I thought your god was keeping you safe

[LadyForCamus]

Lady

You asked for an explanation.  I gave you an explanation.

And, I asked you some follow-up questions regarding why you think your subjective opinion should matter to anyone but you, but you chose to ignore them. I’ll take that as a tacit admission that you can’t defend your position.

 I even gave you an honest explanation.  You don't like it.  Tough shit Jack.  That's the way it is.

 
You gave me your opinion. Opinions don’t mean shit, Jack.

It isn't what's said, it's the intent behind the words.  I'm standing by that.

Yes, I understand that rather than defend your position you’re just going to re-assert it. Got it. 👍

Empathy?  Don't have any.  Wasn't born with any.  I have aspergers.  I understand the word empathy but not the feeling that goes with it.  I was going to say that I suffer from aspergers but, actually, I quite enjoy it.

So...then what reason do you have to believe that people who do possess empathy should think and behave as if they don’t?  Your whole position rests on, “because I’m a certain way, therefore the rest of society should think and behave like me.” Does that seem rational to you?

All this empathy and other nonsense that you people feel just causes you grief.

How do you know? You said you don’t experience those feelings, yet you think you can speak on their behalf? Why would you think that?

How do any of you people ever make a logical decision with all that touchy feely nonsense going on in your heads?

It’s not that hard, really. I’m doing it right now.

I did like TTA.  I also like other Atheist forums.  Could/can tell it like it is.  Not this place.  Far too PC for me.  Have to watch what I say lest I get banned.  Fuck that for a game of soldiers.  Will ban myself.

Go for it. Slow death my mod is fun for all of us.

I wouldn't like to offend, would I?  Well, actually, yes, because people have the right to be offended or not to be, as the case maybe.

Well, as someone who doesn’t experience emotions, I guess you zero authority or experience to speak on the matter, huh? 😏

In the end, they can CHOOSE to be offended or they can CHOOSE not to be.

Demonstrably false.

I think people get offended far too easily these days.

That’s nice.

I find christards offensive.

I thought you didn’t know how to feel offended? Maybe you should stop being such a sensitive snowflake.

Anyways, I've banned myself and will not post here again.

You don’t have the ability to ban yourself, but okay, lol.

[LastPoet]

O.O; you borked those quotes LfC

[LadyForCamus]

O.O; you borked those quotes LfC

IKR?!  Five years, and I still fuck it up! 😂😭

[LastPoet]

Well, at least you are not like Negatio lel. That one was precious.

[LadyForCamus]

Lol, Negatio. Still waiting for the CIA to bust down our doors. 😂

[tackattack]

Because words that are the most offensive or insulting really spur rational discussion? Because they can de-escalate the emotionalism from an argument so that people actually listen to each other? No because they sate some juvenile need because your EQ is somewhere stuck near your IQ and equitable to that of a butt-hurt 4 year old (pun intended). I wonder why Christians generally assume most atheists are reactionary and puerile or conflate atheists with anti-theists regularly?

But it doesn't always work that way.

I have joined several Christian forums, and have been banned for doing nothing more than asking legitimate questions. I never cussed, never insulted anyone on these forums.

Yet, within just a few posts, I was banned.

I then continued to visit these forums for a while to see the comments against me after I was gone. Not only was I insulted and misrepresented, but these 'loving Christians' seemed happy that I was destined to eternal torture in Hell, for finite thought crimes.

And this behavior was not isolated. It replayed itself one almost every theist forum I joined.

So your stance is, it's not always that way, but it was always demonstrated when I visited Christian forums? Listen, I'm not saying it can't be demonstrated on both sides, because I know it can. It's bad when both sides do it. My point, in pointing it out, was to ask why and why it's always heralded as "yeah fuck those atheists" or "yeah fuck those christards" within each camp. The evolutionary psychology of it is pretty clear but with the complex emotional centers of Humans, more emotion usually = amplify response exponentially. Wouldn't choosing your words to specifically incite more emotionalism be defeatist at it's base? Both sides have a fair it of housecleaning to do, but individually, people are usually too defensive of their side's biases instinctively, myself included.

For instance, in this thread, I wasn't offended in the slighted because I knew that something was wrong with his empathy center. As it seemed some were jumping on the bandwagon, I just through up an objection to it's utility, not it's use. It's not to say that people on the spectrum can't have empathy, but typicall those without compensate with intellect. I was just appealing to that intellect by pointing out how logically useless it is as a goal.

[LastPoet]

I do so hope that your post is a joke.

In your tag, whenever you post, you have an emoji that shows someone wanking and 'Jerkoff' in the title too.

Besides, christards insult humanity with their baseless bull shit and illogical and unproven nonsense.

I, in response, insult them right back.

You better respect that badge of honour that Losty proudly wears. We managed to meltdown a Nazi that even made videos about us. With swastikas opening and ending. Ah glory days. But there is still the gang and the jerkoff gang rules! Forever and we will kick out Odin, Thor and the others from the halls of Valhalla, where the brave feast forever!

[Shell B]

For the people complaining that a ban on racial slurs is too constricting, here's the thing. We tried really hard not to ban certain words because sometimes, people are just discussing a word, joking amongst themselves amicably or whatever. However, the very idea that some of you couldn't say these words (and I'm not just talking about the n-word. I'm also seeing anti-Asian slurs too, probably among others) led you to go on a slur-fest that lit up our reports section and led to some members feeling attacked. It's perfectly find to have "free speech" or the ability to use unsavory language, but when you are talking about hate speech, there is a fine line, and some users, much like toddlers, are testing that line too much for us to even want to police it. There is no good argument for dropping n-bombs just because you can in an environment where multiple people have said that they are uncomfortable with it.

Christard isn't remotely close to the n-word. To my knowledge, it won't be treated as such. You can complain about it, but religion and race are not in the same ballpark.

[Angrboda]

LadyForCamus, have you been not drinking again, because something's changed!

J/k Nice to see you.

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Christard isn't remotely close to the n-word. To my knowledge, it won't be treated as such. You can complain about it, but religion and race are not in the same ballpark.

They don't need to be in the same "ballpark" to be considered in the same category. I forget the exact quote, but someone said something to the effect that it's not a competition to see who has suffered the most. If calling someone a Christard has the same effects on a Christian and for the same reason, just in a lesser magnitude, then it would seem inconsistent to treat them differently. Are we going to take a poll to see whose suffering matters and whose suffering doesn't?

(And I would note that both religion and race form protected classes in the United States. I'm just spitballing here, but maybe there's a reason for that.)

[Athene]

Hello, GC.

Just wanted to inform that is now AF's unofficial N**GERmania thread. I know it doesn't make much sense considering the thread title, but you're actually off-topic.
This thread is for atheists to bemoan their inability to adequately satisfy their desperately-needed N**GER fixes.

I'm really glad I'm not you.  And that has nothing to do with you being black.

So?  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  
I'm glad I'm not you. Who cares?

Lol...Apparently, you're under the delusion that that post was all about Jorm.

It was not.

Would it surprise you to know that you aren't at the forefront of everyone's thoughts and posts on AF at every moment? 
Never mind, doesn't answer that...Of course it would.