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Atheists & Agnostics

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skepticscott

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3. As Goethe said
Sun Jun 2, 2013, 07:55 AM
Jun 2013

Last edited Sun Jun 2, 2013, 02:57 PM - Edit history (1)

you can either be the hammer or the anvil. Perhaps that's too aggressive a metaphor, but I prefer an aggressive approach in such cases, to the point where it will do any good, at least. Very often, these types of people will blather on irrationally forever, needing to get the last word in every time, no matter how badly they've been beaten down. All you can do in such cases is to make your best argument, one that will settle things for the rational and reasonable people reading the thread, and then, as Warpy says, just walk away and let them wallow.

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