 deekers - welcome to the forum - and thanks for your well-written post.
Just FYI, these points have been brought up many times over the past 5/6 years since I first experienced garysher's sophomoric armchair psychology and circular arguing and rhetoric. (He is the type who thinks that if he can play some kind of word-switch game or make some supposedly clever remark, that he's "won" the debate.
So, have at him, by all means. But don't expect much serious discussion or anything beyond simplistic semantics games from him.
And, again, welcome to the forum. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
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