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silverweb

(16,410 posts)

31. I didn't say I agree with you.

Reply to Donald Ian Rankin (Reply #30)

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 02:38 PM

Jan 2012

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I said you're free to think what you wish.

[font "Arial"]"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
-Thomas Jefferson

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"I'm not religious, I'm spiritual" [View all] cleanhippie Jan 2012 OP

Sounds familiar. darkstar3 Jan 2012 #1

It really does. cleanhippie Jan 2012 #2

Bite for me? :D tama Jan 2012 #3

No, not for you. cleanhippie Jan 2012 #4

That's tama Jan 2012 #8

To add to CH's point about you and definitions, I'd like to quote myself from another board. darkstar3 Jan 2012 #5

Succinct and well-stated. cleanhippie Jan 2012 #6

You are correct tama Jan 2012 #7

I said not one thing about control. You again work against the goal of effective communication. darkstar3 Jan 2012 #9

No you didn't tama Jan 2012 #11

I'm not talking about your use of metaphor, I'm talking about your blatant darkstar3 Jan 2012 #13

That's unkind tama Jan 2012 #14

There was nowhere, directly or indirectly, where I told you to shut up. darkstar3 Jan 2012 #15

OK then, you didn't. tama Jan 2012 #18

do we use language or does language use us? AlbertCat Jan 2012 #20

Well done you seem to have mastered the ability to make words mean nothing at all Leontius Jan 2012 #10

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder tama Jan 2012 #12

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder AlbertCat Jan 2012 #21

what is the argument in opposition to 'i am spiritual'? tiny elvis Jan 2012 #16

I wonder if those who enjoy that saying mean "philosophical" when they say "spiritual." ZombieHorde Jan 2012 #17

Funny toon. My feelings exactly. valerief Jan 2012 #19

"Spiritual" often means... AlbertCat Jan 2012 #22

Everyone has their own path. silverweb Jan 2012 #23

About that metaphor... laconicsax Jan 2012 #24

You changed the metaphor. silverweb Jan 2012 #25

Well done. cbayer Jan 2012 #26

Most of those words in those orders don't mean anything. Donald Ian Rankin Jan 2012 #27

Well done. cleanhippie Jan 2012 #28

And you're perfectly free to think that. silverweb Jan 2012 #29

Your first post said the exact opposite. Donald Ian Rankin Jan 2012 #30

I didn't say I agree with you. silverweb Jan 2012 #31