On Monday, 26 September 2016 18:33:35 UTC+1, Col wrote:
On 26/09/2016 06:22, wrote:


Mockery? Hardly. It's simply astonishment and laughter from those of us that see Alastair proposing to change the laws of physics to suit his beliefs.
When his arguments fail - as, of course, they always do - he takes the
sulk road and attempts to end the conversation because he feels he's
being picked on,
as no-one believes him. It's happened every single time he's proposed
cold radiation. Oddly, people really do laugh then!

Well mockery means much the same as ridicule and you seem to advocate
that. I wouldn't mock/ridicule anybody for their beliefs, no matter how
outlandish I might find them. I have talked to Christians and discussed
what they believe and although I might strongly disagree with it I would
never just point and laugh. That's says far more about you than the
person you are mocking.

I don't however understand Alastairs's behaviour though, this thread
popped up again out of nowhere and he could have ignored it. People
(especially Asha) have attempted to debate with him reasonably, and most
certainly not abusively, yet he still flounces off.

Col,

I responded to Asha because she said she was not taking sides and I assumed she had an open mind. But it became clear that she wanted me to choose between two questions, which if I answered yes to either would have made me appear a fool, much like the old standard. "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" If you answer yes or no you are still admitting you are a wife beater.

Not content with employing the fallacy of the excluded middle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma she then accused me of not understanding logic. It was obvious to me that wasn't going to give me any credit for my knowledge logic or science so it seemed poitless to continue into a slanging match. Is that so bad?

Anyway I am about to flounce off again. We are now off the topic of cold radiation, and I have better things to do with my time than respond to insults such as "flouncing off."