My take on Life

[pocaracas]

????
Define "material".

[NoraBrimstone]

All I can think about it this.

[pocaracas]

All I can think about it this.

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Can't read...too tiny

[NoraBrimstone]

Oh... How about now?

[pocaracas]

Much better, thanks!

[Fromper]

If people were just challenging his statements and correcting his scientific misconceptions, I wouldn't be complaining about rude behavior. Look at my own post. I politely recommended a book that will help him understand the Big Bang Theory, since his first post showed an obvious lack of understanding.

Now look at the first page of this thread. The first two responses were of the "So if you don't want us to try and convince you, then why are you here?" variety, which I'll agree seems like a perfectly reasonable response to the opening post. The OP responded with something of a generic non-answer, but at least he seemed relatively polite about it. The next three responses all literally swore at him and called him names, without bothering to contribute anything of use to the conversation. Is it any wonder that theists tend to assume that all atheists are just angry and rude?

Uhm... I think I was pretty polite, not that he deserved the politeness. The OP signed up for an account, wrote a wall of text, and had no point at the end. He didn't write an intro and he had no interest in engaging the community. He came here to proselytize. It's really simple.

Yes, by this thread's standards, you were polite. Compared to the "fucktard", "christard", and "head up your ass" comments in posts 5-7, your "mental masturbation" line in post #9 was tame. But even that was ruder than I would have been.

He did post some things that I clearly disagree with, and said that he doesn't want us to try and convince him. Politely asking why he's here is an appropriate response. So is correcting his misconceptions and pointing him towards additional reading material, even if he said that he wasn't going to listen. If he persists in refusing to listen to what we have to tell him, then telling him to go away because we don't want him coming here and preaching at us is also appropriate. But again, say it politely.

I'm a "lead by example" type of guy. I know that the theist world tends to look down at atheists, so I try to be extra polite, just to make sure I don't add fuel to the fire. I treat people with respect until they prove they don't deserve it. This guy didn't swear at us, so I wouldn't swear at him. Heck, even if he did swear at us, I wouldn't swear at him.

I'm a big believer in the "kill them with kindness" method. If you're extremely polite, then even if the person being an ass to you doesn't realize he's being the jerk, all the third party observers will. All the rude responses here seem to be acting like the only Christian you're talking to is the original poster, which isn't true. This is the internet. Some skeptical Christian is going to read this thread in 5 years, and the rude and arrogant atheists are going to make them reject their skepticism, because they'll think all atheists are assholes, and they don't want to turn into that.

It's like Bill Nye vs Ken Ham in that debate. Do you think Nye honestly thought Ham could be convinced?

[pocaracas]

Fromper, you sound like a young guy, still full of hope for mankind and stuff like that...
I remember being like that...
Heck, I still am, for the most part...

I can't remember what I replied in this thread and am not going back to check, but I do remember I was a bit late to the party...
Still, couldn't read past the part where he lays bare his lack of education... right after claiming to be educated on that subject... -.-'
What do you call this?
Lack of awareness of self-ignorance...
Who was it that said "I know that I know nothing"? That was a humble and thinking guy... but what can we say of this hit and run fellow?

[SteelCurtain]

This was why everyone started reacting, it was the dismissive nature of this post.

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I wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts, really. All I typically see on the internet from atheists are hostile comments involving curses and insults berating God and those that believe in him. It does some rather odd to say my opinion cannot be swayed, then to ask for comments. If you think this thread has no purpose, then delete it by all means. However, I wanted to share my views with someone, and so I cam here and shared them. Even when I said what I did, I really wasn't sure what people could say. However, I hoped that someone might have something to say, and I hoped even more that they would be civil and respectful. I thought that if I provided a logical and sensical post, that I might be able to have a civil talk with someone of opposite views.

In short, I wasn't sure what to expect when posting this. I figured at least a single person reading this might have something to say besides asking what I want people to reply with. If I am wrong and this is considered spam, please delete this thread.

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Sorry, bro. But this place has some established members that are just...terse? They are who they are and they've been here a long time and have earned the right not to have to coddle someone like that in order to, what, keep them from leaving? He clearly wasn't up for some honest debate, he was, in typical fashion, here to shit and run. If you'll look at some of the posts, some of us tried to engage him in an actual conversation, and he still left as if we had actively searched him out to shit on him and not the other way around.

[Neo-Scholastic]

I have no thoughts, only conditioned reflexes based on the initial condions of the universe...oh wait! I am not an ontological naturalist. Never mind (literally). ;-)

[Mudhammam]

I have no thoughts, only conditioned reflexes based on the initial condions of the universe...oh wait! I am not an ontological naturalist. Never mind (literally). ;-)

Thoughts ARE conditioned reflexes that can be traced back to the origin of the Universe... SEMANTICS! :-)