RE: What Heaven is Like
June 13, 2012 at 4:06 pm
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2012 at 4:12 pm by Taqiyya Mockingbird.)
(June 13, 2012 at 2:03 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(June 13, 2012 at 1:18 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: I've made no fallacious statement. You invoked "hearts" not in the figurative sense but as in the 'core/spirit thingy' of our being, and I reject that as hogwash. Hearts pump blood. They do no thinking or anything else that the brain is responsible for.
Stating a biological fact is not a fallacy. >.<
It may be a little over-literal though. I'm starting to find it a little irritating when I see someone say something like 'I feel in my heart that God is real' and get a reply like 'Your heart doesn't feel emotions, it just pumps blood, dumbass'. We know what they meant and it may have been funny once to call them on their word choice instead of what they were trying to say, but it's getting old.
It's a Reductio ad Absurdum refutation of a blatantly fallacious appeal to emotion. I don't have any problem with it at all.
I love the way GC tries to cast all the adults here, most proably quite a bit older than him, as if we were all high schoolers or teen-agers.
I CALL BULLSHIT. How old are YOU, CG? Dare you even say?
