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infidelmike
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| todangst wrote: | | CET wrote: | | infidelmike wrote: | | I haven't seen todangst post here lately. |
To be perfectly frank, he's a smart guy and I have always admired that. However, he's kinda emotional and tends to almost randomly snap on people.
We were good friends for a few years, and then one day he decided (pretty much out of no where) that I was a troll and he started freaking out on me. He wasn't just flipping out a little, I mean he was almost totally off the deep end. I wondered if the guy was actually having a nervous break down. A couple others had a similar experience. Some of them are still here, and they're good people. I'll let them name themselves if they want to.
As much as I didn't want to, I had to put todangst on Ignore.
It's a really weird thing when a "friend" just flips out on you one day. To this day, I still don't get it.  |
Apparently you don't....
Read your own posts and see precisely why it's not a good idea to affiliate with you.... thanks for your 'loyalty' |
Todangst, CET can't read your posts (he put you on ignore). The only way he can read your reply is if I quote you.
So, here it is!
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todangst
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| infidelmike wrote: | | todangst wrote: | | CET wrote: | | infidelmike wrote: | | I haven't seen todangst post here lately. |
To be perfectly frank, he's a smart guy and I have always admired that. However, he's kinda emotional and tends to almost randomly snap on people.
We were good friends for a few years, and then one day he decided (pretty much out of no where) that I was a troll and he started freaking out on me. He wasn't just flipping out a little, I mean he was almost totally off the deep end. I wondered if the guy was actually having a nervous break down. A couple others had a similar experience. Some of them are still here, and they're good people. I'll let them name themselves if they want to.
As much as I didn't want to, I had to put todangst on Ignore.
It's a really weird thing when a "friend" just flips out on you one day. To this day, I still don't get it. |
Apparently you don't....
Read your own posts and see precisely why it's not a good idea to affiliate with you.... thanks for your 'loyalty' |
Todangst, CET can't read your posts (he put you on ignore). The only way he can read your reply is if I quote you.
So, here it is! |
Actually he put me on ignore in response to my ignoring him.... when I returned to this site with the new format, all of the people I previously ignored were no longer on ignore.
The post above is really meant for people such as yourself, I'm highlighting the contradiction contained within his 'inability' to grasp why I'm ignoring him. And I'm not back really, just came here for another issue entirely (to read a post by Knight)...
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SpecterOpacus
Divine Intervention saves raids.
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| Uncertainty wrote: | | You could throw it over the bridge if you were the hulk |
Lol'd irl. 
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CET
The Spiritual Atheist
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| todangst wrote: | | CET wrote: | | infidelmike wrote: | | I haven't seen todangst post here lately. |
To be perfectly frank, he's a smart guy and I have always admired that. However, he's kinda emotional and tends to almost randomly snap on people.
We were good friends for a few years, and then one day he decided (pretty much out of no where) that I was a troll and he started freaking out on me. He wasn't just flipping out a little, I mean he was almost totally off the deep end. I wondered if the guy was actually having a nervous break down. A couple others had a similar experience. Some of them are still here, and they're good people. I'll let them name themselves if they want to.
As much as I didn't want to, I had to put todangst on Ignore.
It's a really weird thing when a "friend" just flips out on you one day. To this day, I still don't get it. |
Apparently you don't....
Read your own posts and see precisely why it's not a good idea to affiliate with you.... thanks for your 'loyalty' |
You're a really smart guy, and I've always liked you. This all started off of a misunderstanding, which is what kind has long since left me confused, because it didn't seem like a big deal at all, and it blew up into some huge thing. How and why is something that I find baffling. It is what it is.
I'd apologize if I thought it would make any difference.
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yurshta
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:30 am Post subject: Re: A challange to your best arguments: TEAR THIS APART. |
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I've seen a lot of these types of phony exchanges between some atheist (always a professor it seems) debating God with
some sharp witted student who backs the atheist into a corner by a purported reductio ad absurdum argument. These
propaganda pieces are seriously not intelligent enough to even waste time on. I always liked this one for sheer imbecility and it is taken from some of Pat Robertson's publications which I find make good wallpaper and kindling for my fireplace on cold winter nights when the heat generated by hot steamy sex with my little sex kitten fails to suffice.
Atheist: I don't believe in God or the afterlife.
Christian: But what if you are wrong?
Atheist: Wrong about God? No way!
Christian: I mean about there being no afterlife.
Atheist: I believe there is nothing beyond death.
Christian: But what if there is something beyond death. What if you're wrong? What if to your dismay, you find
that there is a God and a Heaven or Hell and you wasted your time with all that book learning and logic.
Atheist: You can't prove that God exists.
Christian: Neither can you prove He doesn't. And likewise you cannot prove that there is nothing beyond Death.
So I ask you, "Do you know where you will go when you die?"
Atheist: I do not.
Christian: We have a book, inspired by God that specifies exactly where you will go. We take this by faith. But at
least it is faith in Something. You atheists have faith in NOTHING. But the bottom line is "What if you are wrong?"
.....the remainder of the argument gives the typical bullocks about how to be saved and all that brainwash. You'll notice that the Christian is more agressive, sophistic, and that his argument is actually an appeal to emotion and fear. The atheist comes out
a complete dunce in comparison!
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CET
The Spiritual Atheist
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: A challange to your best arguments: TEAR THIS APART. |
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| yurshta wrote: | What if to your dismay, you find
that there is a God and a Heaven or Hell and you wasted your time with all that book learning and logic. |
*sigh*
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baddogma
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject: Re: A challange to your best arguments: TEAR THIS APART. |
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Savage!
Long time no see!!! 
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Can omnicient god who knows the future find the omnipotence to change his future mind?
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ninelong
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Aw, come on.
No credit for the original article? 
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kmisho
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Joined: 05 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:37 am Post subject: Re: A challange to your best arguments: TEAR THIS APART. |
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| CET wrote: | | yurshta wrote: | What if to your dismay, you find
that there is a God and a Heaven or Hell and you wasted your time with all that book learning and logic. |
*sigh* |
HOO NEADS BUK LARNIN N WADYACALL LOGIC IF U GOY JAYZUZZZZ
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josephpalazzo
Illusion Master
Joined: 30 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: Re: A challange to your best arguments: TEAR THIS APART. |
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Atheist: I don't believe in God or the afterlife.
Christian: But what if you are wrong?
Atheist: Wrong about God? No way!
Christian: I mean about there being no afterlife.
Atheist: I believe there is nothing beyond death.
Christian: But what if there is something beyond death. What if you're wrong? What if to your dismay, you find
that there is a God and a Heaven or Hell and you wasted your time with all that book learning and logic.
Atheist: You can't prove that God exists.
Christian: Neither can you prove He doesn't. And likewise you cannot prove that there is nothing beyond Death.
So I ask you, "Do you know where you will go when you die?"
Atheist: I do not.
Christian: We have a book, inspired by God that specifies exactly where you will go. We take this by faith. But at
least it is faith in Something. You atheists have faith in NOTHING. But the bottom line is "What if you are wrong?"
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This is based on Pascal's wager: better to bet there is a God then otherwise. However, the counter-argument is that one must invest a lot of time in praying and worship to the great Rainbow-Serpent-In-The-Sky. If you pray to Allah, you need a set of rugs. But in my old age, I've got bad knees, I'm screwed whichever way... |
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CET
The Spiritual Atheist
Joined: 02 Apr 2003
Posts: 12814
Local time: 3:24 PM
Location: SoCal, USA
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject: Re: A challange to your best arguments: TEAR THIS APART. |
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| kmisho wrote: | | CET wrote: | | yurshta wrote: | What if to your dismay, you find
that there is a God and a Heaven or Hell and you wasted your time with all that book learning and logic. |
*sigh* |
HOO NEADS BUK LARNIN N WADYACALL LOGIC IF U GOY JAYZUZZZZ |
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zen
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Location: one nation under-educated
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Professor: And, along the same line of thought, we accept that there are things like thoughts, or electricity or magnetism even though we have never seen them? |
Jehovas Witless tried that invisible electricity bs one on me once,
I chalenged him to stand in the midle of the field during a thunderstorm while holding a long metal pole ...shut him up real quick |
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