(January 7, 2017 at 6:21 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: So everyone who doesn't think like you cannot possibly be anything other than mentally screwed up? That's an extremely narrow minded view point.
CL you ARE a nice person, and you DO take alot of heat here and still know we wont stab you to death.
It isn't a matter of someone not thinking like you. It is your logic that mentally screws you up, not your mental health. Belief in the supernatural is an unfortunate side affect of antiquity that most people simply pass down to their kids, most people adapt the faith of their parents and most keep it their entire lives.
You are not mentally ill in the context we are afraid you are going to go on a killing spree. You do mentally box yourself in because of someone introducing you to the concept you ended up buying into. When someone confronts you with the flaws in your logic, you mentally resort to defending it because you have conditioned yourself to defend it, not prove it. There is a difference between defending something with facts, and testing and falsification as a form of quality control, and what you did, which was buying first.
Most people in the world are still stuck in the past and in that context living by antiquated claims from or viewpoint IS mentally screwing oneself out of the opportunity of opening their eyes to reality.
You'd rightfully look at the theocracies of the middle east, or worship of the state like North Korea and think to yourself, "I wish they had the opportunity to see what I see". You'd rightfully like I do look at Iran or Saudi Arabia and say, "They have a messed up mentality".
Well we think the same of you, not your empathy, but your thought process. Liberals and conservatives still have a mentality of circling the wagon and also do not understand under the same labels, even Catholics have conservatives, so do Jews and so do Muslims.
Your logic is what he is talking about, not your evolutionary empathy.
