(March 19, 2012 at 12:56 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(March 19, 2012 at 12:52 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: To be fair, although I said that I have no interest in talking about christianity, islam, and have no interest in talking to theists, I should have perhaps added that I like mocking them for their ridiculous statements.
I may well put certain people on ignore, that seems a reasonable suggestion.
By all means mock their beliefs, but please don't mock the actual people behind them. Everyone here had at some point in their life believed something that they've later come to regret. It's much better to attack their position logically and make them see the error of their belief than to mock them as a person.
Again a fair point, but it gets hard to mock their beliefs without turning on the person - once they've refused logic and kept quoting the bible as evidence for one example. The trouble is if you step back and ignore them from that point where logic is rejected and it turns to ridicule, they think they won and you had no answer!
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
