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Got this cool email.
Inv3rted:
"Hey guys the Earth is flat and if you tell me otherwise it's close minded and so you should stop dismissing what I say."
Ladios:
"Hey guys the Earth is flat and I am going to completely ignore any attempts you make to prove me otherwise, but don't you dare say I am close minded."
Inv3rted:
You're acting like the burden of proof is on me for saying that prayer doesn't work.
Nitramtj:
--- Quote from: Inv3rted on September 27, 2009, 02:16:18 PM ---So knowing that religion is a load of crap makes me close minded?
I say having a healthy skepticism of everything until provided enough evidence is not close minded.
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In this post (actually the one before it), you look more closed-minded than skeptic, although I'm sure you aren't really and you have your own reasoning, not attacking you or anything.
I hope that story is true, should be on givesmehope if it isn't.
Ladios:
--- Quote from: Inv3rted on September 27, 2009, 02:21:47 PM ---You're acting like the burden of proof is on me for saying that prayer doesn't work.
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Not at all. Infact I am perfectly ok with what you think. It is only that whenever a statement even remotely religious is presented, you have to bash the hell out of it. (lol pun)
It's not so much that you are an intolerable prick, but its that whenever someone makes at least a semi-decent argument against them, you resort to merely saying that they are wrong only because their argument is pro-religion.
Of course you will deny this as I don't have a specific example. But what I am saying is more what you are conceptually doing. I am merely making a general statement. But you hate that sort of thing for some reason. Unless someone has documented evidence for each period in their discussion, you declare it false. [size]