Drugs are baaaad, mmm'kay?

(March 9, 2013 at 5:49 pm)catfish Wrote: Drugs are baaaad, mmm'kay?

What prevents you from having compassion for others? Is your heart so hard and so unfeeling you are incapable of uttering a single with even a small amount of concern for something that doesn't align with your pet beliefs or what is cool?

(March 9, 2013 at 5:47 pm)jstrodel Wrote: I appreciate the freedom of expression, and that is true that you give Christians liberties here that they do not have on other sites. I appreciate that. At the same time, the freedom of expression is different from advocacy. It is different to permit someone to express their views on ecstasy and then rebuke them for faulty views versus permit the expression of those views and say "Yeah, I did it, it was amazing" or maybe worst still, be absolutely silent.

Would it be likewise fair to judge you for your silence in any number of threads that you have declined to comment in?

We can do that, if you'd like.

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(March 9, 2013 at 5:51 pm)jstrodel Wrote:

(March 9, 2013 at 5:49 pm)catfish Wrote: Drugs are baaaad, mmm'kay?

What prevents you from having compassion for others? Is your heart so hard and so unfeeling you are incapable of uttering a single with even a small amount of concern for something that doesn't align with your pet beliefs or what is cool?

Uhh, someone should probably tell this guy that catfish is a Christian.

(March 9, 2013 at 5:51 pm)jstrodel Wrote:

(March 9, 2013 at 5:49 pm)catfish Wrote: Drugs are baaaad, mmm'kay?

What prevents you from having compassion for others? Is your heart so hard and so unfeeling you are incapable of uttering a single with even a small amount of concern for something that doesn't align with your pet beliefs or what is cool?

Drugs are bad, what more do you want?
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(March 9, 2013 at 5:54 pm)catfish Wrote:

(March 9, 2013 at 5:51 pm)jstrodel Wrote: What prevents you from having compassion for others? Is your heart so hard and so unfeeling you are incapable of uttering a single with even a small amount of concern for something that doesn't align with your pet beliefs or what is cool?

Drugs are bad, what more do you want?
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A little more brimstone, perhaps?

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.

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(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?

(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?

OK then. Any dumbfuck that does drugs is in effect defiling God's temple so they will be sentenced to Tatarus for an aeonian!!!!

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(March 9, 2013 at 5:57 pm)jstrodel Wrote: 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.

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(March 9, 2013 at 5:55 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: 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?

I'm actually against all pharmaceuticals as I get enough chemicals from my food and water.
The Bible condones alcohol for suffering people, did you know that?
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(March 9, 2013 at 6:04 pm)catfish Wrote:

(March 9, 2013 at 5:55 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: A little more brimstone, perhaps?

OK then. Any dumbfuck that does drugs is in effect defiling God's temple so they will be sentenced to Tatarus for an aeonian!!!!

This is a perfect example of the sort of callous cynical attitude that is so much pervasive than empathy and seriousness and love and the absolute imperative to help others avoid evil. That tends to not exist on the internet, especially in atheist circles.

It is sufficient, for the atheist, to post a picture of a dog peeing to win an argument about something serious. Then they will object "ATHEISM IS NOT THE SAME AS NIHILISM". It seems like the hearts of atheists have been hardened so badly by their philosophy that they do not even process momement to moment as a constant struggle to help others as much as possible. They do not feel that they have this burden placed on them, the only burden they feel is to be cool.

(March 9, 2013 at 5:57 pm)jstrodel Wrote:

(March 9, 2013 at 5:55 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: 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?

No, it's a little joke between catfish and I. If I'm not terribly mistaken, I believe he saw the humor in it. That's what happens when you actually get to know people by reading what they have to say instead of making broad generalizations.

...and as I wasn't speaking to you, yes, of course it wasn't addressing what you said.

(March 9, 2013 at 6:09 pm)jstrodel Wrote: This is a perfect example of the sort of callous cynical attitude that is so much pervasive than empathy and seriousness and ...

Somewhere out there, a face is begging to be punched, and that face is yours.