I am not sure if this is his point, but this is mine. Your thinking in binary. [i] If it is rational to believe something then you can demonstrate it to others. So, if you cannot demonstrate it you are wrong or irrational
]But that isn’t true. There are situations where it is rational to believe things that cannot be demonstrated to others.
So, perhaps you have no reason to believe certain things, because they have not been demonstrated to you, nevertheless others may still have good grounds to believe it.
An indigenous person sees giant ‘canoes’ and pale skinned men get off them hunt and get water then get back on the ships and disappear. He tells his village this story and some have trouble believing him. He cannot demonstrate it, but it is true and rational of him to believe it himself. In the 60s it was not possible to demonstrate that animals were conscious experiencing creatures and it was taboo to assume they were. Yet many people, like animals trainers, pet owners and more knew that animals were conscious experiencing being. Later, science accepted this - though in truth no one has demonstrated this, it’s just that the old bias slipped away.
So, you make a statement dismissing salvation etc.
Phyllo points this out.
You then demand he demonstrate it is the case. (not noticing that you bear the onus for somehow demonstrating salvation does not exist.) If he asserts it exists then both of you have the onus for demonstrating
each
of
your assertions
of
knowledge.
But you had an onus, one you NEVER take responsibility for while demanding it of others.
In your mind, you have for years assumed that if someone cannot demonstrate something to you it must be ‘just in their minds’.
That general rule is clearly and demonstrably false.
Sometimes we can have excellent grounds for believing things we cannot demonstrate to others. Ask rape victims.
But you are such a fucking asshole
that you cannot listen, so after years you make the same mistakes, even after they have been pointed out to you.
You make your snide little plays to the gallery and the gallery has answered such questions before. But because you do not want to give up your petty little game
you will forget again
that you get the onus for your assertions
regardless of any onus others get.
And your simpleton moronic binary thinking and inablity to learn, because you are utterly unable to learn, because you are not interested in learning
means that this same shit will appear again soon and years later you will be asking the gallery in your coquettish faux sincerity to help you.
Moron or asshole, you take your pick.
It’s hard to tell from the outside which it is. I suppose you might be insane. But whatever it is we might as well be dealing with a bot. And one that does not pass the Turing test.