I'm posting a modified version of this because the edit option is gone and I wanted to add a few new tactics.
The games skeptics play:
First of all, I've noticed that you skeptics play "blind" when it's convenient to what you believe and then you claim to "see" when it's profitable to your argument. You have "selective vision."
If you were staring at a painting of a horse, you would undoubtedly say, "it's a pig," if it was in some way beneficial to the convoluted opinion that you have of yourself.
The musculature I pointed out on Patty is there whether you like it or not. If you were to call it foam rubber, that would be more honest than playing dumb and saying. "It's not there." It's there and you know it. It's right in front of your eyes. You're just too arrogant to admit it. Just about any bodybuilder could clearly identify the muscle groups I described. "But I see a pig," says the skeptic.
You see what you want to see. You're blind to what you don't want to see. This is nothing more than deception and dishonesty. Right about here is where you try to switch the argument to, "That's what your doing, not us." (The old bait and switch tactic.)
With tactics like these, you can never lose an argument. This "I don't see it" crap is a little too convenient.
A skeptics' tactics:
Sorry, I don't see it
I see something else, what are you seeing?
Change the subject (Smokescreen)
Your evidence is not enough, prove it
Table turning (That's not us, that's you!)
Be contrary to everything even at the expense of the truth
Ignore what was said altogether
Never admit ignorance
Never admit when you're wrong
Never, ever concede when you've lost an argument
When you can't win the argument, attack the person's character
Mock and make fun of the presenter and what is presented
Point out their spelling errors just to be annoying.
You can't even have a good debate here. This superiority, oneupmanship and having to win every argument keeps you from truly being objective. I call you "contrarians," because that's all you are. You approach everything that is presented with a know-it-all attitude, and you take the opposite side of everything that is presented, just for the sheer thrill of it. You love to hear yourself argue. And in your mind you always "win." Most of the time your opinions prevail over actual fact, however.
Using the tactics listed above, you can "win" every time. But it's only a "win" in your own mind.
Strong opinions are okay, as long as you are willing to yield and listen to others and lay aside your opinion when a stronger consensus prevails. So far I've seen none of this among you.
No true debate can take place with you because these tactics that you use are unethical and dishonest. In short, your not concerned with truth -- you simply like to hear yourself speak. These are games that I refuse to play.
If somebody here has the voice of true reason, now is the time to speak concerning these things.