Michael Flynn's Shining City on the Hill - For Christians Only

No, no I assure you that Bakker, Swaggert and the 9/11 terrorists were not True Scotsmen

Peasants? What are you, some kind of feudalist? You realize this country fought a war to become independent of feudalists, don’t you? That’s known as “history.” You know, that thing we’ll repeat if we don’t learn.

You obviously value opinion over facts, which’ll stunt your growth worse than cigarettes. Dismissing facts is bad enough. Redefining them as CNN-inspired fake news or “gotcha” games on our part leads to QAnon raids on the capital. That makes you both a feudalist and an anarchist. You like them extremes, don’t you?

The thing about Dunning Kruger is that it works even at a meta level. That is, stupid people don’t recognise that they are stupid, and even if you explain the Dunning Kruger effect they don’t recognise that they don’t recognise that they are stupid.

You’re wasting your time.

There’s plenty of debate, since “strong religious conviction” is not required to have integrity or ethics (or morality). You only think it does because that’s what you want to be true, and you want to use that position to force others into following your beliefs whether they want to or not.

I’ve watched this thread for a bit, wondering if this person would actually answer a question straight or provide support for his statements or even show a bit of rationality. Alll he’s shown is rationalization ability. Feh.

I don’t think its entirely a waste of time. Yes there is no chance that he can actually be convinced to engage in rational debate, but for some poking a troll is fun and so for them this thread has entertainment value. For the rest of us, it keeps him occupied in this thread so that he won’t infect the rest of the board.

I literally posted the entire relevant text of the speech verbatim with no excerpting or redaction back in post 113.

But I understand your desperate need to keep lying about us in order to avoid facing the truth about yourself.

Out of curiosity, how does one recognize that they are stupid? Or smart, for that matter?

No one way. But inability to engage in joined up reasoning is a clue, IMHO.

Or perhaps inability to engage in joined up reasoning that is supported by evidence and facts, anyway? Because if someone thinks that Q is “reasoning”… :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Bearing false witness is a sin, buckaroo.

Obvioustroll is obvious. Even fails at the occasionally provocative entertaining posts from certain eight legged posters, canadian observers, and people who like to name themselves after late 80s tv heroes. Too predictable. Only question i might have is if WW happened to be in DC in the afternoon on Jan 6 2021. Seems the type.

Real question if anyone knows: Someone mentioned Polycarp earlier in the thread. I used to LOVE reading Poly’s posts. Did he just stop? Does anyone know what happened with him?

I mostly recall because his name came up in another thread recently. He passed away in 2013; his wife posted about his passing, using his screenname, in this thread:

Wow. I completely missed this at the time. Thank you @kenobi_65. I think i have some reading to go do.

Punishable by stoning or beheading, Cervaise?

I see, LARPing as a Christian are you?

Peasants are OK until someone comes along and convinces them to take up their pitchforks and make the world right again. Then I do have a problem. That’s why I support public education.

If you were actually a fan of education, you’d understand how absolutely terrible this makes you sound.

If he is a troll, he fully understands how this post(and most of his previous posts) makes him sound.

Yeah, the notion that uneducated peasants are the ones responsible for unlawful violence, because they’ve credulously fallen for some nefarious “someone” “convincing” them to “make the world right again”, does rather reek of elitist class-warfare antagonism.

Basically, anybody referring unironically to “peasants” in a modern developed society is indulging in elitist class-warfare antagonism.

Hmmm I would just call them an asshole and be done with it.