A postscript to "what happened to me"

[Belacqua]

My experience has been that the condescending people are the same ones who won't give reasons. 

In my experience people who demand reason generally don't care about the actual reasons and just use that word over and over to sound virtuous 

They act as though their opinions are so obvious that anyone who doesn't already agree is just a fool. Offering one's reasoning is a sign of respect.

They act as thou they want reasons then ignore them when their given and pretend none were given as not to burst their bubble of pretend intellectual superiority . Offering ones reasons to a person who deserves your respect  is a sign of respect otherwise your casting pearls to swine .

That may well be so. I've certainly spelled out my reasons to people who went on to ignore what I said, and repeat whatever they wanted to say in the first place.

Still, I think that in general the person making the assertion has the burden of proof. This should ideally apply to both the in-group and the out-group equally, and if an atheist makes an assertion needing backup, he really should do his best to provide that.

[Little lunch]

If people think someone is being condescending, they might not offer their reasoning if it is good.

My experience has been that the condescending people are the same ones who won't give reasons. 

They act as though their opinions are so obvious that anyone who doesn't already agree is just a fool. Offering one's reasoning is a sign of respect.

Something I have observed is that one person may feel obligated to give another person some lip over a past indiscretion and then a third person enters the scene and it looks like the one giving lip is being an arsehole for no reason.
And they might be, but you'd have to go back through one or multiple threads to get what's going on.

It's like when a car tailgates you for thirty km's, passes you and you get up it's arse for a km just to teach it a lesson and some other dude turns round a corner and sees you being a prick and that's his first impression.
Usually by this stage, you're so pissed off that you don't even give a fuck what other drivers are thinking.
So the third driver thinks he'll get up your arse to teach you a lesson and some dude comes round the corner and sees him....

I'm fairly sure I've been caught up in this stupid circle before. :-)

[Belacqua]

Something I have observed is that one person may feel obligated to give another person some lip over a past indiscretion and then a third person enters the scene and it looks like the one giving lip is being an arsehole for no reason.
And they might be, but you'd have to go back through one or multiple threads to get what's going on.

It's like when a car tailgates you for thirty km's, passes you and you get up it's arse for a km just to teach it a lesson and some other dude turns round a corner and sees you being a prick and that's his first impression.
Usually by this stage, you're so pissed off that you don't even give a fuck what other drivers are thinking.
So the third driver thinks he'll get up your arse to teach you a lesson and some dude comes round the corner and sees him....

I'm fairly sure I've been caught up in this stupid circle before. :-)

This make a lot of sense!

I've often felt that people are upset with me because of their experiences with other people, who aren't even around any more. I guess when we've been on forums like this for a long time it's hard to address the same old topics freshly, even if it's with new people.

[LastPoet]

I've often felt that people are upset with me because of their experiences with other people, who aren't even around any more. I guess when we've been on forums like this for a long time it's hard to address the same old topics freshly, even if it's with new people.

Not at all, you are just being an asshole on this matter and that is just my opinion as it had any worth. It's groupthink, as you say.

You are reductio to Hitlerum.

[EgoDeath]

I’d been wondering what this was all about but now I get it.  You went down the alt right rabbit hole.  It’s not surprising that the view from the bottom of that pit is shitty, is it?

Your accusations of people being part of the "alt right" become meaningless when people start to realize that you accuse anyone who doesn't agree with you of being "alt right." You're a fucking clown, gae.

You must be fun at parties.

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I highly doubt we even have any "alt right" members here. Or, wait, let me guess... That's part of their alt-right conspiracy? To convince everyone they're liberals so they can slowly turn all of us into alt-right zombies.... muwaahahahahahah

[Deesse23]

I’d been wondering what this was all about but now I get it.  You went down the alt right rabbit hole.  It’s not surprising that the view from the bottom of that pit is shitty, is it?

Your accusations of people being part of the "alt right" become meaningless when people start to realize that you accuse anyone who doesn't agree with you of being "alt right." You're a fucking clown, gae.

You must be fun at parties.

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I highly doubt we even have any "alt right" members here. Or, wait, let me guess... That's part of their alt-right conspiracy? To convince everyone they're liberals so they can slowly turn all of us into alt-right zombies.... muwaahahahahahah

At the weekend he posted an anti-Semitic Holocaust denial video on AF and said he was 'mulling' over it

[Shell B]

And there it is.

[EgoDeath]

At the weekend he posted an anti-Semitic Holocaust denial video on AF and said he was 'mulling' over it

Which thread is that?

I've never seen rob say anything close to racist, though I'm open look over the thread in question.

That, and considering how frequently Gae will call anyone who disagrees with him a racist or an "alt-righter" makes me a bit hesitant to jump on the rob-hating bandwagon. Forgive me for being skeptical.

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Tim Pool...the guy that said Robert Mueller raped Carolyne Cass? Not sure he's a tower of good judgment.

Source?

[Amarok]

I’d been wondering what this was all about but now I get it.  You went down the alt right rabbit hole.  It’s not surprising that the view from the bottom of that pit is shitty, is it?

Your accusations of people being part of the "alt right" become meaningless when people start to realize that you accuse anyone who doesn't agree with you of being "alt right." You're a fucking clown, gae.

You must be fun at parties.

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I highly doubt we even have any "alt right" members here. Or, wait, let me guess... That's part of their alt-right conspiracy? To convince everyone they're liberals so they can slowly turn all of us into alt-right zombies.... muwaahahahahahah

Yeah and you blindly deny it no matter what 

Actually plenty so called Liberals are Alt right ass kissers .Your free to laugh doesn't change the fact it's so.

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Your accusations of people being part of the "alt right" become meaningless when people start to realize that you accuse anyone who doesn't agree with you of being "alt right." You're a fucking clown, gae.

You must be fun at parties.

edit:

I highly doubt we even have any "alt right" members here. Or, wait, let me guess... That's part of their alt-right conspiracy? To convince everyone they're liberals so they can slowly turn all of us into alt-right zombies.... muwaahahahahahah

At the weekend he posted an anti-Semitic Holocaust denial video on AF and said he was 'mulling' over it

Now watch him pull a Sargon and preform gold metal mental gymnastics to explain it away

[EgoDeath]

Yeah and you blindly deny it no matter what 

Actually plenty so called Liberals are Alt right ass kissers .Your free to laugh doesn't change the fact it's so.

Now watch him pull a Sargon and preform gold metal mental gymnastics to explain it away

Quit talking out of your ass and tell me about the thread in question. I don't see any of the threads on rob's page being titled about anything to do with holocaust deniers.

You people throw the alt-right accusation as much as you use sarcasm and snide insults.

I feel like, 99 times out of 100, you have no interest in having a conversation, but rather talking at people. You're looking for a fight, it seems. Problem is I'm not here to satisfy your ego so I don't care to fight with you. Either tell me about the thread or fuck off.