mentalgymnast wrote:
grindael wrote:
I'm sure you did google the word rational, because you didn't know anything about what the person was claiming in the podcast. You never listed to it.
Strike two. You are making stuff up. See my sigline.
Nope, I'm not, but you are and I have SHOWED THE EVIDENCE. Your "sigline" is ridiculous and embarrassing tripe.
grindael wrote:
A few days ago, you were claiming to BE rational, yet you claimed after you found the article/podcast that no one could be rational.
This podcast opened up a number insights and points of view that I hadn't fleshed out to the extent that this fellow has. In that process I observed that neither I or anyone else can be completely aware of all of our own personal biases or incomplete or distorted mental maps. We all are subject to influences that gum up the works in regards to rationality and logic.
Granted, some are more practiced and able to get at theorems that are accepted by a greater number of people. But to get to a theorem the axiomatic statements along the way have to be thoroughly established and accepted. That is the business that you are in. That is the business that practiced apologists are in.
The stick in the mud, so to speak, is that along the way no one can approach everything in a purely rational way. At the end of the day, we are left with choices between competing 'rationales' based upon what is considered to be acceptable evidence by opposing parties. It's important to remember that no ONE of us can come to and progress through a line of investigation...especially in the study of history...without making missteps along the way. [/quote]
Once again, you show your true colors. This is all AFTER THE FACT. You already showed that you didn't understand what he was talking about, because you LIED. NOW, WHEN CAUGHT, you change your tune. This is what LIARS do. You have it down to a science.
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That applies to you also. I've already mentioned that the work that you do is essential in producing more 'fodder' for investigation. But as I've already said, it is my belief...at least at this point anyway in my own faith journey...that at the end of the day you are farting into the wind.
Don't put me into your little ____ up scenarios. You know nothing about me and are not qualified to judge me or my life or tell me what applies to me. You offer no proof that it does, but I've offered up lots of evidence that you are a liar and a troll. And, as you are so wont to do, you can't think of anything original and have to parrot back what I said to you. The farts in the wind are all yours, pal. And they stink to high heaven. How you live with yourself is beyond me. What you produce is simply DUNG. You are full of it. So as I've said before and I'll say again, Go ____ yourself.