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Atheists turning to cult behaviour?
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RE: Atheists turning to cult behaviour?
December 17, 2014 at 2:20 pm
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RE: Atheists turning to cult behaviour?
December 17, 2014 at 2:21 pm (This post was last modified: December 17, 2014 at 2:26 pm by SoFarEast.)
(December 17, 2014 at 2:12 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: You won't change the world, and you'll likely receive some backlash yourself, but at least you'll be working to make your little corner of the world a better place. Which is about all anyone can do.
I know it's all I can do. Thank you for hearing me out. I'll be satisfied with the little impact I make.
(December 17, 2014 at 2:20 pm)LastPoet Wrote: [Image: atheists.png]
The logic brigade would call "Strawman", but then that's their job.
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RE: Atheists turning to cult behaviour?
December 17, 2014 at 2:28 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 2:21 pm)SoFarEast Wrote:
(December 17, 2014 at 2:12 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: You won't change the world, and you'll likely receive some backlash yourself, but at least you'll be working to make your little corner of the world a better place. Which is about all anyone can do.
I know it's all I can do. Thank you for hearing me out. I'll be satisfied with the little impact I make.
(December 17, 2014 at 2:20 pm)LastPoet Wrote: [Image: atheists.png]
The logic brigade would call "Strawman", but then that's their job.

Every counter argument can be a straw man that if the counter argument is right and there is no way to refute it.
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RE: Atheists turning to cult behaviour?
December 17, 2014 at 2:29 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 2:21 pm)SoFarEast Wrote: The logic brigade would call "Strawman", but then that's their job.

What is a logic brigade? Some kind of dildo?
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RE: Atheists turning to cult behaviour?
December 17, 2014 at 2:33 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 2:28 pm)dyresand Wrote: Every counter argument can be a straw man that if the counter argument is right and there is no way to refute it.
Huh? No.

And if you actually think I'm going to consider refuting a cartoon....LOL.

Btw, does the toon not imply atheists feel superior to Christians?
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RE: Atheists turning to cult behaviour?
December 17, 2014 at 2:37 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 11:31 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Neither do a lot of late teen, early 20 theists I've met. Are you sure you're not just getting old and having trouble adjusting to the ways of the young whippersnappers? Because you're describing Millenials, not atheists.

No, he's describing an age contingent - doesn't matter which generation they come from. -Respectfully, a Millennial.

(December 17, 2014 at 11:42 am)SoFarEast Wrote: ...and rely heavily on youtube

Ever seen Star Wars? Mos Eisley is a great place to find a smuggler, a cheap drink, and get your head blown off. It's not where the Senate held their legislative proceedings. Youtube is the Mos Eisley of the internet, and 4chan is the Sarlacc pit.

(December 17, 2014 at 12:25 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I think Myers is a twat of the first order, as well as Dawkins. Greta Christina and others were bang-on when they pointed out that having these assholes as the public face of atheism keeps a lot of atheists quiet about their lack of belief.

Too right.

(December 17, 2014 at 12:55 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: We tend to be careful and precise in our language around here, partly because we know there are fundamentalist members who will seize on any slip of the tongue or mis-statement.

A cult, in the modern sense/connotation as a group with novel, socially deviant beliefs and practices, tends to have a charismatic leader or founder to whom the members are zealously devoted and obedient. Doubt is discourage. How members are to live is ordered in great detail. Mind-altering practices are used. The group is elitist and tribal (us vs. them), and feel the group's ends justify the means.

The behavior you describe isn't at all how cults form. It's just people making asses of themselves and attracting an audience.

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RE: Atheists turning to cult behaviour?
December 17, 2014 at 2:42 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 2:29 pm)LastPoet Wrote:
(December 17, 2014 at 2:21 pm)SoFarEast Wrote: The logic brigade would call "Strawman", but then that's their job.

What is a logic brigade? Some kind of dildo?

The group of people who run around drive-by posting "That's a logical fallacy!" and then jerking off to how logical they are for being able to read wikipedia's list of logical fallacies.
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RE: Atheists turning to cult behaviour?
December 17, 2014 at 2:44 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 2:42 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:
(December 17, 2014 at 2:29 pm)LastPoet Wrote: What is a logic brigade? Some kind of dildo?

The group of people who run around drive-by posting "That's a logical fallacy!" and then jerking off to how logical they are for being able to read wikipedia's list of logical fallacies.

So that's who they were. I thought it was Google Streetview, but that didn't explain the "Strawman!" nor copious masturbation....
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RE: Atheists turning to cult behaviour?
December 17, 2014 at 2:55 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 2:03 pm)Jenny A Wrote: One of Watkins blog entries shows screen shots from Reddit of atheism male comments about a teen age atheist girl who posted a picture of herself with a Carl Sagan book. http://skepchick.org/2011/12/reddit-make...-atheists/ And yes the comments are appalling.

I just read them and they are pretty disgusting. I don't do reedit, because it seems like a lot of people that comment there, in general, took a lesson from a youtube comment's section in order to learn how to talk on the internet. Maybe I've just been to the wrong places though.
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RE: Atheists turning to cult behaviour?
December 17, 2014 at 2:59 pm
(December 17, 2014 at 2:55 pm)Elskidor Wrote: I just read them and they are pretty disgusting. I don't do reedit, because it seems like a lot of people that comment there, in general, took a lesson from a youtube comment's section in order to learn how to talk on the internet. Maybe I've just been to the wrong places though.

I haunt r/Skyrim and r/childfree, and several science or history subreddits. The conversation there ranges from delightfully sarcastic to extremely informative. It really does depend on where you go. The subreddits regarding psychological issues like depression or narcissism are oddly interesting to read through as well.

I wouldn't go to r/atheism. It makes me want to affect a Month Python King Arthur "It is a silly place."
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