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Why the Atheists Always Lose to Good Theist Debaters

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
I was just thinking, I've never seen anyone really win or lose in a debate here. Maybe if the site could somehow implement a debate scoring system and have a pop-up declaring your official victory at some point, I would be more motivated to participate in debates for the sake of debate.
I participate in debate to learn more about how others think.
This in turn influences my perceptions of other theologies and philosophies, and at times has influenced my own religious philosophy.
Also defending ones own ideas encourages one to learn more about what one is defending.
I have also been educated, and attempt to educate.

It's not all about 'winning and losing'.
 

Midnight Pete

Well-Known Member
I was just thinking, I've never seen anyone really win or lose in a debate here. Maybe if the site could somehow implement a debate scoring system and have a pop-up declaring your official victory at some point, I would be more motivated to participate in debates for the sake of debate.

It would be a lot more satisfying that way, wouldn't it? :D

A debate can go on and on indefinitely if:

a) No one ever concedes defeat
b) No one ever withdraws
c) No one acknowledges a "point" made by the opponent
 

Skwim

Veteran Member
I was just thinking, I've never seen anyone really win or lose in a debate here. Maybe if the site could somehow implement a debate scoring system and have a pop-up declaring your official victory at some point, I would be more motivated to participate in debates for the sake of debate.
It's not whether one wins or loses, but how pathetic you can make the other guy's argument look.
 

The_Evelyonian

Old-School Member
I participate in debate to learn more about how others think.
This in turn influences my perceptions of other theologies and philosophies, and at times has influenced my own religious philosophy.
Also defending ones own ideas encourages one to learn more about what one is defending.
I have also been educated, and attempt to educate.

It's not all about 'winning and losing'.

Here here.
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
I was just thinking, I've never seen anyone really win or lose in a debate here. Maybe if the site could somehow implement a debate scoring system and have a pop-up declaring your official victory at some point, I would be more motivated to participate in debates for the sake of debate.
I've toyed with the idea of doing that here as a one-on-one debate. I do formal debating in RL and I would like to figure out some way to translate the concept to the online world.

If you're interested, maybe we could decide on a topic, format and scoring method, and then have a quick one-on-one debate on something.
 

Willamena

Just me
Premium Member
How does one physically experience a concept?
One doesn't. Empirical experiences are physical. Mental experiences are mental.

Edit: I worded that poorly. "Mental" is the empirical experience of thinking, so both are empirical. I should have said physical experiences are empirically physical, and mental experiences are empirically mental.
 
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Autodidact

Intentionally Blank
I was just thinking, I've never seen anyone really win or lose in a debate here. Maybe if the site could somehow implement a debate scoring system and have a pop-up declaring your official victory at some point, I would be more motivated to participate in debates for the sake of debate.

Sounds like a fun idea. At the Oxford (or is it Cambridge?) debates they score by taking a vote before and after. Whomever changed more people's minds wins.
 

Midnight Pete

Well-Known Member
One doesn't. Empirical experiences are physical. Mental experiences are mental.

Edit: I worded that poorly. "Mental" is the empirical experience of thinking, so both are empirical. I should have said physical experiences are empirically physical, and mental experiences are empirically mental.

But mind and body *are* connected...
 

St Giordano Bruno

Well-Known Member
And HERE, and HERE, and Here

I'm calling SPAM.

Oops. I see that 9-10ths_Penguin beat me to it.

So that old coin in the box thing has been pasted and copied a lot more extensively throughout the internet than I first thought. He has been busy paste and copying it everywhere I am not sure what point he is trying to make trolling away with this because when I first read it I just thought he was confusing atheism with solipsism.
:troll:
 
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dogsgod

Well-Known Member
God does exist, as a belief. Beyond that I can't be bothered to argue anymore except to say that the behavior of those that do hold a believe in God are being observed by scientists, so
You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why...

He's making a list
And checking it twice;
Gonna find out
Who's naughty and nice
 
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