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RE: religious addiction
October 7, 2009 at 4:46 pm
??? Please rephrase that???
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: religious addiction
October 7, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Your choices are limited by the restrictor of the outcome. A person is less likely to choose religiocity given the downside.
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RE: religious addiction
October 9, 2009 at 6:29 pm
What makes an addiction an addiction?
Is love an addiction, or air or water or wat?
Mark Taylor: "Religious conflict will be less a matter of struggles between belief and unbelief than of clashes between believers who make room for doubt and those who do not."
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
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RE: religious addiction
October 10, 2009 at 3:39 pm
So it might be possible for religion to be an addiction, but not because of the time spent on it but on whether it causes harm or not..... which is really down to personal opinion.
Mark Taylor: "Religious conflict will be less a matter of struggles between belief and unbelief than of clashes between believers who make room for doubt and those who do not."
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
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RE: religious addiction
October 10, 2009 at 3:41 pm
What makes you think it's down to personal opinion?
Doesn't it make a difference what beliefs are part of a belief system? Considering that people are compelled by their beliefs, if they are, indeed, genuinely believed?
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RE: religious addiction
October 10, 2009 at 3:53 pm
It does make a difference but each person will evaluate anothers beliefs based upon their own.
Mark Taylor: "Religious conflict will be less a matter of struggles between belief and unbelief than of clashes between believers who make room for doubt and those who do not."
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
I love that when people declare sound statements "FALLACY!", they don't realize that under the same logic: one can declare the same with anything ^_^
