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Is it absolutely necessary, to start your dialouge with deragatory comments.
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It's not derogatory, it's a colorful metaphor, relax.
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If you can answer most things that occur in life, why can't you use the same perspective on all events?
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I can't necessarily answer all of the questions that occur in life. What I
can do is judge whether they are answerable or not and if they are then I answer it, but if it isn't then I put it on the back burner for further study. What I don't do is blame it on some invisible force that has no apparent causal relationship other than what someone else says is true.
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Are you sure you can pick out the things you have control over?
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Generally so, yes.
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I find it difficult to believe you have control over much more than your views.
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Your belief is not necessery for my validity, that's one of the purposes that religion serves, to get groups on the same page. Religion has outlived its purpose.
Also, the realization that I have control over only a small number of the things in my life and that there is no evidence that some omnipresent being controls the rest was very liberating.
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If you check carefully, you'll see you don't have control over emotions etc...... just the ability to act on those emotions.
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I'll have to disagree, along with research to the contrary.
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Be grateful you can rationalize most of what you believe. Some might even call that denial......
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I don't have to be grateful, it's only by the sweat of my own brow that I am able to bring thinking to bear instead of dogma and pat ideology.
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"No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers."-Thomas merton
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I know.
