/It was intersting to see how Xeno tried to enable Barry, by
leaving out of the discussion all the interesting stuff Barry
believes in - like karma and reincarnation.
/
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On 10/23/2014 10:21 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
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I do not have time to read everything Barry writes. I have no idea
what he believes about karma and reincarnation, we have never
discussed it and I have not read what he said about it, if
anything. We seem to disagree about the nature of free will. No
one on this forum needs enabling to post what they think. Of
course I never intended to include any of what you say.
>
/You've spent what, hours dialoging with Barry about believing in God
being a form of mental illness, and you don't even know what Barry
believes in? Go figure./
>
/
//What happened - I thought you guys all read Sam Harris'
book.////Go figure.
//Xeno didn't even recognize the dissonance in Barry's preference
for Bruce Cockburn songs. Everyone knows Cockburn is a born-again
Christian. What about Barry's claim that a "belief in God is a
form of mental illness."
/
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Why are Cockburn's beliefs of import, Barry likes music and in
particular Cockburn's songs and guitar technique. I like Bach
(Lutheran), Mozart (Catholic), Brahms (probably agnostic), Glass
(Jewish-Taoist-Hindu-Toltec-Buddhist); what does that have to do
with [cognitive] dissonance when listening to their music?
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/Because the words to Cockburn's songs are all about believing in God?
Did Mozart or Brahms sing about any songs? /
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/How does that work?/
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Trolls are not that connected to what others post, with comments
skewed tangentially to the ongoing discussion, so you do not need
to know how it works, as that is largely irrelevant to your posts.
>
/You're still trying to enable Barry. Why do you suppose Barry trolls
here to post duplicitous messages to get angry responses? A belief in
God is not a form of mental illness. Everybody already knows that. You
are supposed to listen to the words of the songs BEFORE you post your
comments. Thanks./
