i stand on what i posted.
K. P. Collins
stoney wrote in message <379372b1.20012611 at news.meganews.com>...
> "Ken Collins" <KPaulC at email.msn.com> wrote:
>>[>stoney wrote
>[>
>[>while i share your lament over the way folks attempt to 'dictate' what's
>[>'correct' to one another, even to the point of giving way to mass murder,
in
>[>the main, i disagree with you.
>>Wow! I'm not sure if you're merely generating a straw storm or are just
being
>rankly dishonest. Where in the hell did you come up with this garbage?
>/quote start "even to the point of giving way to mass murder." /end quote.
>>[>>[shrug] I have no interest in 'converting' someone else. My
>[>> path is my way while someone else's may be in a different
>[>>direction. My point was only that I do not have to justify my lack
>[>>of belief in god constructs, just as I don't have
>[>>to justify my lack of belief in a myraid of other fictional entitiies.
>[>
>[>the difficulty inherent is that, to the degree that one diverges from
Truth,
>[>one's experience becomes increasingly problematic. and when one's
experience
>[>is problematic, one becomes an increasing 'weight' with respect to the
>[>beings of others with whom one interacts.
>>Wtf are you babbling about?
>>[>typically, folks 'just' dispense with this point by asking, "What is
truth?"
>[>
>[>it's been the fashion, even in Mathematics and Science, for folks to say,
>[>"truth is unknowable", but that's nothing more than a matter of
>[>information-processing convenience that's literally calculated so as to
>[>perpetuate that with respect to which one is merely-familiar... it's
'just'
>[>prejudice.
>>Wow..a force 4 straw storm.
>>[>>The
>[>>poster I was replying to indicated that a persons lack of belief had to
be
>[>>'justified.' Tis sad that such a 'justification mindset' only appears
with
>[>>regard to the person's personal deity construct.
>[>
>[>the difficulty inherent is that whether or not one 'justifies' one's
view,
>[>one's view does impinge upon those with whom one interacts.
>>Really? And just what impact does someones view on Leprecahn's [sp],
>pixies, elves, and faeries have on you?
>>[>the only way to make progress with respect to this difficulty is to seek,
>[>and acknowledge, Truth.
>>Ooohhh....Truth with a capital 'T.' And the objective supporting evidence
for
>your pet deity is? Or Bigfoot? Or elves, faeries, pixies and such?
>>>[snipping the rest of the babbling]
>>Stoney
