Insanity and RF topics

[Unveiled Artist]

Insanity is asking the same question (or saying the same thing repeatedly) and expecting a different response.

Adapted quote contributed to Einstein. Is there some truth to this in RF conversations?

I don't see this near as much on religious topics as I see it on coronavirus threads.

Does Einstein have a point and/or does repeating oneself have some benefit?

When some believers repeat scriptures by heart maybe one out of fifty nonbelievers they speak with may be interested in being a convert. However, religiously and politically after the third or fourth rephrase and repeat the intention looses it's umph. Does it work?

What say you?

 

[The Hammer]

I say you talk about Covid a lot for not desiring to participate or engage in Covid topics

 

[Jimmy]

Insanity is asking the same question (or saying the same thing repeatedly) and expecting a different response.

Adapted quote contributed to Einstein. Is there some truth to this in RF conversations?

I don't see this near as much on religious topics as I see it on coronavirus threads.

Does Einstein have a point and/or does repeating oneself have some benefit?

When some believers repeat scriptures by heart maybe one out pf fifty nonbelievers they speak with may be interested in being a convert. However, religiously and politically after the third or fourth rephrase and repeat the intention looses it's umph. Does it work?

What say you?

Spiritual stuff is simple for me and threads disappear here quicker than rabbits at a magic show so….


God=infinite space
Life
Destrucruction/creation life
Coming back to live again
Love

that’s about all she wrote for me regarding spirituality

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I say you talk about Covid a lot for not desiring to participate or engage in Covid topics

Haha. Least I don't ask the same question unless the other rephrase what they say to make the same point. Snowball effect.

Topic is irrelevant.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

Spiritual stuff is simple for me and threads disappear here quicker than rabbits at a magic show so….


God=infinite space
Life
Destrucruction/creation life
Coming back to live again
Love

that’s about all she wrote for me regarding spirituality

I can't find the connection to the OP. What do you mean?

 

[Valjean]

The quotation is just an illustration of faulty thinking.

 

[Jimmy]

I can't find the connection to the OP. What do you mean?

I think it’s clear

 

[Unveiled Artist]

The quotation is just an illustration of faulty thinking.

Do you believe there's benefit in the quote message?

 

[Valjean]

Do you believe there's benefit in the quote message?

Well, it was just a humorous retort, meant to illustrate the obvious. I suppose there can be benefit in pointing out the obvious.

 

[sun rise]

Covid is not even close to a repetition champion. Religion is. But you are, of course, free to ignore threads you find repetitious while those of us who don't find them so are free to continue to read and post in them.

 

[sun rise]

And why have the click-bait thread title that did not mention Covid when you meant Covid and not repetition in general.

 

[Mock Turtle]

I think the Einstein quote is about doing something repeatedly and expecting a different result (as being insanity), when it might actually be about perseverance, in that a small unnoticed change might produce a different result, and one much appreciated if it led to discovery of something.

 

[Secret Chief]

If someone doesn't like the responses they get from others then some might try again with another thread on the same topic but with a new angle. Obviously RF has this happening all the time. The trump fraud nonsense is just one example.

 

[exchemist]

Insanity is asking the same question (or saying the same thing repeatedly) and expecting a different response.

Adapted quote contributed to Einstein. Is there some truth to this in RF conversations?

I don't see this near as much on religious topics as I see it on coronavirus threads.

Does Einstein have a point and/or does repeating oneself have some benefit?

When some believers repeat scriptures by heart maybe one out of fifty nonbelievers they speak with may be interested in being a convert. However, religiously and politically after the third or fourth rephrase and repeat the intention looses it's umph. Does it work?

What say you?

With coronavirus, both the situation and our knowledge are changing rapidly, so it should not be surprising that what may seem to be the same topic may come up repeatedly, in the context of some new information.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Insanity is asking the same question (or saying the same thing repeatedly) and expecting a different response.

Adapted quote contributed to Einstein. Is there some truth to this in RF conversations?

Einstein didn't say it.

Doing things repeatedly and expecting different results isn't called "insanity;" it's called "training."

I don't see this near as much on religious topics as I see it on coronavirus threads.

Heh... wait a minute, then.

I take it you haven't been watching the threads about Texas's new anti-abortion laws. Most of the points in there are exactly the same as the last discussion of abortion... which are the same as the points from the time before that when abortion came up, and on, and on...

Does Einstein have a point and/or does repeating oneself have some benefit?

In the COVID-19 threads, venting at irresponsible people has benefit for me at least. It's cathartic for me even if it doesn't change their minds.

When some believers repeat scriptures by heart maybe one out of fifty nonbelievers they speak with may be interested in being a convert. However, religiously and politically after the third or fourth rephrase and repeat the intention looses it's umph. Does it work?

What say you?

A lot of scripture that gets quoted here is done by people who aren't "reading the room" properly. Of course people aren't going to care about the scripture passage if the person quoting it hasn't bothered to establish why people should care about the scripture.

It seems to me that a lot of theists are so certain about their worldview that they have real problems appreciating the perspective of people who don't share their fundamental beliefs.

Also, it's worth pointing out that we get the same arguments here from multiple people.

It seems like there are a handful of bad books with "irrefutable arguments for God" or the like, and they get taught to people who - clad in the "armour of truth" and wielding this new apologetic "sword of righteousness - come to forums like this to convince atheists, not aware that the arguments they're using were refuted a long, long time ago and have been brough forward in the forum many, many times already.

 

[Firelight]

Insanity is asking the same question (or saying the same thing repeatedly) and expecting a different response.

Adapted quote contributed to Einstein. Is there some truth to this in RF conversations?

I don't see this near as much on religious topics as I see it on coronavirus threads.

Does Einstein have a point and/or does repeating oneself have some benefit?

When some believers repeat scriptures by heart maybe one out of fifty nonbelievers they speak with may be interested in being a convert. However, religiously and politically after the third or fourth rephrase and repeat the intention looses it's umph. Does it work?

What say you?

Since joining RF, I‘ve learned how insane some evolutionists are in regards to your quote. They keep repeating the same stuff over and over and over, again and again and again, thinking they’ll get a different belief out of an opposer.

It seems they follow each other around to gang up on an opposer of the theory of evolution. They say nearly the same thing as the other individuals of their gang, yet each one demands their own personal response from the opposer. It’s like they are in a contest with each other racing to be the one that’s going to convince the opposer to come to their side.

Then, the opposer may go to a different forum unrelated, but evolution comes up again. An evolutionist gives the exact same long explanations as though the opposer has never heard it all explained to them before. Insanity, total insanity.

I haven’t been on any coronavirus threads, I refuse.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Since joining RF, I‘ve learned how insane some evolutionists are in regards to your quote. They keep repeating the same stuff over and over and over, again and again and again, thinking they’ll get a different belief out of an opposer.

It seems they follow each other around to gang up on an opposer of the theory of evolution. They say nearly the same thing as the other individuals of their gang, yet each one demands their own personal response from the opposer. It’s like they are in a contest with each other racing to be the one that’s going to convince the opposer to come to their side.

Then, the opposer may go to a different forum unrelated, but evolution comes up again. An evolutionist gives the exact same long explanations as though the opposer has never heard it all explained to them before. Insanity, total insanity.

I haven’t been on any coronavirus threads, I refuse.

Yeah, it's so frustrating, not having some religious text to rely on. And where the religious can all shout in unison - because they are often trained to do so - or indoctrinated uncritically as some might see it.

 

[Firelight]

Yeah, it's so frustrating, not having some religious text to rely on. And where the religious can all shout in unison - because they are often trained to do so - or indoctrinated uncritically as some might see it.

I have no idea what you are talking about. How does it relate to what I said?

 

[Mock Turtle]

I have no idea what you are talking about. How does it relate to what I said?

No idea what you are talking about.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Since joining RF, I‘ve learned how insane some evolutionists are in regards to your quote. They keep repeating the same stuff over and over and over, again and again and again, thinking they’ll get a different belief out of an opposer.

You have to remember that they have a major limitation: "evolutionists" are stuck arguing only what's supported by evidence.

Creationists don't have this limitation, so they're able to get more creative with their arguments.