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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Westford, MA USA
Posts: 8,861
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A person's beliefs are a person's beliefs. They're entitled to theirs. I'm entitled to mine. Since a belief is something internal to a person (kind of like experiences or dreams), to berate someone over their beliefs just strikes me lacking any sort of empithy or compassion. Besides, in many cases it's just "flogging a dead horse" which exhibits traits of sadism, beastiality and necrophilia.
That being said, I don't have a problem with honest questioning with the aim of better understanding (in both directions). At the end of the day you have to be willing to walk away, otherwise we're no different from the radical immams in some parts of the world.
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John
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"It's a poor craftsman who blames their tools" -- Unknown
"Any suspension -- no matter how poorly designed -- can be made to work reasonably well if you just stop it from moving." -- Colin Chapman
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