God or Not?

Anger management

Posted on March 31st, 2008 by admin.
Categories: Ranting.

I think it’s a matter of weighing expectations. A few things to
consider:

(1) Theists who whine that insults are “ruining a logical
discussion” (or something similar) never say anything logical and are
always whining about people who do.

(2) If you make a logical argument, insults don’t make it less
logical.

(3) Theists have–_are_–a bottomless pit of excuses to act like
idiots. It makes no difference if you “give” them one or not. You
don’t need a good reason to be completely unreasonable. You don’t even
need a bad reason to be unreasonable.

(4) It is hard to think of a mean thing to say about theists that
isn’t true.

(5) These true things are often relevant to the conversation.

(6) On this group, if it comes to honesty versus politeness which it
almost certainly does, think about all the usual reasons you are
polite and see if they matter here.

(7) There’s no reason to feel bad about expressing your honest,
accurate impressions of a theist. They are delusional enough about who
they are without help and deserve every bit of what they get. If they
want to stop being cursed out for being liars, for example, maybe they
should just stop lying.

(8) You probably wouldn’t have stayed here for so long if you didn’t
enjoy a little theist bashing so, all things considered, why the hell
not?

On Mar 31, 9:42 pm, Simpleton wrote:
> On Mar 31, 8:25 pm, rappoccio wrote:
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> > I think I’m starting to hate posting against a lot of people here.
> > They really get me so irritated, and of course I have a hot temper so
> > I get carried away at times that I say things that I don’t like having
> > to say. However I’ve come to realize that it only feeds their
> > dishonesty. It only gives credence to their lies. Inadvertently, I’m
> > giving their fallacies a false sense of credibility by responding to
> > them in anger, rather than in coolness. I hate that we can’t have a
> > rational discourse here with some people. It’s really irritating. But
> > constantly re-expressing how irrational their positions are, and
> > constantly re-demonstrating how unintelligible their responses are,
> > will actually demonstrate our case better, in my opinion. At least I
> > think it’s worth a shot.
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> > But I do apologize for losing my temper to many here, including Keith,
> > Brock, Joe, Chris, Omprem, and others. I still think your positions
> > are completely unfounded and that you’re not interested in honest
> > debate. However your illogic and lies are not substantive reason for
> > me to get angry.
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> > As for my many friends, carry on as you wish by ALL means, I don’t
> > even for a second expect anyone to follow suit or even respect this
> > opinion, but as for me, I’ll be attempting to ignore stupidity and
> > checking my anger as much as possible. Don’t stop the righteous
> > indignation on my account, though :) (unless of course you find this
> > argument persuasive, then we can be “anger management buddies”). But I
> > think that it’s time that I personally had a cooler head, and so I’ll
> > be trying this for awhile.
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> Dev has done this in recent times, where he showed herculean restraint
> instead of venting his anger as he did in the past.  So much so that
> it’s rather hard not to notice his lips bleeding from his bite when he
> has exercised such restraint.
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> That however has not stopped people from being irrational, nor from
> playing martyr.
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> So while I endorse your realization to try harder to not let your
> anger get the better of yourself, I’d hope that you still remain
> direct when calling a spade a spade.
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> What works for me is to maintain the tone of the conversation, and if
> a poster displays emptiness, I put him or her on a slow poll.  Which
> means that to get a response back on a regular basis, he or she’ll
> have to earn it.  I’ll ignore their posts for the most part, but will
> occasionally read their posts to see if there is any change.  It works
> well for me, I’d recommend it if you still have difficulties.
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> There are some who are simply empty.  They are best not read for
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