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Originally Posted by peter12
No, what I mean is that I am often required to give far more expansive lectures than anyone else on here when as I just said, the goods have already been delivered. I leave conversations because I do not have the time or the energy to expend going on and on exhaustively about why I think Sam Harris is an idiot. I write a reasonably concise paragrah with little or no esoteric meaning and I go on. Do I need to go on about Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon or others who said previously stated the new liberal atheist argument long before he did with much greater style? I mean I acknowledge them and I give some reason, but what more do you want? Seriously, I know that I have put good effort into my position and it normally just brick-walls. So what can I do to be more clear?
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State your opinion instead of constantly referencing someone else or some textbook that supports your "point". If you are just arguing for the sake of arguing that's cool I guess, but you don't "deliver the goods" (that's what she said. hey-yo!) You reference texts, refer to some of the greater minds in history, yet you never actually state a position or support it with your own words.
That's a start for you to be more clear.