Unreliably, yes.Do you think there's something wrong with calling an idea ridiculous when it appears to you to be ridiculous?
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Tue 27 May 2008, 3:27,
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I think it makes you a tool if you do mostlythere are ideas I don't believe and I'll discuss them and all surrounding reason and issues but I don't think calling someone a liar or a bullshitter for believing something you don't, (say, god, faked moon landings, the illuminati, any of the counter-theories etc. etc.) is big or clever.
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Tue 27 May 2008, 3:30,
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As an expressed opinion with a view to continuing discussionit's perfectly valid
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Tue 27 May 2008, 3:35,
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I believe that's known as heresyoften punishable to varying extremes :)
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discomeats This canoe,
Tue 27 May 2008, 3:36,
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there is when someone points a gun to your head to remind you the idea isn't ridiculous and it's the only correct ideaas sometimes thinking for oneself is not an available option
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Tue 27 May 2008, 3:30,
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yesI think that's the part I don't like
a new king turns up and has his own religion "my subjects are now [x]" of course all the right minded followers of [y] will be "I can't do that! I will offend my deity[ies] if I do not follow the one true way"
"you will if you want to stay alive"
I suspect more have suffered with forcing one religion over another belief, than have suffered from forcing athiesm
oh my, an opinion without researched factual basis!*
*and unlikely to be proven wrong
(a new king turns up and has his own religion "my subjects are now [x]" of course all the right minded followers of [y] will be "I can't do that! I will offend my deity[ies] if I do not follow the one true way"
"you will if you want to stay alive"
I suspect more have suffered with forcing one religion over another belief, than have suffered from forcing athiesm
oh my, an opinion without researched factual basis!*
*and unlikely to be proven wrong
discomeats This canoe,
Tue 27 May 2008, 3:43,
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