(August 23, 2013 at 2:56 pm)ronedee Wrote:(August 23, 2013 at 2:19 pm)Esquilax Wrote: You have to understand, Ronny... I can't speak for anyone else personally, but I get the feeling a lot of the atheists here are freaks like I am, and the swearing, the lack of tolerance for ideas we perceive as bad, the shuddering spasms of anger...
Those are almost like a handshake, to me.
It's just an affectation, thrown out there in the mutual understanding that there's a difference between "not taking bullshit" and "personal attack." We're coming from a place where disagreement, and calling one another out on the same, often with some vitriol, says nothing about our feelings about the other person at the end of the day. It's not hate, it's passion.
Now, the frustration does come in when our arguments just seem to flow right off of you, but I think if you look you'll see that most of us respond in the spirit with which the conversation is being had. I've sworn at you before, but I've also had nice things to say, when the situation calls for it. I respect good arguments and intellectual honesty, and will call out bad ones in a heartbeat, but that doesn't mean I'd spit on you in the street or anything.
I'd venture that it's the same for the rest of these fine folk.
Gotcha! We're not very different at all.
No, we are not. After all, the brain is but 2% of the body by weight.
