(Today at 1:53 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: You're a redneck too, them little fuckers can be hard -- especially if shot out of a cannon, I bet. Little bastard put a decent dent into my 95 Ranger a few years back, no 155 involved.

It's disappointing how far we've fallen from trading rounds with the coal barrons to sucking barrons dads toadstool.

(Today at 1:49 am)Ravenshire Wrote:

(Today at 1:48 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: This shit is funny, no bout adoubt it.

It would be, if the dangers weren't so real.

I don't take this guy seriously -- this is gloat-posting. Where was he three months ago?

He only happened to first post on this forum two days after his boy won. Sure. He joined in March of this year, and only made his first post four hours ago? His scrotum has been tucking for some months now, and it's only that Trump's victory is confirmed he has the 'nads to open his mouth in public. He's a scrub.

As for the real dangers, I'm afraid they've already come to pass. There's no real roadblock aside from gunpowder to prevent our descent into autocracy. No conversation on an internet forum will change that.

Right, well it is clear coming here was a mistake.

I made this account several months ago while struggling with my conversion to Christianity; I had been an atheist for 17 years and had been active on another similar named forum for years - as that one was mostly dead, I decided I would come here to see what the average discussion on religion looked like.

I found very little of value then and decided to move on, but when Trump won and many of my old friends (Communist Party of America, anti-theists, college friends) as well as massive atheist social media accounts I still followed decided to have emotional meltdowns I decided... "Heck, I use to have a lot of respect for atheists as intellectuals and worldly people, that seems like a good place to see if this is common across the board."

I had bad experiences on Reddit and Twitter, but lets be honest - those are Reddit and Twitter, so I decided to check both the old forum and here.

What I was not expecting was to be greeted with logical fallacies such as strawmen arguments and shifting goalposts; I was not expecting a moderator to - with the first words out of their mouth - bring up my ethnicity; I was not expecting arguments based on using feels and emotions to try and avoid serious problems that exist within the government.

I came to yall because I *respected* yall as intellectuals who prioritized rationality and reason - at least what us New Atheists use to pretend to champion - , but the reality is that was a *very* naive and foolish mistake to make, and if it wasn't for remarks about my race I would have just gladly gone out with the wind, never to be seen again - I get yall don't agree politically and that's fine, even if I find it insane to base your policy on the lies sold to you by the very people profiting off your fear.

I was looking forward to discussions on a variety of topics, but it's clear any future discussion is going to be constantly tainted with the fear of not offending a racist moderator and the fear of being dogpiled by fallacies so that the idea that any meaningful conversation can be had is utterly void.

We can't expect all atheists to be as brilliant as we are here.

(Today at 2:03 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(Today at 1:49 am)Ravenshire Wrote: It would be, if the dangers weren't so real.

I don't take this guy seriously -- this is gloat-posting. Where was he three months ago?

He only happened to first post on this forum two days after his boy won. Sure. He joined in March of this year, and only made his first post four hours ago? His scrotum has been tucking for some months now, and it's only that Trump's victory is confirmed he has the 'nads to open his mouth in public. He's a scrub.

As for the real dangers, I'm afraid they've already come to pass. There's no real roadblock aside from gunpowder to prevent our descent into autocracy. No conversation on an internet forum will change that.

Oh, I spotted the gloating, and it's not fear of this nutless internet hero. I have two kids and neither of them are straight cis-gendered white males. I can now only hope that incompetence and bureaucracy slow the damage enough to allow us to take the house and senate in two years. If so, maybe they'll have a future. If not...

You're gonna bullshit us about open borders, bullshit us about mexican terrorists, bullshit us about the silly things dear leader says...then clutch your pearls?

(Today at 2:06 am)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: If you must know why I came, I am an atheist of 17 years; atheistforums.com was my home for quite some time.

[Emphasis added -- Thump]

That's odd you claim that:



Is that a rooster I hear crowing, Peter?

(Today at 2:16 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(Today at 2:06 am)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: If you must know why I came, I am an atheist of 17 years; atheistforums.com was my home for quite some time.

[Emphasis added -- Thump]

That's odd you claim that:



Is that a rooster I hear crowing, Peter?

Try reading the second sentence of the post and you might start to realize why I stopped taking you seriously quite early on.

Edit - Bloody hell, what am I even doing giving the opposition advice.

As Napoleon said, "Never interrupt your enemy while he makes a mistake."

(Today at 2:21 am)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: Try reading the second sentence of the post and you might start to realize why I stopped taking you seriously quite early on.

Oh,

Edit - Bloody hell, what am I even doing giving the opposition advice.

As Napoleon said, "Never interrupt your enemy while he makes a mistake."

No, you wrote at first "I am" -- present tense -- and that is what I quoted. That you went back and edited it later only speaks to your basic lack of honesty. That you went back and edited your post without saying as much, well, yeah, fits with the pattern.

Maybe English isn't your first language and you don't understand verb tenses, I dunno. But you sure strike me as a bullshit artist, without much art. And quite frankly, you're not giving me any "advice" -- your game is pretty transparent. You're a poor interlocutor and a worse liar.

But thanks for passing a little time. Whether you take me "seriously" or not when you yourself are so clearly full of shit, well, golly, that really hurts!

(Today at 2:30 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(Today at 2:21 am)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: Try reading the second sentence of the post and you might start to realize why I stopped taking you seriously quite early on.

Oh,

Edit - Bloody hell, what am I even doing giving the opposition advice.

As Napoleon said, "Never interrupt your enemy while he makes a mistake."

No, you wrote at first "I am" -- present tense -- and that is what I quoted. That you went back and edited it later only speaks to your basic lack of honesty. That you went back and edited your post without saying as much, well, yeah, fits with the pattern.

Maybe English isn't your first language and you don't understand verb tenses, I dunno. But you sure strike me as a bullshit artist, without much art. And quite frankly, you're not giving me any "advice" -- your game is pretty transparent. You're a poor interlocutor and a worse liar.

But thanks for passing a little time. Whether you take me "seriously" or not when you yourself are so clearly full of shit, well, golly, that really hurts!

I'm sorry you feel that way, and I hope going forward you learn to start listening to people instead of hating them based on delusions you have pushed upon them.

I'm not sure why you feel the need to lie about what I wrote, but it is matching with the general character you have tried to present yourself as; loud, obnoxious, unable to listen to anyone and determined to make false accusations and push your beliefs about others upon them without a lick of rationality, common sense, or even just basic decency.