RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
November 22, 2017 at 7:55 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2017 at 8:03 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 22, 2017 at 7:37 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Well I never thought you seriously wanted to close the forums to them. Must have been something about the way you worded whatever I was responding to that led me to say that. But sometimes I get the impression you think the best reason for them being here is for the sport of ridiculing them.
Nah. I am interested in the theist as a person rather than the theist's theism. When I first joined AF in 2008 I came here to debate about God after being inspired by the book The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, but ever since 2015 when I returned to AF after taking a break for several years I've made a lot of friends here and I'm not really here to debate about imaginary friends anymore.
Quote:But why can't we take what they say seriously? I have no fear of falling prey to unsound arguments and being converted, do you? As for somethings being stupid, don't we all have blind spots?
Well I certainly don't believe in anything as absurd, unfalsifiable, improbable and geocentric as a god or miracles or anything else supernatural, whatever my blind spots.
Quote:I don't agree that the subject is just all stupid and best put behind us.
But there's no difference between believing it's not a stupid subject to debate than debating whether Santa Claus exists to a world populated by people where the majority of adults still believe in Santa Claus is a stupid subject. Theology is no less worthless than Santaolgy.
Quote:I think he is alluding to thinking about them figuratively or symbolically as literature.
Exactly what I'm saying. He's replacing substance with symbols when he should be doing it the other way around, at least a little bit, if he actually believes in any god any more than atheists do. Thank you for making my point for me and re-emphasizing the accuracy behind Khemical's response to you. That's epic!
(November 22, 2017 at 7:49 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:(November 22, 2017 at 6:22 pm)Joods Wrote: No the purpose of this thread is to post OTHER people's posts worthy of being posted. Been that way forever.
bold mine.
I'll just leave this here as it is part of the OP.
Question:
What if you're reading through an old thread and come across a post that you think is awesome and epic and just what you would have written if you had the chance and is really, truly worthy of this thread... and only after you've finished reading it do you discover that it was something YOU had posted months previously and had forgotten about?
(I confess I've had this happen to me with my comments on YouTube before)
Well obviously what you said was epic until you realized you were the one who said it when it then suddenly became not epic anymore because that's just arrogant! Duh!
I sometimes think inspirational quotations would carry a lot more deserved weight if they were all anonymous. I don't care who said it, even if it was Hitler, if what was said actually made sense. But a lot of quotes get considered inspirational purely because they were said by Einstein or something, rather than what was actually said, even if what he said makes no sense, and what's even more ironic is that most quotations by "Einstein" weren't actually ever said by Einstein He has more misquotes than true quotes!
So, it's not who said it that matters, it's what was said. And epic is epic, and witty is witty.
Now, no matter how many epic or witty posts I make, if the majority of the stuff I quoted in here was said by myself then that would really be taking the piss
But I think that I'm right to not exclude myself completely, especially when I encourage others to not exclude themselves completely either
Viva la self-love!
. . . I've had a lot of practice at that