(September 15, 2013 at 2:08 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I would like to say this. I want to meet drich, I really do. If only to see if my mental image of him And how much of a mess of human he is lines up with reality.
Growing up in a very controlling and insular cult (JWs) I can say that nearly all of the people I knew where generally indistinguishable from any other person. Same with most of the non-JW religious folks. Even if you got them talking about religion. I think that we're wired to want to fit in socially, and most people aren't going to blurt out their most closely-held or more controversial religious views to every person they meet.
I think most of the regulars here would be pretty cool to meet and spend a short time with. I would hesitate with those like Koolay, who seem to have a hangup about a particular topic and would probably be either boring or embarrassing to be around. And I would not want to meet someone like jstrodel, who struck me as a bit of a lunatic. If I cannot mentally separate a person from a persona, I figure they're a disaster waiting to happen.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
