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RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 22, 2015 at 9:52 pm
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Did you make a request to use the debate room? I haven't seen one yet. Anyway, I thought we were having fun mass debating in here.
Edit: Ah, I see you made one through the report system.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 22, 2015 at 10:08 pm
(May 22, 2015 at 9:47 pm)whateverist Wrote: Well I'd say you're getting all the debate you could ask for. Satisfied?
I haven't heard back from staff about a 'debate'. Just as well. I'd probably lose interest anyway.
I trust everyone is treating you okay. But if you ever lose track of which end to blow it out of I'm sure some one will be along to remind you. =)
They are indeed. Everyone has been most patient with me. In time I will be like Kenny G. Able to blow it out and of either end and take it in at the same time 
Let me know when the staff gets back to you about a debate. I would love to debate according the formal rules with some judging. It will help me with me legal debate skills.
Was there a specific topic you wanted to debate? Or did you want to go with the well discussed imaginary friend for morality argument presented in this thread?
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RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 22, 2015 at 10:30 pm
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(May 22, 2015 at 6:19 pm)Cato Wrote: Benny will hate to hear this, but if we're to believe The Matrix, it proves monism. The world in which we would then live would be artificial, but that reality being contingent on manipulation of sensory input to the brain makes the ruse possible. We already have a monism-- the monism of subjective experience. All the other stuff about world and atoms 'n' sich is derived ideas-- which may or may not represent something which is real outside the context of experience.
The question is whether there is anything you can experience that will tell you for sure what underlies that experiential monism. And the Matrix example serves to show that what you are experiencing and what is "really, really real" need not be the same. There is nothing intrsinsic to the senses and to the flow of ideas which show whether I'm in the Matrix, the mind of God, a BIJ or an actual physical space.
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RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 22, 2015 at 11:22 pm
(May 21, 2015 at 3:57 pm)Anima Wrote: My pleasure. My religious affiliation is Catholic (in which I am well studied in the theology). I am subscribe to the philosophical school of realism. I have numerous degrees in mathematics, engineering, business, and law.
What bring me to this sight is an interest in philosophical discourse and the subject of atheism which I wish to understand in greater detail.
Hi Anima. The impact of citing your credentials is somewhat reduced when it's immediately followed by referring to our site as a sight.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 22, 2015 at 11:28 pm
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(May 22, 2015 at 11:22 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: (May 21, 2015 at 3:57 pm)Anima Wrote: My pleasure. My religious affiliation is Catholic (in which I am well studied in the theology). I am subscribe to the philosophical school of realism. I have numerous degrees in mathematics, engineering, business, and law.
What bring me to this sight is an interest in philosophical discourse and the subject of atheism which I wish to understand in greater detail.
Hi Anima. The impact of citing your credentials is somewhat reduced when it's immediately followed by referring to our site as a sight.
That's kind of a pointless thing to say on page 13 of a thread in which Anima has already demonstrated his/her literacy to a high enough level to be taken seriously. Sometimes a typo is just a typing. Oops, I meant "typo."
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RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 22, 2015 at 11:39 pm
(May 22, 2015 at 9:52 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Did you make a request to use the debate room? I haven't seen one yet. Anyway, I thought we were having fun mass debating in here.
Edit: Ah, I see you made one through the report system.
Yeah, not too smooth. You can see how often I've done this sort of thing.
But, no, I'm going to pass. I'm satisfied with the feedback I'm getting right here. Not into scoring or winning points, just in making them. I don't have many mainstream things to say. I have a hard enough time communicating what I want to say without attempting to do so in an adversarial system.
I hope you find someone who will enjoy doing this with you. I recommend Rhythm so long as no shooting is involved.
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RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 22, 2015 at 11:47 pm
Me me me. 
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RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 23, 2015 at 1:18 am
There you go. Kick his ass, bennyboy. Oh sorry, good luck to you too mister enema. [j/k]
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RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 23, 2015 at 6:38 am
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(May 22, 2015 at 11:39 pm)whateverist Wrote: I hope you find someone who will enjoy doing this with you. I recommend Rhythm so long as no shooting is involved. Anything worth doing will lead, inexorably, to small arms fire........
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RE: Hello, Anyone interested in a debate?
May 23, 2015 at 11:11 am
I'll throw my hat in the ring to debate the original question.... that is if we can get a good statement of what that question is.
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