asbestosman wrote: I too treated Nightlion badly a couple of times but later decided that wasn't so cool of me.
Nightlion is a tough case.
He
does manage to come across as likable most of the time-especially when he is not in prophet mode.
But....
He does show clear signs of seeing himself as spiritually superior to essentially everyone on the entire planet. His preachiness is fairly annoying at times and his shockingly uninformed rants against "the learned" is hard to stomach.
Now if you like or even care about someone, is it always the best strategy to avoid giving them critical feedback. After all, his apocalrock stuff does amount to serious lunacy. Why pretend otherwise?
To play along with this stuff -to humor him--actually shows less respect in my opinion since it is similar to what one would to with a small child who tells you that they are building a rocket to the moon.
I believe he deserves an honest reality check rather than to be humored like a child or someone locked up in a rubber room. Ultimately, it is the more respectful and caring thing to do. Otherwise you are making him feel that you take his ideas seriously when you secretly feel the opposite. He wouldn't like to be messed with in that way.
So my policy is to keep it real.
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo