@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:Consider that none of us is very good at seeing our own weaknesses, and that this applies to you too. As I pointed out some time ago, you insulted me the moment I got here.
You certainly aren't any good at seeing your own weaknesses.
This is a link to your first post at this site. I did not respond to that post.
Your next two posts were in that thread. Again, i did not respond to those posts. You then posted several times in the "Why I Am an Atheist" thread, and once again in the Amanda Berry thread, before i commented on a post of yours in the Why i am an atheist thread. This is the entire post i made:
Setanta wrote:Man, you love making sweeping generalizations.
Quote:Beliefs are stuff you, and not your brother necessarily, badly want to be true. So that the whole story of your life and your surrounding universe make sense.
This is utter nonsense, and raises belief to the level of religious fanaticism. While certainly some belief is religious in nature, not all beliefs are religious. For example, i believe that cross traffic will stop on a red light, and that therefore it is safe to enter an intersection without stopping when i have a green light. That's not necessarily always true, and i just barely avoided a serious accident one night when someone did not stop on their red light. But i continue to believe it based on the balance of experience--it's a safe bet, so to speak. People (reasonably) believe a wide range of things on an experiential basis, and most of them have nothing to do with profound questions of the nature of reality, whether or not there is a deity and cosmogony.
Quote:No great deed was ever achieved without a good dose of faith in something or another.
Leaving aside the dubious nature of this claim, you fail to make a distinction between blind faith (believing without evidence just because one wants to) and informed faith, which relies upon one's experience and knowledge of human nature. That's the basic problem with all of the drivel in your post.
You consider it an insult for someone to tell you that you make sweeping generalizations? You consider it an insult to be told that your post is drivel? Are you not able to separate what you say from who you are? I did not question your sanity, you intelligence, nor did i call you any names.
It seems to me that you must have the same problem which Fresco appears to have--you cannot separate your ideas from your sense of self, and so you take any criticism of your expressed ideas to be an attack on you personally. Indeed, some people are not very good at seeing their own weaknesses.
