10-28-2008, 08:07 AM
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Hey
I'm an agnostic (formally catholic). My personal motto is "reason over emotion", meaning that all decisions should be made using logic rather than how you feel.
However, I am not closed-minded. I'll gladly change my mind if given compelling evidence, and will bring anything that I can't explain myself here so it can be discussed in more detail.
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10-28-2008, 08:08 AM
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General of the Attacking Army
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Welcome, Klarion!
I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
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10-28-2008, 08:10 AM
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Super Moderator
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welcome to our humble forum, klarion.
One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected....That they should have this immunity is an outrage. There is nothing in religious ideas, as a class, to lift them above other ideas. On the contrary, they are always dubious and often quite silly.
H. L. Mencken
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10-28-2008, 05:42 PM
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welcome to our humble forum, klarion.
Indeed,welcome. Post often we'll enjoy your posts if you have interesting things to say.Neither reason nor sanity are required,and may be a disadvantge.
Yes,this is a modest little forum,even humble. However,those are not the first words which usually spring to mind when I think of our members as a broad group.
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10-29-2008, 02:01 AM
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Quote:
Klarion wrote
I'm an agnostic (formally catholic).
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Do you mean formally as in on paper (or as in lip service), or did you misspell "formerly" (I've seen it before so I figured I might as well get any misconceptions out of the way, right away)
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Klarion wrote
My personal motto is "reason over emotion", meaning that all decisions should be made using logic rather than how you feel.
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Sweet, that is exactly how I operate. And I can prove it! I did this test that has had 15 million participants, and I was (and probably still am) the least emotional one. A lil shameless plug there
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10-29-2008, 07:55 AM
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Greetings Klarion,
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10-29-2008, 01:55 PM
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Obsessed Member
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If you run your life by reason and not emotion, how do you ever decide what you feel like doing for dinner?
Welcome.
I'd also like to know if you're still Catholic or not, and if you've been exposed to Catholic education. A lot of Catholics are exposed to logic and reason, and have been for the past few hundred years. I was listening to an interview with a former Catholic teacher of philosophy, and he became an atheist while teaching, and discovered, rather quickly, that there were some questions you simply were not allowed to ask in a Catholic setting, despite all the lip service to reason being the foundation.
If religion were based on facts, it would be called science, and no one would believe it. -- Stephen Colbert
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10-29-2008, 02:08 PM
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I Live Here
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Quote:
inkadu wrote
....he became an atheist while teaching, and discovered, rather quickly, that there were some questions you simply were not allowed to ask in a Catholic setting,
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like "how old are you"? or "why is the entire boys choir dripping with hot semen"?
You can always turn tricks for a few extra bucks. If looks are an issue, there's the glory hole option, but don't expect more than ... tips.
~ Philiboid Studge
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10-30-2008, 05:05 AM
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Organ Donator
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If we've learned nothing else from Star Trek -- and we haven't -- it's that the dude who stifles his emotions gets laid once every seven years, while the emotional guy bangs green belly dancers two at a time. Choose your path wisely.
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10-31-2008, 06:14 PM
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Quote:
Philboid Studge wrote
If we've learned nothing else from Star Trek -- and we haven't -- it's that the dude who stifles his emotions gets laid once every seven years, while the emotional guy bangs green belly dancers two at a time. Choose your path wisely.
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Oh,I dunno 'bout that. I also learned where they send all the E grade actors to die. Bill Shatner is the exception.He finally learned to act when he learned to parody himself. -- Imo Denny Crane is one of the greatest comic grotesques ever [intentionally] created for American TV.
Apart from that, I think you're right,I never did learn how to do the Vulcan mind meld,nor how to raise one eyebrow.
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