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And now you're resorting to logical fallacies. See strategem 28: http://www.mnei.nl/schopenhauer/38-stratagems.htm
This trick is chiefly practicable in a dispute if there is an audience who is not an expert on the subject. You make an invalid objection to your opponent who seems to be defeated in the eyes of the audience. This strategy is particularly effective if your objection makes the opponent look ridiculous or if the audience laughs. If the opponent must make a long, complicated explanation to correct you, the audience will not be disposed to listen.
What did sweet little jesus say about modesty and vanity, and which one of the two lets you end up in hell?
That's literally your argument though. It's pointless to continue carrying on because when you're not spiraling off into unrelated topics you're evading the questions, mischaracterizing the points, and being pedantic. So I assume at this point it's probably some form of dishonesty, though I initially provided the benefit of the doubt.
You might also have lost the dispute, and now try to weasel your way out via gaslighting, casting doubt upon the integrity of your opponent, and so on.
But that's okay. It wasn't my intention to convince you to become an evil misanthropic nihilist or something like that. I was just chatting, and to be honest, it took up too much of my time, which I should have spent coding. So have a nice time. No hard feelings, and such.
You might also have lost the dispute, and now try to weasel your way out via gaslighting, casting doubt upon the integrity of your opponent, and so on.
Well that's thankfully something only you have to be concerned about, since I know what my thoughts and intentions are. How many messages was it of repeatedly misinterpreting my messages, my clarifying to you my message, and hammering my critique of Atheism repeatedly before you did actually provide a semblance of a response to what my point actually was? This is why I'm assuming foul play of you because you're still doing it to such an extent now that I'm just like "this isn't worth it", and I have trouble believing that someone this knowledgeable would be doing this absent mindedly, unless you're on the autism spectrum or some shit. So it's actually because I think highly of you that I am suspicious of your behavior in this regard. Not as some tactic to "win" an online discussion, which is stupid.
And especially given your previous behavior, where you mysteriously respond after 3 days and then trip over yourself to begin posting our conversation on other message boards. Which I've honestly never seen before, and comes off as suspicious and bizarre. I even called you out for how bizarre and suspicious your message was before finding out later that day that you did that, to which I thought "aha that makes a lot more sense now".
So that's where I'm at right now. But likewise, I hope you have a good afternoon. I consider every conversation valuable, even with the stupidest of people (not saying you fall into that category), because it can challenge you to find new information or think of things in a different light or whatever else.
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