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RE: Taking blind faith and willful ignorance to a new level
May 13, 2012 at 8:09 pm
(May 13, 2012 at 8:05 pm)libalchris Wrote: I came across a ridiculous video that I had been shown in grade school on youtube. The interesting thing was not the video however, but the comments. i spent a brief amount of time debating (talking to a brick wall) the guy before I realized that this guy was the epitome of willful ignorance and decided to stop talking to him. I'll let the conversation speak for itself:
http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=t6ZvXqA1P3E
I'm libalchris, he's earlysda
His first comment is at the top of the comment page and then you can follow the conversation down.
I have chats like that and is annoying, I feel for you.
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RE: Taking blind faith and willful ignorance to a new level
May 13, 2012 at 8:11 pm
I've had a number of chats like it, but nothing quite so bad as this. I literally felt as though I was talking to a brick wall. After systematically listing evidence, he doesn't even try to discredit it, or say it wasn't true, he simply denied that I had posted anything at all! He was exactly like a kid screaming "la la la I can't hear you!"
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RE: Taking blind faith and willful ignorance to a new level
May 13, 2012 at 8:17 pm
I have had many like that.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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RE: Taking blind faith and willful ignorance to a new level
May 14, 2012 at 4:40 am
As soon as he stated that there's no observable evidence for evolution,i stopped reading.
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