How do you respond to this statement?

[thesummerqueen]

Well now I'm all curious and shit.

Do you know the secret handshake?

The one involving hands on your schvonschtucker?

[Whateverist]

Do you know the secret handshake?

The one involving hands on your schvonschtucker?

That's the one! You may read my last post wherein I divulge my Elysian secrets.

Hey, wait! You got to shake it a lot more than that.

[thesummerqueen]

“Clever girl" would have sufficed.

[Rahul]

Basically I just think what we take ourselves to be is wrong headed. I think our conscious minds play a subsidiary role in who we really are. We -our conscious minds- are an evolutionary adaption which makes us capable of stepping back and really questioning the motives and intentions of others. Add language and this conscious mind convinces itself it owns the joint. In fact we are more, and the more that we are in some respects is "other" to our conscious minds. The other within is a psychological fact that is not up to my conscious opinion nor my conscious assessment of what it would be best for me to believe. That creates the possibility of such unfortunate outcomes as estrangement from self and, more trivially, Freudian slips. But such a schema also makes coherent such ideas as integration and fulfillment. I'm fine with calling this aspect of myself "soul" even though I don't think it is anything other than something my brain is doing and thus is every bit as mortal as my body. Weird, huh?

Hrm. I think I'm going to just dwell on that for a bit before I offer an opinion. Interesting concept. Not sure I completely understand it yet. So I'm just going to think about it for a few days.

[Whateverist]

“Clever girl" would have sufficed.

And that is why I would always rather watch a movie you've written than one I've written. You have the better ear ... clever girl.

[thesummerqueen]

I'm merely the dirty yin to your nasty yang, old man.

[wandering soul]

wow Whatever. That's really beautiful. And anyone who believes in Dog has to be in touch with reality! Dogs are the saviors of our humanity. And some studies suggest it was because of our relationship with dogs we evolved into our humanity.

[Whateverist]

wow Whatever. That's really beautiful. And anyone who believes in Dog has to be in touch with reality! Dogs are the saviors of our humanity. And some studies suggest it was because of our relationship with dogs we evolved into our humanity.

Thanks. Nothing like a non-human other to get us in touch with our mammalian brain, hey?

[CleanShavenJesus]

Well, it's in my opinion that religious beliefs should be kept to one's self. That includes atheism. In real life, it's rare I ever discuss religion with anybody because it's nobody's business.

Religious beliefs shouldnt be kept to yourself, since the religious people are the ones usually in places of power. If they were kept a "secret" then we'd still be in the medieval ages and by saying that you also dissaprove the actions of great atheists, like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens etc, whom only trying/tried to achieve is human progress and scepticism.

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" -Voltaire

I'm not saying scientists or people in power who are atheists should not discuss atheism. I'm saying we're not scientists or leaders here. We're average people, who socialize with other average people. And in our everyday lives, I don't need to know anybody's religion, and nobody needs to know mine.

[thesummerqueen]

Honestly, even if religious people are in power, as long as they're not infringing on other people's rights I don't see why that's an issue. I don't go around telling my boss, who is higher up than me, that I'm atheist. And he doesn't tell me he's Christian. We know these things because of some basic differences in 'after school' activities, but we don't have to go crowing about it. It's not important to the world of accounting. Nor should it be for any other profession.