Many of the posters here need to know where others are basing their beliefs, i.e. know who they read (philosophically) and follow.
Helps to make a lot of sense of these threads but YMMV...
Once a topic gets over 5 pages long...it just becomes...long...and tiring.
People become more entrenched in their own positions, and little to nothing is accomplished.
Which is what one would expect from a venue as impersonal as a computer screen.
Yet, you continue?
Perhaps, you missed the point of my post.
I think I comprehend the content of your post.
I continue because at some point...like 30 pages ago...it becomes like guys poping each other with towels in the locker room.
I know where a lot of the arguments come from. I find most of them interesting...outside this format. I never cared for Dawkins or Krauss, however, I almost always enjoyed reading/watching Hitchens...although I disagreed with him on almost all of his conclusions and assurtions.
My feelings are not hurt when someone "bashes" (not the exact word I would use) my position. And when I fire off a zinger at another poster...AS for example...I am pretty sure he has been around the block enough that his feelings are not hurt either.
GB, no hurt feeling here. I expect some fun disagreement, otherwise, where is the fun?
As for Hitchens, agree with him or not, the man could turn a phrase.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
