Yahweh, the Devil, and Job

[Lion IRC]

Nobody persecutes me.

[Cinjin]

Please. The man is not here to address anything. He's here to perfect a cyclical march through conversations.

What if..... he's actually here trying to address stuff?

Well, his way of "addressing" something is to deny either what he said or what he meant and then repeat himself for the rest of the thread. He has also openly admitted to getting banned from other discussion boards for this. As for having theists around to debate with - we have plenty of sheep around to talk to.

Attempting to rationalize your loss of self-control??? (Irony much?)

Let loose an angry emotional response at John V (rather than an intellectual response) and there's an upside???

Yes clearly. Feel free to teach me a lesson and join him. Three days from now, no one will give a shit if John V is posting his drivel on this site. Members come and go and in the end, no one really cares if you or I disappear.

If I were an independent, free-thought community skeptic/atheist, I would hate like hell to have someone appointing themself
as spokesperson on my behalf - especially if they lacked the ability to have a civil conversation using reason and logic
instead of invective and abusive Ad Homs.

Oh please. I never told him to leave. He felt defeated and left. If John V thought that I was one asshole out of 1000 there is NO WAY I could have gotten him to jump ship like that. He would've laughed at me and said, "whatever loser," but instead he figured out that he had pushed one too many buttons around here. He even admitted to getting banned off other discussion forums for the same offense. He wore out his own welcome - I didn't wear it out for him. You don't like me for my remarks, that's fine. I don't like a lot of your posts either. Does that mean that if you're an obtuse, arrogant, pseudo-intellectual that I'm not allowed to pop when you finally go too far? Your answer doesn't matter. I gave John V both barrels. Maybe I shouldn't have, but I sure don't regret telling him to finally shut the fuck up ... and that sir, is my only real offense here.

[Tonus]

The really surprising thing I see a LOT at atheist fora is the;
...we all think this... we all agree that... everyone here says... we can all bid a troll....

I think it's what you'll see on most internet forums because humans are social creatures and have a desire to belong. I just shrug my shoulders at it; if someone needs to know what I think of one issue or another, they can always ask.

[Cinjin]

The really surprising thing I see a LOT at atheist fora is the;
...we all think this... we all agree that... everyone here says... we can all bid a troll....

I think it's what you'll see on most internet forums because humans are social creatures and have a desire to belong. I just shrug my shoulders at it; if someone needs to know what I think of one issue or another, they can always ask.

The point is that Lion is attempting to hold me on trial for saying the words, "we all are." When in reality he knows good and well that I just used them as a turn of phrase. When a large majority of people hold to an understood notion, the turn of phrase is "we all" even though its not actually anywhere near the 1000+ members that subscribe to these forums. I shut down a religious troll that didn't offer anything and he wants to play it off like I just executed jesus.

[Lion IRC]

...The point is that Lion is attempting to hold me on trial for saying the words, "we all are." When in reality he knows good and well...

Oh you wanna double-down?
Now you're directly telling everyone what Lion IRC really thinks as well.
You do not speak for me and I don't want you 'splaining to everyone what everyone thinks "in reality"

[Bad Writer]

Care to elaborate?

[Esquilax]

There is a mean joke in there, about how Lion would actually need to think at all, before one could tell us what he's really thinking.

Not that I'd stoop to indulge such low hanging fruits, of course.

[Bob Kelso]

Lion thinks? The fuck did I miss?

[Lion IRC]

* Lion IRC peeks in on the thread to see if it's back on topic yet.
Nup!

Carry on slagging and sledging people behind their backs.
Go Team Atheism!
Victory is almost in sight for the torch-bearers of enlightenment and reason.

[Esquilax]

* Lion IRC peeks in on the thread to see if it's back on topic yet.
Nup!

Carry on slagging and sledging people behind their backs.
Go Team Atheism!
Victory is almost in sight for the torch-bearers of enlightenment and reason.

Think of it as Team Anti-Dickhead, and you'd have it right.

The way to stop being ired at is to stop provoking our ire by saying stupid things, Lion. I would have thought a lifetime of being a human being would have clued you in on that little fact.