there were signs all around my uni that said “dump your socialist boyfriend” for like NO reason 😭😭
Never, ever try and engage these people on their terms, for example, by trying to “challenge” them with counter arguments. They already have a whole script of replies ready for anything like that, designed to drag you down to his level of bad-faith bickering.
Instead, simply call out to their face what they actually are. These are bad-faith actors there for the sole purpose of undermining social cohesion by creating a false dichotomy between science and religion. They are not the only reason we are so divided but they are a large one. Tell them that. Don’t let them respond. Don’t give them questions to answer. Just keep pressing, stating what they are, to them, and to everyone who’s stopping to listen. Humiliate them by presenting them to the public as the cancer to society that they are.
In this particular case, he has no audience except a banana and a time traveler, so you could also just ignore him. Nothing worse for him than a day of nothing happening.
Oh I can think of lots worse.
You can tell they’re a time traveller because of the Mark V time machine in front of them.
Ya. That doesn’t work either. What does work is doing the exact same thing they do. Get a sign write on it “Christianity is bullshit. Prove me wrong” and stand there.
Don’t look at him, don’t engage. When he does finally say something tell him that he’s oppressing your beliefs and he deserves to burn in everlasting hellfire…
This is pretty much prime territory for the same methods Kirk used for “debate”.
Gish gallop, butwhatabout, moving goalposts, exhausting the opponent with bs, etc.
They’re all the same, they’re not there for any honest conversation. There is absolutely no way to “win” with them because no matter what objective and truthful information you offer it will be rejected or you’ll be asked to “prove” something that cannot be done in any manner acceptable to the asker.
Not only that but both of them, Kirk and WBC, were experienced. Not at being good debators but at shutting down people who tried to prove them wrong. Even if they were wrong. They had months if not years built around defending a flawed view and shutting down naysayers. They regularly practiced all their tactics so most of the people they debated (regular students who had an opinion) weren’t ready for their tactics. You don’t have to outsmart your opponent or be correct, you just have to trip them up and make them publicly look foolish. These guys travel the country ragebaiting and begging people to call them out daily, they know how to dodge and redirect and speak over.
Once you stoop to their level, they beat you with experience. It doesn’t make them right.
Also I’m pretty sure half of WBCs old tactic was saying stuff that would get them punched and then suing.
They also are going in skilled at public debate and picking fights with the unskilled. They’re media trained, and you probably aren’t. They get to cut the video and decide if they post it. They’re fighting dirty, but they’re doing it in a game they rigged before the first fight.
Never, ever try and engage these people on their terms
Instead, simply call out to their face what they actually are.
Heckling can work when you’ve got a crowd on your side. But when it’s just you with your paper sign shouting slurs, you end up looking like the asshole instead of the folks you’re jeering.
At some point, you have to engage with the premise. Or, at least, put forward your own beliefs and positions. If it’s just a contest of vibes and mogging, the person with the professional experience in those fields is going to win.
You can’t call them out either, they’re prepared for that probably even more. You debating them, you calling them names, you doing anything with them gives them what they want - attention and footage for their stupid youtube channels.
The only thing they’re afraid of is if you ignore them. The only footage that makes them look actually bad and which they can’t cut to make themselves look good is them sitting in the corner with their silly little bait bullshit, being ignored by society.creating a false dichotomy between science and religion
Was with you until this part. There’s nothing false about that dichotomy.
Look for their partner nearby holding a video camera as it may be a lawsuit scheme.
Start recording, say the worst things possible, pray someone punches you.
You’re right. They can’t have a response when you say big fancy words to them that mean actual things. They’ll be stumped.
Someones trying to hookup with your socialist boyfriend
our boyfriend
It’s me. Dump your socialist boyfriend so I can be his rebound relationship
Is the templar, banana and lighting McQueen toy part of his argument or are those people goofing on him?
Having attended several red state universities, I chose to take it as a statement that alongside the ubiquitous plaza preachers, who are never affiliated with the school and are generally no one’s favorite campus characters, there’s also plenty of standard college silliness and shenanigans. Apart from the big blue cities, the college towns of the south are generally the most educated and forward thinking enclaves of their red states, hence the huge pressure campaigns from their governors to being the schools themselves to heel.
Proof that we still monkey
Tho not sure if proving him wrong or right
Ni!
What sad times these are.
When ruffians can go around saying Ni allowed to old women.
Could you bring us a shrubbery? A nice one, not too expensive
Sounds like all the girls there (or at least the ones whoever printed the signs is interested in) are dating socialist guys?
Wouldn’t need to print the signs otherwise… :P
Tell him there’s a nobel prize waiting for him if he can prove his view.
Why’s he on a footstool lol
Short ☺️
Soapbox
TBH I think Genesis 1:1 is much more about big bang denial/interpretation than evolution.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Isn’t there a better quote for being anti-evolution? Like about the creation of Adam and Eve? I say like Gen 1:20-27. Maybe they meant just Genesis 1?
I love when people are stupid about being stupid.
I don’t think the Bible denies the Big Bang. It doesn’t say how he created the universe except that it took 7 days which is a mistranslation anyway. The Hebrew word used in the Torah for day is ‘yom’ which means era.
In my opinion it’s very easy to reconcile the creation story with science.
It’s even easier to not bother
Only insofar as its too vague to mean anything
I saw a big billboard that said “EVOLUTION IS A LIE GENESIS 1:1” with the ape evolving to man with a big ❌ over it and a phone number like 1-800-THE-TRUTH or something.
god I absolutely love living in Florida 🙃
The flip side of that is you can do bath salts and burn that shit and it probably won’t even make the local news
Do you think this person read the book he is quoting? Do you think he read like 20-30 verses? He just read the first and was like, well, close enough
My uni just had constant protests against quad gods
Even the die-hard evangelicals on campus find these people embarrassing. They are just annoying losers.
Like, figure skaters?
Colloquial term for unauthorized campus preachers
Kick that stool out from under him and see how fit he is for survival.
there were signs all around my uni that said “dump your socialist boyfriend” for like NO reason 😭😭
Are you on my campus or is this a common thing?
Probably TPUSA
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