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skepticscott

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9. That's just your opinion

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 11:12 AM

Feb 2015

And no more valid than any other.

Personally, I find making Episcopal drinking jokes to deflect from that church's neglecting to address alcohol abuse among its clergy until it's too late to be juvenile.

Goats, on the other hand, are cute. Do you have an actual, concrete objection to them that you can enunciate, or is this just a general scold of people you don't like, for reasons you can't specify?

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Does the individual exist? [View all] stone space Feb 2015 OP

If you self-delete do you exist? TexasProgresive Feb 2015 #1

Goat Trolling. stone space Feb 2015 #2

What's 'goat trolling'? AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #4

It is a fishing technique that uses an array of aquatic goats to capture large Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #18

Perhaps it is not of intrest to many here. TexasProgresive Feb 2015 #6

The only connection I can make between goats and trolls is TexasProgresive Feb 2015 #12

Excellent observations and quite apt under the circumstances. cbayer Feb 2015 #15

I also encourage you to put okasha Feb 2015 #22

Just did it. stone space Feb 2015 #57

One individual, or two? Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #3

I'm fine with individuals not existing. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2015 #5

If we don't exist the concept is pointless rock Feb 2015 #7

I remember back when I was an undergrad, many decades ago. stone space Feb 2015 #10

This goat-trolling is just about the most juvenile thing I have ever seen here. cbayer Feb 2015 #8

That's just your opinion skepticscott Feb 2015 #9

Justin did not make the jokes I did TexasProgresive Feb 2015 #11

Where did I say who made the jokes? skepticscott Feb 2015 #13

As this person allegedly has most of us on ignore, how would she know? Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #14

juvenile, perhaps, but the most appalling thing I've seen here in a while Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #16

And let's not forget skepticscott Feb 2015 #34

Most likely one of my children is transgender only to provide me an excuse to bash religion. Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #39

I doubt she cares skepticscott Feb 2015 #42

I'm pretty sure your husband's attempt to compare marriage equality... trotsky Feb 2015 #17

Agreed. okasha Feb 2015 #21

I guess, but I don't find this kind of harassment very amusing. cbayer Feb 2015 #23

Just a clarification. okasha Feb 2015 #25

Goats are awesome, therefore your argument is irrelevant. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #30

Congrats, AC! trotsky Feb 2015 #35

Gotta level up to win the game. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #47

Understood, okasha. cbayer Feb 2015 #31

That you let so many things from your group of friends slide Goblinmonger Feb 2015 #38

Or telling women who are denied birth control coverage... trotsky Feb 2015 #40

Apparently the posters who got all self-righteous skepticscott Feb 2015 #50

I guarantee you no lessons have been learned. trotsky Feb 2015 #54

Oh, they'll be back, I'm sure. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #61

Status? Give me a break. trotsky Feb 2015 #24

why do you find goats offensive? Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #41

Ok ok, fine. Cabin Cruiser. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #44

No. trotsky Feb 2015 #46

Well, until they sail from skepticscott Feb 2015 #49

What are the options? cbayer Feb 2015 #19

One could take this in more than one direction, I think. stone space Feb 2015 #20

An eddy in the stream? stone space Feb 2015 #55

Even if I am an eddy in the stream, don't I still exist? cbayer Feb 2015 #56

Perhaps, but I have some difficulty... stone space Feb 2015 #58

What just popped into my head is childbirth. cbayer Feb 2015 #59

Another branch in the tree of life. stone space Feb 2015 #60

existence doesn't even exist. so there. unblock Feb 2015 #26

Cogito ergo sum Agnosticsherbet Feb 2015 #27

It may be as the body is made of trillions of individual cells, we are as individual "cells" to the Dont call me Shirley Feb 2015 #28

I think, therefore I yam guillaumeb Feb 2015 #29

What kind of idiot runs from a bear? AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #33

The kind who knows skepticscott Feb 2015 #36

how do you pick out the idiot in a group guillaumeb Feb 2015 #37

I would have asked to make the bear a vegan. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #45

it doesn't work. To a bear, everything that is not another bear is a vegetable. nt. Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #48

so would GOP lawmakers be vegetables guillaumeb Feb 2015 #52

I exist as an individual. You may not. I leave it entirely up to your preference. AtheistCrusader Feb 2015 #32

Not if they want to digest food and metabolize oxygen! arcane1 Feb 2015 #43

It might be useful Newest Reality Feb 2015 #51

You existed until you tried to find yourself. Then Heisenberg on point Feb 2015 #53