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  • JonathanL
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    Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
    I believe it is he may by just wrong, and it could be a memory problem. The problem is there is not documentation for the support of the claim, just vague fogginess of some past event.
    There certainly is a memory problem, but the faulty memory is Tassman's, not mine.

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  • shunyadragon
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    Originally posted by Irate Canadian View Post
    Are you accusing him of lying?
    I believe it is he may by just wrong, and it could be a memory problem. The problem is there is not documentation for the support of the claim, just vague fogginess of some past event.

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  • lilpixieofterror
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    Originally posted by Chrawnus View Post


    I'm not sure what you're talking about. I clearly mentioned that it was an instance of quote doctoring, so I'm not sure where you got the notion that I can't remember what it was that made me put you on ignore. What I couldn't remember was the subject of the thread where it occured (although searching TWeb on the wayback machine made me find the thread in question, namely this one:http://web.archive.org/web/201308270...Horribly-Wrong), it wasn't the memory of the quote doctoring itself which eluded me. I even remember what form the quote doctoring took; you quoted a section of one of the q&a articles* at the reasonable faith site on the slaughter of the Canaanites, but removed a crucial portion of the text without marking with an ellipsis, or any other way, which made it seem that Craig held to/defended a position which he did not in fact hold to/defend. If I'm given enough time I might just even manage to remember exactly which of the three articles in question, and what portion of it you quoted.


    *It was one from one of these articles:
    http://www.reasonablefaith.org/slaug...the-canaanites
    http://www.reasonablefaith.org/the-s...tes-re-visited
    http://www.reasonablefaith.org/Once-...the-Canaanites
    Don't worry; he's making new evidence of his slimy and dishonest nature, to make up for tWeb crashing and erasing much of the evidence of his slimy and dishonest nature. Look at the quote of his I quoted above. He tries to claim that his source says that Norway has 72% of an atheist population, but misquotes his source. They are talking about agnostics and atheist and they give a range of 31-72%. Tazzy misrepresents what his own source material said and attempts to paint a picture that doesn't actually exist.

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  • Irate Canadian
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    Originally posted by Tassman View Post
    Right, so just let me know when you actually remember what my alleged "slimy, dishonest" argument was. Frankly, I think you've confused me with somebody else.
    Are you accusing him of lying?

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  • Tassman
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    Originally posted by Chrawnus View Post


    I'm not sure what you're talking about. I clearly mentioned that it was an instance of quote doctoring, so I'm not sure where you got the notion that I can't remember what it was that made me put you on ignore. What I couldn't remember was the subject of the thread where it occured (although searching TWeb on the wayback machine made me find the thread in question, namely this one:http://web.archive.org/web/201308270...Horribly-Wrong), it wasn't the memory of the quote doctoring itself which eluded me. I even remember what form the quote doctoring took; you quoted a section of one of the q&a articles* at the reasonable faith site on the slaughter of the Canaanites, but removed a crucial portion of the text without marking with an ellipsis, or any other way, which made it seem that Craig held to/defended a position which he did not in fact hold to/defend. If I'm given enough time I might just even manage to remember exactly which of the three articles in question, and what portion of it you quoted.


    *It was one from one of these articles:
    http://www.reasonablefaith.org/slaug...the-canaanites
    http://www.reasonablefaith.org/the-s...tes-re-visited
    http://www.reasonablefaith.org/Once-...the-Canaanites
    Right, so just let me know when you actually remember what my alleged "slimy, dishonest" argument was. Frankly, I think you've confused me with somebody else.

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  • JonathanL
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    Originally posted by Tassman View Post
    So Chrawnus' accusation is based upon a lost thread wherein I'm supposed to have made a "slimy, dishonest" argument except that he can't remember what it was. Gotcha!


    I'm not sure what you're talking about. I clearly mentioned that it was an instance of quote doctoring, so I'm not sure where you got the notion that I can't remember what it was that made me put you on ignore. What I couldn't remember was the subject of the thread where it occured (although searching TWeb on the wayback machine made me find the thread in question, namely this one:http://web.archive.org/web/201308270...Horribly-Wrong), it wasn't the memory of the quote doctoring itself which eluded me. I even remember what form the quote doctoring took; you quoted a section of one of the q&a articles* at the reasonable faith site on the slaughter of the Canaanites, but removed a crucial portion of the text without marking with an ellipsis, or any other way, which made it seem that Craig held to/defended a position which he did not in fact hold to/defend. If I'm given enough time I might just even manage to remember exactly which of the three articles in question, and what portion of it you quoted.


    *It was one from one of these articles:
    http://www.reasonablefaith.org/slaug...the-canaanites
    http://www.reasonablefaith.org/the-s...tes-re-visited
    http://www.reasonablefaith.org/Once-...the-Canaanites

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  • Tassman
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    Originally posted by Irate Canadian View Post


    Yes,try to find a document that's not been recorded in the Internet Archive. IT'S EASY. \s
    So Chrawnus' accusation is based upon a lost thread wherein I'm supposed to have made a "slimy, dishonest" argument except that he can't remember what it was. Gotcha!

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  • lilpixieofterror
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    Since a certain poster wants to mindless defend Tazzy Wazzy (and keeps doing the passive aggressive swipes at me), here is a perfect example of Tazzy's hatred of religion:

    Originally posted by Tazzy Wazzy
    In some Scandinavian countries one is automatically added to the membership of the national church at birth and one has to actually "sign out” to not be counted as Christian. But, in actuality all the Scandinavian countries, along with much of Europe, have extremely high rates of non-belief in God, (Norway at 72%).

    http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html

    And while they may be “cultural Christians" they nevertheless rank high in the Inequality adjusted HDI whereas the actual Christian USA only ranks 28th.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
    Funny thing is, Tazzy has to ignore lots of stuff, for example, here is what his link says:

    "Top 50 Countries
    With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics"

    Notice how Tazzy leaves out the 'agnostic' part and just pretends they are talking about atheist only. Second, notice the countries on the list, with the highest atheist/agnostic populations:

    Vietnam
    Czech Republic
    Estonia

    And many others don't rank anywhere close to the top on the HDI report. So how could Tazzy Wazzy claim that atheism has anything to do with their higher HDI rankings, when many other countries, with a high population of atheist/agnostics don't rank nearly as high on the HDI ranking? Obviously, Tazzy is trying to play a fast one on us and is really hoping that nobody checks his facts too closely. Clearly the population of a countries atheist/agnostics seems to have very little to do with their HDI ranking. Just one example of many of where this certain poster just wants to mindlessly defend people, without even bothering to check to see WHY people might see Tazzy Wazzy as slimy and dishonest.

    Edited to add:

    What is even more embarrassing is that the USA ranks in there too at number 44. Likewise, he says:

    Norway at 72%

    but what he ignores is that Norway is at 72% on the higher end, on the lower end it would be closer to 31%. Again, he is trying to exaggerate his claims to make his arguments sound better (a very stupid thing to do, when your own links refute your claims for you).

    How embarrassing because I know that I spent a lot of time correcting Tazzy's abuses of this data on the old tWeb (it's the major reason he accused me of having a serious mental disorder he has been unable to prove I actually have), so it makes him look even worse because he should know better.
    Last edited by lilpixieofterror; 06-04-2015, 07:53 PM.

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  • pancreasman
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    I'm pretty sure that we more voracious posters have all been slimy and dishonest at one time or another. Nobody has the moral high ground here.

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  • Irate Canadian
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    Originally posted by JimL View Post
    Small mind small amusement. When are you going to back up your accusation? Still can't find anything, heh?


    Yes,try to find a document that's not been recorded in the Internet Archive. IT'S EASY. \s

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  • JimL
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    Originally posted by Chrawnus View Post
    Your white-knighting amuses me.
    Small mind small amusement. When are you going to back up your accusation? Still can't find anything, heh?

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  • lilpixieofterror
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    Originally posted by Chrawnus View Post
    Your white-knighting amuses me.
    It is all he has left. Besides, Tazzy Wazzy accused me of having a serious mental illness that he has been unable to prove that I have, he tried to misuse the HDI reports to 'prove' atheism was better (even though the difference between number 1 and 25 is less than the difference between and A and A- and wouldn't even reflect on a typical GPA report), and he tried to argue that Southern Baptist was the largest branch of American Christians back during the US Civil War (Methodist were actually the largest branch of Christians, in the US, during that time). There are just a few things Tazzy Wazzy has made claims about over the years that exposes his dishonesty and inability to debate views he personally disagrees with.

    BTW I also remember what you are talking about to, but when Tazzy Wazzy is proved wrong, he projects his flaws upon others (IE how he accuses me of having a serious mental illness that he is unable to prove or show I have reflects that he likely has one himself), so don't expect him to admit he's wrong. He is incapable of doing that.

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  • JonathanL
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    Originally posted by JimL View Post
    You have no idea? Well, doesn't that figure. Darths question was in reply to your previous post, post #29, where you called Tass slimy, intellectually dishonest, narrow minded, and out of touch with reality. And in proof of this you have to go back years to find something, and even then you can come up with nothing. I would say that was a bit slimy, intellectually dishonest, narrow minded and out of touch with reality.
    Your white-knighting amuses me.

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  • Tassman
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    Originally posted by JimL View Post
    You have no idea? Well, doesn't that figure. Darths question was in reply to your previous post, post #29, where you called Tass slimy, intellectually dishonest, narrow minded, and out of touch with reality. And in proof of this you have to go back years to find something, and even then you can come up with nothing. I would say that was a bit slimy, intellectually dishonest, narrow minded and out of touch with reality.
    Exactly right!

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  • pancreasman
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    Note: I pushed the wrong button there. The chances of me amening something LPOT says is very remote.

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