Your last delaying tactic was to manipulate me into filling in gaps which should be obvious from the context. If I do this, you'll just respond with a...
If you're not trolling, then you must have psychological issues. There must be a psychological reason why you aren't addressing the problem I raised, ...
You're the troll. You are far more manipulative than me. Instead of addressing your problems, you deflect back to me with unnecessary and unreasonable...
Delaying tactics don't help resolve the problem, they exacerbate it. It's clear what I was talking about from the context without me having to repeat ...
That is the argument. There is no sufficient evidence to be found to the best of my knowledge, and you aren't providing any, so it wouldn't be reasona...
All I need to do is point to the absence of sufficient evidence for both positions and point out that you're not forthcoming with any evidence to dist...
It is up to you to support any supposed difference in epistemological level. I can't do that for you. Either I'm right or I'm ignorant, but you have d...
The topic relates to intellectual honesty, as the creator of the discussion has noted. You're intellectually honest enough to be explicit about your t...
You might have noticed that I was careful with my wording. I didn't say that faith is guesswork, I said that it is on par with it. Good luck trying to...
I know that there is at least one respondent here who is a theist. The question is, is he willing to admit that his belief is on par with guesswork? A...
Indeed. Both theists and strong atheists who try to be reasonable think that there is sufficient evidence in support of their respective claims, whils...
Yep. I'm in another concurrent discussion in the philosophy of religion section where someone has just accused my position of being "just faith", even...
Okay, I take back what I said. You have begun to criticise my kind of atheism. You have begun to do so fallaciously. Your claim that my kind of atheis...
You are a good comedian, though inadvertently. You haven't even begun to criticise my kind of atheism, you just sent us on a diversion about reason wh...
What are you talking about? I'm not merely repeating your point, I'm pointing out that, contrary to your own words, "nothing resolved", it shows that ...
You're heavily undermining your own point. How can you say that nothing has been resolved, when by applying reason, we can discover that we're too ign...
Are you familiar with Hume? I agree with his point about the laws of nature, for example. It is possible that tomorrow when I wake up - if I wake up -...
You do realise that that post is an example of using reason to reach a similar conclusion to me? Yes, we're ignorant to the extent that we don't know ...
You seem to have a superiority complex. Of all people, I know a thing or two about that. It is the height of foolishness to expect me to attempt to de...
It was obviously a judgement relating to the intellect, rather than to morality, even if I allowed my emotions to cloud my judgement, as you suggest. ...
That's not always the case though, which was my point. And it might actually be worse to purposefully refrain from sharing your convinction as a debat...
Yes, it falls on both, I agree. What I find annoying is when a theist thinks that they can just wade into a discussion like this and start attacking s...
It is a shame when people respond with a type of ad hominem (a circumstantial ad hominem in this case) rather than a response which actually attempts ...
No wonder you're so confused. The allegation of bias and of mindlessness was not a moral judgement, it was an intellectual judgement. And I have very ...
It is widely known that the word "mere" carries a negative connotation. With Tim at least, that is but one article of potential evidence out of a whol...
Yes, you did very, very well. Have a giant pat on the back. Your prize is mindless praise from everyone who is biased against me. Enjoy. Drink it up. ...
That's more like it. Time spent rightly criticising strong atheists is time better spent than time wasted attacking me for being perfectly reasonable,...
But that isn't the purpose of the analogy! I'm not even disputing what you're saying about space teapots and God, I'm disputing the logical relevance....
The moment that you present a reasonable basis for your experience being of God is the moment that I'll accept your claim that you had an experience o...
Don't worry, I'll be the better person and refuse to resort to name calling. On second thought, fuck it, it turns out that you're a bigger fool than I...
Oh look, more name calling. What a surprise. There is no universally agreed upon. Do you even know what that means? And your criticism of the thought ...
Try cutting out the petty insults and irrelevant personal attacks! The history was relevant to the extent that my thought experiment isn't totally inc...
To disagree with what I just said of history only suggests your own ignorance of history. I know quite a bit about history. I am about as obsessed wit...
Janus's position has a lot going for it, so long as we completely ignore our history of slavery, genocide, extreme torture, racism, and severe oppress...
You can't change the thought experiment. Don't you know how these things work? In the thought experiment, everyone else in my society is a racist. Tha...
How would that work out in my example, then? I want you to actually try to show us where your logic leads. I am a sociopath for judging racism to be w...
I am very much not missing the point. I am objecting to your deliberately misleading wording, and I will continue to do so. This has been a problem fr...
I strongly disagree here. It makes no sense to me not to be flexible enough to switch between a group context and an individual context. Wrong for the...
You said of something that it was "in the arguments of moral relativists". Who were you referring to? Two moral relativists here have rejected what yo...
I'm not. I'm flexible in that regard as previously discussed and apparently forgotten. Relative to me, relative to you, relative to us, relative to so...
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