If everything has a purpose then evil doesn't exist

[Nay_Sayer]

PS - I don't ban people for fun.  If I did, there's one I would get rid of quick, fast, and in a hurry.

You do and I will relabel all of your spice jars!

[Anomalocaris]

Mexican and or cuban is not a race of people. those are nationalities. you could be the product of a black Mexican and a black cuban and still be 100% black person. I am 1/2 white and 1/2 asian.

I remember drich saying he was half asian back in the day

He says a lot of things in pitiful attempts to make himself seem less stupid than he is, or insinuate himself into your confidence or your pity. At one time he claims to have had AIDS and cured himself through prayer, at another he claimed to be a successful inventor who built a major Air condition business out of his own patents, insinuated he had the patent certificates to prove it, but resolutely declined to provide the patent number when asked.

[The Grand Nudger]

You left out the best part of that one. The only reason he claimed to be einstein of the coolbot...was to suggest that expert in ac that he was, he knew climate change was false.

Nothing will ever top monkey-man-with-a-soul, though. Of all the ludicrous shit we've had the pleasure of hearing, that one is my all time favorite.

[emjay]

I remember drich saying he was half asian back in the day

He says a lot of things in pitiful attempts to make himself seem less stupid than he is, or insinuate himself into your confidence or your pity. At one time he claims to have had AIDS and cured himself through prayer, at another he claimed to be a successful inventor who built a major Air condition business out of his own patents, insinuated he had the patent certificates to prove it, but resolutely declined to provide the patent number when asked.

I'm sorry but he always came across as sincere to me, misguided, but sincere. He was certainly devout. Bulshittery because of delusion... ie pretzel logic, confirmation bias, mental gymnastics etc is one thing... but outright lying is quite another, and I have no reason to think he did. Indeed I vaguely remember a few of us having a Skype chat with him once and him offering to show us around his premises, so I personally have no doubt he has a business. Did he exaggerate the details of it?, maybe, who knows, but outright lie about it I sorely doubt. Likewise if a theist claims they were cured of some illness by God, it's not them having an illness that I doubt, but their attribution of the cure to God. And especially if having had such illness is obviously formative in their very belief system in the first place, that again gives me less reason to doubt.

[zebo-the-fat]

Well it was fun while it lasted!

[brewer]

Well it was fun while it lasted!

Which one are you, sadist or masochist?

[Mister Agenda]

Huh, I didn not pick up on the Drich thing.

[Anomalocaris]

He says a lot of things in pitiful attempts to make himself seem less stupid than he is, or insinuate himself into your confidence or your pity. At one time he claims to have had AIDS and cured himself through prayer, at another he claimed to be a successful inventor who built a major Air condition business out of his own patents, insinuated he had the patent certificates to prove it, but resolutely declined to provide the patent number when asked.

I'm sorry but he always came across as sincere to me, misguided, but sincere. He was certainly devout. Bulshittery because of delusion... ie pretzel logic, confirmation bias, mental gymnastics etc is one thing... but outright lying is quite another, and I have no reason to think he did. Indeed I vaguely remember a few of us having a Skype chat with him once and him offering to show us around his premises, so I personally have no doubt he has a business. Did he exaggerate the details of it?, maybe, who knows, but outright lie about it I sorely doubt. Likewise if a theist claims they were cured of some illness by God, it's not them having an illness that I doubt, but their attribution of the cure to God. And especially if having had such illness is obviously formative in their very belief system in the first place, that again gives me less reason to doubt.

Drich’s “sincerity” is indistinguishable from the very great sincerity of a con artist’s desire to screw you over, or the very great sincerity of a fraudster’s wish that his fraud will not be discovered.   He so sincerely wants to be taken to be your path to his god that he will say literally anything so long as whatever he says appears to him to make your more likely believe him.    His undoing stems from how unbelievably much he consistently underestimated his own incompetence in lying.

[emjay]

I'm sorry but he always came across as sincere to me, misguided, but sincere. He was certainly devout. Bulshittery because of delusion... ie pretzel logic, confirmation bias, mental gymnastics etc is one thing... but outright lying is quite another, and I have no reason to think he did. Indeed I vaguely remember a few of us having a Skype chat with him once and him offering to show us around his premises, so I personally have no doubt he has a business. Did he exaggerate the details of it?, maybe, who knows, but outright lie about it I sorely doubt. Likewise if a theist claims they were cured of some illness by God, it's not them having an illness that I doubt, but their attribution of the cure to God. And especially if having had such illness is obviously formative in their very belief system in the first place, that again gives me less reason to doubt.

Drich’s “sincerity” is indistinguishable from the very great sincerity of a con artist’s desire to screw you over, or the very great sincerity of a fraudster’s wish that his fraud will not be discovered.   He so sincerely wants to be taken to be your path to his god that he will say literally anything so long as whatever he says appears to him to make your more likely believe him.    His undoing stems from how unbelievably much he consistently underestimated his own incompetence in lying.

Okay, not much more I can say then is there. Agree to differ.