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Quote:But just continue to proclaim your holiness. I guess that does something for you.

Yet another ad hom. You just can't help yourself can you?

(Oct 6, 2018 08:40 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:But just continue to proclaim your holiness. I guess that does something for you.

Yet another ad hom. You just can't help yourself can you?

Demonstrable fact of your behavior. But you can't quit whining and bitching about it.

(Oct 6, 2018 07:43 PM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]

(Oct 6, 2018 06:55 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]No...critiquing religion for what it does to people is not ad homing anybody. It's just critiquing religion--a vast impersonal system of delusions and rituals designed to make people more dependent and weaker.

Bare assertions are not a critique. A critique includes justified reasoning. See, even here you are simply making proclamations without any argument to support it at all.

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Quote:You were a "firm believer" as a child. Or are you claiming you have not developed intellectually since then? O_o

Another ad hom. So now I'm a child intellectually.

Did you really miss the question mark there? O_o
Or are you that afraid it may be true?  

Quote:I was a firm believer till the age of 19. That's plenty of time to understand what religion is and does to people who believe in it.'

Just quit ad homing and making it personal. I'm not projecting. I'm speaking from personal experience. Something you evidently lack.

No, on average the human brain does not become that of an adult until

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(Oct 6, 2018 07:43 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]

Quote:We're talking morals here (doing what is right in the face of serious pressure or temptation to do otherwise), not a belief in god or religion.

Well in that case, as I've already mentioned, my morals are fine.

And as already mentioned, "There's a difference between "fine" and resilient under stress

Fine is all encompassing. Resiliently fine if you prefer.

(Oct 6, 2018 10:08 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]Fine is all encompassing. Resiliently fine if you prefer.

Still doesn't tell us if they've ever been tested, but you don't seem interested in that.

(Oct 6, 2018 10:24 PM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]

(Oct 6, 2018 10:08 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]Fine is all encompassing. Resiliently fine if you prefer.

Still doesn't tell us if they've ever been tested, but you don't seem interested in that.

Fact is I find this entire topic uninteresting. Don't want to waste the time of others so I'm out,

(Oct 6, 2018 10:40 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]

(Oct 6, 2018 10:24 PM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]Still doesn't tell us if they've ever been tested, but you don't seem interested in that.

Fact is I find this entire topic uninteresting. Don't want to waste the time of others so I'm out,

What, not talking enough about tearing stuff down?

(Oct 5, 2018 01:37 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]Anytime someone wants to chip away at organized religion I'm OK with it..