(December 16, 2013 at 10:56 am)rasetsu Wrote:(December 16, 2013 at 10:46 am)ChadWooters Wrote: People are enslaved by the darkness of their own minds. The means by which they hide from enlightenment varies by culture and temperament. Indeed some use religion but any unexamined ideology will do.
Oh fuck off, Chad, you just consider everybody but you to be enslaved. As if becoming a Swedenborgian zombie was some divine ticket that fell in your lap. It has nothing to do with "examined" or not, as you readily demonstrate by being an incompetent and unethical, if well read, religious jerkoff.
Ironically, ChadWooters is correct in a sense. By his own definition he is enslaved by his 'lack of enlightenment' and the fact that he ignores what is in front of him in order to continue believing his particular brand of religion and its attached dogmatic intolerance.
I have witnessed him react angrily and aggressive when someone has started to examine and question his ideology, and most of us here can see him as almost a copy of Sleepy and Nineteen (just different specific beliefs).
The lack of any evidence to support his, or any other, religion gets in the way of his world view and objective so he ignores this fact. The only way out is to accept the irrationality of his belief, which would probably entail him no longer holding the belief. This is how he defines himself, so it probably isn't going to happen. Thus, he will continue just how he is.
C'est la vie.
