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cbayer

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24. This is how I see it.

Sun Jan 29, 2012, 03:47 PM

Jan 2012

I made a post in which I offered up some of ideas about things. It was presented as personal and unique to me, as far as I am concerned. The response I get back attempts to label me and tells me that I am "expounding poorly". It does not respond to the substance of my post.

Since I have seen this happen over and over and over again here, I know where this goes.

While it is true that there are questions that are difficult, that makes it even more important to have a safe place to discuss them where people do not personalize their responses or revert to insults. You just did what I am talking about in your last sentence. You are making assumptions about my state of mind, what is difficult for me and accusing me of manufacturing my response to it. That's insulting and presumptuous.

There is a pattern here of people personally insulting the intelligence, education or mental stability of people they disagree with. I don't want to play that game., so I am going to get out as soon as I see that that is the direction of the conversation.

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GODSQUAD: Science, religion each teach valuable truths [View all] ZombieHorde Jan 2012 OP

yes, reconciling that pesky 'relationship between religion and science' again Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2012 #1

Preacher-man's gotta pay the rent, too! xfundy Jan 2012 #2

This is how I look at it. cbayer Jan 2012 #3

Is that not EXACTLY the God of the Gaps argument? darkstar3 Jan 2012 #4

Call it whatever you want. cbayer Jan 2012 #5

And is your "god" always evolving? skepticscott Jan 2012 #6

I don't know the answer to your questions. cbayer Jan 2012 #7

Have you ruled out the possibility that there being no god whatsoever skepticscott Jan 2012 #13

and the "god" in that new room is smaller and less consequential each time. darkstar3 Jan 2012 #8

As I said, darkstar, everytime I open a door, I walk into a new room cbayer Jan 2012 #10

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." darkstar3 Jan 2012 #11

Swith to insults. So predictable. cbayer Jan 2012 #12

I don't see an insult in the post you responded to. darkstar3 Jan 2012 #14

A switch to victim status skepticscott Jan 2012 #18

I don't know how you read an insult into darkstar's post EvolveOrConvolve Jan 2012 #23

This is how I see it. cbayer Jan 2012 #24

I can only speak for myself edhopper Jan 2012 #25

I wasn't talking about you and haven't seen you do this. cbayer Jan 2012 #26

Well I hope you think about some of the thoughtful response to your posts. edhopper Jan 2012 #27

I do think about some of the thoughtful responses and I appreciate cbayer Jan 2012 #29

There is a safe space. In fact, there are 9 of them. darkstar3 Jan 2012 #28

I don't dislike you and I don't want you to go away. cbayer Jan 2012 #30

This is called God of the Gaps edhopper Jan 2012 #15

I'm not making an argument, you see, so it doens't matter to me whether this is a cbayer Jan 2012 #16

Uh, yes you are skepticscott Jan 2012 #19

I use the term argument as a POV, not a conflict. edhopper Jan 2012 #20

I am constantly rethinking it from a different perspective. cbayer Jan 2012 #21

But can you let go of ideas edhopper Jan 2012 #22

Religion did teach me a lot of things. 2ndAmForComputers Jan 2012 #9

hmmm edhopper Jan 2012 #17