get me to prove you were wrong, when it goes the other direction. You eventually, it would seem, came to your senses and admitted you were in error. Kudos for that final realization.
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You haven't caught me in an error. Quote something that says I am wrong, and I will happily admit I am wrong. I have admitted being wrong on these boards before. If you don't believe me, then ask Mac. I have admitted being wrong in the past, and I am still the same person.
I prefer facts to myth, which is why I insist on being proven wrong with a source saying he didn't fire a shot to you telling me I am wrong, based on a wiki article not mentioning him firing a shot.
1: Yes, I have. As you already admitted above.
2: Really? You were so sure of your facts early on in the thread... but they appear to have been myth all along.
What makes you so certain he didn't... Did you read that he didn't somewhere, because all you did was link a small wiki article and mention that bells and guns weren't mentioned. I can post a fricking blog that mentions bells and shots were fired by him, and a
blog is as creditable as wikipedia. :roll:
1: It's not a matter of what I think or do not think. It's a matter of waht you claimed initially as fact.
2: Hardly. Wiki is a good starting point. That's about it.
