In Reply to: Re: Bible Questions posted by Ancaru on February 23, 2006 at 09:13:41:
Ancaru:
I did not take offense. Yours is a boring and predictable response; if slightly convoluted.
Thanks for the Latin/Catholic "mea culpa". That was somewhat amusing, if mocking, of a serious subject--I get it--you "normal ordinary atheist", me "priest-like buffoon" of a theist--a less OBVIOUS ad hominem, but it still qualifies!
Again; predictable, and droll.
Observe: “mocking” = ad hominem attack/insult. Got it?
I did not miss your point; I pointed out your use of non-arguments and absurdities, and your apparent inability to answer other than along predictable lines. Did you miss that?
"ARE YOU just a mouthy philosophical coward?" was a QUESTION. It was not an ad hominem attack--your self-confident "suaveness" is misplaced, and unearned, and you have STILL not responded to me in a manner other than what I predicted you would, as I said was typical of "cornered atheists", a category not necessarily initially aimed at you, but which classification you come amazingly close to occupying.
You merely proved my point, by demonstrating that the shoe does indeed fit. Your line of pseudo-reasoning continues unabated. You do understand the appropriate use of a little sarcasm, especially in the face of absurdity; do you not? How about humor?
I apologize if the, to you, nit-pickiness (for lack of a better word) of the confines of logic give yet another excuse for continuing your line of non-answering padded with ad hominem attack; this time in the form of an insult where I am to be "understood" as not being mature; again a non-answer--your logic proceeds in a straight CIRCLE.
I do thank you for withdrawing, after your “1,754 brief words” on the subject (I used Word to count them--I like to THINK about what I am going to post while framing an answer--do you?), if I include your side-track response to Acheick, which I am sure she can graciously handle herself, since it contains the obvious complete absurdity, where you state that “In my personal experience I have not seen atheism (or atheists rather, as atheism is merely the absence of belief in God or gods) claiming that it is to be considered THE system epistemologically encompassing all reality.”
Where did you have that experience, in a make-believe world of your own fantasy? Atheism DOES claim EXACTLY what I said it does, whether or not you are in fact one of its adherents—did you think you could make up your own rules about reality, or read anything you want into known belief systems?
Very interesting; at least in the study of absurdities. Do you read a lot of Lewis Carroll; by any chance?
Perhaps “bow[ing] out of this conversation due to time constraints” also holds for you another logic unapparent to the rest of us? Hmmm. “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...", etc.
Perhaps you should leave the remaining bandwidth for others who have something to say which is actually cogent, and/or, dare I say it, mature?
Sincerely,
OT2 (OldtimerToo)
P.S. For the amusement of all, and AT LEAST as logical as ANCARU’s statements:
JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll (from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.