Hm, so you’re saying I should use my clever trolling skills to promote rationality, instead of to unsuccessfully satirize irrationality?
More or less. I’m saying it’s a successful and rather amusing satire for people here. But by the standards of internet discourse among the teeming multitudes, you’re actually being fairly rhetorically effective. Case in point:
Are you just trying to insult sincere believers with this smear? Because that is NOT how praying works. No SERIOUS Christian actually tries to backup data by praying to God, okay? So I don’t even know what you’re trying to prove with your bigoted smear against sincere Christians… Let me just ask you this: have you ever read any serious works by any serious theologians about the nature of God and prayer?
The “serious theologians” line makes me smile. But that is actually the tack taken by many of the more ‘sophisticated’ goddites. It works rhetorically when you think about it. They are saying we are avoiding our belief’s weak points.
It’s your call… I didn’t quite mean “troll with your actual beliefs,” so much as “use the considerable rhetorical skills you have to advance your sincere position.”
It’s your call… I didn’t quite mean “troll with your actual beliefs,”
Right, I meant that by framing it as a troll exercise I could come with a better phrasing of my argument, not that I would necessarily slip in the angering jabs that make something a genuine troll post.
More or less. I’m saying it’s a successful and rather amusing satire for people here. But by the standards of internet discourse among the teeming multitudes, you’re actually being fairly rhetorically effective. Case in point:
The “serious theologians” line makes me smile. But that is actually the tack taken by many of the more ‘sophisticated’ goddites. It works rhetorically when you think about it. They are saying we are avoiding our belief’s weak points.
Hm, maybe I’ll try to frame my real arguments as trolling, and see if that makes it easier to effectively convey them. Thanks for the idea.
It’s your call… I didn’t quite mean “troll with your actual beliefs,” so much as “use the considerable rhetorical skills you have to advance your sincere position.”
Right, I meant that by framing it as a troll exercise I could come with a better phrasing of my argument, not that I would necessarily slip in the angering jabs that make something a genuine troll post.