RE: Reductio ad Absurdum: How to most efficently communicate with theists
October 3, 2016 at 12:43 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2016 at 1:50 pm by _Velvet_.)
(October 3, 2016 at 10:13 am)Tazzycorn Wrote: You know it takes some amount of nerve to demand that somebody else be calm after you've offensively belittled every single person who has a similar point of view to them, just because they pointed out your offensiveness.
Please do elaborate on how I offensively beliettled you and every single person who has a similar point of view to you as I sincerely think you missunderstood something I said, it might be the case of my english (or my lack writing skills) getting in the way.
Before you do, allow me to do my part and rephrase/explain my message a bit further on points that I think I might have been vague and caused missunderstanding.
If you pay close attention, whenever I said "critical thinkers" I was using the word "us" as I meant: me, and you guys as well, so from now on everything you might think I said about you and people who share your point of view I actually said about me as well.
I proceed making a critique on how we see the deluded people, as I think they are like us (able to thinking objectively if they learn how to do it), but trapped in their delusion.
Then I divided us (the critical thinkers) into 2 groups, the 2 ways we think about the deluded people, some do care about them, some do not.
1: Ones who do not care for people who are drowning in the sea of stupidity that is delusions. (I included Rhythm on this group, as he said he is not concerned if they think or not about their religion, instead his main concern (when he is debating) its correct the way religion recieves underserved respect).
2: Ones who do care but are YET too incompetent or powerless to actually design a way to help people out of their delusions. (I included ME on this group, and said Dennet/Harris/Dawkins are the ones who are currently doing it best with their books and debates, but try as we might, we remain (for now) not having any way of persuade people out of their delusions efficiently)
This is why its arguably our fault too, not only theirs.
Perhaps not noticing that its what made you think it was offensive to you?
I will disregard your questions to my character and the personal insult as I think those are derived from a missunderstanding.