Do believers really believe?

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by Tex

Are you admitting he's kicking your butt?

lol

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by Archaea

If you had studied epistemology, you would ask that question.

Now you are just being condescending.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Archaea

If you had studied epistemology, you would not ask that question.

http://cougarguard.com/forum/showpos...47&postcount=8

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by tooblue

SeattleUte: The Religion forums Post Modernist. Now that's ironic

If you must pigeonhole me, this is as good a label as any. I am on record here criticizing know it all atheists, including in this thread, just as I have your professed "knowledge" of spiritual matters. The real irony is that you consider yourself a postmodernist.

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

If you must pigeonhole me, this is as good a label as any. I am on record here criticizing know it all atheists, including in this thread, just as I have your professed "knowledge" of spiritual matters. The real irony is that you consider yourself a postmodernist.

Correction: a Postmodernist Marxist.

[ERCougar]

Although this is a silly semantic discussion, I'm inclined to ask just one more question...

tooblue, if no one else can tell what you know or don't know, why feel inclined to tell us? And if that statement is truly relevant to the discussion (I'm still not sure how your statement of your "knowledge of God" relates to the frequent discrepancy between belief and actions that we were discussing? Are you trying to say you're perfect?...), then why is it suddenly above reproach?

Anyway, silly discussion...moving along.

[tooblue]

Originally Posted by ERCougar

Although this is a silly semantic discussion, I'm inclined to ask just one more question...

tooblue, if no one else can tell what you know or don't know, why feel inclined to tell us? And if that statement is truly relevant to the discussion (I'm still not sure how your statement of your "knowledge of God" relates to the frequent discrepancy between belief and actions that we were discussing? Are you trying to say you're perfect?...), then why is it suddenly above reproach?

Anyway, silly discussion...moving along.

As to why:

I cannot abide people telling others what they can or cannot know. I am compelled by my convictions to counter patently false statements that are derogatory

If A remains silent there is no argument and perhaps that signifies to B that he has rightful claim to authority. Authority that he did not earn, but merely assumed, uncontested.

I never said I was perfect nor did I claim a perfect knowledge.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Tex

http://cougarguard.com/forum/showpos...47&postcount=8

Are you afraid of the word and the science it connotes?

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Are you afraid of the word and the science it connotes?

http://cougarguard.com/forum/showpos...6&postcount=10

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by tooblue

Correction: a Postmodernist Marxist.

Postmodernism isn't a system for handicapping, forgiving or rationalizing logical gaps, absurdities or even patent fraud and self-delusion in organized religious movements.