best response ever for dealing with solipsists

[lauralh]

So if you ever happen upon a snot-nosed brat who insists that only what he perceives as real to be reality... ask him if you can duct-tape him to a chair and work him over with a baseball bat.

(thx to ernunnos)

also: don't forget the whole bunch of reasons god exists...

Comments

[ex-futch238.livejournal.com]

Those "reasons" are to put it delicately, quite unconvincing. I'd like to have a little chat with the person who wrote that list. Or the duct tape and baseball bat routine would be equally satisfying for me.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I'm a-thinkin' the list, she is a joke.

[ex-futch238.livejournal.com]

a) If you can conceive of a list which is a joke
b) and you locate such a list and post a link to it in your LJ
c) the list is a joke which is linked via your LJ

You guys think it's a joke

[(Anonymous)]

Hang out for a bit on the Christian message boards, like the ones on Yahoo. I swear to "God," I've seen real people actually using several of those arguments, only with such minute detail in every step that they can't even tell. It's really scary how gullible these people are.

Take that list to heart. It's not a joke, it's a warning! That's what us smart people have to deal with every day.

-robin

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

if you're so smart you wouldn't be hanging out on christian message boards. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, I just enjoy messing with them. I find it kind of relaxing, plus it puts all those great skills I was forced to learn in college to use. One doesn't get to be a totally pretentious asshole with one's superior pseudo-intellectual bullshit very often in the real world where you have to actually keep the people giving you money happy or else they'll stop giving you money.

-robin

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

Therefore, God exists.

[billyfleetwood.livejournal.com]

what about the schizophrenic who believes that he has been duct taped to a chair and is being worked over with a baseball bat?

Attempting to have an intellectual argument about faith is like listening to a donut. To quote my ex girlfriend, "that's the wrong hole!"

[monstrosity.livejournal.com]

I remember when I was kicked off the boards for trolling. And it isn't just the Christian boards that are bad, the athiests are just as bad. Any group of people that get together to assure themselves of their righteousness is fucked up. I believe it was actually an antheist board I was kicked off of when I was posing as what they called a "fundie." They really have no sense of humor.

And dude, read the list or at least skim it. It's a quasi-joke. Like they said, actual shit, but still damn funny.