How (Not) To Engage Atheists Into A Discussion - The Atheist Experience #609

"How (Not) To Engage Atheists Into A Discussion." This is a clip from The Atheist Experience #609, "Guerilla TV (from the couch): Our first live TV show without a TV studio", with Matt Dillahunty and Martin Wagner: http://blip.tv/file/2249090
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@mahogonywhisper So ... ( 8 months ago by Dionysus187)

@mahogonywhisper So is copy/pasting pages of stuff some other guy wrote as your argument.

@mahogonywhisper no ... ( 8 months ago by MadMAn12gauge)

@mahogonywhisper no it is an honest thing to say you jack ass....how many people that get mail do you actually think read them? or what decision making process they use to determine whether or not they read it?
Well not many people tell you that they will delete your mail if you say such and such,
Mark my words, EVERYONE Deletes messages that gets mail that they dont wanna bother reading....at least Matt explains that they have the courtesy of informing you why they would do that,u are naieve

@MadMAn12gauge OH ... ( 7 months ago by mahogonywhisper)

@MadMAn12gauge OH no! Ignoring it and deleting it is perfectly understandable.. but /ridiculing/ it, that isn't professional. And please do not call me a jack ass, it's not very nice.

@mahogonywhisper ... ( 7 months ago by MadMAn12gauge)

@mahogonywhisper why cant i call you a jackass? you can call me what you want, it doesn't change anything or hurt my feelings, i like to put things on a level where i know who i am dealing with in an honest tone, not some bullshit, i dont like you...i have no time for people that are disingenuous, and dont care to be so myself.
i dont see how ridicule is any different from what we went over. it is nobodies fault that they dont educate themselves before they make assertions...

well ...actually it ... ( 7 months ago by MadMAn12gauge)

well ...actually it is the fucking idiots who put this religion up, that is at fault but they are all dead and could give a shit about us....now we have to deal with all the retards that cant understand the difference between fantasy and reality....and what is sad is that people go out of their way to Force the fantasy to be reality and continue the cycle of "ignorance is bliss attitude"....i dont think so, we all have a responsibility to find the truth, not give up with fantasy hogwash

@MadMAn12gauge o.O ... ( 7 months ago by mahogonywhisper)

@MadMAn12gauge o.O It is honest if you call me a "jackass", yes, because you obviously seem to think I am one... but fortunately I'm not impertinent enough to insult you as you have insulted me. How can you know whether or not you like me, from two or three brief comments on a youtube video? It is good to be honest, and candid, but calling someone a "jackass" because they contended with you isn't honesty- it's just rude, and indecent of you. So please don't do it.

@mahogonywhisper ... ( 7 months ago by MadMAn12gauge)

@mahogonywhisper hmmmm, yeah true enough

@bttrflykiss7701 ... ( 7 months ago by feee99)

@bttrflykiss7701 Good point- and there are plenty of atheists who WANT to believe.

Array ( 6 months ago by mellowmark1)

@mahogonywhisper
Did you not listen to his reasoning before that comment? If someone isn't going to take the time and write what they think in their own words and just paste something from a website essentially having someone else do their arguing for them, why should they take the time to read it?

@mellowmark1 I ... ( 6 months ago by mahogonywhisper)

@mellowmark1 I completely agree. However, I tink it is unproffessional to threaten to "ridicule" someone because of it.

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@bttrflykiss7701 ... ( 4 months ago by DemoraX)

@bttrflykiss7701 unless the co-host is jeff who gets rather offended when he's told he'll burn for eternity :)

@DemoraX I'd say ... ( 4 months ago by Antamar123)

@DemoraX I'd say Jeff is even more abrasive than Matt whenever he gets one of his buttons (Hell being a big one) pushed

'Psychic' or ... ( 2 months ago by cuevarap)

'Psychic' or unusual mental experiences as real & baffling as they can be are most surely attributes in an embryo stage of a still evolving brain. Why jump into "supernatural" (beyond nature) conclusions. We've learned that natural laws are in control of the whole universe. Science will account for these wierd events sooner or latter.

funny thing is... ... ( 2 months ago by Alliedtonone)

funny thing is... 400 years ago these loving god fearing wonderful people would have been gathering round to burn you at the stake for saying such things.... love the channel. its interesting

What is ... ( 1 month ago by Graynumber)

What is votebotting? It didn't look like such a bad thing.

what song is that ... ( 1 month ago by me25422)

what song is that in the beginning and who singin it?

Array ( 1 month ago by Smithpolly)

@cuevarap
It's more likely that "psychic" incidents are. "Only one of those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have four million human beings all jostling each other within the space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be presented which may be striking and bizarre without being criminal. "
Sherlock Holmes story

and then you have ... ( 1 month ago by ophios)

and then you have the people that bitch about how "you don't understand my viewpoint" and when you ask what it is "well I'm not telling"
fine, shut up and come back when you can talk like an adult

@Graynumber A vote ... ( 1 month ago by MrLittletomdj)

@Graynumber A vote bot is a script (program) which allows a single person to register a large number of votes over multiple videos. Vote bots can run automatically and be programmed to actively hunt down vids from a particular uploader. Usually the intent is to vote down a certain vid thus decreasing it's percieved popularity & ultimately make videos invisible to the general public. p.s. It's a terrible thing! =)

@me25422 Red Right ... ( 1 month ago by Zen8804)

@me25422 Red Right Hand by Nick Cave

@ ... ( 11 hours ago by henrytheman74)

@TheAtheistExperience not afriad of HELL but the UNKOWN