That's too bad.

Is this a trick Q?

I thought you said that Hipsters did this?

Cmon man, lets not do this. I ask you a question, don't reply with you can answer it.

I really do not get why you are here again? Are you saying that it is ok for you or other posters to insult me but I am not allowed to insult back? Because that's what it looks like.

I insult people back that have insulted me first, or they have a go at me. Hiding it in a very smart post, it still is an insult regardless if it contains swear words or not. Then once you have insulted me, you go and report me for insulting you! Childish imo. If you dish insults, you should be able to take insults too.

I want to be done in this section though. Too many cry babies here. Nobody concerned with addressing my OP at all. All just nit pickers, trying to have a go at me! Get a life kids!

You guys bring out the worst in me. I am not even like this irl lol. I am usually quite reserved and quiet.

If you feel insulted when someone criticises your post you aren't posting like an adult.

While you may consider this insulting I consider it fair, it's about perspective, you don't exhibit much interest in actually engaging and you haven't put the thought into this to warrant your confidence in your points.

Sounds like you're adhering to that monkey chain hierarchy

Are you willing to potentially be wrong by reason (proof by words and thoughts) and change your perceptions of what or who God is?

Otherwise your OP just reads as a list of rhetorical questions. Any answer would be insufficient and just met w/ "I don't buy it" or mockery.

Hence, Pork_Chops unwillingness to play ball. Of course you replied to that post with hostility instead of introspection - as is your M.O.

I am not seeing anywhere where you have proven anything

Doesnt this show that you are also narrow minded, since you also do not take other religions on board? In fact, this would show that aaron is more open minded, in that he has taken at least 1 religion on board, where you havent taken ANY religions on board.

You are wrong.

A better statement would be. Sounds like you do not have a choice!

I always try not to follow any type of hierarchy because it is a trait that stems from animals. If it works for you personally, keep it to yourself, ok! There is no need to push your own beliefs onto others.

Count 1: Having a go!

I am always willing to change my mind, if there's enough evidence that warrants it. Do you have anything concrete or shall I mark this section as Nr 2: having a go at me?

In fact I will.

You are wrong again. I did not create those questions to read as "rhetorical" questions.
If you do not answer the questions, you will not find out an answer, to your Q. But if you want to draw your own conclusions then I guess that is fine too, but again no need to come and share that here with me.

If he, like you simply draws conclusions before even attempting to engage with me or my questions, then perhaps you might be right. Perhaps that is it.

I think he stated other reasons though. I think he's expecting another atheist to kiss is ass (be more respectful) before he actually engages in conversation. I can't blame him, he still thinks like a monkey, in that old fashioned chain of command type mind set.

It's all there, take a better look.


Do you agree that Aaron is narrow minded or not? By your own reasoning above?

Poster nr 2: Having a go!

That was not my point. Maybe we differ on the definition of troll. Anyway I'd like to see "how I can troll you in my thread without an OP".

A troll to me is someone coming into another person's thread and NOT engaging with the OP, rather making other comments in other areas. Like what a lot of you posters do in this thread.

Perhaps you need to look up the word bias. Thinking in a bias way is a flaw in itself.
I mean you are biased to one religion. IE close minded. Being open minded means the opposite of YOU!

Essentially you are saying that I have an IQ of 80 and I am not smart.

Here you reaffirm your statement to be valid.

All of a sudden you change your mind and suddenly your statement makes no claims! HEH.

And now you change your mind once again, to your original statement and say I am not smart.

Here's another poster picking up on the fact that your mind and logic is all over the place.

Were are back to you are not claiming anything! HEH.

As you can see, you have made the claim that you think I am not smart.
You make claims then lie about that you make those claims, then make a post implicitly stating that very claim. then go on to deny that claim.

You also make a claim that you do not know what smart "even means"
Veedzz pointed it out too.

If you do not even know what smart means, how can you judge me or make that post were you say "I think you are not smart".

Are you aiming for a third ban? If you try hard enough, I'm sure you can succeed.

The anonymity if hiding behind a computer screen emboldens people in ways that they may not feel comfortable in face-to-face conversations. Essentially, you don't see anyone here as a person, and that de-humanization makes you act differently than you normally do.

I still view you as a person. An emotionally unstable, inarticulate person that makes terrible arguments. But still a person.

You know, this reminds me of another poster from long, long ago...

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/13...ligion-706448/

Not that I think you're that poster, but this is just a pattern we've seen before.

That's an interesting use of quotation marks. It's like you're quoting something, but there's nobody who has ever said that.

So providing information and observations relevant to your original 12 questions is NOT engaging with the OP now?

Not really. But maybe you have no background in any cognitive science, social science, or any science.

Would you accept that you are closed-minded with respect to all religions? Or closed-minded to with respect to God?

The first claim is false. But given that you seem to lack the ability to understand the nature of an analogy, I do think the second claim is true. I welcome you to say and do things to change that perspective.

Again, your inability to understand analogy doesn't change the facts of the situation.

Yes, I'm saying you're not smart. But in that quote, you're not seeing the context. In that quote, I'm just saying you're acting in a manner of someone who believes differently than what data is suggesting. In that statement, I make no actual claims about your intelligence.

I should also say that you've given me more evidence that allows me to doubt your intelligence with a higher level of confidence.

I should probably post in shorter sentences. You seem to have problems following chains of logic.

I made a claim that you didn't read the thread so that you don't understand what's going on. That suggests much more a lack of reading comprehension than intelligence. Smart people miss stuff sometimes. It happens.

But Veedzz really did explicitly announce his intentions in that side conversation.

I'm pretty clear about what things claim what.

Contextual understanding is something you seem to struggle with. My point was that I didn't even need to provide a specific definition of "smart" in the analogy I was expressing in order to communicate the main point.

In a statement of the form "If P then Q", when the P is false, it makes no difference what is said in Q.

Your definition of narrow minded is "not taking religions into account"

Aaron takes 1 religion into account

You take no religions into account

Therefore, by your definition, Aaron is more open minded than you, since he takes more religions into account

Few more questions.

Do you think it is ok to be biased?
Do you consider yourself to be biased?
Do you think being biased = being close minded?

The question was pretty simple. A yes or no would suffice!

Yes. It's impossible to completely separate oneself from both social and cognitive biases. So we literally have no choice but to be biased.

Yes. All humans are biased in one way or another, as described above. Given that I'm human, it follows that I'm biased.

No. It's dumb to try to make that equivalence.

Another thing here to note is that your so called analogy is directly aimed at me. To say it is just a random analogy based on a random person would be dishonest to say the least! I'm sure you'll wiggle wiggle out of this though!

I have learned one thing from you though. A new word "troll". I looked it up and noticed something called "don't feed the troll" in one of the definitions of the word. I am almost done feeding. I will stop posting soon though!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias
Biased means one-sided, lacking a neutral viewpoint, not having an open mind

You're just confirming an unwillingness to engage in any intellectual depth. It's dumb to make that equivalence.

You would have to ignore virtually the entire page and the subsequent links, and read that one line out of context and do things that only people who don't have any intellectual depth would... oh... right.

Edit: This is the page you ought to be looking at.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_(disambiguation)

This post exemplifies my point exactly.

Discussion can and should be respectful. People can disagree without it devolving to name-calling. But for you, a discussion is a battle. It's a battle to be won or lost and not to be used to expand knowledge and perspective.

The fact that you view respect as "ass kissing" further demonstrates your inability to engage in insightful dialogue.

There's a reason you have numerous banned accounts and a reason nobody here is supporting what you're saying. Even the one guy who was has stopped backing you up because he's realizing just how immature you really are.

Stop and think that maybe the issue isn't everyone else acting like a monkey or whatever analogy you use and realize that maybe the issue is you acting like a jackass.