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1 year ago  ::  May 03, 2012 - 7:24PM #81
Buggsy
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May 3, 2012 -- 6:34PM, LittleLes wrote:


Yes. Presenting evidence takes more time and thought.



Then take more time and thought!
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1 year ago  ::  May 03, 2012 - 11:26PM #82
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So much depends on expectation.
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1 year ago  ::  May 04, 2012 - 8:09AM #83
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May 3, 2012 -- 3:22PM, Buggsy wrote:


Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything




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Yes. Perhaps that is why you find it so easy to do.Wink
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1 year ago  ::  May 04, 2012 - 12:32PM #84
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I've been ranting ad nauseam that religion is a right brain thing; math and business a left brain activity. Nothing kills religion like analytical thinking. Thank you, Aristotle.
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1 year ago  ::  May 04, 2012 - 1:21PM #85
cherubino
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I just tell people I'm a living relic, and they never quite know whether to laugh or build me a shrine.
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1 year ago  ::  May 04, 2012 - 1:24PM #86
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May 4, 2012 -- 12:32PM, quondamonachus wrote:


I've been ranting ad nauseam that religion is a right brain thing; math and business a left brain activity. Nothing kills religion like analytical thinking. Thank you, Aristotle.




Or a rational evaluation of the evidence.Wink
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1 year ago  ::  May 04, 2012 - 4:54PM #87
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May 4, 2012 -- 12:32PM, quondamonachus wrote:


I've been ranting ad nauseam that religion is a right brain thing; math and business a left brain activity. Nothing kills religion like analytical thinking. Thank you, Aristotle.




I think modern philosophers have shown that analytical thinking can kill anything.  Even analytical thinking, scientific truth being just as socially constructed as religious truth. 


Thank you, Derrida.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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1 year ago  ::  May 04, 2012 - 5:19PM #88
LittleLes
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May 4, 2012 -- 4:54PM, SeraphimR wrote:


May 4, 2012 -- 12:32PM, quondamonachus wrote:


I've been ranting ad nauseam that religion is a right brain thing; math and business a left brain activity. Nothing kills religion like analytical thinking. Thank you, Aristotle.




I think modern philosophers have shown that analytical thinking can kill anything.  Even analytical thinking, scientific truth being just as socially constructed as religious truth. 


Thank you, Derrida.




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That would all depend on the quality of the thinking, wouldn't you say?Wink
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1 year ago  ::  May 04, 2012 - 7:38PM #89
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May 4, 2012 -- 4:54PM, SeraphimR wrote:


I think modern philosophers have shown that analytical thinking can kill anything.  Even analytical thinking, scientific truth being just as socially constructed as religious truth. 


Thank you, Derrida.



I totally agree.  Nod to Derrida as well
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1 year ago  ::  May 04, 2012 - 8:53PM #90
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Somebody tells me I gotta belong to, be obedient to the church i was baptized in, or I burn in hell for all eternity, hmmm I wonder if that can be right....


analytical thinking kills that notion, you betcha.
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