Josephus,

That's a little rich given that you are yet to explain how your lone argument involving reproduction negates anything anyone else says.

<<The use of sarcasm indicates you have lost a logical argument.>>

Sarcasm can be a tool used to highlight the absurdity of a position by analogy. It can also be a way of having fun when the futility of any further serious discussion becomes apparent.

ttbn,

Since this thread has gone quiet now, I just thought I'd ask what this training is that you have had enabling you to determine an individual's personality from one comment?

The quickest method of assessing an individual's personality, that I know of, would probably be the Briggs Myers' personality test, but even that has its limitations.

The only way you could really get an accurate picture of an individual's personality would be to follow them around for a few months and gauge their responses to different stimuli to identify trends over time. Since that's impossible, researchers would instead do a longitudinal study of cross-sectional data gathered using questionnaires at certain intervals.

I don't think you have had any training at all in this area.

Furthermore, if I were to, say, give some dodgy handyman advice on OLO, then someone who is actually a qualified tradesman in that area should be able to highlight their credentials when correcting me (to prevent an unnecessarily long back and forth exchange) without me accusing them of some sort of insecurity or character flaw.

I can assure you that you have figured out nothing about me.

//you have lost a logical argument.//

Josephus, that necessarily presumes I was engaged in a logical debate (argument). Since I've yet too see you advance any logical arguments - you just keep pointing out that mammals sexually reproduce (which I've known for a lot longer than I've been reading your posts) and pretending that that constitutes an argument - I it is reasonable to conclude that none of our discussions can be considered logical arguments. They won't be until you learn what logical argument actually entails, and I'm not holding my breath.

Toni Lavis,
I recognise you see physical reality as illogical, and you believe you can do it better.

AJ Philips, You can sum a person up by what they actually believe is reality. I did two years study in 1960 - 61 which included psychology, and 75 years of relationship with people. What one actually believes influences their behaviour, i.e. you see nothing abnormal in anal intercourse.

Josephus,

You keep harping on "physical reality"...

Can you explain to me the "physical reality" of Jesus being conceived and born of the Virgin Mary - without the agency of a human father?

Thanks.

Josephus, I doubt that unless they are male homosexual (or perhaps a kinky heterosexual!) the other contributors to this discussion would not consider anal sex 'normal'. However, it IS normal for gay men to consider it normal.

I can't imagine how you don't get this basic concept after all the posts written on this subject on this forum. No one is suggesting you should feel the same way, or that you should partake in rampant anal sexual activity if gay marriage was made legal.

Poirot, you are heading into deep waters with questions like that one about the supposed 'virgin birth'. I once asked a nun that very question and she yelled at me to immediately go to confession, because I might otherwise go straight to hell!

What amazes me is the constant requests to pray to a god for divine help, but if you loudly voiced your prayers and inspirational discussions you supposedly had with God out in public these days, you would be 'sectioned' for being schitzophrenic and hearing 'voices'!
Years ago, such as in the days Jesus walked the Earth, you were considered a holy saint if you did this.....

//I recognise you see physical reality as illogical//

Well somebody just let the cat out of the bag. And you were doing such a good parody that you had me and everyone else around here fooled.

But you know I love physics because I just told you a few posts ago, and you're almost certainly well-educated enough to know that lot of physics-loving people share Galileo's view that 'mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe', so your crack about me seeing 'physical reality as illogical' is too obvious of a wind-up.

It's clear, from Poe's Law and from the way you conduct yourself, that you've never actually believed anything you've posted on this forum. You were just doing a very, very good job of parodying some bible-bashing old misanthrope.

Well, you had me fooled. Bloody good job. Now that you've been rumbled, I would love to talk to the man behind the brilliant character that was Josephus.