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admit - if I were to thump every remotely condescending post, chances
are I'd log on tomorrow to find a big "what do you think you're doing?"
from Eddie and the other mods
I'm glad we've reached agreement!
I don't think it should be a problem if you were civil and
debated in the manner that I suggested, but I am not in a position to
guarantee that.
You're a good person, Bobby. A problem characteristic of some good people is to overestimate fallen humanity.
Sometimes it is more civil to be quiet. Not always necessary, though.
Staying out of OTC may be a solution, but theoretically you may be better just reducing your time there. Post in threads when you think you can offer an idea people are interested in hearing.
...I guess I'm just finding "stay out of OTC entirely" to be a rather extremist response.
start respecting other people's opinions and demonstrate that in his
posting.
Again, that requires only speaking to people who opine intelligently.
Aren't you all entitled to your half-assed musings on the divine? You've thought about eternity for twenty-five minutes and think you've come to some interesting conclusions? Well let me tell you, I stand with two thousand years of darkness and bafflement and hunger behind me. My kind have harvested the souls of a million peasants, and I couldn't give a ha'penny jizz for your internet-assembled philosophy.
We have repeatedly offered points for you to consider, we have offered solutions, we have outright told you why you were banned, and you have still refused to listen.
Since Bobby is a moderator and speaks to FE, focusing on what he has to say is more likely to be useful.
Since Bobby is a moderator and speaks to FE, focusing on what he has to say is more likely to be useful.
If anything, I might be humble to the point of heresy by listening politely to people of other religions (thinking their civilizations have inherent value I'm curious to learn more about) and not causing offense by asking penetrating questions. I never worry about their eternal destiny, being more inclined to think that loving God suffices whether you're a Christian, Muslim, Hindu, etc. than in Hell.
Doing that with atheism would be going way too far.
The logical consequence of that is that everyone's beliefs are equally valid, no matter how well or poorly they match the truth. That's nonsense, not orthodoxy.
Any community that treats the erudite addressing people who are on the
level of talking about "your such and arrogant ass" as their
intellectual equal as morally obligatory has removed positive feedback
for thinking or speaking well and will find itself leveled down.
Christian humility can't possibly mean that, unless Christianity is
slave morality fit only for human refuse, as Nietzsche claimed.