Kristine
Posts: 3061 Joined: Sep. 2006
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Sorry to get all emotional and liberal-touchy-feely on you all, but a rant like Doug's makes me wish I could give these people a hug - they need it. What a cynical view they have of their fellow human beings - what a degraded view they have of themselves and the world. If we don't have a carefully crafted supernatural view of reality, civilization will collapse! Obviously these people have not met many people different from them, and they haven't been a lot of places that challenged their insular view - a view, incidentally, based on self-abnegation and fear.
I don't even know what to say. At this point, arguing is useless, because the problem is that they dwell in a world of arguments and words, rather than experiences and perceptions.
Everything that they say about me, us, "Darwinists," is just plain wrong. But I don't know how to counter them at this point because, as I've said before, I find meaning in doing and in silence, not in this pettifoggery that they think they need so that everything doesn't fly apart, or whatever disaster it is that they're afraid of.
Criminy, I have never seen such unhappy people in my life, to repeatedly insist that other people who do not believe what they believe therefore have nothing to believe in. Well, if I get pleasure from doing what Doug would call (what I hope he would call) good things, what then? Who's got the real problem? Quote | Our species will simply commit collective suicide. THe effect of chronic depression due toi the fact that nothing matters. | Talking about yourself, man?
And denial of global warming is a great way for a species to commit suicide.
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