I frequently argue with myself . . . and lose.
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Atheists, you talk to yourselves, right?
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(October 25, 2013 at 12:43 am)Owlix Wrote: Because I do. All the time. Always have. Yeah. Most of the time I find myself saying, "Ivy, don't do it. Stop. Oh, darn. Ok, fuck it." It's a wonderful thing, really.
Pointing around: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you, I'm out!"
Half Baked "Let the atheists come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of heathens belongs to people like these." -Saint Bacon
Everyone has internal dialog. Some people just audibly verbalize it.
Some people mistakenly call it 'god'. You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
Not a big fan of internal dialogue. When I catch it starting up I just don't get involved. Since I was in high school I've been consciously eliminating inner dialogue or 'narration'. I find it adds nothing at all to any experience except to add a layer between me and experience. Nor is there anything I find I can't do without it .. except communicate with other people which I enjoy doing. I find words come readily when there is a real audience and a purpose.
I'm very suspicious of language and how we come to associate it so strongly with thinking. Okay. There it is. Now you know the nature of my weirdness.
I try not to talk to myself because it always degenerates into crude name-calling.
"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
The inner Becca is a lot more bitchy and demanding than the outer Becca. IB only actually comes out to play when I'm all alone, thank goodness!
(October 25, 2013 at 9:01 am)Zazzy Wrote:(October 25, 2013 at 8:55 am)Captain Colostomy Wrote: Do you use pencil or pen? Cheat with web searches/dictionary, or 'go it alone'? Your answers may cause me to fire up an official 'Zazzy Fan Club', depending...Omigod. If there's even a possibility that my grandfather can see me even though he's dead, and he saw me using a pencil, I'd be so mortified. You have to use a pen. And I'm a little miffed that you would even suggest the possibility that I would cheat. If I can't finish it, I can't finish it, and I just blame it on Will being a dick. And the top half of today's is a real bitch, so I've been grumbling at Will all morning. You are so effing hot. (October 25, 2013 at 9:01 am)Zazzy Wrote:(October 25, 2013 at 8:55 am)Captain Colostomy Wrote: Do you use pencil or pen? Cheat with web searches/dictionary, or 'go it alone'? Your answers may cause me to fire up an official 'Zazzy Fan Club', depending...Omigod. If there's even a possibility that my grandfather can see me even though he's dead, and he saw me using a pencil, I'd be so mortified. You have to use a pen. And I'm a little miffed that you would even suggest the possibility that I would cheat. If I can't finish it, I can't finish it, and I just blame it on Will being a dick. And the top half of today's is a real bitch, so I've been grumbling at Will all morning. So, you're an atheist who works as a molecular biologist, you do the NYT crossword puzzle in pen, and you prefer to be addressed as Mistress. *swoons* |
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