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@YouFound_Lxam
He doesn't exist though...
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@YouFound_Lxam
Why does the bible have authority?
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@YouFound_Lxam
Ok. Thank you for giving up with your argument, because obviously you don't have enough belief in it to continue the argument.
"When you are stupid, you do not know you are stupid — the pain is only felt by others"
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@YouFound_Lxam
To act upon your homosexual desires, or to look at men as a man with lustful intent is a sin.
Why is it a sin.
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I think this conversation is done - your entire predication for this stance, the Christian God, is not even justified so the entire topic here is irrelevant.
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@YouFound_Lxam
You are forcing and threatning gay people by asserting that what they feel is wrong, and that to act in those nonharmful ways will result in eternal burning.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Woah....I never said anything about forcing anyone into anything.
Just as how it's cruel to make a non-boxing fan participate in boxing, isn't it cruel to force a non-hetero to deviate from their homosexuality?
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@YouFound_Lxam
Would you agree then in this circumstance there is nothing practical to do to change this individuals perception on boxing?No. Maybe other things might change their perception on boxing.Examples:Watching others succeed at boxing.Just simply watching boxing.
What if it all fails? I know many people, pacifists or the elderly, who will never love boxing. Would you say then it would be immoral to force them into boxing?
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@YouFound_Lxam
One person might not like boxing, and start to box every day, but even though they do it every day all day, they might not like it.
Would you agree then in this circumstance there is nothing practical to do to change this individuals perception on boxing?
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@YouFound_Lxam
But I don't know, maybe you just haven't realized it yet.
What am I wrong about.
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@YouFound_Lxam
There is no instance where you cannot change your personal desires.
So, through repetition, any given act can become desirable?
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@Public-Choice
Unfortunately, no strawman.
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@YouFound_Lxam
From your debates, you would know about screwing up arguments.At least I don't have an ego, and admit I am wrong, when I realize it.
When do you admit you are wrong.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Does not address what I said. Seeing as how you believe that evolving from finding women sexually attractive to finding men sexually active, and evolving to love roadkill eating are all possible, provide me one example where you cannot change your personal desires.There is no example
So then why did you say
So repetition will eventuate into joy and passion for any given act?In some cases, yes.In some cases, no.
Why didn't you just say yes.
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@YouFound_Lxam
So.... you do realize that you just screwed up your entire argument....right?
From your debates, you would know about screwing up arguments.
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@YouFound_Lxam
You are telling me that if you endless ate roadkill, you would eventually love it?You were talking to me. I am not speaking for everyone when I said "Yes".
Yes I am talking to you. Are you or are you not telling me that if you endless ate roadkill, you would eventually love it?
If the cases of "yes" includes finding women sexually attractive to men and roadkill eating, I can't imagine anything that would be in the "no" category.Well, I'm sorry to break it to you, but your imagination isn't always right.
Does not address what I said. Seeing as how you believe that evolving from finding women sexually attractive to finding men sexually active, and evolving to love roadkill eating are all possible, provide me one example where you cannot change your personal desires.
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@Public-Choice
Holistic: dealing with or treating the whole of something or someone and not just a part (cambridge dictionary)Your claim, therefore, being homosexual is ALWAYS out of the agent's control.
Wrong - holistic does not require that every part of a given system are in harmony. If I say "holistically, the participants enjoyed this certain drug", it does not entail that every participant enjoyed it.
Further, your sources indicate a change, but not a choice of change. If their was a choice to alter sexuality, one would go back and forth as they see fit.
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@YouFound_Lxam
So repetition will eventuate into joy and passion for any given act?In some cases, yes.In some cases, no.
If the cases of "yes" includes finding women sexually attractive to men and roadkill eating, I can't imagine anything that would be in the "no" category.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Yes
In that case you have zero understanding of how science works! Why is it that students who endlessly study boring subjects, although repetitiously, do not enjoy it? Why do people who do their 9 to 5 day jobs every day for years end up hating it, instead of loving it? Are there any sources that endlessly doing something you hate will make you love it? How has this inference been made?
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@YouFound_Lxam
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@YouFound_Lxam
I would go about doing that, by eating roadkill and horse s**t.
So repetition will eventuate into joy and passion for any given act? You are telling me that if you endless ate roadkill, you would eventually love it?
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@YouFound_Lxam
Ok sure I'll just change it to the observation that you cannot start loving the idea of eating road kill and horse shit, therefore you inability to love doing these things means you have no free will. Is that a valid inference in your opinion?But if I really wanted to, I could love the idea of eating roadkill and horse s**t. Therefore, I do have free will.
How would you go about doing that? I'm very curious.
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@YouFound_Lxam
I don't see how observing aberrations helps your case.
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@Public-Choice
Are you arguing they didn't choose to be gay? You claimed sexuality in all people is immutable. I found two examples it wasn't. Therefore your premise is wrong. Sexuality is mutable.
I am arguing that holistically, being homosexual is something out of an agents control. Sure you can find aberrations - people who are doing it for the social praise and because they want to feel apart of the LGBT community, but people who are actually homosexual cannot, through sheer will, change this preference.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Your comparing preference, to physical ability?Ok then......
Ok sure I'll just change it to the observation that you cannot start loving the idea of eating road kill and horse shit, therefore you inability to love doing these things means you have no free will. Is that a valid inference in your opinion?
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@YouFound_Lxam
Giving me three rebranded sources on the same topic isn't going to help you.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Your argument is saying, no one has the ability to change their sexual preference.And in saying that, you are saying that no one has free will. No one has the freedom to choose who to love.You are basically arguing against free will.
Unfortunately, a false equivalence on your part.
- Having no choice to change your sexual preference.
- Does not entail you have no freewill.
Just as how
- Having no choice in jumping to space.
- Does not entail you have no free will.
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@Public-Choice
I have two cousins. Both gay. Both started straight. Were straight for years. Then one day just "decided" and then never went back to being straight.If it was a choice for them... Then it obviously follows that it is a choice for others as well.
Anecdote.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Here you are then - I must assume that as you left this hanging, it was a concession.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Your source was a Christian website which I do not give any merit to. More importantly, it did not address the question I gave you. I asked you whether you could become gay. Not what your site states.
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@Public-Choice
Well Leo's dead and I'm alive so.
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@Public-Choice
I've pretty much quit debating and I would only make an exception if someone extraordinary joined the scene. Seeing as how I diffused this guys argument for God in about 100 characters, I doubt he is the one.
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@YouFound_Lxam
ecome gay?I could theoretically become attracted to men.
Ok so now we know you are kidding yourself.
To first be attracted to women, then be attracted to men, would mean that I would have to of had an experience, that caused that change, which would be sinful, because giving into the temptation of having an experience with a man by any means would be sinful, according to Gods word.
Homosexuals do not go from hetero to homo. And even if they did, it would be because of chemical balances and their nurture factors - neither of which they control.
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@YouFound_Lxam
If you believe that sexual preference can be changed, and that homosexuals can and ought to be expected to change their sexuality, then it follows that your own sexual preference can be changed, if you really wanted to.Yes, if I really wanted to.
So you are telling me that you can become gay? Not you can act in ways indicative of a gay individual but that you can actually become in love with men and be as satisfied as you are with women?
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@YouFound_Lxam
So, no matter how long you try, you cannot love someone you cannot. Then how can you expect homosexuals to love someone they do not?If you're forcing it upon yourself to do so, then you cannot.It can change without force, by the love of God.
But if you ask a homosexual to change their sexual preference, isn't this the same forcing?
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@YouFound_Lxam
Frankly, I don't really care. This is not relavant to what I am asking.
If you believe that sexual preference can be changed, and that homosexuals can and ought to be expected to change their sexuality, then it follows that your own sexual preference can be changed, if you really wanted to.
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@YouFound_Lxam
I can't force myself to truly love just anyone, no matter how long I try... I can't force myself to change my sexual preference.
So, no matter how long you try, you cannot love someone you cannot. Then how can you expect homosexuals to love someone they do not?
Just keep in mind that this tension you are internally feeling, the impossibility of loving a man as a sexual partner, is exactly the tension a homosexual feels when you ask them to love a woman.
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@YouFound_Lxam
This does not answer my question. If you believe
that sexual preferences are changeable, and currently you are a heterosexual,
then why don't you change your preference for a month and become homosexual?
No one is talking about force. You say it can change. So why don't you lead by example?
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@YouFound_Lxam
If you really think sexual preferences are changeable, how about you become gay for a month and see if how that turns out.
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@YouFound_Lxam
Do you think sexuality is changeable?
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@YouFound_Lxam
- If we accept for the reductio that homosexuality is a sin
- And the fact that homosexuality is by nature innate and unchangeable by sheer will meaning they will not change.
- It follows that God hates homosexuals, for they are "sinners" who will never change for homosexuality is in their nature. Just like if God decided that having brains was a sin, the fact that all humans have brains to some capacity and were "created" in such a manner means that the creation of God is fundementally poor.
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@Stephen
Well one Christmas day has come and gone. The new target date I suspect will be next Christmas day.
Ad infinitum...
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@YouFound_Lxam
Do you then conceed that, when the Achaeans were confused about the origins of lightning, that their deduction that Zeus actualised the bolts in rage is a correct assesment? That modern scientific understanding of how lightning forms is in fact incorrect?
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@YouFound_Lxam
You realise that every single one of these arguments fail via the God of the Gaps fallacy - the notion that because the naturalistic world viewcannot explain X phenomenon, whether it be the moral law or actualistion of human life, and that this entails the God hypothesis as the answer. Essentially, assuming Gods existence as the presupposed status quo.No, in fact we can explain a Gods existence using the naturalistic world, for instance the Law of Biogenesis.The Law of Biogenesis: "The principle stating that life arises from pre-existing life, not from nonliving material." the law of biogenesis - Google SearchNothing we have now, couldn't have existed, without pre-existing life. That means, for there to be life now, there had to of been infinite life before us.And if you ask me, I'll tell you (as well as many other people) that no living thing, that abides by the laws of nature, can survive infinitely. Something supernatural could though.
See so what you are doing is
- "because naturalism cannot explain the existence of living organisms, life was created by God"
You'll notice that this God of the Gaps argument is quite popular amongst Ancient Greeks
- "because naturalism cannot explain lightning, lightning was created by God".
If you believe the first to be valid, you must also hold that the second is. Of course, neitehr are sound nor valid.
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@YouFound_Lxam
And I would also be exceptionally curious how you leap from these conclusions to the Christian God - even if I grant that the complex must have a designer, a sentiment refuted about 250 years ago, everything you propose can be explained away by the existence of some very complex alien life form.
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@YouFound_Lxam
1. You obviously missed the brackets. Yes or no - does your argument serve as a logical step towards the Christian God?
2. My rebuttal critiques both the Christian and non Christian God. But this is irrelevant because I have already said that we can just talk about God. So to repeat, with small alterations:
You realise that every single one of these arguments fail via the God of the Gaps fallacy - the notion that because the naturalistic world viewcannot explain X phenomenon, whether it be the moral law or actualistion of human life, and that this entails the God hypothesis as the answer. Essentially, assuming Gods existence as the presupposed status quo.
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@YouFound_Lxam
And you clearly cannot read because I said change all my mentions of “Christian God” to just “God”. You say your arguments prove God but as I already said, and you ignored, You fall prey to the same issue - that you accept the logic of “because naturalism cannot yet explain X, the God ontology is maintained”.
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