Knowing everything and allowing evil

[Abracadabra]

I will actively pursue terse verse in the future. How's that?

Terrific.

Oh,it's perfectly Ok to piss people as long as you don't break forum rules.

Having people disagree ,no matter how bluntly, will hopefully get you to think and improve your skills of argument. Being ignored is far more insulting. That's why I avoid addressing our resident apologists directly.


Nah,I haven't assumed you're female, just very young and still working things out. At 18-25 I thought I knew a lot of stuff,if not everything. At 64 I am constantly stunned at the depth of my ignorance. Of course that doesn't stop me from having and expressing opinions on just about anything. I do with the realisation that most of my views are probably wrong or incomplete.

It was actually Rhythm that referred to me as a "Her".

I'm 63. I'm retired from a highly scientific and technical career. In the last few years of active employment I taught college physics. I really miss those days. In fact, I'd still be teaching today if it wasn't for health problems that forced me to retire.

I've heard every apologetic argument that I can imagine over the course of my life. There's only so far a dead horse can be beaten. Christianity cannot be salvaged even by the most dedicated believer. In fact, Isaac Newton was actually attempting to salvage the religion when he finally concluded that it's not salvageable. I basically did the very same thing even before I had learned that Isaac Newton had already done it.

There isn't much I don't know about the sciences either. I understand the theories, and under what circumstances they are believed to be true, and upon which premises they depend. I also fully understand that all theories are ultimately dependent upon a belief in specific underlying axioms and premises, most of which are themselves unprovable.

Finally, other than my extreme rejection of the Hebrew fables, I do not make absolute statements about much of anything, other than to perhaps convey what is actually accepted by modern day science.

I don't have an agenda to 'push magic'. In fact, that very notion has been pushed onto me by the false assumptions of other people. Mostly what they object to really has nothing at all to do with me or my position on things, but rather it has to do with their very own delusions of what they imagine my position to be.

However, I do confess that my definition for "Wiccan" in my sig file probably contributes to that. That's just intended as comedy, but I'm sure that some people take it seriously.

Ok, sorry for the wall of information, but without writing it in bullet form that was about as terse as I could get.