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- Dr. Sticks
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lol sorry guys
http://www.spingain.com/?ref=146518
Well put doog. You never posted anything offensive whatsoever
we know she'll be back, like a good bitch should.
My point is that the discussion very swiftly escalated into hostile territory. I'm sure a lot of that was Sticks' "Crusader for the Underdog" asshattery, but another major factor is that your posts are very easy to take as an attack rather than an exploration of the topic. I assume you don't mean for it to be perceived that way, but there it is.
I agree with pretty much all of what you were saying, it's just I don't think the tone of it is right if you're trying to be persuasive. Anger is a huge stumbling block to being persuaded towards anything rational.
I agree with pretty much all of what you were saying, it's just I don't think the tone of it is right if you're trying to be persuasive. Anger is a huge stumbling block to being persuaded towards anything rational.
Awesome vids, RocketGirl. I too am a rabid atheist. Not so much screaming, though. The rabies seems to have progressed to the collapsed-on-the-ground-and-twitching stage...
Lesson: never cross swords with a hardcore evangelical creationist; even if you just want to exercise your debate logic abilities... Mind breakage will occur.
Anyway, nice to run into a fellow skeptic on a forum not focused on the subject.
Lesson: never cross swords with a hardcore evangelical creationist; even if you just want to exercise your debate logic abilities... Mind breakage will occur.
Anyway, nice to run into a fellow skeptic on a forum not focused on the subject.
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Well, I ran into something like this on another board I'm on, one where that was the general opinion of me, actually. But then they actually watched these videos...an their perception of my posts actually change dramatically.I agree with pretty much all of what you were saying, it's just I don't think the tone of it is right if you're trying to be persuasive.
So, try this, just as an experiment: watch all three episodes of Rational Station again, and then read my posts again; this time, imagine Sandra making all of those points. I mean, I voiced her, so the delivery should be spot on.
Because on that other board, after watching these vids, perception of me actually softened a great deal; similarly, I've NEVER had this problem on my LiveJournal, where people know me and have flat-out said that they can read my posts as if I wee speaking them.
I freely acknowledge that though I write as I speak, I'm not READ as I speak. So...just try that as an experiment, see if it changes anything.
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Thanks!Awesome vids, RocketGirl.
Heh.I too am a rabid atheist. Not so much screaming, though. The rabies seems to have progressed to the collapsed-on-the-ground-and-twitching stage...
Hrm...well, I freely admit to being stubborn as hell; they haven't broken me yet.Lesson: never cross swords with a hardcore evangelical creationist; even if you just want to exercise your debate logic abilities... Mind breakage will occur.
...yet.
Back at you!Anyway, nice to run into a fellow skeptic on a forum not focused on the subject.
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I'll certainly give it a try. Don't expect everyone else to follow suit, however.Well, I ran into something like this on another board I'm on, one where that was the general opinion of me, actually. But then they actually watched these videos...an their perception of my posts actually change dramatically.I agree with pretty much all of what you were saying, it's just I don't think the tone of it is right if you're trying to be persuasive.
So, try this, just as an experiment: watch all three episodes of Rational Station again, and then read my posts again; this time, imagine Sandra making all of those points. I mean, I voiced her, so the delivery should be spot on.
Because on that other board, after watching these vids, perception of me actually softened a great deal; similarly, I've NEVER had this problem on my LiveJournal, where people know me and have flat-out said that they can read my posts as if I wee speaking them.
I freely acknowledge that though I write as I speak, I'm not READ as I speak. So...just try that as an experiment, see if it changes anything.
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LOLI shocked that I didn't start this.
http://www.spingain.com/?ref=146518
Well put doog. You never posted anything offensive whatsoever
we know she'll be back, like a good bitch should.
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I don't, really. It's work; people are allergic. I grok.I'll certainly give it a try. Don't expect everyone else to follow suit, however.
'Course, that might be the booze talking; I just got homr from the club and I'm, well...fashnookied.
Ter say the least. Just, you know...sayin'. There, like, any forum rules against posting while schnockered?
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This is wrong thinking in my view. Why can't these questions be answered by 'mere' humans? If we have the ability to seek the answers then we should. Stopping talk about it reeks of trying to shut down what could be an enlightening and informative few posts. There have actually been many people in past and present who've claimed to have answered these questions. Some of them set up religions.The fact is that these kind of matters are too big to be answered by mere humans like ourselves. It can't be answered so easily. There could be a God and there may not be. The fact is that the only way we will ever find out is to die.
Discussions on an internet forum are not started or kept going to change the world. It just so happens a few people want to talk/trash/rant about some particular matters that are in their area of interest. This sort of thing happens offline all the time.The last thing we need around here are rows, especially about the big issues of the world that can't be changed by just us.
Although I don't think this true, it is harder to argue around this. It is certianly intruiging though. I am reading a very interesting book that touches upon how those very things - God and the afterlife - may have originated in humans.Aye, there's the rub. God is unknowable and the afterlife cannot be documented.
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yeah dude, what about the people that die? and then come back? they come back, and have tales of their encounters
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Well put doog. You never posted anything offensive whatsoever
we know she'll be back, like a good bitch should.
Still, I don't think you understand what I mean by a belief, RocketGirl. When I say 'regardless of how you come to that conclusion', I do not mean a belief entails disregarding logical steps. I mean that whether you come to a conclusion via logic or evidence or indoctrination or whatever, that conclusion is a belief. I understand, however, that you might see a certain degree of ambiguity in the term, so I'll move on to something else.The very fact that belief is something you hold to be true regardless of how you come to the conclusion, is precisely why I don't much care for the word
It requires a certain degree of faith to even believe that there exists a physical world. There is no evidence either way as to the existence of an actual material world, nor will there likely ever be. The only thing one can really ascertain is that one's mind exists (Descartes' cogito), and perhaps even that is shaky (J.S. Mill postulates that even such basic logic is inductive). There is an enormous degree of uncertainty, no matter where you look.
As a thought experiment, I put to you (by 'you' I mean anyone) a simple question: Do I, nickspoon, truly exist?
(I do not wish to go down the is-religion-evil route, because that one has been done to death. This kind of ontological question is something I find interesting, though.)
If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. (Revelation 2:5, NIV)
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