"The best part is when people start making assumptions about their opponents and then use those assumptions to interpret anything else they read from the opponent. It happens to me all the time. If you try telling them they were wrong about their…"
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kris feenstra commented on Christopher Staats's blog post 'Confusion'"These things can get bizarre. I find there's an odd moment in some arguments where I wonder if everything I am thinking about my opponent is being thought about me in turn, probably with a comparable level of conviction and certitude.…"
Christopher Staats posted a blog postConfusion
Confusion, it starts with some prick mouthing off. You know he is wrong and so you step up to set him right.You quickly lay out your argument with finesse and poise, a salvo to baffle and tantalize the mind. When the next thing you know he is arguing the meaning of your words and telling you that you must be crazy for believing all that.Taken aback but not one to back down you settle in for the fight with an uneducated fool. Laying it down like a well versed poem, you point out his flaws with…See More
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"Also available in print! http://www.redbubble.com/people/cstaats/works/8604866-voice
But I don't mind if people use it on their computer for private use, just don't go printing it elsewhere. The quality on redbubble is from a 7500x5000…"
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Ua My Thumb
"Will do! I have about half of the pages finished now. Should be before the end of the month when we send it off to the publishers. Publishing on demand for the win!"
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Ua My Thumb
This is the cover art for the first children's book I have illustrated. It's not ready for publishing yet but it's getting there.
Christopher Staats commented on baddy's group 'Atheist Artists'"I am going to try to add one rough Comic a day when possible.
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Christopher Staats commented on Allen's group 'Bible Belt Atheists'"Surviving in Oklahoma. If anyone is in the Norman area hit me up!
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- I am a visual artist by profession, currently employed by Emergent Arts LLC as Director of Visual Art. I am by my nature a strategist and activist, seeking to ever improve the society in which we live. I enjoy music of many kinds, though admittedly music about greed bigotry and maliciousness tend to not make the cut. Physics is my passion and acrylic paints are my opiate. I am addicted to life.
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- I was raised by a christian mother that had the wisdom to tell me to question everything, though I suspect she did not expect me to question quite as thoroughly as I have. At the age of fourteen I rejected Christianity and became a pagan, seeking truth in the other religions of the world. At the age of twenty I rejected religion out of hand but allowed for the possibility of the supernatural. Now I trust to reason. My transformation has, to me, been a beautiful cascade of personal development which I intend to see through until my dieing day. My goal for coming out as an atheist is to stand for the rights of those that cannot take a stand themselves.
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- When I was a child I was shown a passage of the bible where it said that anyone that prays for wisdom would receive it. I prayed, then I questioned, then I studied, then the prayer was answered, not by God but rather by my own logical thinking mind.
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Confusion
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:00am 2 Comments 1 Like
Confusion, it starts with some prick mouthing off. You know he is wrong and so you step up to set him right.
You quickly lay out your argument with finesse and poise, a salvo to baffle and tantalize the mind. When the next thing you know he is arguing the meaning of your words and telling you that you must be crazy for believing all that.
Taken aback but not one to back down you settle in for the fight with an uneducated fool. Laying it down like a well versed poem, you point…
Continue Pity for the Manipulated
Posted on December 6, 2011 at 4:44am 0 Comments 1 Like
The last 48 hours or so on the #atheist twitter hash tag have been hilarious as wave after wave of fundamentalist came along for their mythmas hitchslap. And indeed many of the moments have been filled with the same level of face-palm inducing stupidity as those that Christopher Hitchens has had to endure in many of his interviews with fundamentalist hosts. But in a way I almost feel sorry for the fundies, after all the "debate" is rather one sided. Anything they throw into the pot turns…
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Robert Karp said… Welcome to the Think Atheist community Christopher!
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