Morons: Terrible bane or lifeblood of the forum?

[Angrboda]

I suppose you could be a knitting gear head because there is not conflict there, but you really can't be theist and atheist at the same time.

Yes and no. When I was still Hindu, I was one of the most atheistic, secular Hindus you would be likely to meet. And my local UU church, while at some level associated with matters of the human spirit, is known as the most atheist UU church in the Twin Cities.

[LinuxGal]

Seeing Klor get banned makes me realize that this means one less dipshit to drive inane debates.  Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Back when Amazon had discussion forums, the Atheist Forum had a small group of regular posters who did everything they could to be unwelcoming to Christians. They could be really nasty. 

Eventually they drove off everybody who didn't agree with them exactly. 

Within a week they were discussing how to invite some Christians onto the forum so they'd have somebody to talk to.

Chuang Tzu said:

"The seasons end and begin; the generations change and transform. Inauspicious and auspicious fortune falls
upon you, sometimes unwelcomed, other times welcomed.

Settle into your own views, argue with others, at times condemn those who are upright, then those who are bent.

You should be like a great marsh land with space for a hundred kinds of trees. Or be like a great mountain  where the trees and grasses rest on the same ground."

[Ahriman]

I suppose you could be a knitting gear head because there is not conflict there, but you really can't be theist and atheist at the same time.

Yes and no.  When I was still Hindu, I was one of the most atheistic, secular Hindus you would be likely to meet.  And my local UU church, while at some level associated with matters of the human spirit, is known as the most atheist UU church in the Twin Cities.

You can't be an "atheistic, secular" Hindu. You either believe in the gods of Hinduism and accept the spiritual implications of that belief, or you don't.

[Angrboda]

Yes and no.  When I was still Hindu, I was one of the most atheistic, secular Hindus you would be likely to meet.  And my local UU church, while at some level associated with matters of the human spirit, is known as the most atheist UU church in the Twin Cities.

You can't be an "atheistic, secular" Hindu. You either believe in the gods of Hinduism and accept the spiritual implications of that belief, or you don't.

Speaking of morons.....

[The Grand Nudger]

Meh, I don't mind when we have fewer morons or fewer christians. It's not as though either thing has value by simple virtue of being, or that we'll have nothing to bicker about without them - this thread as an example.

[Ahriman]

You can't be an "atheistic, secular" Hindu. You either believe in the gods of Hinduism and accept the spiritual implications of that belief, or you don't.

Speaking of morons.....    

Please explain how someone can be a secular atheist and still believe in any Hindu gods.

You can't.

[Angrboda]

Speaking of morons.....    

Please explain how someone can be a secular atheist and still believe in any Hindu gods.

You can't.

I'm not going to explain something that I didn't say.

[Ahriman]

Please explain how someone can be a secular atheist and still believe in any Hindu gods.

You can't.

I'm not going to explain something that I didn't say.

So I'm right.

[Angrboda]

I'm not going to explain something that I didn't say.

So I'm right.

Right about your strawman? Sure. Whatever. You realize that's the whole point of a strawman, to pretend you're right when you're not?

[Ahriman]

So I'm right.

Right about your strawman?  Sure.  Whatever.  You realize that's the whole point of a strawman, to pretend you're right when you're not?

Well I'm not pretending to be anything, I am right because you can't be a "secular Hindu", I mean you literally can't, that's not how that works.