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Old 07-04-2006, 08:54 AM
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Personally, I vote that zwoti is the smartest person on the forum. Having held many conversations with him, I think his intelligence could baffle everyone of us, and I don't just mean about films either.

I've said some shit to MurderDoll, and I apologized for every single one of them. I said, to her, that I nothing but respect for her, and I was sorry for acting and saying otherwise.

The idea of Theasm/Theism is entirely based on opinion and cannot be argued based on fact. Even Albert Einstein believed in God, but that's not important.

There are two reasons why people have been so up in arms about P's posts:

1. He resulted to disgusting insults. That has not, nor never will demonstrate intelligence of any kind whatsoever.

2. Instead of being diplomatic, patient, and willing to help members of this discussion understand his perspective, he has been arrogant, self-aggrandizing and deliberately aloof.

S and I (if I may speak for him) don't give a fuck what other people believe. We weren't arguing to convert. Our point was that no one has the right to say that religion is "bad" a la Karl Marx's comment that "Religion is the oppiate of the people (masses?). That's not entirely true, nor is it fair. No one has the right to discount the experiences of other people simply because it doesn't fall neatly into the black and white boxed pattern of so-called "logical reality."

The reason I'm out of this conversation is because I realize that if you want to believe that way, fine. It doesn't matter to me. It doesn't affect my life. Sitting here, day to day, trying to make someone understand that there's more colors than the afore mentioned black and white is useless.

If you want to make fun of me for practicing Witchcraft, go ahead. Who are you? You're just a person. If you want to tell a man that claims he saw the spirit of his dead father that he was only having a hallucination, you do it, even though you could very well be totally wrong.

Jive on, dude.
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