I don't Care What You Believe...Just Believe.
POSTED BY: RiveR6213
UPDATED: Monday, July 31, 2006 23:15
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You got it, Dad!
TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree
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Ok, I've decided to check out troll country and ran into this thread. Probably no one's going to read it, but what the hell.
I'm with several people here. I have problems with Christains. And Jews. And Muslims... um, who else? Atheists, agnostics, myself too.
Actually, I have problems with humanity.
Everyone thinks their particular faith is enlightened and closest to God. That's why its their faith. If someone else's faith is right, that makes theirs wrong. So its perfectly natural that people see their faith as above other peoples. That's my problem with religion. The trick is, they can fight the good fight, convert a few people along the way, without being arrogant and egotistical. I think, largely, the western world is moving towards a tolerant disagreement. I wouldn't advocate total tolerance, if something is wrong with someones faith, the practices, or their conduct, people don't have to accept it. They just need to stuff their ego away.
I think atheists and agnostics are worse. Several atheists I know think themselves incredibly clever because they don't "buy into the mindless following of religion." *yawn*. Agnostics think themselves clever by pulling the Socrates card. I think I'm clever because I realize the world is full of idiots, including myself, and I accept it. I say that, and I think that, but does my subconscious believe? I dunno.
The fact is we all think we're better than one another. We need to realize this fact, and can our egos as much as possible while still subjecting others ideas to reason, debate, and not simply accepting others positions.
It's a real balance. I guess that's why I like Aristotle.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Rat:Quote:
Originally posted by deepgirl187:
To RiveR6213 and Rat,
If anyone here hijacked this thread, it's you two.
If you look at the first few posts, you'll see where it got threadjacked and that it wasn't me! (Unless you count my using the "C" word.)Quote:
Originally posted by Malachite:
Does that make sense?
Sort of, but I still don't see how Book could know all that!
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I don't mean hijacking in a literal sense. What I mean is that you and River6213's constant bickering ruined the original idea of this thread. Call me crazy, but some people actually wanted to discuss Book's message to Mal, not lash each other to death with philosopical biases.
At last.
We can retire and give up
this life of crime.
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I started this thread. You have to read the thread from start to finish to know what happened that ended this thread into Troll Country!!!! I hate Troll Country by the way.
I had selfish reasons for starting this thread, but the Christians decided to move on in to spread god's message, and to turn upside down my thread. I guess I wasnt going to have that, so I attacked. I guess i should have just let them take over the thread and made another one. Shame on me. I'm such a bad person.
There are more faiths on ths planet other than Christianity you know. These christians are a pushy lot, and they make a lot of people hate them not because of god, but becasue of them.
I say kill 'em all
Dead River
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Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
There are more faiths on ths planet other than Christianity you know. These christians are a pushy lot, and they make a lot of people hate them not because of god, but becasue of them.
I say kill 'em all
So, because of the crimes of a few all should die? Just curious. Seems kind of heavy handed and pushy is all.
I don't generally discuss religion or politics for the very reasons that this thread you started went bad & into troll country. I do however hate to see an entire group stereotyped because of some bad experiences you have suffered.
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BrownCoat1, if we are to take RiveR6213 at her word from the To Be or Not to Be thread, she's gone now.
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Wait a second. Do you mean "gone" gone?
I just read the "To be.." thread to her last post. Do you mean she may have taken her own life?
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Sorry if I was vague, I mean to say she ended her life.
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She what? You can't be serious!
Has anyone tried to contact her? Surely taking her own life was not the answer to her problems.
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