(April 24, 2015 at 7:13 pm)whateverist Wrote: My advice is to find a more interesting hobby than debating theists. Consider the audience. What could you possibly hope to get from the exchange?
Argggggggg once again,
You don't always converse with theists to deconvert them. It also beneficial in a couple other ways.
1. Sharpens your awareness long term of the different ways theists can rearrange words and understand it still boils down to the same argument.
2. Bystanders view it and get to see the arguments of other atheists and learn from it.
It isn't just about them. Sometimes you can make arguments to a theist and never talk to them again only to find out months or years later that because of what you said along with others that they run into since, caused them to rethink and leave.
It isn't about a magic argument that gets them on the spot and it also isn't just about them,
I can tell you my long term de conversion took me almost a decade and the person who got that ball rolling I will never know that one conversation got me thinking. And it took tons of reading other atheists arguments, some polite and some blasphemous when I finally got online in 01, up until today that shaped my views.
It is never one person or one page or one book or being polite all the time or being blunt all the time.
And what is wrong with posting online every day? Some people don't have billions of dollars to have a voice.
