When r/DebateReligion turns into serious business
Posted Feb 7, 2012, 9:00 PM UTC · edited
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Maybe your "joking about his credentials" were not received as such (as you probably know, sarcasm is hard to decipher from text) and this guy just really cares about the truth so he took it seriously.
Although to go to such extends to just prove that you have some degrees to a random guy on the internet is to be accepted under the label "creepy".
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I'm not sure what there is to debate about in this post unless its over the proposition that this community is an appropriate forum for Def-Star's personal drama.
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This is a PSA to leave your personal drama to yourself and not PM me wanting to meet up.
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Why are you telling me this?
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You seemed confused on the matter.
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Thanks, but I'm not experiencing any confusion at all regarding the issue of whether this community is an appropriate forum for your personal drama.
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Credentials are meaningless in intelligent debate. I am a high school dropout, but does that make me any less qualified to discuss and debate on this reddit, or anywhere? Arguments stand on the merit of the arguments not the credentials of he or she who makes the argument.
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If someone calls me out wrongly, I'm allowed to answer in a PM, no?
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You're allowed to do whatever the fuck you want. But it's better form to keep your professional insecurities to yourself instead if having to rub them in the faces of everyone who may doubt you.
To use a popular cliche, "be the bigger person".
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More people should resort to fisticuffs when faced with an internet stalemate.
Not that I think it's a good idea, just an amusingly entertaining one.
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Bullshido is great for that kind of entertainment. Each internet challenge is documented in excruciating detail in threads and the fight is put on video. It's so unreal to see people take it so seriously as to travel across the country to literally punch an internet troll IRL (as long as said troll accepts terms of engagement before hand, etc).
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If you use ad hominems in a serious debate and call me out for something not true, I'm allowed to ask you to back up your accusations in a pm.
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A PM means you are taking your small penis too personally. I couldn't possibly give a flying fuck all and no, I am not setting up webcam chats and paypal transactions with internet crackpots. Seriously, son. That is creepy. Don't do that.
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No drama, thanks. You care enough to post some BS. Take it to 4chan.
This sort of thing definitely belongs in 4Chan.