RE: Looking For Another Christian (please ignore if you are not a believer.
July 28, 2014 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2014 at 11:53 am by SteelCurtain.)
(July 28, 2014 at 10:31 am)Esquilax Wrote: So, this isn't about the merits of your argument one way or the other, this is just kinda simple logic, but... you do understand how insane it is to come here with a purpose, attempt to fulfill it, fail repeatedly, and then continue to repeat the same action in the hopes of achieving a different result, right?
You get how when things fail, you change your method to fit, yes?
Esquilax, isn't it just perfect, though? A perfect metaphor for the rejection of rationality, a microcosm of the rejection of the scientific method. Instead of actually evaluating his progress and method so far, he just bangs his head against the wall, tossing everything he has (admittedly not much) and hoping something sticks.
Sometimes I wish he was a Poe. I would really have to give him credit for being a nuanced Poe.
ETA: I would volunteer to make it a foursome in the Esquilax/Drich/Rev debate.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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