Because using one instance of the approach to undermine the another instance of the same approach could be considered recursive. Sort of like this, except with erasers:
Posted on 05/01/2011 7:24:18 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
That dementia argument seems more and more plausible, LOL!
Coming from Mr. "Pure-in-heart"? Come on, you can do better than that(well, I am optomistic). I was merely responding to your request to be called an idiot directly.
What I find ironic is your complaint at being ridiculed when you so copioulsy heap ridicule on others. You don't hear me complain about you. I just give back in kind.
LOLOL! That’s hilarious!
Standing ovation! and about time someone could clearly state the truth in unmistakable terms. Both your posts are remarkable and I will keep these for reference, if you wouldn’t mind
You may have not been born yesterday, but that turnip truck is only a block away.
You did question my understanding of "wasn't", an answer would tend to have facts about the word.
It might speed up your reading of me if you stopped moving your lips. But then again big words are tough on you.
Thanks. It shouted out for Homer. I’m glad I could supply him.
You would be accurate only if you were referring to yourself. Your absurd and aimless posts, in these past few minutes, laced with veiled insults followed by open ones all this while prove that I hit you right on target (unlike what you mistakenly thought you achieved, in that earlier instance)!
I am most likely going to ignore your posts, here on.
Aha! Preparing to lose an argument with yourself. This I gotta watch.
So, in other words, you prefer to base your eternity on the viewpoints and opinions of others without so much as investigating for yourself if what THEY say is biased in any way? HAVE you bothered to read the Josh McDowell books? Or do you just skim the reviewers whom you "trust" to do your reading for you? For someone who professes to judge every believer as ignorant, you sure do accept a lot on blind faith yourself.
Hardly. If you understood your sophism you wouldn't be using it.
Didn’t say they did.
If you consider "keep flattering yourself" a gracious reply, more power to you.
Turn-the-other-cheek crowd...what do you expect, lol.
Nonsense.
Their criticism isn't dogma. Religious texts are dogma. They've reasons and arguments about why the author's "reasoning" is false. I can see the fallacies that the author has employed - as revealed by the detailed arguments of the reviewers - and decide for myself whether the book is worth investing my time and money in, or not.
If you were really honest, you'd find flaws in the reviewer's work (much easier than reading an entire book full of fallacious arguments), but you don't do so, and instead want me to foolishly waste my time in that dubious work.
Re-inventing the wheel is not how I do things.
I’m sorry, who didn’t say what?
Exactly. Therein lies the difference. You can dismiss or accept (in entirety or in parts) some arguments, but your existence, let alone your "eternal life" doesn't depend on it. You are under no obligation to worship it. You can admit a flaw in it. You don't assign (presumed) supernatural powers to it. You are not 'saved' or 'lost' by it. A slightly differing opinion is not 'heresy', and certainly not a 'false god', etc.
The same cannot be said of religious dogma, scripture or belief. You must reject all other beliefs, accept it whole and keep it in fear that if you don't something terrible is going to happen to you. How is that different than, say, a belief that unless you skip cracks in the sidewalk you will have an accident?
No, that's not essentially what I said. What I said is that there are many religions in the world and every one claims to be 'the true one', but none has any proof.
That doesn't mean that one of those can not be, could not be, or is not the 'true' one; only that it has no proof that it is, just like the rest.
FReegards!
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