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[Eddie Coyle]

Days ago, I clicked on Chosen's link to his blog and ended up reading for over an hour. It was a descent into his madness. You can check it out yourself, but one thing became apparent to me: he's been blocked by YouTube, Amazon, CNN, etc.

I doubt he'll be back here.

Ok, there's at least two of us here who made that mistake. Though I gave up after about 73 seconds, for once my ADD was a blessed gift. Gotta hand to him because he had the funniest avatar, most of us* discard our high school yearbook pictures...he flaunted his. Holy moly.

         * By "us", I mean yooze. There is no high school profile pic of Coyle. I dodged it successfully the first three years and my senior class didn't even have a formal yearbook. The only pics of Coyle in the high school yearbook are in action photos from baseball/football..because I even found a way to avoid getting my picture taken with the team.

[Sardondi]

For some reason of your own choosing, you are giving this person too much credit. Remember, this is someone who another person pointed out believes in Creationism. That is not a science, it is a dogma of choice by religious fundamentalists. Even mainstream Christians do not believe that rubbish.

And because someone has said that he "believes in Creationism"* you are therefore entitled to put words in his mouth? Do you really mean to say that if he espouses faith in Creationism we therefore must presume that he has the animus and ignorance you accuse him of in your charge that he assumes all pedophiles are homosexuals? Now just whose bias and prejudice is showing?


* Although as I recall from his remarks above their gravamen was more antipathy to the theory of evolution. A belief in Creationism and opposition to evolution are two different things. And by the way, "belief" is precisely what every theory of the origins of the universe is, because it is literally unknowable and unprovable. Or do you assert that a belief that the universe exists as the result of an exercise of will by some intelligence is demonstrably false and thus so outlandish as to amount to a belief that the earth is the center of the solar system?

[Juan]

Do we actually know where the edges of the universe are?  If not, how do we know whether or not the earth is at the center? We know it's not the center of the Milky Way nor the solar system, but I'm just not sure about the universe.

[ChandlersDad]

And because someone has said that he "believes in Creationism"* you are therefore entitled to put words in his mouth? Do you really mean to say that if he espouses faith in Creationism we therefore must presume that he has the animus and ignorance you accuse him of in your charge that he assumes all pedophiles are homosexuals? Now just whose bias and prejudice is showing?


* Although as I recall from his remarks above their gravamen was more antipathy to the theory of evolution. A belief in Creationism and opposition to evolution are two different things. And by the way, "belief" is precisely what every theory of the origins of the universe is, because it is literally unknowable and unprovable. Or do you assert that a belief that the universe exists as the result of an exercise of will by some intelligence is demonstrably false and thus so outlandish as to amount to a belief that the earth is the center of the solar system?

Silly Person, have you read his blog?

[Sardondi]

Silly Person, have you read his blog?

No. I could give a shit what his blog says, just as I could give a shit what yours says. The only universe that matters is between the four corners of this website. we're judged on what we do and say here. But you apparently have read it, and it somehow affects your ability to think clearly and logically. Truly you cannot be this dense. Do you really not understand the faultiness of your logic? Your posts are the equivalent of saying, "Because he believes in gravity, he must obviously believe in the asexual reproduction of humans, and so he is a bad person." Don't you get it? His post never said "all pedophiles are homosexual." I don't know and I don't give a shit if his blog screams otherwise - he didn't say it in the post here, and you weren't entitled to draw that conclusion. But you are insistent that because he ascribes to outlandish ideas about evolution, that you are entitled to ascribe other attitudes to him. I've politely tried to point this out to you, and even gently tried to show you your own bias. But you simply will not attend.

Plus I'm really getting tired of you trying to rouse all the right-thinking villagers to grab their pitchforks and torches and go burn down the house of the guy whose thinking doesn't suit you, so that we can maintain the pure narrative. You really seem to think there's a category of people it's okay to hate; and you've tried to prove it several times here. I.don't.like.bullies. So stop trying to be one.

[ManiacMatt]

No. I could give a shit what his blog says, just as I could give a shit what yours says. The only universe that matters is between the four corners of this website. we're judged on what we do and say here. But you apparently have read it, and it somehow affects your ability to think clearly and logically. Truly you cannot be this dense. Do you really not understand the faultiness of your logic? Your posts are the equivalent of saying, "Because he believes in gravity, he must obviously believe in the asexual reproduction of humans, and so he is a bad person." Don't you get it? His post never said "all pedophiles are homosexual." I don't know and I don't give a shit if his blog screams otherwise - he didn't say it in the post here, and you weren't entitled to draw that conclusion. But you are insistent that because he ascribes to outlandish ideas about evolution, that you are entitled to ascribe other attitudes to him. I've politely tried to point this out to you, and even gently tried to show you your own bias. But you simply will not attend.

Plus I'm really getting tired of you trying to rouse all the right-thinking villagers to grab their pitchforks and torches and go burn down the house of the guy whose thinking doesn't suit you, so that we can maintain the pure narrative. You really seem to think there's a category of people it's okay to hate; and you've tried to prove it several times here. I.don't.like.bullies. So stop trying to be one.

I completely agree.