Your tooth fairy not mine

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Reply to his points then in open posts. Don't direct questions at him that you know he won't respond to.

Thanks for your advice, but I am fine with the way I currently deal with the topics and the way he behaves.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
If you continually direct posts at somebody who clearly doesn't want to engage with you, how is that not trolling?

It seems that FMF is bitter about having left Christianity, and is picking on KellyJay, in the hope of finding a good reason to masquerade his unconscious wanting to return to Christianity, once more.

I'm filling in for KellyJay, by giving FMF so much attention....I'm a natural martyr. But I need some extra pain killer, in the process.

@pettytalk said
It seems that FMF is bitter about having left Christianity, and is picking on KellyJay, in the hope of finding a good reason to masquerade his unconscious wanting to return to Christianity, once more.

You have called this incorrectly.

@pettytalk said
I'm filling in for KellyJay, by giving FMF so much attention....I'm a natural martyr. But I need some extra pain killer, in the process.

You remind me of Rupert Pupkin.

@fmf said
They are, nevertheless, worthy contributions in a public arena.

I see that you don't have any difficulties with patting yourself in the back.

@pettytalk said
I see that you don't have any difficulties with patting yourself in the back.

Well, it would be strange if someone spent time discussing topics like these while feeling that what they were posting was not a worthwhile contribution.

@kellyjay said
Because logic and reason play no part in your worldview?

No, because belief in a God doesn’t.

@pettytalk said
It seems that FMF is bitter about having left Christianity, and is picking on KellyJay, in the hope of finding a good reason to masquerade his unconscious wanting to return to Christianity, once more.

I'm filling in for KellyJay, by giving FMF so much attention....I'm a natural martyr. But I need some extra pain killer, in the process.

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@moonbus said
No, because belief in a God doesn’t.

I beg to differ if the natural world can’t explain with certainty what is in it, then what is required is something outside of it.

@kellyjay said
I beg to differ if the natural world can’t explain with certainty what is in it, then what is required is something outside of it.

It's ok not to have all the answers Kelly. It doesn't mean we should abandon science and embrace the made up.

@kellyjay said
I beg to differ if the natural world can’t explain with certainty what is in it, then what is required is something outside of it.

Well, that is where you and I disagree. I think the phenomena of nature are explained by natural laws which apply within nature, and that wherever we come across some specific phenomenon which we don't understand, we should keep looking for naturalistic explanations before jumping to transcendental pseudo-explanations. My reason for believing this is that mankind were once puzzled by all manner of natural phenomena, including diseases, earthquakes, eclipses, lightning, thunder storms, birth defects, and literally millions of other phenomena, and in every case, by careful reasoning and gathering of evidence, we have discovered only naturalistic causes and no transcendental causality at work.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
It's ok not to have all the answers Kelly. It doesn't mean we should abandon science and embrace the made up.

There is no abandoning science, it is like if you are looking for your keys in the living room because the lights are better at some point you look elsewhere. Restricting your search to only the material leaves out the immaterial.

@kellyjay said
There is no abandoning science, it is like if you are looking for your keys in the living room because the lights are better at some point you look elsewhere. Restricting your search to only the material leaves out the immaterial.

Yes, of course, but if you know you lost your keys somewhere on planet Earth, you don't go looking for them in Never-never-land.

I don't deny the immaterial. But that still leaves us with a large field of investigation of completely naturalistic explanations, without jumping to transcendental pseudo-explanations.