The Long and the Short of it.

[Tiberius]

In response to the opening post, I think that my total honesty annoys a lof of atheists. As soon as a theists comes along, atheists start itching for an argument, and try to assert their intellectual superiority over theists. However when the theist doesn't play along, the atheist gets angry. During the time that I've been here, I've observed the undercurrents going on underneath the surface, and really, it boils down to atheists having no intention at all of trying to understand theists. All they want to do is repeatedly play out the senario that gives them the most satisfaction, which is to affirm to themselves how clever they are. I am completely honest about my reasons for believing in god, as well as my ability to articulate those reasons. I have no need to constantly reference other people's words to try and give my arguments credibility as I simply don't care about credibility in the slightest. It's very telling for an atheist forum to have a mechanism by which everyone can give each other "Reputation" points, it really does sum up what's really going on. Right now I have 1 point (which I wouldn't miss if it disappeared), and although I appreciate the positive comments I don't have have a psychological need to collect them. That's the difference between people who are secure in themselves, and people whose goal in life is to be validated by their "peers". "Peer review", that's another one, which makes me laugh, and it goes to show that it's the same in the scientific "community" (read : clique), and the way even scientists ridicule each other shows that science has been hijacked by deeply insecure individuals whose goal is a nobel prize, fame and recognition, and the validation of their equally insecure 'peers" (clique). Many atheists lack the ability to think for themselves, which is why they constantly ask the other person to provide proof. I say you seek it, and judge it for yourself. If you don't then you have no interest in anything other than defending your view. "Defending", that's another telling word. It's really just a game, defend your view, defend your position within the clique. I have not once posted a link to anything to back up anything I've said and I have no intention to do so. I have no interest in defending my view, only expressing it and explaining it as best as I can, using my own words. It's the same thing in debating societies, the point isn't to express your view and hear the other person's view, and perhaps learn something from each other, it is to play verbal chess, it's always win-lose, never win-win, and people who are good "debators" aren't necessarily right in their views at all. So the long and the short of it is that a lot of the atheists are deeply insecure.

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