Doesn't matter if you wanna call yourself a theist or not. You're a theist. You can call an apple an orange, doesn't mean it's an orange. There's a reason we have established objective authority in communication; because without it, communication loses its capability to BE communication. It's a means of organizing the words we say, the terms we use, so that they are easily understood and allow for easier means of transferring ideas from one to another. Society at large goes with this because if people start just using words to mean whatever they want them to mean, people stop understanding one another and ideas become lost in communication. If you can't even agree to the basic means of communicating ideas because the idea of a label is just so debilitating to your ego, then no wonder you're incapable of actually debating or making coherent, valid, logical points; you're in your own little world, completely closed off from the rest of us. We're not the problem, dude. You are. You screaming about us not following your ideas isn't our fault, because we're all using a standardized method of communicating while you're using whatever you feel like using for the sake of making yourself feel good.
Hence is the unspoken agreement between all of us; we follow a standard method of communicating, by adhering to the norms of communication. We follow a standard method of debate, by adhering to the norms of debate. If you want to deviate, then fine, you can be a precious, special snowflake in that regard, but you're just not gonna get anywhere. Not just here, but just in general. You're gonna experience everyone finding your ideas to be nonsensical. It's really not too much to ask that you follow the basic guidelines of communication and debate; they're reasonable, they're not oppressive, and they're conducive to making your own points come across more clearly, and in turn we don't feel like we're talking to a brick wall, and you don't feel like you're stuck in a situation where an unstoppable force is impacting into an immovable object. Everyone wins.
Hence is the unspoken agreement between all of us; we follow a standard method of communicating, by adhering to the norms of communication. We follow a standard method of debate, by adhering to the norms of debate. If you want to deviate, then fine, you can be a precious, special snowflake in that regard, but you're just not gonna get anywhere. Not just here, but just in general. You're gonna experience everyone finding your ideas to be nonsensical. It's really not too much to ask that you follow the basic guidelines of communication and debate; they're reasonable, they're not oppressive, and they're conducive to making your own points come across more clearly, and in turn we don't feel like we're talking to a brick wall, and you don't feel like you're stuck in a situation where an unstoppable force is impacting into an immovable object. Everyone wins.
