Specific arguments you're just SICK of

[Daisy_Mae]

@Stoid

Some things are just self-evident. While it is certainly not true of ALL gay males (cuz I don’t think anyone ever asserted this about gay women), it is undeniably a feature of a certain significant segment of the gay male population. The mere existence of bathouses is a cite, for my money.

And I don’t know about the current young male gay population, but in my day, which was pretty damn promiscuous for everyone (70’s-80’s), my bi-chick self included, the gay guys still outdid us all.

Just sayin’…

If you’re going to use bathouses as a cite for the promiscuity of gay males, certainly you would have to add that the mere existence of certain massage parlors, strip clubs, and whorehouses would be “proof” that all males are promiscuous since a certain significant segment of the straight male population uses such places as “entertainment.”

That isn’t my own belief, but it seems as likely as the bathouse idea.

[Liberal]

@MaxTheVool

Aha, I finally believe I understand what you’re talking about. What you’re saying is that whether an assertion is provable or not has nothing to do with the simple and meaningless question of whether it’s phrased in a superficially negative fashion, and in fact most assertions can be phrased so that they sound negative or sound positive.

You are not, as far as I can tell, commenting on the question of whether it’s possible to prove that Angels don’t exist, as “proving that something doesn’t exist” and “proving a negative” are two different kettles of fish.
Are we now on the same page?

Yes, I think so, substantially at least. But it is possible to prove that something does not exist even in a metaphysical sense. There exist, for example, no triangles with four sides, and the proof is trivial.

[FriarTed]

There’s no evidence that Jesus ever existed. (THAT should be a Sticky!)

[Liberal]

@FriarTed

There’s no evidence that Jesus ever existed. (THAT should be a Sticky!)

Amen. I agree that there could hardly be a more sick argument than that.

[Ludovic]

@Liberal

Amen. I agree that there could hardly be a more sick argument than that.

– Before eight, or it’s too late!
– My race is intrinsically better than your race!
– You are all an illusion, and I am the ultimate arbiter of the universe!
– need I go on?

[Liberal]

@Ludovic

– Before eight, or it’s too late!
– My race is intrinsically better than your race!
– You are all an illusion, and I am the ultimate arbiter of the universe!
– need I go on?

No. […backing up slowly…] You’re doing juuuuust fine. […feeling for door handle…] Thaaaaat’s a good boy. Now, swallow the pill.