Frank, you are placing all your marbles in a pocket with no bottom in it. Once you have lost them all, it will be time to reassess the marble situation. How you will regain your marbles could be interesting.
Don't be a jerk, Timber. :wink:
Timber so is not a jerk (er, in this instance, heh). The coward-jerk-whatever stuff is bravado that gets pretty old.
I knew you were teasing Timber, JLN.
The jerk-calling bravado, often not in a kidding way, is boring to many who've read it a thousand times, and can throw off newcomers who often arrive with a lot of self-seriousness and can be thrown by it.
Not to mention it is diversionary.
I'm going to send Frank a big bouquet of posies.
No Edgar. When Frank calls someone a jerk, he means it. Trust me; I can read his mind. He's not sure the other is a jerk, but he's willing to GUESS that he is.
I've crossed pens with Frank in the Abuzz days. I don't truly think he intends to be offensive. Just his way of putting things when he gets wrought up in a heavy arguement/discussion.
One day frank might just realize that a lack of evidence can , in fact, constitute evidence.
What a traumatic day that will be for him.
edgarblythe wrote:Frank, you are placing all your marbles in a pocket with no bottom in it. Once you have lost them all, it will be time to reassess the marble situation. How you will regain your marbles could be interesting.
Your analogies...if I may call them that...are getting more and more absurd.
I do not know the true nature of the REALITY of existence.
I can acknowledge that.
It's pretty obvious you do not know either...but you are being pig-headed...and apparently do not have the sense of honesty and integrity to acknowledge it.
Doktor S wrote:One day frank might just realize that a lack of evidence can , in fact, constitute evidence.
What a traumatic day that will be for him.
Right!
Like lack of evidence of sentient life on the planets circling the 60 nearest suns to our Sol...
...is evidence that no sentient life exists on those planets.
Shyt for brains!!!!!
Metaphoric posies, Frank.
At any rate, I know enough about reality to know a snow job when I see it. That's what this religious spirituality stuff is, and it has you buffaloed. Throttled your senses, so that you are unable to make a clean cut decision.
For me the deal is not to feed Frank.
Y'all know I am an atheist by my term, after some years of other ways. I don't care about anyone else's defining of what I think. I don't mind anybody else believing anything, long as they don't put it on me with some rule of law. I often can understand what believers here say they are thinking.
I respect honest efforts to understand anything.
I am quite tired of looking into this forum and seeing this level of downputting. The fact that the downputting is by some favorite posters of mine is of no matter. It is still tiresome.
Sort of like a hamster wheel.
I ignored this thread in the beginning, more or less. Finally got tired of Frank saying what he did about atheists. Decided to give him a taste of his own stuff.
You're right, of course, Osso. We should lay off the shythead. But he's so much fun.
If ya ain't havin' fun, yer doin' it wrong.
Not for me, too many years of seeing it.
I'll try and be quiet. Talk to you in '08.
Just saw your post, Timber.
I suppose you're right, I'm doing it wrong, as in, not light as a feather. I'm torn between mild anger and boredom, and best cut away.
I'll probably forget I said this. Nag me if I come back and natter after Frank.
And Edgar, if any of us can get Frank to blink, it's you. Keep talkin'.
