Have you ever been substantively wrong online?

[Provost Harrison]

You can say that again, spambot.

[Kitschum]

Thank you. has been very good.

[SpencerH]

I like this description from wiki

Some nonreligious people, such as author Philip Pullman, identify as both agnostic and atheist saying, "So I'm caught between the words 'atheistic' and 'agnostic'. I've got no evidence whatever for believing in a god. But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know".

[BeBMan]

I think this thread shows that we need additional research to determine the color of those invisible unicorns.

[Docfeelgood]

I'm very seldom ever correct. I enjoy learning from my mistakes.

[notyoueither]

So you've been substantively wrong in real life and online, yes.

loinburger, I used to be one of those "I'm an agnostic, not an atheist!" pussies because I didn't really understand what the words meant. It was actually an argument with you that cured me of that misapprehension and made me realize I met the definition of an actual atheist.

It is not being a pvssy to not accept mechanistic explanations of the world, the universe, and everything, and to not accept any defined God or gods.

You were weak, brother.

Edit: Pvssy is on the * list?

[notyoueither]

It strikes me that the big bang was an incredibly energetic event. Was that where we all came from? Where did the energy come from?

[notyoueither]

I was wrong to assume that the US adminstration would commit to the force necessary to win the peace in Iraq and Afghanistan. They have come around and one hopes it is not too late.

[Lorizael]

I have become far more compassionate on the plight of the poor, willing to sacrifice some economic efficiency to help out those in need and being against the death penalty and the uber-consumerist society we are in (which I championed when I was younger).

Interesting Imran. I shifted the other way.

[MOBIUS]

Whenever I'm wrong I admit it there and then in the thread. But then that doesn't happen very often and I can't actually remember a particular episode lately, so it can't have been very important stuff anyway...

Actually, I'm mostly always substantively right online, to the extent that I lately I've actually stuck my neck out and started predicting stuff, which then generally comes to pass.

My favourites are knowing I'm right on subjects where my opponents don't have the slightest clue they're wrong. Iraq is a case in point there. God(s) also can't be demonstrably proven to exist, but then he/she/it/they (delete as appropriate to your mistaken beliefs) can't completely be demonstrably proved to be false either, though any right thinking person knows this to be the case. It is funny laughing at religious people though, oh and climate change deniers...

[Imran Siddiqui]

[Al B. Sure!]

Ben shifted to being far less compassionate towards the poor, less willing to sacrifice economic efficiency to help those in need, etc. That is what he's laughing at.

[Ben Kenobi]

Ben shifted to being far less compassionate towards the poor, less willing to sacrifice economic efficiency to help those in need, etc. That is what he's laughing at.

It was a dig at Imran's framing of the issue more than anything else. You seem to have accepted what I said at face value.

Al, I believe very strongly that Charity should be left to the individual. Lots of folks have helped me and I try to help where I can. I do not believe that the state should be mugging people so that they can redistribute the cash to those that it favours.

I see little evidence that a state which lacks income taxes has poorer poor people, in fact, it's just the opposite.

[giblets]

Helping those in need is economically efficient.

[Al B. Sure!]

Actually, the truth is just the opposite. I don't believe shelving the responsibility to help others on the state is a Christian act. So I'd argue in believing that charity should be left to the individual, not the state is both a Christian believe and a rejection of Communism.

Given the complaint that America is a right wing nation and yet primarily Christian, would seem to indicate that Christianity isn't going to be a leftist ideology.

Liberation Theology?