From: "curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 2:50 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Billy Graham: America is Just as Wicked... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: "curtisdeltablues@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Atheists do not have to define what they do not believe in. They take the definitions from the believers and find them wanting. Yours included, to the degree that you have spelled out what it is. As usual, Curtis, I am in awe of your ability to interface with idiots as if they were actually worth the time. I keep getting stuck on the "idiot" part. To me, if a person believes in astrology, God, and the Maharishi Effect, that's kinda like the Trifecta of Idiocy. You can't actually become much more of a loser than that. :-) M: Well to be fair, there is nothing I have read hear (Nabbie included) that I didn't wholeheartedly embrace at one time in my life. I don't think of my past self as being an idiot, just a practicer of fallacious reasoning. I was just wrong about almost everything I believed. Simply and earnestly wrong. Kinda humbling really. I guess you're right about that. I had left the TM movement before they started all the "Maharishi Effect" crap, so I didn't have a chance to buy into that, but I definitely spent money on astrologers once. I never really had any feeling for the existence of a "God," either, but I "played the game" by using that terminology when it was called for in TM talks. But I definitely did and believed a bunch of things that qualified me as an idiot back in the day, so I should try to remember them when dealing with those who are still living in those mindstates. That would be more compassionate, after all. It's just that there is so little PAYOFF in dealing with people who still believe these things. They just go round in circles and then come back to the very things they started with. Their thinking seems to be as non-rigorous as it is circular.
