GodfreyLife

Bear in mind that one man with a minigun is no match for 1000 people with pistols.

If he's behind even one skin of bricks, or at a distance of even two hundred metres, it really is no contest. Bloodfest.

GodfreyLife

Calling yourself a 'bright' really just smacks of narcissm ala Totalarianist and his messageboard, no matter what new meaning you try and attach to the word.

It's no more unreasonable than calling yourself 'saved' or many other popular terms that the Gullibles like to appropriate.

Like I said, it's a weapon. Smacking of narcissism to you is the leading edge of smacking of downright slander to a Gullible, which, from this Bright, is exactly the point. Your reaction is a very good sign.

If the Gullibles can say that they are saved, implying that I am lost, then I can equally say that I am a Bright, implying that they are all Dulls.

Game on!

GunnerJ

Oh, boy, here goes the anaolgy game.

You compared the "Bright" meme to a minigun. Care to tell me what a brick wall and a range advantage represent in your analogy?

mecca777

The problem with your "game", though, is that it lowers your position to the level of the fundies and plays into their hands, by pandering to their "us and them" mentality. They claim that they are "saved", and you are "lost". You claim that you are "bright", and they are "dull" or "dim". And impartial observers shake their heads, and conclude that atheism really is just another religious position, with its own self-appointed attitude of superiority. And the fundamentalists are the only ones who can win that battle.

I would hope that the reason I adopted an atheist viewpoint was because I had aspirations above being "no more unreasonable" than the people who believe that they ingest the reincarnated flesh of Superman every Sunday morning, or that God spends his infinite days patting them personally on the head and devising new ways to torture gays.

Personally, I'm not playing a game; I'm simply living the way I have to, based on what I see and feel. Adopting a silly name that can stand as a shorthand for all the various things in which I believe, like "Chosen" or "Saved" or "Faeborn" or "Witch" or "Bright" is a deeply unappealing concept.

GunnerJ

PROTIP: just becase a group of people who oppose your views act like assholes isn't licence for you to stoop to their level. Besides, it's not even effective.

Secular Jeff

No one is forcing me to call myself a bright.

Is somebody, or some organization, forcing any of you to call yourself a bright? If not, what's the problem?

Jeff

Corona688

The problem is, the ones that are are making us look silly!

GunnerJ

Well, I'm sure no one forced The Filthy Critic to watch Dumb and Dumberer either, but there you go.

lpetrich

Calling oneself a "Bright" -- to me, that is so stupid that I have been reluctant to comment on it.

Maverick

I have to agree. I have a hard time fathoming why this is getting big name support.