Ignoring people on the Internet!

My point is that in order to make some weird "philosophically smarter than thou" point, based on your own peculiar interpretation of the word belief, you've twisted yourself up in knots.

Some people you can talk to, some you can't. If there was a loudmouth drunk in your local bar you wouldn't insist that everyone listen to what he has to say. I have one person on ignore who has done the same to me and we no longer pointlessly insult one another, and I wish him well. The rest are a bunch who have difficulty accepting I'm just not interested in what they have to say.

You do what you want, but don't try to claim you're occupying some sort of high ground when you do it.

Agnosticism is the high ground, Izzy.

We do not know if there are no gods...and we do not know if there is at least one god.

Would you have me leave the high ground for something lower?

“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”
— Russell

Maybe a ground that's not so full of ****.

What ignoring going on do you mean Frank.? I am not sure what you're saying. I wish people would the hell ignore MORE, whether with a button or with personal discipline. I have been driven from A2k pretty much because so many threads become overwhelmed with endless combative drivel which it is hard to ignore because people quote it so much.

It is like a woman saying I am not talking to you . Very poorly thought out but makes her feel powerful .

Here's how I've seen it work . People start off polite . Then person A starts to insult . Person B insults back . Back and forth . A forgets they started the process and loudly declares they are not talking to person B and is putting them on ignore , convinced that person B is at fault because they are unaware of their first insult .

It is admitting failure , it is intolerant and it is the one thing a society should never do . Once ostracised anything can be justified . It was human nature that made the Nazis, not some inexplicable random event . That part of humanity is alive on A2K and actively involved in "ignore" . It takes fear, stupidity and arrogance to use ignore and I think that is demonstrated by those who use it .

Just having a bit of fun here, D.

Some of the atheists are finding my arguments too uncomfortable to deal with...and although I try to be pleasant with them and treat the subject with respect, they ignore what I say.

Look...they or anyone else are free to ignore anything they want...and I will support their right to do so. But when it is happening mostly because of the strength of the arguments rather than because they are weak, irrelevant, or boring...a bit of fun in calling that to their attention is in order.

Truly...if anyone thinks I am complaining rather than just poking with a stick here...be dissuaded from that. I am, as I said, just having a bit of fun.

I thumb down a thread now and again. Usually ones I have posted to and no longer want to see such as some of Pamela Rosa's racist screed threads.

Oh.....poke away.

MADAM !!! Decorum, please !