Alpha. It has been 10 months now since this thread was started, and you have yet to produce anything close to a cogent argument. Lie after lie and inventing the position of your opponents does not make a debate, it becomes little more than a farce. A lot of the problem lies in you laughable grasp, or should I say lack of grasp, when it comes to the fundamentals of philosophy. This is how you have framed everything so you don't get a free pass for using language and concepts you simply do not understand.

When it comes to an Invalid enthymeme, a lack of parallelism, the negative form of a universal affirmative, affirmative fallacies,a fallacy of equivocation etc, flatboxingflan would not only rip you a new metaphorical arsehole, he would install a shiny new allegorical sphincter as a bonus. I can't keep up with him and though i have read quite extensively the works of people like Nietzsche, Scruton , Hume, Kant etc on aesthetics and Plato and Aristotle as a grounding and some Jung and Kierkegaard etc on Existentialism, I am not so versed in philosophy when used as a basis to dismantle debating styles and tactics.

Your very basis of belief. 'Objective reality' you call it, is hugely flawed. You don't understand what Objective Reality is . You don't even know how to apply terms like 'Strawman Argument' and 'Argumentum Ad Hominem'. In fact and here is the kicker, you almost exclusively use these strategies yourself rather than addressing the subject in hand. Look at the post above where you have called me a zealot, a member of a cult. where again you have repeated that lie that I am supposedly repeatedly making the argument that 'standing bodies of water can naturally conform to the exterior of a shape'. Where have I said that? That is YOUR mantra. Fucking hell we have heard you repeat it again and again for months now.

It is YOUR strawman. You have built the scarecrow and wheeled him out in post after post pretending that is the argument everyone is presenting in order to make yourself feel smug when you think you are demolishing it.

It is the core of the argument that you are avoiding like the plague. The interior core of the earth that is keeping everything in place, including the seas, has nothing to do with an argument about the exterior of a shape.