You're Not Agnostic, You're An Atheist

[drmeow]

133. There is no such thing

as psychology school and I'm not going to try to explain 8 years of college and grad school training in psychology in an on-line forum. I'm also not going to waste my time providing my analysis of your personality based on the particular theoretical orientation I ascribe to - but it has been fascinating observing your response pattern within the context of that theory. Since I don't actually conduct research testing that theory directly, I haven't actually thought this deeply about it in at least 6 years and that's been rather refreshing, truth be told. Nothing like a little anecdotal evidence to confirm your theoretical orientation!

If you want to become one of my students, I would have a motivation to spend the time to impart some of my knowledge to you. But when you start to imply that somehow I either failed to acquire knowledge during my education or my educational institution failed to impart something you consider knowledge, you cease to be someone I wish to engage with, not matter how amusing analyzing your responses might be.

In closing, I refuse to accept your attitude that you know what is in my mind better than I do and I will choose to label myself exactly how I want to label myself. And I'll tell you one thing I learned in psychology: in the context of MY life, my label for myself is the only one that matters - not matter how much you dislike that label. I like it, I'm happy with it, it successfully groups me with like minded individuals, and should I ever participate in a psychology study about religion, the researchers conducting the study will accept it as a valid response, even if you won't.