Delicate Offers a Truce

[Whateverist]

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[TheRocketSurgeon]

You're funny.

And I'm stunning to look at too.

That would be a good start toward earning our trust. Post a picture in the photos thread. Then you become a "real" person, a member of the group, instead of a faceless set of letters (Delicate is, of course, a pseudonym, unless your mother was really angry with you post-delivery!) free to troll us from behind the veil of complete anonymity.

Just a suggestion.

[Jenny A]

Delicate Offers a Truce.

Whateverist turns him down.

(This should be a thread in which we all talk about ourselves in the third person.)

Jenny thinks talking about yourself in the third person is rather passive aggressive.

[Jenny A]

And I'm stunning to look at too.

That would be a good start toward earning our trust. Post a picture in the photos thread. Then you become a "real" person, a member of the group, instead of a faceless set of letters (Delicate is, of course, a pseudonym, unless your mother was really angry with you post-delivery!) free to troll us from behind the veil of complete anonymity.

Just a suggestion.

Or simply start a very much belated introduction thread. Who are you?  What stripe of theist are you?  Where do you live?  How old are you?  Married?  Interests?

[Delicate]

Thanks for the substantive, non-emotional response.

In another thread, someone made a list of the threads I started. You might find it, as well as my responses illuminating.

As for where I am coming from, I make no positive claims about the existence of God. I don't mind if people are atheists. My problem is the application of bad reasoning in defense of atheism or against theism.

You are absolutely, positively wrong on (4). We can discuss it is you like.

As for the rest, I'll respond when the time is right.

http://atheistforums.org/thread-38331-page-43.html     Thread #428
Is my reasoning hypersensitive and absurd, folks?   AF folks can chime in, I readily admit when I'm wrong.

Thanks for being open minded to ask for others' opinions.

[Delicate]

And I'm stunning to look at too.

That would be a good start toward earning our trust. Post a picture in the photos thread. Then you become a "real" person, a member of the group, instead of a faceless set of letters (Delicate is, of course, a pseudonym, unless your mother was really angry with you post-delivery!) free to troll us from behind the veil of complete anonymity.

Just a suggestion.

That's a lot of investment to make given all the rejection I've faced even after offering this truce.

But we'll see.

[Cyberman]

Aww, you poor thing.

[Edwardo Piet]

Delicate: actions not words.

Demonstrate you have changed instead of promises alone, they'll look empty. And be patient.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'm utterly convinced, this is a troll. So why should he/she/it do any of the above? There are only two possibilities. A real idiot with feelings of grandeur, who's still got enough brain cells to assume, we would laugh in their face, if their origin was reveiled. Or a troll, who can't even come up with a half convincing coverstory.

You mean this one from their profile?

I used to be an apatheist.

Then I heard Richard Dawkins speak, saw how ridiculous he was and I became a born-again Christian.

I don't see too much ground between idiot and troll either.  How a reasonable human being gets from "Richard Dawkins is ridiculous" to "ergo, I'm a born-again Christian" is a mystery, even if we grant the premises as true.

"Forum Logician and Philosophy Enthusiast", my ass.

There little that's funnier than the self-anointed ... especially in the field of philosophy.

[Thumpalumpacus]

You're funny.

And I'm stunning to look at too.

So is balut. What's your point?