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Poll: Have you participated in a formal debate?
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How many atheists
#21
RE: How many atheists
(January 5, 2010 at 4:01 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: So every new topic on this forum is relevant? Maybe to you, but not to me.

Furthermore, asking for the relevance is not the same as even suggesting it is irrelevant. I wanted to know to what purpose tackattack deemed it relevant to know about official debating skills of his opponents.

Even so, his answer suggested that it has no relevance at all.

What I'm trying to ask is... you think it's not relevant to what? To the topic that he started? I don't get it... what is it irrelevant to exactly?

EvF
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#22
RE: How many atheists
I think he was just doing a motive check and I gave him my motives. Motivation is a crux with a lot of atheists I'm finding. Where does it stem from? Thinking
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#23
RE: How many atheists
Curiosity is a pretty cool motive I think! Just being curious, just wondering, just wanting to know, etc.

And I still don't get what Prabbit is expecting the question to be relevant to..(??)

This is a topic in the atheist discussion forum. The topic is related to atheism so how more relevant can it get?

I thought that might be what he meant but I still don't really get his question.

EvF
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#24
RE: How many atheists
(January 6, 2010 at 7:50 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: What I'm trying to ask is... you think it's not relevant to what? To the topic that he started? I don't get it... what is it irrelevant to exactly?
Read my lips:
1) I asked tackattak whether he thought it was relevant in any particular way
2) I did not posit that it was not relevant at all
3) I did posit that it should not be relevant for taking part in debate here
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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#25
RE: How many atheists
I'll have to remember to inquire about the relevance of more threads. "What is your favorite song? - Why is this relevant?"

To answer the question: No, I haven't participated in a formal debate and and have no interest at the moment. I find them interesting, but have no interest in taking part in one. The thought of public speaking horrifies me.

For the record, I totally thought this thread was going to be a bad lightbulb joke.
- Meatball
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#26
RE: How many atheists
(January 6, 2010 at 4:14 pm)Meatball Wrote: I'll have to remember to inquire about the relevance of more threads. "What is your favorite song? - Why is this relevant?"
For some reason, song preference tends to be extremely relevant in Off topic sections of fora.
Good thinking, though. See if it works at the super market:

cashier: That's 50 euro then
You: Why is that relevant?
Cashier: Because you have to pay, dude
You: And why is paying relevant?
Cashier: Because you're in a supermarket, wiseguy. Pay now or cops will be over you in seconds!!
You: Why are cops relevant?
Cashier: Hey, can somebody hose that guy
And so on, should be quite an experience...

But as long as the forum police here does not prohibit the art of questioning, and even beyond that point, I'll just type in my own questions, thank you.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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#27
RE: How many atheists
Ok let me make it extremely simple prabbit:

1. Relevant to what?

2. What did you expect it to be relevant to? For a start it's already relevant because it's a topic about atheism in the atheism discussion forum! lol Tongue

EvF
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#28
RE: How many atheists
It's multiple choice EvF, you can do it:

1 a. To your arse
1 b. To the universe
1 c. To you
1 d. To several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict

2 a. To nothing in particular
2 b. To your mother on a raft upstream smoking a joint and blowing the whistle
2 c. To Richard Dawkins throwing a copy of the bible in a black hole and shouting "the information is contained on it's surface"
2 d. To kaluza-klein compactified little green men shouting "yoho" all the time meanwhile getting particles entangled all over the place somewhere in the fringe of existence

Don't cheat now and don't ask Meatball for help.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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#29
RE: How many atheists
I never asked Meatball for any help before so LMAO....

You haven't actually answered my question once more it seems.... unless you were expecting nothing and thus your own question made no real sense which is why I questioned it in the first place Thinking

Funny post by you nonetheless.

So I guess I might have to go for '3.' None of the above Wink

EvF
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#30
RE: How many atheists
If you would have just asked me like you normally do, you'd know the correct answer is actually 'ALL of the above'.
- Meatball
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