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bobevenson wrote:I just realized there is absolutely nothing I could say or evidence I could produce to ever make you change your collectively closed minds, which are apparently hermetically sealed against who knows what.

Reverend Bob, I'm confused. If you don't know what the unbeliever's mind is sealed against, who is this 'who' who knows what?

bobevenson wrote:I just realized there is absolutely nothing I could say or evidence I could produce to ever make you change your collectively closed minds, which are apparently hermetically sealed against who knows what.

Well it's good to see that you finally realize that all your claims and evidence have amounted to absolutely nothing substantive. If you were to present something of value that could be verified, perhaps someone here might consider it, but so far you have given us nothing.

uwot wrote:

bobevenson wrote:I just realized there is absolutely nothing I could say or evidence I could produce to ever make you change your collectively closed minds, which are apparently hermetically sealed against who knows what.

Reverend Bob, I'm confused. If you don't know what the unbeliever's mind is sealed against, who is this 'who' who knows what?

I suppose people can have closed minds to protect themselves from the truth.

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[quote="bobevenson"
I suppose people can have closed minds to protect themselves from the truth.[/quote]

As you so ably demonstrate.

bobevenson wrote:I suppose people can have closed minds to protect themselves from the truth.

Well, of course... and that describes YOU. That is what keeps you "hermetically sealed" against who knows what (as you put it). The trippy thing is, you think it's everyone else who is closed off... yet it is you who sees NO value or validity in ANY view beyond your own limited scope. And to continually protect it, you ignore questions and feedback that challenge or expand beyond your views or statements in any way. (Thinking of yourself as a divine prophet in your own bubble is meaningless to everyone else.)

Really, Bob... there is ALWAYS SO MUCH MORE TO SEE! Why don't YOU want to see that?

bobevenson wrote:I suppose people can have closed minds to protect themselves from the truth.

and ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!

Lacewing wrote:You who sees NO value or validity in ANY view beyond your own limited scope.

I guess that's true if you mean my own divinely limited scope.

bobevenson wrote:

Lacewing wrote:You who sees NO value or validity in ANY view beyond your own limited scope.

I guess that's true if you mean my own divinely limited scope.

Sure, we can call it that... as long as that's what we call everyone else's scope. After all, why would other people not be divine too?

Lacewing wrote:

bobevenson wrote:

Lacewing wrote:You who sees NO value or validity in ANY view beyond your own limited scope.

I guess that's true if you mean my own divinely limited scope.

Sure, we can call it that... as long as that's what we call everyone else's scope. After all, why would other people not be divine too?

Other people can be divinely inspired, but I'd like to see their credentials.

I've had a vision.
I now declare that I am divinely inspired. God has been telling me this for years, but I'd not realised just how important it is to recognise the divinity in everything we do!!

Thus I now repeat what God has been telling me for years: Bob is Deluded; he is wrong about nearly everything; Ouzo is a hoax; the rest of the stuff he bangs on about including the American Energy Party is all rubbish.
In fact there is no AEP. A 'party" implies people. The AEP is one person; one very deluded grumpy narrow minded parochial moron. God has told me this, and now I tell it you you all.

H.C., your inspiring insights ring of truth!

Bob, no one needs credentials in order to have divine insights. DUH!

Hobbes' Choice wrote:I've had a vision.
I now declare that I am divinely inspired. God has been telling me this for years, but I'd not realised just how important it is to recognise the divinity in everything we do!!

Thus I now repeat what God has been telling me for years: Bob is Deluded; he is wrong about nearly everything; Ouzo is a hoax; the rest of the stuff he bangs on about including the American Energy Party is all rubbish.
In fact there is no AEP. A 'party" implies people. The AEP is one person; one very deluded grumpy narrow minded parochial moron. God has told me this, and now I tell it you you all.

Let me know when you or anybody else comes up with actual mystical credentials attesting to their divine inspiration.

bobevenson wrote:Let me know when you or anybody else comes up with actual mystical credentials attesting to their divine inspiration.

Bob, no one needs fucking credentials to have divine inspiration! What the hell is wrong with you? It makes absolutely no sense. Credentials don't guarantee anything, and divinity doesn't require fucking credentials.

I realize this invalidates the foundation you've built your self-worth on... but it's the truth, and your wackjob position is not built on truth.