On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:08:19 -0700 (PDT), Kurt Nicklas
No. Had I said I was poking a stick in my eye that would have been a
lie. Without having done it yourself I think you'd still agree that
it's not something you want to do.
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>> >> You can't/shouldn't ignore experience, we learn from mistakes.
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>> >Agreed, but you wanted me to accept it as proof above and now you're moving the goal post. Poor you.
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>> I stated that it isn't "proof," but that doesn't mean it is
>> insignificant.
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>I see. Moving the goal posts yet again.
I don't know where you get your comments, I suspect it's the shotgun
approach. Can't rebut logically, just throw out accusations and hide
behind that.
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>> You do speak English, or is your ire at people who
>> don't accept your idiocy so great, that you are frothing at the mouth
>> and unable to communicate/debate coherently?
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>I'm simply expecting you to be able to write and form arguments with logic and precision. Your inability to do so is not my fault.
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That's your game grasshopper.
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>> >> Atheists do anyway... Religion is "programmed learning."
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>> >A good example of a common prejudice among theophobes like you.
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>> Just my own experience and what I see around me. Is it prejudicial?
>> Hell yes, but born of observation and experience and not accepted from
>> someone else.
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>Now having admitted to being prejudiced you attempt to claim it as a positive virtue.
No. It is an honest admission.
For instance: If most of what politicians say are lies, would you
consider it wrong to make the claim that politicians lie?
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>> >> You are
>> >> expected to acquire the dogma without questioning the source or
>> >> thinking about it.
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>> >I spent about 20 years as an atheist after getting a Protestant upbringing.
>> >Then I grew up. Your assumption that all people who believe in God are all alike, approach religion the same and think like robots is just childish and stupid.
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>> 20 years and atheist and what precipitated the need for a religious
>> belief?
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>A need to see the world for what it really is.
AND now you are saying you saw god? Do tell....
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> Obviously it was some emotional event because you can't find
>> god through logic and reason.
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>Just more senseless prejudice and closemindedness on your part. What a shame.
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>> I suspect most people do it through fear of the unknown, fear of
>> death, fear of living, feelings of anxiety, a need to believe that
>> their paltry lives have some great divinely ordained purpose, a belief
>> in the occult and paranormal, some need I don't understand, etc..
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>Your admitted ignorance about what goes on in other peoples' minds is not evidence of anything.
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>> >Grow up.
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>> It took years to remove the last vestiges of my Catholic programming,
>> I wouldn't want or need to do that again. And that is "growing" any
>> way you look at it. casting off the fetters of religious instruction
>> is growing.
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>Hatred of your 'Catholic programming' is not evidence that God doesn't exist and is no reason to be an atheist.
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I don't say god doesn't exist. I say there's no believable evidence
that there is a god; and even if there were, what reason is there to
believe anyone knows about he/she/it?
Is god really the juvenile egotistical narcist idiot of the old
testament? I don't buy it. Anyone with that personality should not
be called a god. He doesn't measure up.
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>> >> Catholic school is like teaching a parrot to talk. Judging from what
>> >> I see in the media Jews and Muslims do the same things to their
>> >> children.
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>> >Never been a Catholic, a Jew or Muslim so I can't participate in your prejudice.
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>> In other words you admit your ignorance of Catholic instruction, yet
>> you feel knowledgeable enough to comment?
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>I feel knowledgeable enough to say I've never been a Catholic.
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>You're getting sillier and sillier.
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>> >> Religion is all about turning people into unthinking obedient drones.
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>> >A common pretension in this group among theophobes.
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>> The algorithm in your drone program... right on cue too.
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>You've already admitted to being prejudiced. Why should it be wrong to point it out once again?
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>> >> >But then that's something theophobes in this group like to do.
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>> Atheist fits the bill nicely, theophobe could be confused with a fear
>> of theists when the actual emotion I feel is one of revulsion towards
>> religion and the religious.
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>Yes, you're a theophobe. It's obvious from your words that you hate religious people today almost as much as you hate the people who taught you Catholic doctrine.
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>I don't hate you. Why do you hate me?
I don't hate you, I don't care enough about you to hate you.
I don't hate any living person, even the ones I find particularly
repulsive.
I suspect your problem is that you, like many other religiously
afflicted people, consciously realize you can't support a belief in
god, and it rankles when someone challenges the idea that your god
isn't real.
After all here you are in an atheist newsgroup spouting off about god.
I post to the Catholic group and probably always will, but that's just
petty vengeance against the religion that I was subjected to in my
youth. I had to swallow that shit for years, now they can listen to
me gripe about it.