@Krumple,
Quote:This is why I object to religion and religious people WHO (the important word here) think they have the right to do so. Show the facts and then you are all good in my opinion. If you can't present the facts then keep it to yourself
This is an impossibility though Krumple. You and I both know that. The only facts someone can produce regarding a "God" is heresay, their word. But, that does not mean that it is not factual that the event that they claim , did indeed occur. How can they possibly prove it? They can't.
Quote:Not so much just this but when it is put to questioning and people tell me it is off the table. That I can't question someone's beliefs then I know that they have something to hide. We should have every right to question beliefs and especially when they are being used to impose their idea of "morality" onto society. If you want me to live a certain way, fine, but show me your work otherwise I shouldn't have to conform and no one else should.
As you can note, I just posted a "real persons" story to Izzy.. Now. Do you think that that person, with all he saw, would care about the number of bodies? In-fact he would ignore or attack, because he was there and he saw this. So with all due respect (morals) this is the point I was making.. You can't question numbers over a touchy subject without expecting to be torn down.
Quote:I think a lot of people just follow along. If someone else becomes emotional over something, so do they but for no good reason other than to follow the herd. They hear some claim and repeat it as if it were fact. This snowballs and then when a person like me comes along and questions the facts, they get branded using derogatory terms. I get called a bigot when I have no hatred or discrimination, I was only questioning the validity of a claim.
Yes people get emotional over "touchy" subjects don't you? Isn't there a touchy subject that if you and I engaged conversation in, and I prodded and prodded, and put that said subject down, or twisted it around, wouldn't you get touchy?
Quote:There are many things I use to believe that I don't anymore. Some things were not easy to accept to be true. I would like there to be a god but I honestly don't see how one could exist or why one would exist. Let alone make a universe with this configuration. However; it makes perfect sense that the universe we have would result in this way had it happened completely by accident. This is what I would expect to see, there are lots of clues that it was completely random.
If you would "like" there to be a God, then that means you haven't ruled out the possibility. If you feel there are no facts, yet as I stated, what a person senses, sees, hears doesn't necessarily mean they are crazy, actually occured, then there is a fact.. But, alas off course no one is every going to believe them, ie) I saw a ghost.. No way! They don't exist.
The Universe could have happened scientifically by pure accident, but why are the male birds the pretty ones and not the female? I've asked this before, and the point of that comment is, how did that happen, who decided that, I can comprehend perhaps "why" it happened but how? By accident? That is not feasible.
Quote:I am against those who impose their beliefs and expect others to live by their set rules of morality. Their take on morality. They want to force me and others to live by their rules.
But, it takes that person to agree to live by someone elses set of rules on anything. No one can force anyone, unless they live under someone's roof and can't escape from that.. ? Were you forced to live by someone's rules Krumple? Even as a kid?
Quote:like within the holocaust thread. Some posters never even took the time to read over my argument. They just immediately went into bashing me and assumed that I was a denier. Others would jump on board and call me a bigot or antisemitic which only proved my point. They didn't care about what I said at all or test it for themselves.
I am truly sorry Krumple. They didn't care to read over your argument, because you chose to try factuals on a thread that touches people's hearts, why would they? I wouldn't either and I think I have made that stance very clear.
Quote:He is a person just like me, and misled just like I was.
I often wonder when someone goes through something and feels that they see a simularity, whether or not they really do think like that? He was misled just like you. I don't think Spades would agree with that at all. He doesn't feel misled at all, what about the word "choice" ?
Quote:I think he thinks his intentions are pure and good but they are not. Weather he knows it or not, it is bad. Just how much he knows this would determine just how bad he would be. But I know his reasoning, he thinks there is something good at the other end of this but there is not. It is more harmful than good but he doesn't see it yet, or he refuses to see it all together
I think you are focusing too much on your own beliefs and over -thinking. He "knows" his intentions are pure. And they are.. And how can you say there is nothing good at the end of this, if you know that then you are God:) Get my drift there.. It is ok to believe in what ever you want to isn't it? Why should he listen and "see it all together", on a subject that he doesn't agree with, you on?
There is no harm in believing in God. There is no harm in believing in yourself.
There is harm, when you question everything that exists or doesn't exist I think because how can your mind possibly get it right or be clear when there are so many questionables? You sleep at night but you don't because you (not you personally), toss and turn the possibles and get totally confused in the end until you come to a conclusion but then you doubt that conculsion, unless you believe that the answer you derived at finally, is the right one.. Doing that over and over and over again on a multitude of subjects, surely would send someone nuts.
Or give them a huge headache