Is Secular Humanism a Fraud? (essay 1 now added)

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Coach T wrote:Ok. I was thinking that also. I just don't understand the sneering arrogance that Tal and this person exude toward anyone not of their mindset.


I'm unconvinced that antishock is interested in much more than making himself/herself feel good by ridiculing others. I won't, however, accuse antishock of being deceptive in this thread; his/her malice is very evident.
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Re: Is Secular Humanism a Fraud? (Target Exmo)

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The Dude wrote:
LifeOnaPlate wrote:
The Dude wrote:
LifeOnaPlate wrote:...but I believe most everybody is religious.


Unfortunately, the IRS does not allow me to deduct charitable contributions to myself.


More insight into what god The Dude loves most! ;)


You know it. Self-worship is my religion, but the man won't recognize it. I wish you were running things LOAP, because I know you are no respecter of conventional categories. You would let me deduct self-contributions from my taxes, because you recognize every "religion" as equal. Am I reading you right? So either every "religion" should get tax breaks or, if that's not financially possible given our nation's budget crisis, maybe no "religion" should get a break -- that would be cool with me too. I'm just tired of getting the shaft like I did this year, while the LDS, Catholics, Baptists, even the Scientologists, rake it in with no taxes. Not for profit my @ss!


I never intended to imply my definition or understanding of religion should hold legal status in the United States of America. I apologize for any misunderstanding. (I figure we're even, since I doubt you pay tax on any of the weed you purchase.)

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Coach T wrote:Is it just me or is antishock8 really really condescending?


Well, I am attempting to have a discussion with a liar. It's hard not to feel any other way. Do you have anything to add, or is your acumen as a color commentator limited to this thread?
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Antishock,
Just an observation. You claim others are liars. Does that mean you are a source of truth on these boards? Who endowed you with this specific type of clairvoyance?
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antishock8 wrote:
Coach T wrote:Is it just me or is antishock8 really really condescending?


Well, I am attempting to have a discussion with a liar. It's hard not to feel any other way. Do you have anything to add, or is your acumen as a color commentator limited to this thread?


An attempt at which you are largely failing.
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one moment, of the well of life to taste-
The stars are setting and the caravan
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-Omar Khayaam

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LifeOnaPlate wrote:
antishock8 wrote:
Coach T wrote:Is it just me or is antishock8 really really condescending?


Well, I am attempting to have a discussion with a liar. It's hard not to feel any other way. Do you have anything to add, or is your acumen as a color commentator limited to this thread?


An attempt at which you are largely failing.


Well, when you get to a place where you can start being honest we might be able to make some progress. Until then, you'll continue to deceive yourself through your attempt at deceiving others. LoaP, this is important stuff we're talking about here. It's not useful to play semantic games, change definitions in the middle of a paragraph that no one but yourself could possibly understand, and then act like you're doing something intellectual. LoaP, your lies prevent you from experiencing the existential crisis that you're clearly on the verge of having. It's nothing to be afraid of, even though life and death itself is a terrifying concept to accept; thus the lie is born, and the ongoing nurturing of said lie placates the terrible reality of your own mortality and utimately, your insignificance.

You're not like some of the others here who are agents and practitioners of deception. That much is clear. You can become one of them, if that's what you choose, but in your heart you know what it is that you think you're protecting is a deception. In reality, you're just attempting to protect yourself. Mormonism is a lie. It's a ruse, and you don't need it. You need to get on with confronting yourself, and the reality of your situation. Make peace with that, and you can start managing the question of your existence.
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Coach T wrote:Antishock,
Just an observation. You claim others are liars. Does that mean you are a source of truth on these boards? Who endowed you with this specific type of clairvoyance?


I did.

Either get to some new posts of your own or add meat to your sock puppetry.
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Wow. Sock puppetry. Will I be kicked off the forum if my posts don't meet your standards? The arrogance on this forum from the contrarians is amazing. Antishock and Tal are extremely bitter individuals and really haven't contributed anything worthy of serious debate as far as I've seen. Now you are attempting to sister up with one of your cronies when I have called him/her/it out. Interesting.

PS-The whole idea of sitting behind a computer screen writing anonymous (sp?) screeds against the LDS church is the very definition "Sock Puppetry". We are all posers here. No point in spouting that particular cliché.
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Coach T wrote:Wow. Sock puppetry. Will I be kicked off the forum if my posts don't meet your standards?


No, you won't be. There is only one offense which can get you kicked off the board, and one's posts failing to meet some arbitrary standard isn't it.
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Coach T wrote:Wow. Sock puppetry. Will I be kicked off the forum if my posts don't meet your standards? The arrogance on this forum from the contrarians is amazing. Antishock and Tal are extremely bitter individuals and really haven't contributed anything worthy of serious debate as far as I've seen. Now you are attempting to sister up with one of your cronies when I have called him/her/it out. Interesting.

PS-The whole idea of sitting behind a computer screen writing anonymous (sp?) screeds against the LDS church is the very definition "Sock Puppetry". We are all posers here. No point in spouting that particular cliché.


Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement! You whining, hypocritical toadies, with your colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding Masonic secret handshakes! You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards! Well, I wouldn't become a freemason now if you went down on your lousy, stinking knees and begged me!
And crawling on the planet's face
Some insects called the human race
Lost in time
And lost in space...and meaning
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