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I don't exactly feel the same way I once did.
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Hey ex-Ryan. Saw a few posts from those days.
Welcome back aboard.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
 RE: I don't exactly feel the same way I once did.
January 26, 2017 at 12:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2017 at 12:33 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
Kudos whore! :-)
Seriously, though, welcome back. 
So you made it out of the space time vortex!
Well said, too.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
Glad you escaped from the apartment.
Welcome back, Ryan.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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^LOL.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie 
At times I feel the same way, at other times I just don't care. Often times I try to talk to "the other side" as a reasonable adult, but it doesn't work out very often. In fact, I don't think it has ever worked out. A constructive conversation is one in which both sides listen to one another, and I seriously do try from time to time, but I just don't get that from the other side. Maybe they're trying as well, but they are so entrenched in their beliefs that it often makes them difficult and frustrating to talk to. Take "logical proofs", for example. They are often presented as "evidence", sometimes even "indisputable evidence". But they always, always, always rely heavily on a particular, subjective interpretation of the facts. Intelligent design, for example, relies heavily on "inferred" instances of design for which there really isn't any evidence, but simply inferring that they're right is somehow evidence that they're right. It is infuriating. The logical fallacy there is so blatant, yet utterly invisible to the believer that it just drives me insane, I get frustrated, sometimes angry and the conversation degrades.
And that's not even the worst of it. You simply can't get them to see when they're changing the rules repeatedly. They'll make one argument which dismisses facts and follow that with an argument that you have to use the facts, whichever is convenient at the time. They'll argue for the inerrant necessity of accepting the obvious followed by an argument explaining why what is obvious is not necessarily correct. The goal posts move, the rules change, definitions are loosened to support them and tightened to dispute me and they don't even use the same definitions from one conversation to the next. The rules change constantly, always dictated by them, always in their favor. It is absolutely infuriating to try to hold an intelligent conversation with someone so flippant with their view of reality. So while I try to live by what you said, I fail more often than not. The only other option is to just not talk to them at all, as far as I can see. Hell, much of the time they won't even concede a simply mistake on their part. A simple "I misspoke, that's not what I meant" must be avoided at all cost with accusations and ever newer and more convoluted claims about why they were never wrong in the first place. Even though what they said isn't accurate or correct, it also wasn't wrong. Ever.
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"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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