I’m not saying this to be a jerk, or to make you doubt your beliefs or whatever. I’ve been happy enough to leave well-enough alone. But please understand, you don’t have a chance at this. By all means, explain your position. But please don’t get bent out of shape that we’re not buying it.
Haha. I'm cracking up.
King, did you read the part about 'charity'? :)
The idea is that to be charitable in a debate, you must allow an opponent's argument to get off the ground by relinquishing your actual beliefs and adopting theirs as true, for the time being only and for the sake of walking out all of the logical entailments of their beliefs. You're basically saying, "Yeah, alright. Let's take that as true and think about what it would mean."
King walks in like: "Nah, not fuckin buyin it." Hahaha.
Wait, what did I do ? I didn’t know about this sense of the word “charity”. I was thinking it meant basically agape.
No, I was just giving you a hard time haha. I think the way that PS used it was as a kind of method for us to approach these arguments without feeling like we're defending something as personally as we have. Charity is something you do in argument so that you kind of lose the need to protect your own ideas like a mother bear protecting her cubs. It's just treating everything more objectively, which is hard to do when your religious beliefs are so personal.
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