RE: Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), Souls, and Atheism
November 22, 2011 at 4:35 am
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2011 at 4:47 am by Willpower.)
(November 22, 2011 at 4:11 am)Shell B Wrote:(November 22, 2011 at 1:06 am)Willpower Wrote: Enough with the ad-hominem attacks. If you are so wise, can you explain it?
No, that's enough with the misused phrases. It was an insult, not an ad hom.
Wikipedia - Ad Hominem: Latin for "to the man" or "to the person," short for argumentum ad hominem--is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or belief of the person supporting it.
I had stated that "it is inexplicable how they could come back with such vivid accounts."
In response, he said that my reasoning lead me to that [faulty] conclusion of inexplicability only because I am not amongst the "truly enlightened" and because I have allowed myself to acquire a "god dulled brain." In doing so, he attacked me--my person, not that whole post's argument or any of the support/evidence which had led me to that conclusion. He did not address the argument that I had presented at all. I retorted that, if he is so wise ("truly enlightened" and not "god dulled"), then he should try to explicate.
In his attack, though, he did not address any of the support/evidence that I had provided at all. He attempted to negate my whole argument quite simply on the basis of those asserted personal character flaws.
Thus, I accurately described it as an ad-hominen attack. I did not err.
It's an insult, too, for the record.
Don't be so eager to try to correct me over little things....
"Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect." (1 Peter 3:15)
The "Test of Life" is not whether you can blindly "worship and praise God”. The test in life is whether or not you can live your life according to virtue, and live a life that reverberates waves of positive energy, building people up, as Jesus His son perfectly exemplified. We can choose lives of virtue as is God's will, or to choose lives of selfishness, arrogance, and other vices which have led to the plague of humanity we have found on earth. If people choose vice, that is their choice. Do not judge them (1 Corinthians 5:12 ). But He sent Jesus as a prime example of virtue so that we could see the light and choose it, instead of poisoning the earth with lives of darkness. Many, including even "Christians," have failed in this regard. But Christianity is supposed to be the message of love, hope, faith, unity, and virtue, that creates heaven on Earth.
The "Test of Life" is not whether you can blindly "worship and praise God”. The test in life is whether or not you can live your life according to virtue, and live a life that reverberates waves of positive energy, building people up, as Jesus His son perfectly exemplified. We can choose lives of virtue as is God's will, or to choose lives of selfishness, arrogance, and other vices which have led to the plague of humanity we have found on earth. If people choose vice, that is their choice. Do not judge them (1 Corinthians 5:12 ). But He sent Jesus as a prime example of virtue so that we could see the light and choose it, instead of poisoning the earth with lives of darkness. Many, including even "Christians," have failed in this regard. But Christianity is supposed to be the message of love, hope, faith, unity, and virtue, that creates heaven on Earth.
