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How do you know God is the good guy?

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In another thread, I was told that true morality is found by following God. God, we are told, is the source of absolute morality, the final arbiter of good and evil in the universe.

How do we know this? How do we come to assume that God's good is really good? Sure, we are told as much by the Bible. But it's one thing to accept the Bible as God's word...but what if he's lying?

What I'm asking is, what is it about God that makes you so sure he's the good guy, the one you should be following? And how can you trust your instincts in this regard, when you believe he is the source of your moral compass in the first place? Would it not be possible for a Supreme Being to plant a moral compass in you that automatically registers his words as "good", no matter what?

So? Discuss!
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Re: The Bible is the Word of a Good God.

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GreenLight311 wrote: The Bible is the divinely inspired Word of the one and only Perfect God and was written through imperfect men. The message is perfect, and it is loud and clear. The authority by which I make this claim is not my own authority; it is the authority that Jesus Christ, Son of God holds. It is also firmly supported by the Bible.
So the bible is divinely inpired because it says so in the bible and because it is divinely inspired it must be true.

Am I the only person here who can see the arrant nonsense of this statement. Have you ever heard of a circular argument GL. It is begging the question.
GreenLight311 wrote:
There is more evidence that Jesus of Nazareth existed than there is evidence that Homer existed, ...and Socrates exited. I'm sure there are more than that.
Oh not again...no one is arguing about the existence of those folk...if you want to, start a thread. It was a straw man when you sais this last time, it is still a straw man and will be a straw man when you say it next time.

The discussion is about Jesus. You keep making the claim GL you are yet to come up with this supposed evidence..
GreenLight311 wrote:
If you are saying that any of these men did exist, but that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist, I will have to ask you to tell me why that is.
Easy there is NO evidence. If you have some put it out for consideration.

GL - at the time the alledged Jesus walked the earth Jeruslalem was a centre of trade, There would have been people from all over the empire visiting, trading. people from Syria, Egypt, Rome, Greece et al. other significant figures from the time are mentioned in the histories of these nations - why no mention of Jesus - especially considering his supposed miracles.

Additionally, the passover, when Jesus was supposedly executed was an exceptioonally busy time. Agianno mention in contemporary literature.

Why is that GL?
GreenLight311 wrote: fulfilled because the second coming has not happened yet. Sorry to dissapoint you, but it's probably better that it hasn't been fulfilled yet.
Mark, 13 - In this chapter, Jesus speaks of a "tribulation", nation rising against nation, earthquakes, and the coming of false Christs and false prophets, the stars falling from the sky, and the coming of the Son of Man "in the clouds with great power and glory". Then, in verse 30, he tells when this will happen. "Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done."

Matthew (copied from Mark), which contains the same story. The same earthquakes, false prophets, darkening sun, falling stars, etc., and the return of the Son of Man, "coming in the clouds with of heaven with power and great glory." And then in verse 34, he says when to look for all of this commotion: "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled."

Pretty conclusive.

many generations have passed...still waiting...
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I have never seen believers do these works, as per John 14:12, such as rasing the dead, stopping hurricanes, etc.
GL311 wrote: It's too bad that you've never seen believers do these works. Maybe if you had, you would repent and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. Would you?
Have YOU seen believers do these works GL. You are a believer, have you done these things? have you seen evidence, outside the bible, that believers have done these things?

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Tigerlilly:

I really don't know what to say. Almost every comment you made in response to my post is your personal opinion... some unwarranted, uncoroborated claim. How would you like me to respond?

"I know you are but what am I?"

I think that's where this discussion is going. In light of that, I may selectively respond to a couple of your comments at a later time, but I'm not sure there is a whole lot I can do with it to further the discussion on this thread.

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I really don't know what to say. Almost every comment you made in response to my post is your personal opinion... some unwarranted, uncoroborated claim. How would you like me to respond?

"I know you are but what am I?"

I think that's where this discussion is going. In light of that, I may selectively respond to a couple of your comments at a later time, but I'm not sure there is a whole lot I can do with it to further the discussion on this thread.
Crap on a happy stick. I showed you where your crappy arguments were illogical and wrong. Period. I falsified your Biblical super inerrancy.

You cannot come up with anything, not because it's personal opinion, but because your crap was debunked.

I am not here to nanny you. It's not my fault you cannot:

1. Understand Biblical mistakes
2. Inherent impossibility in Omniscience/Omnipotence
3. the Is ought Fallacy
4. It's fallacious to appeal to authority's that are unreliable
5. It's fallacious and wrong to rely on personal experience.\
6. Circular Logic is bad, but you don't get that one either!

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Tigerlilly:
Crap on a happy stick. I showed you where your crappy arguments were illogical and wrong. Period. I falsified your Biblical super inerrancy.

You cannot come up with anything, not because it's personal opinion, but because your crap was debunked.
Humerous; happy stick... huh.

Are you declaring your own argument victorious in this debate simply because you say it is? That's what I'm reading. Let's start over. This time, try to convince me that you're right... not yourself.

Here, let me show you your...

opinion... unwarranted... uncoroborated.

Examples from your last post:
Tigerlilly:
Copout statement: Translation--No one but a true christian may understand the Bible, which is a nonsense rationalization.
Tigerlilly: There is very little evidence that Jesus even existed outside of faerie tales. At least Plato directly wrote stuff. What did JEsus write? All his existence relies on is heresay from other people who were his supposed "disciples."

Where's the burial site? Where's his first hand writings? WHere is his body? What DNA is there? Do we got photos? Do we have living relatives? Is there any real evidence or product of his being other than word of mouth?

What if a bunch of people called themselves the disciples of Granny. Granny wrote nothing, but the disciples say he did. It's most likley a very nice faerie tale invented by philosphers who had nothing better to do.
Tigerlilly: THere's no credible evidence he knows everything. It's all heresay. Being all-knowing doesn't logically justify anything anyway. You are going from an IS to an OUGHT, which is the naturalistic fallacy.

Just because he is all power does not logically imply he ought to engage in violance because he knows. You cannot go from what is to what ought to be for something to be right/wrong.

God would have to use two or more ought premesies behind his arguments to justify it. All power and all knowledge doesn't delineate right/wrong/ justification.
Tigerlilly: That even sounds absurd. to serial killers. YOu don't need to "trust" someone to know that something's wrong, sounds wrong, or is silly and evil. Here's an example?

You don't see serial killers' actions as disgusting because you don't trust them.

If you replace Jesus with serial killers, you get teh same argument, and it's just as silly. I don't, however, need to know they are disgusting through trust. THere are things called OBJECTIVE ETHICAL theories, which do this for me.
Tigerlilly:
They are more than that. Spelling, Grammar, Cartography, Directions, Logic, HISTORY. If the Bible is the word of God, there shouldn't be grammatical errors, logical errors, scientific contradictions, poor cartography and crappy directional skills.

Is God a moron? People aren't even that stupid. I know you can't go south to go north. What fool doesn't know that?
Tigerlilly: There really is no son of God. Jesus is God, so they are really one and the same. That's like me dividing into two people simultaniously and saying he's my son.

And trusting that it's right because the Bible or Jesus say so is the appeal to Authority Fallacy.
Tigerlilly: As to Biblican History, it's wrong about a lot of things, including the life of Herod, the famous "path" of Jesus, as well as the details about Pilotes. It's also with no foundation for all of Exodus. It's ludicrous.
Tigerlilly: So now you are appealing to something that's physically/ logically impossible--mircale workers. If you have to believe in something that has no evidence..that's not good.
Tigerlilly: So the only people who can critique it fairly are the ones who believe it. That's like saying no one can criticize communism because they're not a communist. No one except those inspired by the divine knoweldge of the almighty Stalin or Lenin or Marx may understand this triumphant work!
Tigerlilly: Basically, God procrastinates and shouves his workload onto his minions and slaves--the christians, and they feel blessed that he gives them the work.

Wow. Can I let you do my homework and then you can be blessed? Shucks, if it's that easy to get fools to do stuff...
Tigerlilly: Translating now: *beebdoobeeb beeb beeb* I am actually being a slave of God...it's absolutely amazing!
Tigerlilly: They live normal, happy, free lives and they don't go insane.
Tigerlilly: HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA. I am sorry. I just crapped my pants that was so funny. God and justice don't even go together. It's an oxymoron.
Here are the comments that I could actually respond to, if I choose. I may do so later.
Tigerlilly: Prove this using facts.
Tigerlilly: The Bible is far from accurate: I will post a hilarious example:

Image

Apparently you go the opposite direction to go where you want, in the Bible. Great inerrancy and reliability. They can't even do basic directional skills, much less historical accuracy.
That's about it.
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Greenlight wrote
I believe that God defines what is right and what is wrong. Without God, I believe the definition of right and wrong completely fall apart. Everyone wants to think that their own definition of right and wrong is the correct one.
I find it hard to believe that, had God wanted to define right and wrong differently, He could have made theft, rape and wanton killing of the innocent good. On the other hand, if He couldn't, that would be because He is bound by some external ethical standard which is independent from Him. Morality does not require God. It's an empirical fact that atheists are not less moral than theists, and many non-Christians do act ethically while many Christians don't. Of course, Greenlight would probably try to argue that any Christians who act unethically are not true Christians, but that is a flagrant case of a question-begging definition.

If God is just an arbitrary lawgiver, what grounds do we have to worship him? Just because He is all powerful and will send us to hell if we don't? How is that different to kowtowing to a dictator? Might doesn't make right, and an appeal to force--even supernatural force--is no good reason to be convinced. I think Greenlight is (unintentionally) painting a gloomy picture of God.

One could take a different view and say that the word "good" means something entirely different to God. But if God has chosen to speak a different language from ours, communication is simply impossible. If that is the case, agnosticism seems the only possibility!

Greelight again
And guess what? That's NOT what I'm saying. I'm NOT saying that MY definition of right and wrong is the correct one. I'm saying God's definition is. There's a big difference. There is a part of me that would change a few things if I were in control. But because I have the Holy Spirit speaking to me... I know that those thoughts of mine are sinful and wrong.
Here Greenlight thinks he is making a distinction between his definition of right and wrong and God's own definition. But in reality there is no distinction to be made because God's definition as understood by Greenlight is different from God's definition as understood by other Christians. Actually, "God's definition of right and wrong" means, in this case, Greenlight's interpretation of it. I'd like to know what those things are that Greenlight would change if he were in control. Maybe they're perfectly sensible changes instead of sinful, wrong ones. Maybe. Sometimes people have perfectly sensible moral intuitions but they sacrifice them to what they interpret as God's will. If God told me right now that I must kill one of my sons, as he told Abraham, I would follow my natural inclinations and either disobey or, most likely, conclude that I was hallucinating. I bet Greenlight would do the same if faced with Abraham's dilemma. At least I hope he would!

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Humerous; happy stick... huh.

Are you declaring your own argument victorious in this debate simply because you say it is? That's what I'm reading. Let's start over. This time, try to convince me that you're right... not yourself.
Not at all. I pointed out the absurdities of your argument. YOu ignored them. YOu don't even realize how absurd the stuff you said was.

Facts to point out:

1. Copout statement: Translation--No one but a true christian may understand the Bible, which is a nonsense rationalization.

Yes. you issued a cop-out statement. I showed you why and an example. YOu didn't comprehend it. You cannot state that other's can't understand something just because they aren't divinely inspired. It's bullshit. Get it? It's unsubstantiated and unfalsifiable. No on ehas to have the word of God to inspire him to understand it. Conclusion doesn't follow from Premises.
There is very little evidence that Jesus even existed outside of faerie tales. At least Plato directly wrote stuff. What did JEsus write? All his existence relies on is heresay from other people who were his supposed "disciples."

Where's the burial site? Where's his first hand writings? WHere is his body? What DNA is there? Do we got photos? Do we have living relatives? Is there any real evidence or product of his being other than word of mouth?

What if a bunch of people called themselves the disciples of Granny. Granny wrote nothing, but the disciples say he did. It's most likley a very nice faerie tale invented by philosphers who had nothing better to do.
This isn't an opinion son, it's telling you to provide evidence for your blanket statement that there's more evidence. Untill you provide such, I am under no obligation to believe you, and it's not my job to search for it. I am not about to do your homework for you. YOu state something, you must provide linky-linkies or cut-past evidence. This ain't an easter-egg hunt.
THere's no credible evidence he knows everything. It's all heresay. Being all-knowing doesn't logically justify anything anyway. You are going from an IS to an OUGHT, which is the naturalistic fallacy.

Just because he is all power does not logically imply he ought to engage in violance because he knows. You cannot go from what is to what ought to be for something to be right/wrong.

God would have to use two or more ought premesies behind his arguments to justify it. All power and all knowledge doesn't delineate right/wrong/ justification.
This is also not an opinion. It's quite logical. You are using CIRCULAR LOGIC to assume he's always right, and you are not looking to any outside, neutral source. YOu are taking the argument at face value. The same would be true if I wrote a book saying everything is right in the book, claiming divine inspiration.
That even sounds absurd. to serial killers. YOu don't need to "trust" someone to know that something's wrong, sounds wrong, or is silly and evil. Here's an example?

You don't see serial killers' actions as disgusting because you don't trust them.

If you replace Jesus with serial killers, you get teh same argument, and it's just as silly. I don't, however, need to know they are disgusting through trust. THere are things called OBJECTIVE ETHICAL theories, which do this for me.
This isn't an opinion either. It's showing that if you substitute something in place of YOUR JESUS, it makes no sense. You cannot say that someone doesn't understand disgusting because they don't "trust" the person doing the activity. It's not hard to grasp.

You said we think it's an atrocity and bad because we don't know and trust jesus, which is a bogus statement. You don't need to trust the criminal or the wrongdoer to know he's doing wrong.

Hence, the serial killer. Simple.

They are more than that. Spelling, Grammar, Cartography, Directions, Logic, HISTORY. If the Bible is the word of God, there shouldn't be grammatical errors, logical errors, scientific contradictions, poor cartography and crappy directional skills.

Is God a moron? People aren't even that stupid. I know you can't go south to go north. What fool doesn't know that?
Already showed cases of Biblical errancy. YOu defend them saying "no one understands God, therefore they cannot make comments. They must trust him to believe him." Silly stuff.
There really is no son of God. Jesus is God, so they are really one and the same. That's like me dividing into two people simultaniously and saying he's my son.

And trusting that it's right because the Bible or Jesus say so is the appeal to Authority Fallacy.
Trusting in th word of Jesus because he's jesus = logical fallacy called appeal to AUthority. That's not an opinion Kid. That's logic.

Saying that the Son of God cannot be the son is also rational. God IS JESUS, so how can he really be his SOn. It's not my fault christianity cannot undrestand basic geneology. YOu cannot be yourself and your own son at the same time. It's retarded.
As to Biblican History, it's wrong about a lot of things, including the life of Herod, the famous "path" of Jesus, as well as the details about Pilotes. It's also with no foundation for all of Exodus. It's ludicrous.
Most historical evidences show that Exodus didn't occure, especially at tha time.
Tigerlilly: So now you are appealing to something that's physically/ logically impossible--mircale workers. If you have to believe in something that has no evidence..that's not good.
Not an opinion. Mircales are highly illogical and fly in the face of Parsimony. Get it now?

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Humerous; happy stick... huh.

Are you declaring your own argument victorious in this debate simply because you say it is? That's what I'm reading. Let's start over. This time, try to convince me that you're right... not yourself.
Not at all. I pointed out the absurdities of your argument. YOu ignored them. YOu don't even realize how absurd the stuff you said was.

Facts to point out:

1. Copout statement: Translation--No one but a true christian may understand the Bible, which is a nonsense rationalization.

Yes. you issued a cop-out statement. I showed you why and an example. YOu didn't comprehend it. You cannot state that other's can't understand something just because they aren't divinely inspired. It's bullshit. Get it? It's unsubstantiated and unfalsifiable. No on ehas to have the word of God to inspire him to understand it. Conclusion doesn't follow from Premises.
There is very little evidence that Jesus even existed outside of faerie tales. At least Plato directly wrote stuff. What did JEsus write? All his existence relies on is heresay from other people who were his supposed "disciples."

Where's the burial site? Where's his first hand writings? WHere is his body? What DNA is there? Do we got photos? Do we have living relatives? Is there any real evidence or product of his being other than word of mouth?

What if a bunch of people called themselves the disciples of Granny. Granny wrote nothing, but the disciples say he did. It's most likley a very nice faerie tale invented by philosphers who had nothing better to do.
This isn't an opinion son, it's telling you to provide evidence for your blanket statement that there's more evidence. Untill you provide such, I am under no obligation to believe you, and it's not my job to search for it. I am not about to do your homework for you. YOu state something, you must provide linky-linkies or cut-past evidence. This ain't an easter-egg hunt.
THere's no credible evidence he knows everything. It's all heresay. Being all-knowing doesn't logically justify anything anyway. You are going from an IS to an OUGHT, which is the naturalistic fallacy.

Just because he is all power does not logically imply he ought to engage in violance because he knows. You cannot go from what is to what ought to be for something to be right/wrong.

God would have to use two or more ought premesies behind his arguments to justify it. All power and all knowledge doesn't delineate right/wrong/ justification.
This is also not an opinion. It's quite logical. You are using CIRCULAR LOGIC to assume he's always right, and you are not looking to any outside, neutral source. YOu are taking the argument at face value. The same would be true if I wrote a book saying everything is right in the book, claiming divine inspiration.
That even sounds absurd. to serial killers. YOu don't need to "trust" someone to know that something's wrong, sounds wrong, or is silly and evil. Here's an example?

You don't see serial killers' actions as disgusting because you don't trust them.

If you replace Jesus with serial killers, you get teh same argument, and it's just as silly. I don't, however, need to know they are disgusting through trust. THere are things called OBJECTIVE ETHICAL theories, which do this for me.
This isn't an opinion either. It's showing that if you substitute something in place of YOUR JESUS, it makes no sense. You cannot say that someone doesn't understand disgusting because they don't "trust" the person doing the activity. It's not hard to grasp.

You said we think it's an atrocity and bad because we don't know and trust jesus, which is a bogus statement. You don't need to trust the criminal or the wrongdoer to know he's doing wrong.

Hence, the serial killer. Simple.

They are more than that. Spelling, Grammar, Cartography, Directions, Logic, HISTORY. If the Bible is the word of God, there shouldn't be grammatical errors, logical errors, scientific contradictions, poor cartography and crappy directional skills.

Is God a moron? People aren't even that stupid. I know you can't go south to go north. What fool doesn't know that?
Already showed cases of Biblical errancy. YOu defend them saying "no one understands God, therefore they cannot make comments. They must trust him to believe him." Silly stuff.
There really is no son of God. Jesus is God, so they are really one and the same. That's like me dividing into two people simultaniously and saying he's my son.

And trusting that it's right because the Bible or Jesus say so is the appeal to Authority Fallacy.
Trusting in th word of Jesus because he's jesus = logical fallacy called appeal to AUthority. That's not an opinion Kid. That's logic.

Saying that the Son of God cannot be the son is also rational. God IS JESUS, so how can he really be his SOn. It's not my fault christianity cannot undrestand basic geneology. YOu cannot be yourself and your own son at the same time. It's retarded.
As to Biblican History, it's wrong about a lot of things, including the life of Herod, the famous "path" of Jesus, as well as the details about Pilotes. It's also with no foundation for all of Exodus. It's ludicrous.
Most historical evidences show that Exodus didn't occure, especially at tha time.
Tigerlilly: So now you are appealing to something that's physically/ logically impossible--mircale workers. If you have to believe in something that has no evidence..that's not good.
Not an opinion. Mircales are highly illogical and fly in the face of Parsimony. Get it now?



Tigerlilly: The Bible is far from accurate: I will post a hilarious example:

Image

Apparently you go the opposite direction to go where you want, in the Bible. Great inerrancy and reliability. They can't even do basic directional skills, much less historical accuracy.
Learn to read a map. Then come back to me and tell me that this is opinion. What are you smoking?


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Tigerlilly:

Quote:
Crap on a happy stick. I showed you where your crappy arguments were illogical and wrong. Period. I falsified your Biblical super inerrancy.

You cannot come up with anything, not because it's personal opinion, but because your crap was debunked.


Humerous; happy stick... huh.

Are you declaring your own argument victorious in this debate simply because you say it is? That's what I'm reading. Let's start over. This time, try to convince me that you're right... not yourself.

Here, let me show you your...

opinion... unwarranted... uncoroborated.

Examples from your last post:
Quote:
Tigerlilly:
Copout statement: Translation--No one but a true christian may understand the Bible, which is a nonsense rationalization.


Quote:
Tigerlilly: There is very little evidence that Jesus even existed outside of faerie tales. At least Plato directly wrote stuff. What did JEsus write? All his existence relies on is heresay from other people who were his supposed "disciples."

Where's the burial site? Where's his first hand writings? WHere is his body? What DNA is there? Do we got photos? Do we have living relatives? Is there any real evidence or product of his being other than word of mouth?

What if a bunch of people called themselves the disciples of Granny. Granny wrote nothing, but the disciples say he did. It's most likley a very nice faerie tale invented by philosphers who had nothing better to do.


Quote:
Tigerlilly: THere's no credible evidence he knows everything. It's all heresay. Being all-knowing doesn't logically justify anything anyway. You are going from an IS to an OUGHT, which is the naturalistic fallacy.

Just because he is all power does not logically imply he ought to engage in violance because he knows. You cannot go from what is to what ought to be for something to be right/wrong.

God would have to use two or more ought premesies behind his arguments to justify it. All power and all knowledge doesn't delineate right/wrong/ justification.


Quote:
Tigerlilly: That even sounds absurd. to serial killers. YOu don't need to "trust" someone to know that something's wrong, sounds wrong, or is silly and evil. Here's an example?

You don't see serial killers' actions as disgusting because you don't trust them.

If you replace Jesus with serial killers, you get teh same argument, and it's just as silly. I don't, however, need to know they are disgusting through trust. THere are things called OBJECTIVE ETHICAL theories, which do this for me.

Quote:
Tigerlilly:
They are more than that. Spelling, Grammar, Cartography, Directions, Logic, HISTORY. If the Bible is the word of God, there shouldn't be grammatical errors, logical errors, scientific contradictions, poor cartography and crappy directional skills.

Is God a moron? People aren't even that stupid. I know you can't go south to go north. What fool doesn't know that?


Quote:
Tigerlilly: There really is no son of God. Jesus is God, so they are really one and the same. That's like me dividing into two people simultaniously and saying he's my son.

And trusting that it's right because the Bible or Jesus say so is the appeal to Authority Fallacy.


Quote:
Tigerlilly: As to Biblican History, it's wrong about a lot of things, including the life of Herod, the famous "path" of Jesus, as well as the details about Pilotes. It's also with no foundation for all of Exodus. It's ludicrous.


Quote:
Tigerlilly: So now you are appealing to something that's physically/ logically impossible--mircale workers. If you have to believe in something that has no evidence..that's not good.


Quote:
Tigerlilly: So the only people who can critique it fairly are the ones who believe it. That's like saying no one can criticize communism because they're not a communist. No one except those inspired by the divine knoweldge of the almighty Stalin or Lenin or Marx may understand this triumphant work!


Quote:
Tigerlilly: Basically, God procrastinates and shouves his workload onto his minions and slaves--the christians, and they feel blessed that he gives them the work.

Wow. Can I let you do my homework and then you can be blessed? Shucks, if it's that easy to get fools to do stuff...


Quote:
Tigerlilly: Translating now: *beebdoobeeb beeb beeb* I am actually being a slave of God...it's absolutely amazing!


Quote:
Tigerlilly: They live normal, happy, free lives and they don't go insane.


Quote:
Tigerlilly: HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA. I am sorry. I just crapped my pants that was so funny. God and justice don't even go together. It's an oxymoron.


Here are the comments that I could actually respond to, if I choose. I may do so later.
Translation: I cannot come up with a rational explantion for the failure of my bullshit, therefore I might come back with some answer if I am not too cowardly, or, I might come back with more lies and make you go through the whole process all over again. --end translation.

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Tigerlilly:

Well, this is definately the end of it.
Tigerlilly wrote:
Translation: I cannot come up with a rational explantion for the failure of my bullshit, therefore I might come back with some answer if I am not too cowardly, or, I might come back with more lies and make you go through the whole process all over again. --end translation.
You've resorted to an argument of pure insults. I'm sorry, but there's no discussion anymore. You're on my ignore list. I hope you are able to refrain from this type of specticle with others and have a meaningful debate down the road.

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Dilettante wrote: Of course, Greenlight would probably try to argue that
Dilettante wrote: I think Greenlight is...
Dilettante wrote: Here Greenlight thinks he is...
Dilettante wrote: I bet Greenlight would...
Well, I'm quoting these because... I don't quite understand.

You're quoting me, but you're not talking to me... are you searching for people to agree with you? Or... are you searching for people to defend me? Do you want me to respond to this post, or is it just a few of your thoughts/comments/opinions?

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You've resorted to an argument of pure insults. I'm sorry, but there's no discussion anymore. You're on my ignore list. I hope you are able to refrain from this type of specticle with others and have a meaningful debate down the road.
As you all have seen, his utter failure to come up with any good points makes him run away.

Insults are fine. I provide proof and logical evidence with them. You prefer style over substance.

There's no debate because you have no logical position

You don't provide evidence when asked, you make logical fallacies, and you ignore.

When you learn to debate points and no jibber on and ignore logical fallacies, then I will treat you like a normal person. Y ou are a Troll and you are trolling, that's it.

You think everything's an opinion, when it's not.

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