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Any Downside to Atheism?
- Thread starter Cobblestones
- Start date
Magic Man
Reaper of Conversation
It's not meant to rebut anything. It's meant to inform you that it's hard to tell from your posts what it is you're expecting us to rebut. Maybe you should try harder to make your point comprehensible.
Alceste
Vagabond
McBell
Admiral Obvious
perhaps thief is merely employing the age old:
"when all else fails, baffle them with bull ****"?
I mean why shouldn't he, it works so well with so many religions......
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Your.... TYPING style.... reminds me of this guy:
I don't watch this program...I can't relate.
But I know it's been on tv a long time.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Yeah well....I don't follow congregation....because of the undue head nodding.
So...When you read my post, you don't get it.
That's probably because of the set-up, that forums are.
By structure this thread stands alone.
But threads should be interwoven.
If something here seems out of place, it's because the supportive discussion is in some other thread.
To bring it all together it is needful to click my call name and find similar threads.
McBell
Admiral Obvious
Yes, I am sure that that is what it is....
Thief
Rogue Theologian
It is poor grammar to butt two 'that's ...side by side.
McBell
Admiral Obvious
says who?
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Some nun in my last year of grade school.
OmarKhayyam
Well-Known Member
She was wrong. Nuns often are. The double 'that' is sometimes necessary. As in:
". . . for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live."
There is no other way to express that thought w/o a long and convoluted construct. Don't believe it? Try it yourself.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Magic Man
Reaper of Conversation
It's generally a good idea to use good grammar when correcting someone else's grammar.
(As in those should be quotation marks and there's no need for the "...")
Besides, there's nothing wrong with saying "that that".
McBell
Admiral Obvious
that would work.
Unless of course the nation in question is not "this" nation, but is, in fact, "that" nation....
Thief
Rogue Theologian
....for those who gave their lives so that nation could live....
Alceste
Vagabond
I think your nun mixed up bad grammar with poor style. What is correct not necessarily stylish.
Anyway, putting ellipses all over your posts not only makes your voice in my head sound like Horatio Caine, but is also genuinely incorrect.
I'm surprised your nun didn't tell you this.Vile Atheist
Loud and Obnoxious
I think your nun mixed up bad grammar with poor style. What is correct not necessarily stylish.
Anyway, putting ellipses all over your posts not only makes your voice in my head sound like Horatio Caine, but is also genuinely incorrect.
Not to mention.......
The ceaseless.....
.........line-breaks......
..........
Vile Atheist
Loud and Obnoxious
I keep thinking he's trying to write in Haiku