Ontological Disproof of God

[emjay]

My guess is B with modifications; that the original intent was just to share his theory on a philosophy forum and debate it. But since that went down like a lead balloon, partly because of the size and style of the OP and partly because of his technical incompetence with the site, it just became an onslaught of information and suspicion coming from all directions. I'm not the best teacher... Kevin's a much better... much more concise teacher than me; so you've got Kevin saying one thing, in his style, me saying it in another style, you saying it in another style etc... it would be easy to be overwhelmed with too much information and no idea where to start. I know that feeling well. So that on top of suspicion of ulterior motives coming from every corner, would be an understandably unpleasant, frustrating, and angering experience if you really were a total newbie to forums, and all you wanted to do was share your theories for discussion for the first time.

Maybe a good solution then, and a show of good faith from negatio would be a truce as it were... if we all just took a time out from this thread for a long while. That way he could study all the technical advice that's been given in and out of thread and let it sink in at his own pace, without the pressure of a constantly moving thread. Then as soon as he was ready, could come back in. I've already told him by PM that it's possible to practice BBCode and laying out posts in a draft PM with no recipient that you just constantly edit, preview, and save. Doing that would allow him to practice and experiment, but without clogging up the forum with the results of that experimentation. What say you negatio?

Wow, emjay.  I had perused the above very long  thread a couple-three times, and entirely missed the above two beautiful thoughts by what I am pretty sure is emjay. For me, when in the above box, it is almost impossible tell precisely who is speaking.

The first thinking is a beautifully sympathetic description of precisely what I am experiencing, and, I could fill that description further.

emjay, the second thought is a fantastic adaptation to the problem, but, then, if I drop-out, I'll miss out on stuff like happened yesterday.  A beautiful Jihadist guy, who writes radically, radically, beautifully, visited my thread.  I was engaging Nine when Khemikal barged-in and started shoving swine bullshit insults at Nine, I was so embarrassed. Nine is a dynamite writer that I may never hear from again, thanks to Khemical's horrid, destructive sense of humor.

I really, really need your advice quick-like-a-mouse-today emjay, and, will privately e-mail you...Negatio.

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Dropping out... well a time out... would just give you some time to fully practice and get the hang of the technical side of posting and quoting, so that at least that part of the problem of communication could be eliminated... and as a sign of good faith to those that need it. It would also give the staff a rest from having to edit your posts As I said, you can practice to your heart's content in draft PMs until you've nailed it, then come back fully competent in posting and quoting, ready to concentrate solely on your arguments rather than with this continual distraction. The thread will be here when you get back if you do do it.

As for Nine, he was only joking... ie he's not a Muslim as far as I know, so don't panic about that.