Look what you've done to the first page! I like to review discussions, and sometimes I go right back to the start. What do I find? A load of replies t...
That's not intellectual honesty. I don't have to have equal enthusiasm for challenging all positions to be intellectually honest. You're just making t...
Yeah, that might be an interesting exercise, but I'm not here to play devil's advocate. I understand that that's what you want me to do, but I'm more ...
They've just been hiding really well from the start, and have yet to come out of hiding. It's almost as though they don't exist, and never have. Oh, y...
In trying to make sense of that, I would translate it to something like the following: I don't think that God can be called "a thing" among other thin...
Okay, thanks, I know exactly what you mean now, and I agree that there can be a variance in the degree of control. A belief is that of which you're co...
No. Where's the supposed paradox? Taking steps towards believing/disbelieving is just taking steps towards believing/disbelieving, and the act of choo...
Oh shush. I meant what I said. If you want me to justify a claim that I've made then quote the claim and request a justification, assuming I haven't a...
How am I supposed to know? I don't believe in this stuff to begin with. It's all hypothetical. Either. Ok, fine. But that exercise seemed pointless, a...
Okay, but what would be the purpose of going down that road? I've already covered this to some extent. I don't get why you don't just get stuck in to ...
Fine, "meaning of a word" then. Tomaydo-tomarto. In a nutshell, yeah. I'd add rightly say/accuse, because I'm both right and arrogant enough to say so...
A claim demands justification, otherwise it can rightly be dismissed. If your attempt at justification falls below a required standard, then it can al...
I also pointed out this error, or a very similar one, to him, earlier on in the discussion, the difference being that, in my assessment, he seemed to ...
The argument is self-defeating unless you define "fact" differently to what many here, myself included, would expect. It's self-defeating because the ...
But when I say that there's no choice, I'm not talking about any initial steps which might or might not lead to becoming convinced, I'm talking about ...
I must be out of my mind for carrying this on, but you never know. Given that I've explained to you what I meant in the above quote, namely that out o...
That's circling back to an issue that I've already addressed, which you're stuck on, and which is preventing any progress. But I don't want to circle ...
No, that's not really the case. Whether or not a contradiction is entailed is based on rules and logic. There are unwritten rules about appropriate la...
No, no, no. Not at all. This is a big misunderstanding on your end. You're asking a loaded question which assumes that there's a "why" to begin with, ...
In the 18th century, Mikhail Lomonosov discovered the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. In the 19th centu...
You can rectify it by moving it, which a moderator is capable of doing, and either you or another moderator should do so, because it's not appropriate...
Wait, where are you getting that from? I objected to what you were saying, I explained why, but we didn't seem to be getting anywhere, and it had star...
I object to that and request that what you've done be reversed. This discussion isn't about debating the definition of atheism, it's about my actual p...
Well, come on. Reincarnation? If your metaphysics leads to reincarnation, don't you think that that says more about your metaphysics than anything out...
Hold up, we need to rewind. I didn't say anything, specifically, about speculation about the unknown, nor any significance assigned to it. We were tal...
I don't agree that it's a choice. I can't choose to believe anything that I'm not convinced of. I can't choose to believe anything at all, it seems. T...
Ah, at least you've finally come out with it: you now say that you're not interested, which is a very different tune to your fighting talk about you r...
There's already a challenge for atheism in terms of my kind of atheism vs. other positions. But if you think that I created this discussion to debate ...
No, I told you what I want, and that isn't it, nor does it follow from what I said. It's quite simple. Either you're aware of an exception, in which c...
You weren't clear enough and were uncooperative. So you're to blame for this situation, at least in part. No, we've accomplished no such thing. Just b...
Don't need proof, good reason will do. And there are cases where I can give good reason against various positions, including theism, agnosticism, and ...
Yes, of course curiosity. That's behind almost everything I do here. Also looking to challenge and be challenged. The purpose is feedback, discussion,...
Really? You'd be content to just allow this version of yourself to live out his life holding onto such whacky beliefs? What if he really wanted to asc...
Okay, you're not getting it. There's only so much I can do to help you with that. Switching to dogs shouldn't make any real difference, but let's give...
Imagine you're looking at a version of yourself who believes in Quetzalcoatl. This could have been you if things were different. Wouldn't you want to ...
Okay, so I predicted that response which kind of misses the point, and I tried to avoid it by altering the wording in an edit. So please see the edite...
Wait. Are you sure he has actually claimed that? Because I haven't seen him claim that, and you did a similar thing with me, and in that case it was a...
Examples of the former? I've seen plenty of examples of atheists making a persuasive case for their position in an appropriate enough manner, and in a...
Both, I suppose. But, lacking detail, accordingly, my judgement will be suitably limited. I'm hesitant to go overboard without knowing more about what...
That's not true, because there are exceptions, as I have mentioned, and I have demonstrated one such exception, logically and justifiably, here in thi...
It doesn't say anything remarkable, but then, the line of enquiry which you've pursued thus far isn't remarkable. We need more details about these dif...
You don't seem to have taken into account what I just explained to you in my last reply. Why is that? I'll use less words this time and spell it out t...
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