Are you here for converts?

Ok, I admit it. I am here for converts.

And it is working...well...at least better than either Iacchus or Lifegazer.

Merc...turning the world to behaviorism, one skeptic at a time...
 
Mercutio said:
turning the world to behaviorism, one skeptic at a time...
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i don't know what it means, but i like it.:D
i think i'll turn in now.:D :D
 
This thread made me think of this:

I recently had a conversation with HR about hiring practices, as a young person I know wanted information about working in a private school.

HR's response was that as long as you support the ‘objectives and ethos’, of the College they don’t care. JUST DON’T TELL them that you’re (say) a Scientologist / Wiccan / Agnostic / Atheist / worshipper of linoleum floors, as in some rare cases, it could actually hurt your employability. An applicant apparently said he was a Christadelphian and they blanched and said fine… but what does that entail, exactly? Apparently it meant he felt he had to actively RECRUIT for his religion. Amongst people, including students, in the school.

No. Wasn't hired.
 
Kiless said:
Where? I don't see that thread.
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I am far, far too modest to boast.


So I will not link any of the numerous threads in which I am adored by my followers...


ok, time to put the glass down slowly and head off to bed...
 
Mercutio said:
I am far, far too modest to boast.
So I will not link any of the numerous threads in which I am adored by my followers...
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Pleh. I'm not searching for your modesty. If it ever existed. :p Time to log off and get back to herding Year 9s off a cliff face like lemmings....
 
Kiless said:
This thread made me think of this:

I recently had a conversation with HR about hiring practices, as a young person I know wanted information about working in a private school.

HR's response was that as long as you support the ‘objectives and ethos’, of the College they don’t care. JUST DON’T TELL them that you’re (say) a Scientologist / Wiccan / Agnostic / Atheist / worshipper of linoleum floors, as in some rare cases, it could actually hurt your employability. An applicant apparently said he was a Christadelphian and they blanched and said fine… but what does that entail, exactly? Apparently it meant he felt he had to actively RECRUIT for his religion. Amongst people, including students, in the school.

No. Wasn't hired.
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Italics mine

Thanks..I now have another group on my list of 'Greet at Door with Shotgun'

Put it right next to the Jehovah's Witnesses....
 
This thread made me think of a quote that everyone seems to know only half of. I don't know who Stephen Roberts is, but he said:

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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Personally I think it is the last sentence that is the most important part, but everyone seems to just quote the first two.
 
Mercutio said:
Ok, I admit it. I am here for converts.

And it is working...well...at least better than either Iacchus or Lifegazer.

Merc...turning the world to behaviorism, one skeptic at a time...
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Prove it when you're dead. ;)
 
Mercutio said:
I am far, far too modest to boast.

So I will not link any of the numerous threads in which I am adored by my followers...

ok, time to put the glass down slowly and head off to bed...
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If I'm not mistaken, wasn't there a thread called, The Great Mercutio? :D
 
The GM said:
Maybe I should make this a poll. But here's the question. Other than a few notable exceptions, (Zaayrdragon and Kitty Chan instantly come to mind) our fellow posters of faith do not participate in each other's threads. For instance, you never see Riddick calling Icchius(sp, sorry man!) to the carpet or something similiar. At times, it feels very much like the faithful vs the faithless, and even though the faithful may not agree w/ each other's philosophies, they leave each other alone prefering to talk to the faithless instead.
Is it just me, or is this a pretty accurate observation of what happens here in R&P?
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The "faithful vs the faithless" match doesn't just concern religion. Most "extreme" believers (credophiles, woo-woos), whatever variety of invisible pink unicorn they believe in, view skeptics, rationalists and other unbelievers exactly like a bunch of drunks in a bar view the police arriving to stop a fight: they will most of the time put their differences aside and band on the police.

Similarly, you can see religions that are usually at war with each others (think Russian orthodoxy and the Vatican, for example) suddenly sharing the same bed and allying their forces with yet another of their "hereditary ennemy" (e.g. Muslims) against "science" or some government whose measures are seen as an obstacle to religion's influence.
 
Well, since exiting college 10 years ago, I've found it difficult to find many people willing to discuss religion and philosophy and even more difficult to find folks discussing in a way that honors each other's perspectives. On top of that, I am a person who believe that faith and doubt are inversely related, meaning that the depth of a person's doubt typically parallels the height of their faith. So in other words, I don't want to believe something just because I was afraid to doubt it. I like to see the whole mental / spiritual graph if you will.

Flick
 
The GM said:
At times, it feels very much like the faithful vs the faithless, and even though the faithful may not agree w/ each other's philosophies, they leave each other alone prefering to talk to the faithless instead.
Is it just me, or is this a pretty accurate observation of what happens here in R&P?
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Well, I would perceive, were I on the religious "side", that fighting amongst ourselves would not help the cause in the least of presenting and defending our viewpoint. Secondly, why would they need to support each other? If both are convinced they are fundamentally right and that the words speak for themselves, why need to post together?
 
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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There is only one God in essence. In practice, there are billions ... Why is that so hard to accept? There's only one reality isn't there? Yet each of us perceives of that reality differently. And yes, there will continue to be those who remind us how much bigger their dog (God?) is than ours. ;)

Obviously for someone to make a statement such as this, they didn't take much time to think it through.
 
Iacchus said:
Obviously for someone to make a statement such as this, they didn't take much time to think it through.
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I assume this comment refers to the previous paragraph in your post. The only way you can make the claim you do there is by ignoring the descriptions of the individual gods you claim are all one. But then, I am sure you are convinced that you know these gods better than the people who <s>invented</s>,er, worship them. Why would any god make a commandment to put no other gods before him, when in his omniscience he knows they are all different aspects of himself?
 
Mercutio said:
Why would any god make a commandment to put no other gods before him, when in his omniscience he knows they are all different aspects of himself?
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How does one distinguish the parts from the whole and not acknowledge the whole? Evidently there must be a sense of protocol involved.
 
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