MG 2.0 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:46 am
Res Ipsa wrote: ↑Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:09 am
LOL. At least he stuck the flounce.
Honor, I apologize for saying what I did. I may consider you somewhat arrogant, but you are not a bastard. That was beneath me to use that language and not fair to you.
Regards,
MG
The language doesn't matter to me. What I lack patience with, and it is an ongoing issue over numerous threads, actually years at this point, is the pattern that goes like this:
1) You read, hear, see, otherwise consume something that seems to you to be an issue for secularism/criticism of Mormonism/other stuff.
2) Post a link to it on the website along with a post. The post can take one of a few levels of confrontational aggression, from fairly passive to what just happened in this thread re:abiogenesis, but they will include pointing out the credentials of the person producing the information and a comment challenging/inquiring how those who don't believe in a creator god might respond to this source. What it won't contain is a summary of the key arguments in the source. You may quote a bit, but not always.
3) If a counter-source is provided, expect the person posting it to summarize it or otherwise explain to you how it addresses the source you initially shared. This is either ignorant or lazy.
4) If the original source is summarized and the counter-argument presented, fall back to everyone having different capacities for faith so if some don't agree that's to be expected. This is a back-handed insult rather than an informed response.
5) Engage in tit-for-tats until your emotions are triggered enough you let the mask of civility drop. Usually when this happens it's almost cartoonish. You admit to being here fighting secular and liberal evils and attempting to halt their spread like a modern-day crusader. Or, as in this thread, you flounce out in a huff.
6) Repeat.
What you should do after step 1 is take a moment to seek out more about the source, the counter arguments that inevitably exist already, and then, you know, understanding the argument and its counter-arguments so you aren't just posting an appeal to authority.
Also, I don't choose to grab lunch with morons. And frankly until you actually demonstrate you can break the cycle above and actually demonstrate understanding of the material you present rather than shuffle it over like a card game of war where you think you've drawn an ace, you confirm you are, in fact, a moron.
I'm not going to be charitable to you, MG. You need to change instead of hoping these hollow apologies can be a reset button. Hit the real reset button and change your behavior.