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'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
If you ever quote me you must also provide the link as well.
(hint: provide the green {click-able} arrow that I have demonstrated in the above post)
Otherwise, people here will not take you seriously, AND, if you misquote members, without links, you'll be nothing more than a nuisance at best, and a menace at worst.
(bold used not to punctuate points, but to simplify message)
EDIT: I'm not being a dick, I'm just keeping things on the up and up by suggesting realistic, and respectable boundaries.
(October 28, 2013 at 11:12 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote:
(October 28, 2013 at 10:48 pm)Godschild Wrote: Lucky for me both of you are expressing opinion and not fact, right?
GC
I have not one, but thousands of books to back my claims. It's called science, and you may as well surrender to it, seeing as you are already only a part of it, and nothing else.
P.S.
The bible is also opinion (the opinions of hundreds of conflicting authors who all seek personal glory in their god's name (just like the church today)).
Hundreds of writers, really. I've never seen a book that disproves the existence of God, what does one look like?
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
If you ever quote me you must also provide the link as well.
(hint: provide the green {click-able} arrow that I have demonstrated in the above post)
Otherwise, people here will not take you seriously, AND, if you misquote members, without links, you'll be nothing more than a nuisance at best, and a menace at worst.
(bold used not to punctuate points, but to simplify message)
EDIT: I'm not being a dick, I'm just keeping things on the up and up by suggesting realistic, and respectable boundaries.
Since I didn't quote you, and since I made no mistake in who I quoted, your point, whatever it was, is moot. I don't believe anyone here who has kept up with the thread could mistake who I was quoting. It is not my job to keep others in the loop. And for the record, I've posted quotes from others exactly as I did above since I became a member, and you are the first person who has ever complained.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
If you ever quote me you must also provide the link as well.
(hint: provide the green {click-able} arrow that I have demonstrated in the above post)
Otherwise, people here will not take you seriously, AND, if you misquote members, without links, you'll be nothing more than a nuisance at best, and a menace at worst.
(bold used not to punctuate points, but to simplify message)
EDIT: I'm not being a dick, I'm just keeping things on the up and up by suggesting realistic, and respectable boundaries.
My first suggestion is that any member that comes across a misquote, to report the post in question so the staff can analise it and fix the quote, warning the user if we find it done as maliciously.
My second suggestion is for you to avoid making wrongful accusations towards other members. Orogenicman quoted GC, not you. You know, baseless accusations may cause people to stop taking you seriously.
My third suggestion is not to tell people the green arrow (by adding the PID of the post to the quote header) is mandatory. The rule that says to quote others accurately doesn't make that mandatory, just that the quote contents must be accurate. Not everyone is as skillfull as you are with myBB tags.
My fourth suggestion is that if you truly want to help, explain the person in question how to use the tags, instead of implying pretenciosly that the other was being somehow dishonest.
PS- I'm not being a dick, I'm just keeping things on the up and up by suggesting realistic, and respectable boundaries.
None the less. Someone claims to see God on a daily basis. Those people are normally in the padded room and medicated.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan
Professional Watcher of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report!
If you ever quote me you must also provide the link as well.
(hint: provide the green {click-able} arrow that I have demonstrated in the above post)
Otherwise, people here will not take you seriously, AND, if you misquote members, without links, you'll be nothing more than a nuisance at best, and a menace at worst.
(bold used not to punctuate points, but to simplify message)
EDIT: I'm not being a dick, I'm just keeping things on the up and up by suggesting realistic, and respectable boundaries.
My first suggestion is that any member that comes across a misquote, to report the post in question so the staff can analise it and fix the quote, warning the user if we find it done as maliciously.
My second suggestion is for you to avoid making wrongful accusations towards other members. Orogenicman quoted GC, not you. You know, baseless accusations may cause people to stop taking you seriously.
My third suggestion is not to tell people the green arrow (by adding the PID of the post to the quote header) is mandatory. The rule that says to quote others accurately doesn't make that mandatory, just that the quote contents must be accurate. Not everyone is as skillfull as you are with myBB tags.
My fourth suggestion is that if you truly want to help, explain the person in question how to use the tags, instead of implying pretenciosly that the other was being somehow dishonest.
PS- I'm not being a dick, I'm just keeping things on the up and up by suggesting realistic, and respectable boundaries.
And for the record, I did it the way I did it because I only wanted to quote the one sentence, not the entire ridiculous diatribe, and so the way I did it was the easiest way to do that.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
(October 28, 2013 at 11:12 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: I have not one, but thousands of books to back my claims. It's called science, and you may as well surrender to it, seeing as you are already only a part of it, and nothing else.
P.S.
The bible is also opinion (the opinions of hundreds of conflicting authors who all seek personal glory in their god's name (just like the church today)).
Hundreds of writers, really. I've never seen a book that disproves the existence of God, what does one look like?
(October 28, 2013 at 1:26 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Then what does God look like? If you claim to know he exists, you've surely seen him, right?
Yes, I see Him all the time.
Then what does he look like?
Quote:God does not torture, though He could make your punishment worse.
You just contradicted yourself. Let alone the idea of God not torturing anyone but sending people to Hell for an eternity. At any rate, why should I want to worship such a god which threatens me like that? No Christian has ever answered this question for me.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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