Awen,
You certainly know how to make ad hominem attacks but you certainly do not know how to make a convincing argument. Let's take a look at your post...
Your mocking attitude in the video shows me that your mind is made up on this subject, no matter what counter-argument is made. Your insults levied at those who do not possess (in your opinion) the same grammatical or literary skills as yourself show a self-righteous attitude and an unwillingness to be open to other opinions. An opinion is a theory based upon personal experience and observations concerning the world around us. An opinion is only Truth to the one who holds the viewpoint. It may be anathema to others. So be it.
This is one long ad hominem attack to reduce the credibility of my argument, you however do not actually deal with a single issue that I raise in the video you'd rather just insult and hope that people don't notice you didn't actually say anything. The literary skills and grammatical corrections are a pet peeve of mine I have a Bachelor's degree in English.
Your thank you article says when you refer to the phrase "Thank You" as an article you CAN put it into one word. However when quoting someone as a phrase it is never in one word. In fact I would even question the one word set up in a noun sense as I would say at the very least there should be a hyphen between it (thank-you).
If I say I serve God unselfishly, that should be enough for you. IMO, it's not for you to determine what is or is not selfish. When you try to do this you put yourself in the position of the WTS. You judge others when you should only worry about yourself.
No simply saying you're doing something selflessly does not make it so. My argument is that one cannot serve God selflessly, I can show this in the base emotion of every service you perform for God. This is basic psychology, it's all reactionary for what you can get out of it. If someone tells you're they're not lying about something is that always enough for you? Especially if you know they are lying? In this case I am saying, and I will say it in your case as well. You do not serve God selflessly, as I say in the video; you are serving for internal satisfaction, external reward and external fear of death. The putting myself in the WTS position, since this is a board made up of ex-JWs what you're trying to do here is guilt by association. You're creating a false correlation between the Watchtower Society and me in order to again destroy credibility in my argument. Of course not with an actual point, the only actual addressing of my points in the video is saying "I serve God selflessly" stated as a fact with no backing facts behind it to prove it. Just making a blanket statement and stating it is true does not make it so. If you want to try and correlate things with the WTS I would say look no further than yourself, they are famous for stating things as fact without a shred of evidence to back it up. I'm not correlating you with the WTS, I figured I'd point that out because it's a cheap argument.
But I will explain some things I have seen and learned and if I or others had followed God's laws in the first place, they wouldn't have so many troubles. Not having sex before marriage would greatly reduce the percentage of unwed, single mothers. STD's wouldn't be so rampant if people waited for marriage. They would only be passed thru the offspring and the STD's could be treated more effectively. Just two examples out of many, but enough for me to reason out for myself that if I follow Gods law which he has handed down thru the ages, I will prosper. So I give back to God in appreciation for the things he gave me freely. I can choose to do or not to do. I choose to do these things because love, real love motivates me to do so. I can only ascertain that you have not felt this type of love for God or anyone else, hence your mocking tone and holier than thou attitude on your vid.
Here's the meat of your argument and it shows completely you do not serve God selflessly. In this case you're following his laws because you see benefit to them. Then your "giving back in appreciation" is actually your internal motivation, it makes you feel good to reciprocate the good things you feel God gave you. No doubt you feel that you are making God happy by showing appreciation. Your final sentence is just another ad hominem attack, is this how you discuss things with people who disagree with you, just attack, attack, attack. "I choose to do these things because love, real love motivates me to do so." Don't make me laugh, the only reason you cannot analyze love deeper is because you refuse to, look at love a bit deeper. Ask yourself why you feel the way you do, what you get out of it, why you're showing love to the other person. Love is a complex emotion that has several aspects to it, Love is not a singular emotion that cannot be broken down into parts.
Your video reminded me so much of those annoying infomercials on late at night that have people screaming at the camera for others to buy their product. As if having a raised voice will convince others that you are correct because you are seemingly so excited about your product. It also reminds me of talk shows host Morten Downey Jr, who did much of the same thing.
Another ad hominem attack trying to correlate me to things that annoy you and other things as if I'm trying to sell something, thereby destroying my credibility without of course actually addressing the points. If you want to discuss what I posted, then actually discuss it, discuss the things in and come up with an actual counter-argument. It's ridiculous that I have to sift through a barrell of ad hominem attacks because someone disagrees with my viewpoint and can't separate their emotions from their logic. They say that ad hominem attacks are the last ditch effort of someone without a leg to stand on, given your actual arguments in addressing this point I can see why you resorted to them.
