Pissing off the atheists/naturalists

[Sculptor]

I now declare this forum both intellectually and morally bankrupt.

Ha!

If only he would stop posting then the intellectual and moral content would improve.

[Skepdick]

He's a true believer in .. er whatever.

In non-belief.

[Will Bouwman]

I think we've pissed off Skepdick.

I'd know it if you had. Are you projecting?

I already know I have:

You know what, I am reporting you.

Tiny tantrums.

[Will Bouwman]

I now declare this forum both intellectually and morally bankrupt.

Ha!

If only he would stop posting then the intellectual and moral content would improve.

Indeed.

[Skepdick]

I already know I have:

You know what, I am reporting you.

Tiny tantrums.

See. Lies. Tiny tiny self-deceptions. Everywhere.... It festers.

Anyway, have you reported me yet?

[Skepdick]

If only he would stop posting then the intellectual and moral content would improve.

That's true for everyone, but it's significantly and disproportionatelly more true for you and Will.

[Will Bouwman]

If only he would stop posting then the intellectual and moral content would improve.

That's true for everyone, but it's significantly and disproportionatelly more true for you and Will.

Waaah! Another tiny tantrum.

[Will Bouwman]

I already know I have:

You know what, I am reporting you.

Tiny tantrums.

See. Lies. Tiny tiny self-deceptions. Everywhere.... It festers.

Waaah! Tiny tantrum.

Anyway, have you reported me yet?

[Skepdick]

If only he would stop posting then the intellectual and moral content would improve.

That's true for everyone, but it's significantly and disproportionatelly more true for you and Will.

Waaah! Another tiny tantrum.

Shame, did you lose control of your narrative? Would you like a troll-snack?

[Will Bouwman]

That's true for everyone, but it's significantly and disproportionatelly more true for you and Will.

Waaah! Another tiny tantrum.

Shame, did you lose control of your narrative? Would you like a troll-snack?

Waaah! Tiny tantrum.

[Skepdick]

Waaah! Another tiny tantrum.

Shame, did you lose control of your narrative? Would you like a troll-snack?

Waaah! Tiny tantrum.

He's not even embarassed. I guess it happens to everyone at a certain age...

[Will Bouwman]

He's not even embarassed. I guess it happens to everyone at a certain age...

You are a sensitive little sausage, aren't you?

[Skepdick]

He's not even embarassed. I guess it happens to everyone at a certain age...

You are a sensitive little sausage, aren't you?

"Sensitive sausages" is definitely a novel and surprising idea...

[Will Bouwman]

Anyway, back to the point:

I think the volume of flatulence would be much different between bee species due to their varying sizes. Are we talking about a bumblebee or like a smaller yellow jacket?

I’m getting dizzy, reviewing the thread to find out what the significance of the bee fart analogy is. Would anyone care to explain it for me?

Well, Skepdick and I were discussing how much evidence it would take for both of us to formulate a belief. I admitted that I don't have a particular weight of balance that causes me to believe one way or another. Skepdick then claimed that his decision making is so accurate that a shift of one sextillionth from 50/50 is enough for him to make his mind up. This is a claim so preposterous that I compared it to Skepdick being knocked off the fence by a bee fart at 40 paces. This is the actual moment:

I can count while I am sitting on the fence without falling off. My sixtillienth didn't make it 49/51. It's still 50/50.

But a bumble bee's fart at 40 paces is enough to blow you off.

Skepdick has confirmed his claim:

A bee fart would sway me - (future tense)

Presumably realising just how ridiculous that makes him, he has since been trying to claim that a bee fart is relative but, naturally, only a bee fart counting wanker, who lives in his mum's basement knows enough about maths to understand that some bee farts are truly spectacular:

(49/51) / (ω ^ ω) is approaching a paradigm where the multiverse is The Bee God's fart.

If that sort of bollocks fools you, then you are free to believe that Skepdick has supernatural counting skills, and I'm just a dumb philosopher.

[Skepdick]

Well, Skepdick and I were discussing how much evidence it would take for both of us to formulate a belief. I admitted that I don't have a particular weight of balance that causes me to believe one way or another. Skepdick then claimed that his decision making is so accurate that a shift of one sextillionth from 50/50 is enough for him to make his mind up. This is a claim so preposterous that I compared it to Skepdick being knocked off the fence by a bee fart at 40 paces.

Shame, he doesn't even understand why a shift of one sextillionth is the "magic number".

One universe (I'm letting him off the hook about the fine-tuning parameters)
2 trillion planets (that we know of)
13.8 billion years of evolution

(AT LEAST) 27 sextillionth Earth years of the universe doing what it does for us to be right here right now.

And he equates that with a bee fart.

I can only explain it for you. I can't understand it for you.

Fucked if I know what you mean, and fucked if I care. Any reason I should?

Would a paper called Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity do it?