Internet Skepticism: Casting Call

[Angel]

What you're doing is trying to increase your likelihood of being right by pretending all religions are right. As if there were 5 religions on earth, each with a 20% chance of being right, and so you declare all of them right so that you can get a combined 100% chance of being right, despite each of those religions dramatically contradicting each other on basically everything. This is not proof, it's just you being pathetic on the internet.

Curb the personal crap and we can keep talking.
I'm 100% right about God and religion. There is no way to measure the probabilities of religious belief about the nature of God -- in all 1001 cases it's a matter of faith, faith in what is knowable in no measurable sense.

 

[JustHanging]

I'm 100% right about God and religion.

Exactly! You figured out that it was some religion. And then I figured out with 100% certainty what you couldn't: That Harry Potter is the one true God!

Let me know when you're ready to join our religion, and I'll send you the paperwork. Make sure you have your credit card handy. Harry demands that you turn over all your worldly possessions to me. And any family members such as a wife or children become my personal slaves. Woohoo! I could get to like being a preacher.

 

[Angel]

Exactly! You figured out that it was some religion. And then I figured out with 100% certainty what you couldn't.

Translation, please.

 

[Angel]

The Calling Out of Bad Behavior​

Those members who've followed Angel's deconstruction of Internet Skepticism in this forum know what Internet Skeptics don't know, namely, that Internet Skepticism is a misnomer. Far from being any sort of ordinary or philosophical skepticism, Internet Skepticism in point of fact turns out to be a kind of Anonymous Creepism, a bastardized hybrid of technology and human nature. If you are new to Angel's deconstruction of Internet Skepticism, it is strongly recommended that you check out the following threads before proceeding any further in this thread:

Atheists Don't Exist
Beliefs and Skepticism

Top Ten Reasons To Deplore Internet Skepticism

Please Note
deplore = feel or express strong disapproval of (something).
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10. Because Internet Skepticism lacks Intellectual Integrity.

9. Because Internet Skepticism does not take correction gracefully or else does not take correction at all.

8. Because Internet Skepticism usually doesn't know what it's talking about, yet nevertheless won't stop talking about what it doesn't know.

7. Because Internet Skepticism usually doesn't understand or misunderstands or deliberately misrepresents what its oppoents are talking about.

6. Because Internet Skepticism is unoriginal and chiefly relies on second-hand opinion with pretensions to authority.

5. Because Internet Skepticism does not listen and cannot learn, which is the very soul of stupidity.

4. Because Internet Skepticism is habitually coarse and vulgar, mocking and bullying, with a marked propensity to rely on emojis to these ends.

3. Because Internet Skepticism is malicious in intent and as a result given to the personal derogation of those who dare to oppose it.

2. Because Internet Skepticism routinely posts in bad faith, ignoring refutation and correction and persistently repeating points previously dispatched by opponents.


And the number one reason to deplore Internet Skepticism:


1. Because Internet Skepticism is the militant arm of Internet Atheism in mufti.

Comments?
Testimonials?
Confessions?

Watch this.

An appeal to Internet Skeptics
Please do not quote the entire Original Post on the first page.​

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[Angel]

We're casting for a comedy called "The Bad Faith Brigade."
There have been some very strong auditions so far. See posts.

 

[Angel]

On the Concept of

"Anonymous Creepism"​

There's science on it.

Who Is That? The Study of Anonymity and Behavior

Who Is That? The Study of Anonymity and Behavior – Association for Psychological Science – APS

More on "Anonymous Creepism":

Anonymity opens up split personality zone

Anonymity can turn nice people nasty - Health - Behavior | NBC News

The Role of Anonymity in Deindividuated Behavior

https://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php?id=77099

Another word on "Anonymous Creepism":

Rude Technology
Where have all the manners gone? Technology and rudeness.

Rude Technology | Psychology Today

 

[marke]

Ah I see, now you're making excuses as to why you can't provide any evidence. You're making a subjective argument, as if every human on earth will come to the exact same conclusion as you magically. That's not evidence.
I searched my soul and all around me and came to the conclusion there almost certainly is no god. If you honestly did the same you'd come to the same conclusion. Sound convincing? Not really.

You searched your soul and found no evidence of God? I agree that you must be right and are telling the truth.

 

[RabidAlpaca]

You searched your soul and found no evidence of God? I agree that you must be right and are telling the truth.

Yes. I also was a Christian for over two decades. One of the logical fallacies you guys tell yourself is that if someone really searched hard they'd come to the exact same conclusions as you.

 

[marke]

Yes. I also was a Christian for over two decades. One of the logical fallacies you guys tell yourself is that if someone really searched hard they'd come to the exact same conclusions as you.

I am sorry you left God. That was an extremely unwise move, but totally believable.

 

[RabidAlpaca]

I am sorry you left God. That was an extremely unwise move, but totally believable.

My list of religions I don't believe in is hundreds of entries long but only one longer than yours.

You don't lose any sleep worrying what if Islam is right and what if you go to their hell, and this is no different.

 

[Daisy]

My list of religions I don't believe in is hundreds of entries long but only one longer than yours.

You don't lose any sleep worrying what if Islam is right and what if you go to their hell, and this is no different.

There is valid reason for that...

"Certainly if after escaping from the defilements of the world by an accurate knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they get involved again with these very things and are overcome, their final state has become worse for them than the first. It would have been better for them not to have accurately known the path of righteousness than after knowing it to turn away from the holy commandment they had received. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog has returned to its own vomit, and the sow that was bathed to rolling in the mire.” 2 Peter 2:20-22

 

[vegas giants]

I am sorry you left God. That was an extremely unwise move, but totally believable.

The FSM forgives you

 

[vegas giants]

There is valid reason for that...

"Certainly if after escaping from the defilements of the world by an accurate knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they get involved again with these very things and are overcome, their final state has become worse for them than the first. It would have been better for them not to have accurately known the path of righteousness than after knowing it to turn away from the holy commandment they had received. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog has returned to its own vomit, and the sow that was bathed to rolling in the mire.” 2 Peter 2:20-22

Quoting a fictional book doesnt help your case

 

[Praxas]

Curb the personal crap and we can keep talking.
I'm 100% right about God and religion. There is no way to measure the probabilities of religious belief about the nature of God -- in all 1001 cases it's a matter of faith, faith in what is knowable in no measurable sense.

Faith doesn't mean you are factually right, it just means YOU believe you are right. That isn't the same thing, hence why religion is faith and not fact.

 

[vegas giants]

Faith doesn't mean you are factually right, it just means YOU believe you are right. That isn't the same thing, hence why religion is faith and not fact.

He is making our case for us. He has faith.....not proof

 

[RabidAlpaca]

There is valid reason for that...

"Certainly if after escaping from the defilements of the world by an accurate knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they get involved again with these very things and are overcome, their final state has become worse for them than the first. It would have been better for them not to have accurately known the path of righteousness than after knowing it to turn away from the holy commandment they had received. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog has returned to its own vomit, and the sow that was bathed to rolling in the mire.” 2 Peter 2:20-22

Looks like your book is wrong again and painting with too broad a brush. I'm dramatically happier, more successful and more fulfilled as an atheist than I ever was as a Christian.

 

[Daisy]

Looks like your book is wrong again and painting with too broad a brush. I'm dramatically happier, more successful and more fulfilled as an atheist than I ever was as a Christian.

Um, that is not talking about life in this world...the Bible makes the observation that the wicked do seem to flourish...in this world...

 

[vegas giants]

Um, that is not talking about life in this world...the Bible makes the observation that the wicked do seem to flourish...in this world...

It's a book of fiction

 

[Daisy]

It's a book of fiction

lol...whole lotta truth in that book of "fiction...:2razz:

 

[RabidAlpaca]

Um, that is not talking about life in this world...the Bible makes the observation that the wicked do seem to flourish...in this world...

If you're not scared of burning in Muslim hell why do you think you can scare me with your threats?

 

[vegas giants]

lol...whole lotta truth in that book of "fiction...:2razz:

There scenes from many fictional books that are true.


They are still fiction

 

[Daisy]

If you're not scared of burning in Muslim hell why do you think you can scare me with your threats?

That is not a threat, it is a promise...John 3:16; John 17:3...

 

[Angel]

Faith doesn't mean you are factually right, it just means YOU believe you are right. That isn't the same thing, hence why religion is faith and not fact.

You're correct about faith and you'd be correct about me were I talking about or from the perspective of religion. I'm not.
I'm not about religion in my threads -- I'm all about the philosophical question of the existence of God.
Moreover, I argue for and make a distinction between the question of God's existence and the question of the nature of God. See here:
https://www.debatepolitics.com/beliefs-and-skepticism/349532-god-question.html#post1069773824
The 1001 world religions are about the nature of God taken on faith.
My philosophical interest is in the existence of God alone.

 

[vegas giants]

That is not a threat, it is a promise...John 3:16; John 17:3...

Harry Potter makes promises too. Lol

 

[Angel]

A very strong audition there.