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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: Sole_Worthy]
#2319358 - 02/09/04 07:46 PM (20 years, 1 month ago) |
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trendal
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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
#2319364 - 02/09/04 07:46 PM (20 years, 1 month ago) |
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Right here!
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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: SpecialEd]
#2319365 - 02/09/04 07:47 PM (20 years, 1 month ago) |
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silversoul7
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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
#2319366 - 02/09/04 07:47 PM (20 years, 1 month ago) |
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Why not let sleeping dogs lie? What is it that prods you to comment or question at all?
Intellectual curiosity, or mental masturbation, as someone else referred to it. As far as defending one's views, I don't ask that people prove their views to be true beyond a reasonable doubt. I merely ask that they explain anything that seems inconsistent with reality as we know it. I don't ask everyone to do this, as some people are too attached to their beliefs to question them, but I hold the people in this forum to a higher standard than that. Now, about these Martians: I heard they have weapons of mass destruction. Is that why Bush is planning to invade the planet? Or do they have oil there?
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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: silversoul7]
#2319388 - 02/09/04 07:52 PM (20 years, 1 month ago) |
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NiamhNyx
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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
#2319395 - 02/09/04 07:53 PM (20 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm here because I enjoy the conversation. Shroomery's S&P provides and entirely different intellectual atmosphere than I've found in other places. I suppose that suggests that I am here to learn, not only that but to share. Perhaps to teach and be taught simultaneously and to find individuals with whom I can mutually grow and expand ideas.
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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: NiamhNyx]
#2319413 - 02/09/04 08:00 PM (20 years, 1 month ago) |
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infidelGOD
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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
#2319634 - 02/09/04 09:12 PM (20 years, 1 month ago) |
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"Why are we here?"
entertainment, mostly. S&P is damn good reading but I don't take things here too seriously, or personally
I also learn quite a bit, and sometimes I even share my own thoughts and call out BS if I see any if people see these things in terms of "attacking" or "defending" that's not really my problem
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fireworks_god
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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: ]
#2323430 - 02/11/04 08:12 AM (20 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ja, I'm here to learn, to teach, and to have some fun. This place would have to be pretty damned interesting if it keeps me coming back every day... Peace.
-------------------- If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: silversoul7]
#2323536 - 02/11/04 09:18 AM (20 years, 1 month ago) |
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silversoul7 said: I guess I'd be considered an "attacker," but it's not so much to defeat others as to make them defend their views. I hate it when people make outrageous claims and then when those claims are questioned they claim their beliefs are being persecuted. If a person can properly defend their beliefs in the face of skeptical inquiry, they have my respect.
I am here to learn. That's the only reason I join forums, is to see what I can learn. I have learned a lot so far.
One really great way of learning it to have to defend your position. That is why I like skeptics. I don't see skeptics as "assholes". I see them as a "necessary evil". :evil grin:
When I make a statement, it's with the unspoken acknowledgement in my mind that someone could say "WTF are you talking about???"
Then I have to defend my position or buy a different one, if mine isn't holding up. My mind has been changed on a couple of things since I've been here.
So, I learn. I learn new things, mostly. But I learn also whether I buy my beliefs or not. I also learn about me, by how things that are said affect me. Where are my soft spots.
-------------------- The day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. -Teilard
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Re: What is our purpose here? Attack or Defend? [Re: Frog]
#2323848 - 02/11/04 11:12 AM (20 years, 1 month ago) |
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When I make a statement, it's with the unspoken acknowledgement in my mind that someone could say "WTF are you talking about???" Then I have to defend my position or buy a different one, if mine isn't holding up. My mind has been changed on a couple of things since I've been here. So, I learn. I learn new things, mostly. But I learn also whether I buy my beliefs or not. I also learn about me, by how things that are said affect me. Where are my soft spots.
YES!
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