I didn't attack you yet you attack me.
Yeah, I did. For being a hypocrite.
You keep harping on Nietzsche to try and discredit my argument, and I would suggest that like a good conservative you have taken one thing out of context of the a statement to try and prove a point. Nietzsche, like the other philosophers I mentioned were trying to discern the meaning of life, which is ultimately what all conversations about god's comes down to.
What, me, conservative? Rofltrotzki. Just because I dissent from you, does not make me a conservative (what do I want to conserve exactly?). All I wanted you to do was take Nietzsche from that group of theist philosophers you listed, because he does not belong there. I was not picking out of context, just because that was the only issue I wanted to address.
All conversations about gods come down to the meaning of life (for humans?)? Er, no, they don't! Even if that were the case, it is certainly not the other way round. See, atheists may also search for a meaning in life, they usually neither start nor end with a god.
No, again that isn't what I said. There is a difference between intelligence and knowledge. My argument was that to have a conversation about any form of spirituality, God or the meaning of life requires an agreement of meanings and principles of inference. That doesn't happen in a diverse a group as this causing the general name calling you exhibited above.
And you pointed out that even if someone with no prior knowledge would look it up, they would not understand it, which pretty much questions their intelligence. And what you obviously still cannot grasp: there is no inherent connection between spirituality, god and a meaning of life. And you don't really need the metaphysical realm for anything except philosophical circle-jerking!
If I come across as condescending perhaps you are reading more into my comments than is there, which is your issue not mine. Sometimes we see ourselves in others.
OK, so the recipient is to blame, right, right... tell that to David Letterman! And did you just say: "Yes, I know, but what are you?"?
I was just trying to have a conversation and answer a question without attacking an individual in the process by calling them names and telling them to STFU.
As you stated you did not want to participate in the discussion because it was below you (the subject line is somewhat part of the post and making fun of the thread does not make your opinion less condescending).
Sorry, if I have offended you by telling you to stfu, I thought you can take it, being a smart-ass and all, you must hear that a lot. But by calling you a hypocrite, I just stated the obvious! Next time I get the velvet gloves, maybe.
But I won't, if you spout ignorant statements, claim superior knowledge in an unrelated (or not necessarily related) field and connect them by magic while saying that the discussion is silly.
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eborujion on
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