(August 23, 2016 at 11:40 am)SteveII Wrote:(August 23, 2016 at 10:30 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Again, Please be more specific... what do you think that I have drastically changed points of view on here?
LOL. How could she be more specific when she didn't understand any of the points in the first place? She tells you what you mean, shifts the subject and declares victory...repeat.
I do try to approach things with the principle of charity, to try and understand that we are coming at things from a different worldview. I am fairly direct, and perhaps do fall back to abductio ad absurdum, to try and move the discussion past the easy quick (twitter-like)claims, and onto something more fruitful and thoughtful. Perhaps this is where I error. In discussions with an orthodox friend, we did this often, and usually found that are views are not that dissimilar when we got down to it. Sometimes it is more the language, the different approach, and just plain stubbornness, that causes more differences than there is in reality.
But then sometimes, it appears, that people don't even listen, or try to have a conversation either.
