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mother teresa has spoken, Doktor is now blessed.

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dyslexia wrote:

mother teresa has spoken, Doktor is now blessed.

Uh, Mother Teresa is dead. :wink:

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I am a social darwinist my dear. I give everyone the same cred at first and go from there..let water seek it's own level.
Your cred has depreciated massively. Honestly, you really aren't smart enough to even be taking part in most of these discussions.
No offense. Wink

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Doktor S wrote:

Intrepid wrote:

We believe because we choose to believe.

So then why debate at all? If you can't use logic scrutinize a position, it seems hippocritical to try to use logic to build it up.

When one craps on others, claiming to be intellectually superior, one should use spellcheck.

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Doktor S Wrote:

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am a social darwinist my dear. I give everyone the same cred at first and go from there..let water seek it's own level.
Your cred has depreciated massively. Honestly, you really aren't smart enough to even be taking part in most of these discussions.
No offense.

Well, I'm not the only one you seem to think either doesn't think or isn't smart enough to be in these discussions. Of course, they don't agree with you either. And quite frankly, I am honored to be in the company of the one you think doesn't think. I don't find the need to belittle. Why do you?

C'mon Doktor S, tell me why you are so much more intelligent than I am. I really don't care mind you. I'm just curious. If you had meant no offense, I highly suspect you never would have made the statement in the first place. :wink:

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I bet she knows how to spell hypocritical.

Meh.

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hippos are often critical. sometimes acutely.

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Lash wrote:

Doktor S wrote:
Intrepid wrote:

We believe because we choose to believe.

So then why debate at all? If you can't use logic scrutinize a position, it seems hippocritical to try to use logic to build it up.

When one craps on others, claiming to be intellectually superior, one should use spellcheck.

Thank you, Lash. We have been told how superior, intellectual and what a superb wordsmith Doktor S is... all by Doktor S, of course.

He also thinks that everybody that posts a point of view is in a debate.

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Momma Angel wrote:

You lost me after the first idiocy thing.....

That doesn't surprise me--you usually demonstrate the unwillingness to read and understand. I am reminded of the little girl on the playground who shouts out her nonsense, and the sticks her fingers in her ears, saying: "I can't hear you, na-na-na-na."

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Hey, I was just pointing out one single thing. That's it. Wasn't arguing anything else. Was just pointing out one simple little detail.

No, you didn't point out anything. You made a lame-brained attempt to suggest that as i reject argumentum ad populum when someone attempts to maintain that a thing is true simply because many people believe it so, that i am therefore not consistent on stipulating consent in the definitions of words. That was a pretty ludicrous strawman you were attempting to erect--this thread started with definitions of "faith" and "superstitions." Miss Eppie stipulated her preferred defintions, with the Merriam-Webster source. I consented to those. Now, you attempt to conflate a rational objection to a logical fallacy (argumentum ad populum) with the willingness to agree on definitions.

You did not, however, address the issue i raised about definitions.

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ONE SIMPLE LITTLE DETAIL. GET IT? I THOUGHT YOU WERE SO MUCH SMARTER THAN THAT?

So now, you decide you need to shout. And with all of your whining about how you are addressed and how your beliefs are characterized, your shouted response is a sneering insult, of a puerile character.

With that, i am not at all surprised.

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MA,

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I don't find the need to belittle. Why do you?

Why does anyone do anything? Psychologically speaking, you teach people how to treat you.
Make of that what you will.

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C'mon Doktor S, tell me why you are so much more intelligent than I am.

Probably a combination of genetics and upbringing, I can't be certain.

Lash,
Looks like you got me, the fact that I make spelling errors on occasion obviously undermines my whole position on this issue. Excuse me while I load my shotgun and swallow a bottle of advil...

^the above denotes sarcasm, for those of you in the slow lane.

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I'm afraid I can't play with you until you've finished your lesons----spelling AND humility.

Intelligence comes in more than one form.

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In a sneer at the member Doktor S, Intrepid wrote:

He also thinks that everybody that posts a point of view is in a debate.

Given that the purpose of this thread is to debate a stipulation that faith and superstition are equivalent, for all purposes indentical, this is entirely reasonable on that member's part.

Apparently, you feel that running in here to sneer at and criticize others is the purpose of this thread. It is not. The purpose is to debate whether or not faith and superstition are equivalent, whether or not the superstitious and the religiously faithful are operating on the same intellectual bases. So far, the evidence in this thread is that you are not able to reasonably debate the subject. You have pontificated on the excellence of your system of faith, and the specious contention that "fear of god" is different from any other type of fear--but the one thing you have not done is provide a substantive argument against the proposition that religious faith and superstition are equivalent, for all purposes identical.

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Methinks he confuses intelligence with knowledge

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Isn't it cute how Doktor S and Setanta (Dokort Setanta?) post back to back so nicely. Must be genetics.

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Lash wrote:

I'm afraid I can't play with you until you've finished your lesons----spelling AND humility.

Intelligence comes in more than one form.

Haven't finished your spelling lessons, eh?

What form would you say your aspirations to intelligence take?

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When you've done posting drivel, and dribbling down your chin, Lack of Intrepidity, perhaps you could address the debate which is the intent of this thread.

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You mean like the majority of your posts that don't address the topic at all, but rather make sport of other posters?

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I think we are all aware that I know how o spell "lessons".

I am not in the realm of perfection in typing however, and will follow your example in perfection very closely.

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I'm afraid I can't play with you until you've finished your lesons----spelling AND humility.

Over 300 posts and one spelling error. Geeze is that supposed to hurt?
By the way, there are two S's in lesson.
But who's counting right? Wink

And humility..
Hmmm.

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

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Intelligence comes in more than one form.

I agree with that. I have pondered over the nature of intelligence itself for many long hours...
I see it as a myriad of different potential abilities.
Is an idiot savant 'smart'? Is the illiterate jazz musician a 'genius'?
There is much more to intelligence than problem solving and mathematical abilities, to be sure.
I really feel the problem with this, like many of our great philosophical problems, is to be found in language itself, and further the communication of language.
But that is deserving of it's own thread...

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Anyway...I wandered way off topic..my apologies..

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