XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.athiesm, alt.talk.creationism
XPost: sci.skeptic
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:52:52 -0400, August Rode wrote:
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>On 15/10/2014 1:25 PM, Malte Runz wrote:
>> "August Rode" skrev i meddelelsen news:V4w%v.386241$Q61.13019@fx13.iad...
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>>> Excuse me?
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>>> Dude, your spittle is coating the inside of my monitor. Stop. Take a
>>> breath. Calm yourself. *Then* try to say something coherent.
>>
>> Don't get me wrong, but it has been rather amusing to follow your joust
>> with mur, and to see how you become more and more puzzled by the
>> responses you get from him.
>
>Are we certain he isn't some sort of 'bot? He seems to deal mostly in
>handwaving generalities.
>
>> I've been there myself, and I see that he is
>> still, months later, talking about atheists being ashamed and how
>> atheist should say what type of proof for God (the god associated with
>> Earth, that is) must be there. Has he quoted Arthur C. Clarke yet?
>
>Yes, he has. I take it then that he has some kind of modus operandi.
There are basic starting lines atheists can't get as "far" as. I encourage
them to try, and at least point them out for people, to see if any atheist can
ever move on and get as "far" as any of the starting lines I point out for
them.
As yet none have been able to.
>Are we sure he's not a 'bot?
>
>> If
>> you're the patient kind, I give you a few more days before you explode
>> and eventually kill file him.
>
>I'm not going to killfile him. At worst, I'll simply go back to ignoring
>his posts like I had been doing until a couple of days ago.
What finally got him to run and hide was that I challenged him repeatedly
about his own claims in ways he couldn't deal with, and apparently still can't.
After pointing out basic aspects like that God would pretty much have to be a
very technologically advanced alien, and that given the size of the universe it
seems more likely than not there are beings that can be considered Gods some
places in it, at some point he made the following claims:
"Aaaaarrrrghhhhh! I have written, at least ten times, in various posts, that
I believe it is likely that there are very, very advanced creatures in the
universe with abilities that would seem miraculous and god-like to us. The
idea is not new to me. Why the hell do you claim that I believe the exact
opposite?" - Malte Runz
"Don't you read what I actually write? God as an alien is NOT a new concept
to me. It's roughly 40 years since I first heard of Erich van Dänekin and
all that crap. Don't think you're ahead of me in that department." - Malte Runz
Yet he coud never put it all together:
"I must insist that you distinguish between Biblical God and
Advanced Alien God." - Malte Runz
When I continued to challenge him as to why, he apparently learned that he has
no idea and finally ran away entirely because the cognitive dissonance it
created in his overly challenged mind was too much for him. He also could never
say why he could imagine "god-like" beings associated with other planets, yet
can't imagine such a thing happening in association with this one. Most likely
when I pointed out the things I mentioned above in order to try to act like he
was capable of appreciating such possibilities himself he parroted things he
heard other people say, about possibilities he has never actually been able to
appreciate himself.
He also made another absurd claim he could never attempt to back up:
"I showed an example of evidence that proves god does not exist." - Malte Runz
He could never present the supposed evidence he boasted about. He finally got
tired of trying to keep up the lies I challenged him about and gave up
entirely.
That seems most likely from my pov.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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