(October 24, 2015 at 5:15 am)Pandæmonium Wrote:(October 23, 2015 at 11:13 pm)Delicate Wrote: I'm not convinced by unargued assertions like the above. You certainly haven't demonstrated any claim of mine unworthy of consideration, after all.
Rather, it might just be that my framing of the issue triggered a defense mechanism in you (and other atheists), who instinctively sought out a way to "escape" absolute truths. This would explain why there's so much resistance in this thread to a view that doesn't exactly threaten one's atheism.
What on earth do you mean 'unargued assertions'? Let's take a look at who is making a claim here. Is it me? No. Is it you? Yah, looks like it. Looks like you're making a claim about the existence of objective truth(s).
This whole nonsense about defence mechanisms and all that bollocks, stick a sock in it yeah?
You give yourself far too much credit. To us you're just another person trying to peddle the same claim that's been peddled on here and elsewhere a million times but still hasn't presented an ounce of evidence for it. Indeed it seems like you've reverted to utilising straw men in your attempt to grasp at straws.
Let me be clear for clarity, you are delusional both in your beliefs and the level of effect you think you are having. You are not original, none of your thoughts to date on here are original, and there is nothing you have said or presented that makes me or anyone else want to reconsider their stance that there appears to be no such thing as an 'objective' truth. None. Feel free to think that is a defence mechanism or whatever such nonsense you can contrive, it doesn't make a difference to the reality of your delusions.
If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were a Southern Baptist preacher.
Amen brother!
And yet, when I look closely at what you're saying, it's nonsense. You can't handwave away evidence and then claim no evidence was presented. That makes you look like an idiot at best, or an intellectually dishonest charlatan at worst.
I suggest you avoid looking like an idiot or a charlatan. What you can do is look at the OP, look at the reasons given for why absolute truth cannot be dispensed with, prove them wrong, and then maybe you can get some of your credibility back.