General Discussion Of Moderation Procedures (aka 'The Whine List')

He could man up and discuss something substantive.I mean, he could in principle.You know, hypothetically. In an alternate universe. If he was someone else.

Really? You've been peddling this exact brand of pusillanimous nonsense since last May, when you started a thread to describe them as "foul" and "severely biased", and so far from banning you they promoted it for discussion.So if they let you make direct personal attacks on them, and have been putting up for this for a year or more, then I think they'd also let you snivel out some nonsense actually germane to evolution or creationism; and I think that if you're not completely gutless you might give that a try.

I like to debate on this one, as you must be aware. It was no great strain on my virile fortitude to tell you what you already know.

That would be more methodological than substantive.

Oh, he does other things too, be fair. There's the posturing, the self-pitying whining, the dishonesty, and the hilarious excuses for not engaging in actual debate.

A phrase which should ideally not appear in the midst of a drivel of stupid lies.If you wish to debate, try doing it here, on a forum where people actually post, and see if anyone stops you.

Well look on the bright side --- if she drops below 300 pounds she might be able to get out of bed.

Yes, but as everyone seems to have that effect on you this is hardly a reflection on me.

For example, we interact with them by not calling them "the worst scumbags on earth". That's a sure sign of being hateful and rage-drenched. Then maybe they're suffering from projection as much as you are.

But, my dear foreveryoung, I am not blind to my own emotions. If I were consumed by rage, I should know about it. It is I suppose true that like everyone else, sometimes I don't know if I'm acting badly, or I make internal excuses for it --- but it is also true that like everyone else I know whether or not I'm feeling angry, just as I know whether I'm feeling pain or unhappiness. When I do feel angry, I suppose I may sometimes tell myself that my anger is justified, and I may sometimes be wrong about that, but I am not wrong about whether I am angry, that's a whole 'nother question. You, on the other hand, are blind to my emotions, which take place in my brain and not yours; you therefore have both the means to deceive yourself about what my emotions are and a fairly obvious motive for doing so.

Unfortunately many of them might agree with him that we are the epitome of evil.

Well, y'know, I don't like to brag, but yes. I'm probably not the epitome of evil. Maybe a paradigm for it, but not an actual epitome.

If you stub your toe against a wall, and acknowledge your own pain, do you think that that makes you "able to clearly see" the same pain in the wall?Seriously, you identify "the worst scumbags on earth" as people who tell you that you're wrong about biology. Seriously, you think people who correct your naive errors in biology (usually politely) are worse than pedophile rapists, cannibal serial killers, mad dictators, active participants in genocide? --- all of whom inhabit the planet along with me and Theodoric?Well then, you've lost all sense of proportion. There is no meaningful system of morality that involves the protection of your ego as it relates to your grasp of the life sciences and identifies that as the highest moral value.And when you further tell us that we must feel the same way about you because you disagree with us about biology --- then you have lost your grip on reality. Obviously we don't. You are the only person I've ever met who feels so passionately about your opinions about biology and geology and so forth that you think that the people who disagree with you on those subjects are the worst people on earth, displacing genocidal maniacs and cannibal serial killers from the top spot. Obviously I don't feel the same way about you. I'm not nuts.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Pique is, I suppose, a reason. But not a good one.

Except that someone who describes himself as a "Christian counselor" might influence him just the other way.If a Muslim feels that he wants to blow up some infidels, does he necessarily need to talk to the nearest imam for advice?