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[Spongebob]

Great, now I'm feeling a pang of guilt. I often get triggered by idiot theists and fall into their web of nonsense. It's a bad personality trait. I hear what Neo is saying and Vulcan, too. On another forum I had a years-long discourse with a few theists who were extremely intelligent and well versed in logic/philosophy & science. No, they were no where near being fundies so it was a pleasure most of the time. They represented maybe 5% of the theists who showed up there. We had one very fundamental Christian who was a good sport for a while until he just had enough and left the forum. He demanded that the administrator delete his account and all of his posts. We didn't do that.

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I dig what you're saying, actually. But I think a lot of it boils down to "people in general" not being interested in philosophy-- not necessarily atheists not being interested in philosophy. I mean, most people don't care. We tend to think of the Greeks as the intellectual giants of ancient times, but they killed Socrates. Why? Because most of his Greek contemporaries didn't see the relevance of what Socrates was saying. A disconcern with philosophy is endemic of all ages... all peoples... and all subgroups of all peoples.

As for your original comment about Nietzsche... I didn't read it as pompous personally. Just snarky. And an appropriate amount of snark for a thread with this title.

I think one problem is that it seems unattainable for lots of people.  You have to devote a lot of time reading and understanding to be able to communicate with others and even then it's easy to get bogged down.  I pick up what I can tangentially but I spend far more time studying history because that's more of a passion for me.  For instance, I read Republic from a historical perspective, not a philosophical one.