Don't poke the bear.
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Basically this. You have three options, ignore the troll, feed the troll or poke the troll using carefully considered arguments.Hubilub said:
Ah yes. Welcome to the internet, where men are men, women are men and children are either hungarian peadophiles of the authorities that are trying to catch them.Blindswordmaster said:
To reply would imply that you would expect a civil discourse. Given the language used in the letter, the chances of this are unlikely. If you do respond, do so politely. Rephrase your argument (your review) so that the spirit is the same but the precise rhetoric is different. This places the ball back in his court where he will do one of several things: Ignore you, sternly rebuke you again, or respond with a counter argument. In the first case no harm is done - if he doesn't care to continue a dialog then there is no reason to pursue it further. In the second case you wil have established a pattern of behavior that implies there is no chance of civil discourse. In the third case, perhaps someone's opinion will be changed. Even if they aren't, the experience may be worthwhile.
Oh my God, they said it would finally happen, but I didn't believe them. But it actually happened! Someone actually thinks I'm funny!feather240 said:
Well, so much fun can be had poking fun at extreme christians, but I'd ignore it. Actually, no, I'd turn it into a massive argument, get irritated, then try and make nice before ignoring anything else he has to say.
I agree. There is no way that this guy is anything but. Heck, he probably lives under a bridge, he fits the troll profile so well.Hubilub said:
I don't actually exist, I'm a figment of your imagination that you created to validate your own insecurities, but now that I've had a chance to see your work I gotta say you're quite the retarded moron, aren't you? You're not even funny. I've seen your other jokes! All the good ones are the lucky results of your several brain hemorrhages. You're not even worth the Co2 you give off. You try to make small marine animals laugh and I tell you why you should give up on life because you're a husk of a human being! We should have a sitcom!Blindswordmaster said:
(Hey, at least you were right about them being wrong. You can tell all your friends abou- Oh, yeah....)
That felt good, thanks.
Um, wow, I don't think he has room to say that you need to make right with God (who is all forgiving, provided you at least repent once in your life, even if your repentance is in an electric chair and the priest is reading you your death rights) for saying fuck when he talked about:
Hell, they swear in the bible, because they weren't swears. saying "damn it" is asking God to damn it to hell, fucking is an acronym for an unwed couple to be having sex when it was illegal in Britain, and almost every other swear means nothing and was invented by the working class because of how miserable their life was for most of the history of ever.
Yeah, if anything, God would see that as outright evil compared to swearing.Blindswordmaster said:
Hell, they swear in the bible, because they weren't swears. saying "damn it" is asking God to damn it to hell, fucking is an acronym for an unwed couple to be having sex when it was illegal in Britain, and almost every other swear means nothing and was invented by the working class because of how miserable their life was for most of the history of ever.
When fighting such obviously committed religious people, there's no point in arguments. They have their faith, they are always right in their little delusional minds.
So, uh, don't bother. They won't care, and you won't get anywhere by talking to them. Faith overpowers reason.
You'll just waste your time flaming them. The only way to win an argument that pits reason against faith and have those wielding faith acknowledge your victory (because all the reasonable people will understand, anyways) is by... Well, actually, there isn't any. Unless you kill them and burn their bodies. But that still won't mean that they understand that you won.
Seriously, it's pointless.
So, uh, don't bother. They won't care, and you won't get anywhere by talking to them. Faith overpowers reason.
You'll just waste your time flaming them. The only way to win an argument that pits reason against faith and have those wielding faith acknowledge your victory (because all the reasonable people will understand, anyways) is by... Well, actually, there isn't any. Unless you kill them and burn their bodies. But that still won't mean that they understand that you won.
Seriously, it's pointless.
I has a sneaking suspicion that you were really a projection of my subconscious, and the massive amounts of self loathing only confirms it. Wow, I am such a dick!feather240 said:
Actually it was a Star Wars fanfiction. It was also very badly written and completely stupid.HT_Black said: