I'm not here to try and figure out the nature of everything. I'm just here to point out the obvious. You can pick apart everything I said, but you still haven't proven me wrong.
Oh... Now that's
so sad... you missed the best part.
It's not so much that you're opposition needs to prove you wrong, sis... and this is such a simple point for those of us that pride ourselves on well reasoned, logically valid and intellectually sound argument... I mean that
was you that pronounced that no matter HOW MUCH LOGIC AND EVIDENCE IS ADVANCED, that your opposition just won't accept your conclusions, wasn't it? Well anywho... let's no get bogged down in that again. The point here is
THAT IT IS YOUR JOB TO PROVE THAT YOUR POSITION IS RIGHT!~
By the way, you have an unbelievable ability to spin things, by pulling apart any flaws in my arguement, and inserting what you think I might be trying to say.
And no doubt by projecting the notion of 'spin' you hope to distance the flaws exposed in your reasoning from any level of accountability? And to ensure some measure of success, advance the fallacious strawman, declaring that your point was misrepresented... and doing so with absolutely NO explanations as to the specifics regarding your intended point and that which was returned to misrepresent it. BRILLIANT!
This isn't a philosophers board.
Great Point! Well it
would be if this board wasn't entitled: Religion and Ethics:
Religion, Philosophy and the discussion of right and wrong...
I'm not even going to comment on half, or any of the things you say, because it's too mind-numbing to try and figure all of the fallable logic and presupposition you insert in your critiques.
Yeah... Reason can be very painful to those who are incapable of it. I completely understand. But I would like to congratulate you on the delusion you've created here where you admit to being incapable of forming an effective rebuttal and close with vague references to unspecified flaws in my reasoning... ROFL... CLASSIC!
It would take me a while, and quite frankly, I have better things to do, and it would be much like doing homework, which I haven't done for years, so I'm not about to start today.
Well I'd say it's been longer than that, given the total absence of any discernable trace of you ever having possessed such skills... and I agree that you're not about to start today; and I would think it unlikly tomorrow or the next day, as you seem quite content with impotent projections... they're so much easier and will rarely test the intellect of those advancing or reading them. Great call...
Further, if I was to get down and dirty, I would be giving into your trap, because behind all of your rhetoric, fancy words, and exquisite explanations, still lies a flawed base of logic, because it is based on no logic at all, only a belief, which apparently can't be argued with, because by circular reasoning, it is correct.
MAN! That is some sentence... I can't quite place the syntax... it seems to be a dialect common to the state of denial.
First, you're setting your own traps... All I'm doing is pointing out the snare. Second, which words do you feel are the fanciest? Third, you really don't have a clue what logic is do you? Yet you seem determined to prove it with almost every post... Now towards being a good neighbor, I'd like to help you out on this score. As a general rule, if you're going to flag an argument or a point as being logically flawed, it is customary that you indicate the specific flaw... For instance your initial comment in this post which demanded that your position remained whole because your opposition had not proven you wrong, is an example of argumentum ad ignorantiam... or the appeal to ignorance. This is where you need to distract from your arguments failure by appealing to the information that has not been advanced; in effect taking comfort from the void (ignorance) created by the absence of information which would otherwise prove you wrong; this in the place of a valid argument where you would otherwise advance data, evidence or sound reasoning which would prove your position right. The rest of your argument is pretty much a straight up straw man, where in your response is to re-create the oppositions argument and create in its place, that which you feel you're more able to handle... its a funtion of rhetorical delusion. On the whole you're entire position is a farce. You'd have been better served to have joined in with some vague one or two word rejoinder indicating your disagreement, but sufficiently vague to prevent anyone from realizing that you're patently clueless.
The bible is correct, therefore everything you say or believe is true... because the bible is correct. ??? See my point?
Yeah... I see ... It looks to me like you've read some nutjob secularist rant at some point, maybe Chomsky, but probably just some idiot leftist blog or a collection of random screeds... but it was a while back and you can't really remember what you felt at the time were the really solid points... so you just sorta ramble along trying to stop, but can't... because you don't really understand it yourself, so you just sort of keep typing in some desperate search of a point.
Here's the thing... I haven't to the best of my recollection sourced the Bible at all, except where someone may have required a specific scriptural reference.
My argument rests upon the reasoning inherent in the natural order and the certainty that mankind was created distinct from other earthly life and that the human life, by virtue of its existance, establishes the certainty that it wasn't created by humans, thus was created by a force other than human, thus life was a gift endowed upon each individual member of humanity by that which is beyond human; that this gift was provided for a reason and that it follows that the reason was that the gift entitled humans to use that life to pursue its fulfillment; furthermore that this individual right (entitlement) came with responsibilities that each individual was to pursue the fulfillment of their own lives in such a way that they do not prevent other individuals from pursuing the fullfillment of their own lives; and what's more that to ensure that their right is maintained or 'earned' that it is the duty of each individual to defend notonly their own right from any power that would usurp the means to exercise it, but to defend the right of their NEIGHBORS... as well.
All of your jargon doesn't really impress or intimidate me.
Then I guess we'll just never know why you seem so determined o indicte that you're both impressed and intimidated. Yet another puzzler for the ages...
The more people respond and get mesmerized by your logical proofs, the more they are falling into your trap, and giving you the satisfaction you desire, to see people squirm in your pool of logic, which you spin very well, I might add.
See what I mean?
Honestly, I'm not studied enough in philosophy in order to debate you on your level, but, like I said, I don't need to.
Yes God is merciful that way, never heaping on us, more than we can stand.
Just because you can make more complex sounding sentences, doesn't make you right, contrary to what you may have learned.
Indeed... what makes me right is the logically valid construct of my calculations which are intrinsically tied to sound reasoning.
Just because a lawyer wins a case because he can make a better arguement, does that make him right? Does it represent truth? No.
Well you're leaping to a conclusion that isn't valid. You're reasoning states that because the Lawyer had a better argument, this does not mean his argument was truthful... again, you appeal to ignorance... in this case you do so while jumping to an unsupported conclusion... that because his argument won, that it carried the day for reasons other than it deserved to win on the merits inherent in it. Again, your reasoning is ludicrous.
I'm not an Athiest, first of all. I am not, nor have I ever, or even implied to have put all Christians in the same category, but you can believe that if it will help you feel better.
Great... and rest assured I don't care what you are... all I know is you're mans to advance a valid argument are non-existant and thus far you're only advocacy here, is in support of secular humanism... beyond that you have little chance to eever realize just how little I care.
I believe people are bad.
There's something you and Christ have in common... humanity is prone towards evil... thus the existance of Christ. Good for you.
I don't really care that you can 'box.' You're position requires no proof of you're own position, because it relies on pure faith, and can't be 'disproved.'
This is the third time you've cruised over this area, so it follows that this is the extent of the aforementioned secular bilge that you CAN recall...
Your problem is that while I am most decidedly a Christian, and my belief is based upon my faith... my argument here is based upon incontestable reasoning. That you can't find the intellectual means to address that reasoning and instead need to obssess on that which is not at issue, is your problem and despite your desperate need for this to be relevant... sadly (for you) it is not.
It's not even worth the energy, because there really is no point.
Said in the highest tradition of retreaters everywhere... So few ever invested so much to demand that something had so little meaning as those who know so little about so much that they profess to know everything, by their innate rejection of those that claim know nothing... Publius Infinitum. 2008