The Pathway Machine

[Purple Rabbit]

Acceptance of evidence as valid material in debate presupposes reason. When the debater rejects any evidence, he rejects reason. To have a debater openly reject reason is the ultimate you can ask for in debate. So what's your problem.

My problem??? My problem??? What, pray tell, is the point of continuing a debate in which the opponent has surrendered all reason and simply attempts to repeat his original points again and again without concern for the counter points that have already been levied at them? There is no point to having a debate with someone who doesn't debate by any known standards, and this website is primarily for discussion and debates. Theists are welcome to debate our points, but things just get tiresome when you have to repeat points again and again (this is why most people simply gave up with Daystar, and I resorted to one sentence responses).

I get somewhat tired of having to repeat this again myself. You can stop debating him at any time. You can put him on your ignore list (what else is it for?). So again what's your problem?

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If Daystar didn't want to debate about things he should have really admitted that it was just a "faith issue" with him.
And then we could have changed the subject. Talked in off topic and about religion and God without him constantly claiming it exists (if he could possibly do that) I guess.
Basically he can't just preach crap and not expect to be questioned!

If you go about telling everybody what they can or can't say you are steady on your way to censoring. Imho a forum of freethinkers shouldn't censor the content on the forum at all when no real personal damage is at stake. In the etiquette rules for this forum it is not written that posters should accept presented material as evidence, that they have to comply to it, what is correct thinking, what is crap and what is not and that they can't repeat arguments (which anyhow is what most do here all the time). He who preaches crap can at all times expect to be questioned for his motives and in fact this is what happened. Shutting out with a ban is clearly beyond questioning, it is ending communication.