Tails,
No no, please no tacking terms together to form new words. You are engaging in a thought process that will ultimately hinder your growth as an open-minded human being. I see the problem and hope that I am eloquent enought to reveal the problem with these terms with which you have proven to be quite enamored.
You are melding words that are descriptive while avoiding any pejorative conotation (theist, atheist) and melding them with words that describe YOUR opinion of the person and add nothing to the conversation other than the prejudice of the one writing the post. It is easy to agree with the labels theist and atheist without too much trouble, but when you fuse your opinions to them they become intolerable even if they are meant as compliments. For example, no matter how intelligent someone found me I would find the label "intelligatheist" intolerable.
I know, opinions are like assholes; nobody wants anyone else's shoved in their face! I have seen your posts and every time I see one of those words, a clangor is raised in my head such that none can abide!
Please bin those words.
Rhizo
No no, please no tacking terms together to form new words. You are engaging in a thought process that will ultimately hinder your growth as an open-minded human being. I see the problem and hope that I am eloquent enought to reveal the problem with these terms with which you have proven to be quite enamored.
You are melding words that are descriptive while avoiding any pejorative conotation (theist, atheist) and melding them with words that describe YOUR opinion of the person and add nothing to the conversation other than the prejudice of the one writing the post. It is easy to agree with the labels theist and atheist without too much trouble, but when you fuse your opinions to them they become intolerable even if they are meant as compliments. For example, no matter how intelligent someone found me I would find the label "intelligatheist" intolerable.
I know, opinions are like assholes; nobody wants anyone else's shoved in their face! I have seen your posts and every time I see one of those words, a clangor is raised in my head such that none can abide!
Please bin those words.
Rhizo
