I can see it now. You hire a hypnotist to knock on his door and, when lekatt answers, the hypnotist says, “You’re getting sleepy, very sleeeeeepy.”
I wonder if it would be against the rules to wish that he never have another of his "NDE"s again?
I actually managed to beat it. Nearly drove me insane though.
Just reply to his posts; “You sound tired”
How exactly do you judge how stupid one thing is over another?
There’s so many data points now that trying to distinguish one from another is pointless. Just about every time he says something it can be responded to with ‘Of all the stupid things you’ve said over the years, this is one of them.’
Would be kind of interesting to go through his old posts and pick out the real gems for posterity’s sake though. Not a job I’d wish on my worst enemy, but still.
I already do. I don’t engage you in religion debates anymore, do I?
I know the original part of the thread is old, but is lekatt’s statement really functionally different from “I can’t prove that there is or isn’t a god/gods (‘I don’t deny atheism’), but I believe there is/are,” i.e., an agnostic theist position? Or am I just giving way too much credit here?
Way too much credit-he has face to face conversations with God, and angels visit him at night.
Oh…well then, that is an odd position to hold if you are being visited by angels and actually talking to God.
I thought this was going to be a daily update thread.
Yes, don’t come so close to doing this again. [/jr. mod]
Dunno if there is an “exactly” method. In fact, the one I would suggest necessarily calls for some subjective evaluations.
Take two statements that you would judge as “stupid.”
To the best of your ability, estimate how many IQ points you would need to shed in order to accept each statement as valid.
The one that “costs” more IQ points is the stupider statement.
For a somewhat more precise evaluation, compare how many actual known facts you would have to consider non-factual (or at least suspended) in order for you to accept each statement on its merits.
If you want to complicate your life further, rate the counterfactuals not merely by sheer number, but by cumulative importance.
Almost reported.
This brings up an interesting philosophical question. When lekatt was a little kid, going on long car trips with his family, and his little brother did that thing where you annoy your victim by putting your finger within a couple of millimeters of his arm and saying “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!” did he respond by saying “I know, but now I have a deeper understanding of what being touched by you would be like, and I no longer fear it. I hope to experience it again”?
I’m not sure, but I nearly guffawed at that.
Wow! I just had an NWE*… I guess now I will have to make all my posts drone on about the power of ‘Unconditional Like’**, and piss Czarcasm off.
- Near Warning Experience
** Unconditional Love is reserved for people who had NDEs. I only had an NWE.
Not gonna piss me off-I have NWEs* all the time, living here in Portland, Oregon.
*North West Experience
Didn’t god tell Moses :“No one can see my face and live?”
Moses didn’t have angels tuck him in at night.
I almost clicked Like on this post, except that I can’t.
God and bank robbers have a lot of the same policies. “Do exactly as I say and you won’t get hurt” is another.