---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> ---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote : Doncha love how people who believe in an invisible magic man in the sky like to portray those who don't as if *they* are the crazy ones. Sometimes the sheer feeble-mindedness of believers astounds me. Or, as someone once said so well: "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." -- Voltaire I don't know about you, Salyavin, but it's difficult for me to imagine someone whose mind is so weak and whose fear of the unknown is so profound that they would exchange a belief in that which can never be proved to exist (because...duh...it doesn't) for the far more interesting and fulfilling sense of MYSTERY that is their birthright. I'm just enjoying the responses it gets whenever you say anything contrary to the POV of the believer. Exactly. Thanks for noticing, and getting it. "Inquisition" actually is a pretty interesting documentary, BTW and deals with similar responses. I will look it up, sounds like my cup of Rosie. Some of the weird fantasies that are getting projected on us are actually fascinating. If I could be bothered to read all of it I might start trying to classify it so we can use it to make predictions about what sort of abuse to expect per rational argument. There's got to be a use for FFL.. Careful, dude. That last sentence almost revealed belief that there might be a Plan behind all of this. :-) :-) :-) Leo Festinger would have been well into this place! Don't know him. Should I? You might have done if I'd spelt it right ;-) When Prophecy Fails - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails When Prophecy Fails - Wikipedia, the free encycl... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of soci... View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Prophecy_Fails Preview by Yahoo From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 8:58 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Billy Graham: America is Just as Wicked... ---In [email protected], <jr_esq@...> wrote : Ann, These are good quotes which adequately sum up the attitudes of atheists. LOL, adequately sums them up if you want your own narrow viewpoint bolstered you mean.
