You can comfort yourself that you refuted something. But the beauty of the OP is that it cannot be refuted. It is just the description of reality. Reality can only be denied. Which is what you try to do with those as hominems and red herrings.
About the undeniable reality... Do you know what reality is like, it's like our ex-girlfriend, we want to avoid it, it still exists. That's what happens when you feel it.
