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What's the cause of this forum becoming predictable and dreary?
Any insights?
gb
Any insights?
gb
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI've participated in some very interesting debates lately. For example, a JW made an excellent Bible-based case against the idea of eternal damnation in Hell. This was certainly new to me and was thus anything but predictable.
Sounds as if your vision is becoming impaired or that you've lapsed into denial.
Originally posted by josephwI submit myself as an exception. I don't think I know all the answers, and I conceded two debates recently. There was also no problem staying on topic. Sure, some other people posted some other random stuff, but it was easy to ignore it.
Everyone thinks they know all the answers, and the inability to stay on topic.
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby"If you're bored, you're boring."
[b]What's the cause of this forum becoming predictable and dreary?
Any insights?
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Originally posted by josephwWell, perhaps you should speak for yourself. Like SwissGambit, I don't think I know all the answers either. I do however think that the quintessentially human ability to doubt is sometimes in short supply here. It doesn't inhibit good discussions, though. If you don't agree, perhaps it's an issue for you, rather than a problem with the degree to which exposure to fairly well considered and yet different ideas that's on offer here.
Everyone thinks they know all the answers, and the inability to stay on topic.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyOver time the characters on the forum - who are not very numerous nor probably representative - become predictable and clearly repeat similar lines of argument. That may be because they are boring or because you have been unable to make anything interesting out of the process. Or maybe it is just that you have got past the "saying hello" stage and you have no useful ideas about where to go next because you are not actually interested in them as people with quite different mind sets to yours.
[b]What's the cause of this forum becoming predictable and dreary?
Any insights?
gb[/b]
Originally posted by karoly aczelIt is a mistake to discount their ill formed opinions as childish when they are gaining significant political weight, not least in the education systems of Britain and, far more so, in the US. Dawkins, for instance, has no reason to doubt the weight of scientific evidence behind evolutionary theory and in the context of a university lecture theatre could afford to dismiss as pig ignorant any student expressing confusion on the matter. It is not doubts about his science but anger and fear over the destructive and reactionary political impact of Christians that drives his public arguments.
Childish christians, for a start
Originally posted by finneganEven the best interpretations of christianity are childish.
It is a mistake to discount their ill formed opinions as childish when they are gaining significant political weight, not least in the education systems of Britain and, far more so, in the US. Dawkins, for instance, has no reason to doubt the weight of scientific evidence behind evolutionary theory and in the context of a university lecture theatre could af ...[text shortened]... ll with it - Dawkins has it exactly right. Nuances and subtlety do not work. Depends on my mood.
Originally posted by finneganWell reasoned. Thanks.
Over time the characters on the forum - who are not very numerous nor probably representative - become predictable and clearly repeat similar lines of argument. That may be because they are boring or because you have been unable to make anything interesting out of the process. Or maybe it is just that you have got past the "saying hello" stage and you have ...[text shortened]... owever, the Forum does often seem predictable and drab. Then it is time to play some chess.