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Synapses-R-Us
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dustinthewind13 said:
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ahchela said: Now I feel stupids
No sir. I am the stupid one. Should have taken your quote out of the equation. I was not targeting you. I was implying that we all do it or have at some point in our lives. I hate it when someone else does it, but I do it myself too.
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can't totally tell if that was satirical or not... I'll just answer both.
A. (if it was) The difference is that there is a PROVEN correlation between religion and lower intellectual capabilities, no offense to religious peoples
B. (if it wasn't) haha yea i know
and about the fairies, XD
I was being satirical yup . You still haven't answered my question though. How aren't they real? Or in other words. What makes them unreal? 
Here we go again how many times do people have to hear that you can't prove a negative until they fully grasp it....
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dustinthewind13
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Don't get what your saying. Sry.
edit. The reason I am still asking is because they exist as symbols, but don't exist as beings (or at least not that I know of).
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Edited by dustinthewind13 (04/12/11 09:19 PM)
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ahchela
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Synapses-R-Us said: It was very different back in the day, many great thinkers either hid their atheism or only believed because there wasn't substantial proof reinforcing the opposite.
Nowadays any intelligent person should be able to look at the evidence on both sides and realize that religion is chalk full of contradictions and fallacies, of course that depends on what religion it is
The people I mentioned were all mystical, none religious albeit.
Personally I have limited respect for the church going crowd, but there is a big difference between being church going (religious) and mystical or spiritual.
Can't recall any great thinkers who tied themselves up in dogma, thats including 'Saints' of different religions - who tend to be more mystical than religious. As far as I know at least
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yeah utmost respect
makes black people relate to me more
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Synapses-R-Us
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Re: Religous Respect? [Re: ahchela]
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ahchela said:
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Synapses-R-Us said: It was very different back in the day, many great thinkers either hid their atheism or only believed because there wasn't substantial proof reinforcing the opposite.
Nowadays any intelligent person should be able to look at the evidence on both sides and realize that religion is chalk full of contradictions and fallacies, of course that depends on what religion it is
The people I mentioned were all mystical, none religious albeit.
Personally I have limited respect for the church going crowd, but there is a big difference between being church going (religious) and mystical or spiritual.
Can't recall any great thinkers who tied themselves up in dogma, thats including 'Saints' of different religions - who tend to be more mystical than religious. As far as I know at least
I was responding about you're comment on Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and the great religious thinkers of the past
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"Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things."
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