@fmf said
I haven't backed away from anything, I have asked you this: Have the kind of trite analogies you come out with me worked on you in your adult life?
You didn't answer.
You have tried to alter what I had asked you and answer your own version of it. You have done this several times.
You have wriggled for a couple of hours.
If the kind of gimmicky little analogies you ...[text shortened]... ybe it's because I am not religious.
edit: Do little trite sayings by C.S.Lewis also work on you?
Wow, three edits to say all this!
I see why you like to be tight lipped: when anything stretches over a paragraph, it's time to write a couple drafts and meticulously go over them.
Man, I don't really know what to say. You're the sort of guy who can't follow a conversation (like on page 27 here: https://www.redhotpawn.com/forum/spirituality/what-is-the-point-of-eternal-suffering.181749/page-27 ).
So I am supposed to have responsed as to whether these analogies have "worked" on me.
I do not know what is meant by that. I have never seen myself as having been "worked" over or on by some kind of analogy. In my opinion, something "works" as an analogy if it
works in its context.
I do not think of my subjective self as part of the context.
If the kind of gimmicky little analogies you have tried on me have worked on you in your adult life, and not when you were depressed or abusing any substances, I would certainly perceive you as having a soft-spot caused by your superstitious beliefs where you exhibit weak-mindedness and which make you come across as a lightweight.
LOL, we are talking about the analogy as it works in the context of its argument!
Do you really think anyone looks at
the piece of the argument and views it as somethign that has shaped them? No, the analogy explains some aspect of the arugment; the argument is what
works, and it is merely supported by the analogy.
Perhaps you don't normally analzye or think along these lines. That's fine.
I guess this is why we miss each other in debates a lot, right?
edit: Do little trite sayings by C.S.Lewis also work on you?
LOL, am I still supposed to respect this use of the verb "work?"
Please don't hold me captive to your lexicon. I'll respect your words as yous ay them, of course, but I am not going to resort to using "work" in this way when I talk. It's lame.