All that down-is-up shit is really making my head spin

[Modem Butterfly]

When you accept that no belief is another sort of belief, there are all kinds of crazy-ass arguments that can be made. Whoo!

[Justin54B20L]

1. I hear that, that GD thread you are arguing in is makin my head spin =)

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. duh, not caring about who wins the super bowl is just another form of

.......caring about who wins the super bowl.

[BurtWorm]

3. I'm agnostic on that question.

;)

[beam me up scottie]

4. Woo Woo is right.

self deleted rest of rant.

Funny how OUR threads get locked for that sort of thing.

[Modem Butterfly]

5. Isn't it though?

They start these freaking flame-fests and yet we're supposed to be to blame. Assholes.

[beam me up scottie]

6. .

I started a thread here- (I don't feel at home in GD. Does anybody else feel this way?) as a mirror thread to one I had alerted on in another group. Others had also alerted on it.
Guess what happened?

[Warpy]

7. My favorite is "atheism is just another religion."

I'm afraid I'm not very nice to people who are srupid enough to say that, but I am always polite. Icily so.

[beam me up scottie]

8. I'm nice to them the FIRST time they

say it.
After that I set my phaser to kill...

[onager]

9. That thread made my head hurt, too.

But I did get some good ammo for future battles...whenever some twit says "atheism is a religion." So thanks!

I read through it, and (as usual) couldn't think of anything to add that hadn't already been said better by one of The Usual Atheist Suspects.

Something in a recent movie reminded of that thread a little. It was the HBO production of Empire Falls:

"I don't know if he's an atheist, or if he just thinks he can bullshit God the same way he bullshits everybody else."

(Ed Harris says the line to a priest.)

[beam me up scottie]

10. "The Usual Atheist Suspects" ! LMAO !!!

Every time I see the trap set I think:
"Gee, nobody will be stupid enough to take the bait".
And someone does, every time.

How's your lack of belief in Qrtflmrs coming along?

[onager]

11. I'm still researching Qrtflmrs...

...in this-here huge pile of Religious Philosophy books.

When I've cross-indexed the Qrtflmr position from Thomas Aquinas, Godel, C.S. Lewis and all those guys, I'll explain it all to everybody in a single 50,000 word post. ;)

I'm being snarky, but damned if I understand how I'm supposed to learn anything about atheism from a bunch of people whose default position is belief in a god. And I don't care HOW smart they're supposed to be.

I guess I'm supposed to be so awed by their intellectual "proof" of the Invisible Friend, I'll just forget all about atheism and suddenly convert.

Uh...no.

[beam me up scottie]

12. Yeah, like this is the first time

we've ever heard these arguments...

Like I noted in a post about another recently deceased troll in the Women's forum, could they possibly insult my intelligence any more?

That forum draws trolls like crazy. Talk about bait, uppity women are better than chum in the water...

[jonnyblitz]

13. well, when logic and reason aren't a requirement for a belief

then anything can happen. i havent seen the thread you mention but i can just imagine.. "atheism is a religion, too" and "fundamentalist atheists". no wonder the DEM party is so fucked...

[Bill McBlueState]

14. Can you post a link to the thread?

I'm too lazy/inept to find it on my own. (Circle one.)

[Modem Butterfly]

15. Too late now, I'm afraid

It got locked pretty quickly and is now archived. I'll see if I have anything in my history.

[beam me up scottie]

16. I looked for it too.

Couldn't find any evidence that it ever existed.