RE: Ecstasy
March 9, 2013 at 5:57 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2013 at 5:59 pm by jstrodel.)
It is not so much silence as willful engagement with issues in a manner that effectively ignores the most important and obvious consideration, such as ecstasy is bad for you, in fact of making some sort of ironic joke or doing something intentionally offensive. It is by no means limited to atheist culture, it is Internet culture generally.
I have not posted in many threads because I do not have the time to cover all of them. But others decline to criticize the actions of others because atheist culture tends to not take responsibility for giving others counsel about the most serious and important issues in their lives and instead tends to thrive on irony, on memes, on technical observations and on anything that ignores central, life and death issues just because they aren't cool or they seem like people have said them over and over again.
It is that spirit that I feel and see so often that seems to drive people more than anything else, the spirit that exalts humor above love. It is despicable.
This is what I mean. This does not refute what I said, it is just a sort of mocking side comment aimed at derailing what I am trying to say. The logic behind this goes something like "I don't like fire and brimestone, so this is bad". How does that actually address what I am saying or refute it?
I have not posted in many threads because I do not have the time to cover all of them. But others decline to criticize the actions of others because atheist culture tends to not take responsibility for giving others counsel about the most serious and important issues in their lives and instead tends to thrive on irony, on memes, on technical observations and on anything that ignores central, life and death issues just because they aren't cool or they seem like people have said them over and over again.
It is that spirit that I feel and see so often that seems to drive people more than anything else, the spirit that exalts humor above love. It is despicable.
(March 9, 2013 at 5:55 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(March 9, 2013 at 5:54 pm)catfish Wrote: Drugs are bad, what more do you want?
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A little more brimstone, perhaps?
This is what I mean. This does not refute what I said, it is just a sort of mocking side comment aimed at derailing what I am trying to say. The logic behind this goes something like "I don't like fire and brimestone, so this is bad". How does that actually address what I am saying or refute it?
