almightywood

I have said all along that beliefs are outside the realm of ration.


Usually an irrational belief that keeps a crazy man sane is something that they see as the meaning of life. Arguing it away takes away the meaning to their life - or as many people think takes themselves away.


No, I am against telling people what to believe, beliefs and facts are independent of each other.


No, I said only absolute truths can disprove beliefs.

No, since we are talking about facts, belief doesn't enter into it at all. If something is a fact, there is only one possibility already, so I am eliminating nothing.

I absolutely do think that a death threat on the internet is no different than any other insult flung about there. Now quit fucking playing like you actually took it seriously in that fashion, we both know you antagonized me purposefully, knowing the likely result the whole time.

As for being immoral, I told you a while ago that I think of trolls as non-humans.
Nothing immoral about threatening to kill a monster.

Miburo

Then you're a bad person. I didn't know if you were serious about it or not. You're clearly incredibly irrational, so who knows if you would actually attempt to murder people because they made you mad online.

I wasn't worried, of course, because you're obviously a pussy. But the point is you can't claim the moral high-ground when you threaten to kill people because you see them as non-humans because they don't abide by your made-up rules. Well, you can make that claim. It's just laughably idiotic. Which hasn't stopped you before with every single post you make, so meh.

ACt

Um, yeaaaaah... I'm just going to assume what you think is a "study" is actually "something I read online that reported on a report of a study and they said that A=B, so it must be 100% true" because I highly doubt that hair growth is dead set in stone, without even going the literature to prove it. It would be a remarkable feat that everyone had the same genetics for hair growth rate seeing as we don't have the same genetics for anything, really.

But hey, since I'm OK with being wrong, feel free to produce the source because that could be very interesting and an excellent target for developing a virus that could kill us all and save the planet from our wanton ways.

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ask me anything

So, if beliefs are "outside the realm of ration", that makes them inherently irrational, and if you didn't have them you would be batshit insane. Does that about sum it up?

If we go by that premise, then you have just confessed to being insane, but are capable of coping because you have your beliefs to keep you in check. Beliefs that have now been questioned, causing you to lose it, and make ridiculous statements about murdering people, and whatnot.

You wanna know whats weird. If you stripped down, analyzed, questioned the beliefs of EVERYONE else in this thread, I'd guarantee you they wouldn't go bat shit insane over it. Most people would be willing to say "Oh so I'm wrong about that Flying Spaghetti Monster being real", and just move on. So seems like the only guy that needs his beliefs in order to cope with reality....is you.

Hey that's the same argument Hitler used to justify killing the Jews. They're sub-human, so nothing wrong with killing a few million of them amirite?

Still think you have the moral high ground?

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Numinous

Yes, because I absolutely did not put the dictionary definitions and made you see you're using things in the wrong way... oh wait.

As are many disciplines of philosophy and science, but it's a fallacy to expect the rules of algebra or said disciplines to apply to logic.

Please prove how illogical were those instances by using proper logic (unless they were used as satire). You'll see they're not illogical.

So it's good ol' Logic anyway. Which people like me and Miburo used.

Twisted logic is not logic and I never said that twisted logic was logic. So why beat that strawman?

Not surprised by the non-agreement, but surprised you didn't specify. What, you now disagree just to disagree?

Except you are using a subtype of belief that has its own word (faith), therefore not using the word belief as it should be, and you are refusing to use faith for a completely ridiculous reason.

I'm gay. I'm cheerful, lighthearted and I'm given to social pleasures, but I'm not homosexual. See how you can use a word to its proper extent while avoiding unwanted connotations? Try it sometime.

And that's stupid. Proof is objective in the sense it's untainted by emotions and biases and it's testable. If it's biased and/or untestable, it's no longer proof. So you can't have something like subjective proof, because subjective already means it can be tainted.

So either accept the difference between proof and suggestion or gtfo.

That is completely false. I'm working in the scientific society and I can assure you that theories do not become laws. Hypothesis are the ones that can either become theories or laws. Again, laws are mathematical explanations of facts, theories are worded explanations of facts.

Wow, you're stupid. The Newtonian Law of Gravitation and the Newtonian Theory of Gravitation are two different things.

This is the law of Gravitation you referred:



The Newtonian Theory of Gravitation explains what is gravity and how it works. And it was already superseded by the Einsteinian Theory of Gravitation (included in the General Relativity) which explains better gravity considering new facts that were discovered between both theories.

See the difference? That's why theories can't become laws, because that's stupid.

No, I'm not. I know very well what I'm talking about, since I use theories and laws of science everyday. You're the one who can't figure out what they are.

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ACt

Whoa, wait a minute... did we really get this far without mentioning Hitler before now? Because that would be pretty impressive as far as internet debates go...

/yeahgodwin!

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Miburo

AW doesn't debate, you vile sub-humans!

Axiom

This experiment, our journey into the mind of this clearly unstable, suicidal, homeless, criminal, failed cult leader... Basically a Jack-of-all-failures. Has been worth while to me after all.

@Mibs, Num.... To the discussion I was having with you two about racism, gay rights ect, and about the fact that I could not imagine how someone would be so recessed into their own system of belief. That they could be so irrational as to utterly ignore all of what the reality of a situation tells them....I now have had first hand interaction with the type of person you guys were telling me about. So... I was wrong, and stand corrected.

Also not for nothing, but now that AW has displaced the topic of discussion even further into some sanity vs insanity thing or whatever. I just noticed a striking correlation between his so called philosophy, and HR's signature... Maybe you two guys can meet up and then both accomplish nothing together.

xxMESTxx

Scrolled up, viewed post, read signature, and Laughed.Out.Loud

This entire thread has been pretty entertaining to me. Especially the part where he pretty much accused num of sitting around thinking about killing people, which he's already been called insane for, then not only thinks about some kind of horrible murder, spouts it out as a threat..on the internet.

Yeah, only if they're morons to begin with, which is why they ever adopted such beliefs. Normal, somewhat intelligent people, would never have to rely on some crazy belief to keep themselves from being crazy. Because it doesn't make any fucking sense.

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Mal

I don't know, I used the Jews and belief that they are sub-human in examples pretty much from the beginning, I didn't mentioned Nazism by name but it was pretty much implied.

almightywood

Not saying me exactly, but yeah pretty close.

I have confessed to nothing, I merely pointed out that beliefs are things not to be fucked with, and that if you attack people's beliefs you deserve whatever you get.

As if this small subsection of (very) similar people could be used to diagnose the population of the world at large.

I do indeed, Hitler attacked the jews without provocation or warning. I was indeed provoked, and those attacked were indeed warned. So I absolutely fail to see how self defense could be equated to genocide. Yes, you linked definitions that explained your position, but didn't in any way prove mine wrong. I used the definition of belief as well to prove that it was applicable in the way I was using it. The fact that I am not using the common definition doesn't in any way make me wrong to use it. You just consider one connotation more important than I do, and I am the same way about another. You're dislike of the one connotation doesn't in any way supersede my dislike of the other.

The fact that you specified proper logic means your understanding of it, which I already think is flawed, so how could I possibly use something that is flawed to disprove itself?

Bullshit, you both ABSOLUTELY used logic to put words in my mouth.

No, I said that what you call logic, I call twisted logic.

I've already told you my views on the subject, and I don't feel like rephrasing them to try and explain it to you again.

Except you are using a subtype of belief that has its own word (faith), therefore not using the word belief as it should be, and you are refusing to use faith for a completely ridiculous reason.

Hmm kind of like saying when I talk about beliefs, I am referring solely to believing in things that are unknown. Sweet, already done.

Who said anything about biased or untestable? I was talking about it being un-understandable. If you can't understand it, it isn't proof to you. If it isn't proof to EVERYONE, then it isn't objective proof, it is subjective proof.Believe me I'd much rather have a discussion with him than the majority of people I have encountered in this thread, he seems a much more comprehending, rational, respectful person than what I have seen from you all.

ask me anything

Jeezus, there is so much WIN in this quote. AW better take note of this.

If you boil it down to its simplest, Axiom didn't think someone like AW could possibly exist. It was his belief that nobody could be that ignorant. AW by virtue of existing, has challenged his belief. Now if we are to believe AW, then right now Axiom should be having a mental breakdown, since his belief just got trounced upon, and he no longer has anything to protect him from harsh reality. Axiom should be laying on the floor, in the fetal position, eating crayons right about now. Yet this isn't the case. He seems to be coping just fine.

I'll leave you people to draw your own conclusions, since ya' know, it's wrong to tell people what to think.























































...but yeah, AW is full of shit.

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ACt

Think I vaguely recall that, but I think the law specifically states Hitler/Nazis not sub-human jews.

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It's amazing to me that, unlike in the real world, people on the internet will wear "everyone thinks I'm a moron" as a badge of honour.

almightywood

I see, one legitimate post and it's straight back to trolling for you, eh?
Bravo. No more responses for you.

Numinous

Someone needs to read more books about WWII. Not that the Jews were killing people or stuff like that, but they weren't slaughtered just because they were Jews without any warning.

Ever heard of proportionate response? It's kind of rude to threat people with death and calling them pedophiles just because they called you stupid.

Yes, as the definition of mammal is applicable to pigs, but keeping talking about pigs using the word mammal is stupid, like I aid before. It's the same deal here.

Yes, it supersedes if the word you're using isn't as specific to your definition as the word I'm presenting to you. You're talking about faith, use goddamn faith, don't use belief.

Gee, I dunno, why don't you grab a book/site about logic and use it? It's not that hard.

Are you sure? Because if I did that, it was either satire or I saw your BS and you're backpedaling just to prove me wrong.

You lack the sapience to apply Bizarro World on me. Please say where my logic is flawed.

Except the definition of belief does NOT have that connotation directly, therefore you're adding a connotation. Now faith has that connotation, you just have to say you're not talking about the theological kind. See, not that hard, it's just subtracting a connotation, adding connotations to terms and refusing to use terms that already have that connotation is just moronic.

Wow, you're stupid. The objectivity of proof has nothing to do with its acceptance/understanding, because some people are willing to ignore proof just to maintain wrong beliefs (like the Flat Earth Society) or just aren't educated enough to understand them. If the evidence can be tested by anyone and it's unbiased, then it's proof and it's objective.


You do realize that Axiom just called you the most stupid and irrational person he ever met, just in other words? Jesus, you suck at English.

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