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Originally Posted by stevedavidson  you don't seem to be able to 'handle the truth'.
but you do like Chandler, so you can't be all that bad.
(I've got the rights to his works btw - letting other people write in his universe and reprints...)
I meant what I said. I don't 'believe' anything in the blind faith sense of the word. I can use the word conversationally - I believe this lightbulb is a working one - but that's as far as it goes.
I have no problem separating 'belief' based on the best evidence so far - with the full knowledge that new information can change that belief - and belief based on faith - conviction based on no evidence.
The preponderance of the evidence examined thus far - the overwhelming amount of data - supports the theory that we, the universe and everything in it came about as a result of natural laws and, once we sufficiently understand the mechanisms behind it, will not require a resort to supernatural explanations.
I'm sorry if the reality bothers you, but sometimes you have to say 'the emporer has no clothes'; religious believers have been tolerated and deferred to for far too long and my personal BELIEF is that we would all be much better off without it. |
Once again, the tone of this post would make you seem to be a logical sensible guy, but that's because I busted you, now you've wiped that hit and run for a safer bunker.
Two quotes for you before I run off to work:
"Denial is not just a river in Egypt."
I have no idea who said that
"Milord, it seems perhaps thou dost protest too strenuously"
Stephen Brust's the Pheonix guards
AB Chandler has some great things between the lines about doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do. Whether it's maggie or Sonya or the Faraway Quest, he does what he can to steer the right course. A good character and I hope the folks who take charge of his universe treat it with more respect than you do religion or your fellow man.
We all get carried away sometimes, whether it's Hillary ducking sniper fire, or you posting as the anti-christ. Just don't do it, don't give in. Reread your posts, edit them, take the time to bother because they represent you to the rest of the world. They may go over the heads of the midgets you seem to expect out here, but us taller folks in the back get hit right in the face with the inconsistencies between Stevedavidson circa page 4 and the guy we see on page 11. Maybe I'm a poor excuse for a genius, but they don't seem like the same guy, suggesting that one of them is a character you are playing, whether you will admit or even realize it.
Thanks for offering to feel sorry if your rationalizations bothered me, but that won't be necessary. NONE of this bothers me. I don't dislike you, I think you're no more delusional than the average and your offense wasn't really so heinous, self deception is as forgiveable as any mistake can be. It's simply a debate. Not a very complicated one, but still a debate.
Rob