Re: a comment on Everything by RION12	3-Apr-05/4:07 AM
Still boring.
Re: a comment on cacoon by whispern_smoke_wisp	3-Apr-05/3:58 AM
She misspelled cocoon.
Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina	3-Apr-05/3:52 AM
Are you? I'll hazard a guess you're not openminded regarding the proposition that some races, sexes, and religions ARE in fact inferior to others. Q: What evidence would you require to convince you that a race, sex, etc is inferior? Q2: Could such evidence conceivably exist?
Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina	3-Apr-05/3:47 AM
I don't believe you'd accept or even consider any information we offered you, despite that you don't know our real races, sexes, or religions. Anyway, you certainly haven't done it before. This conversation is beyond dull. Pointless, too.
Re: a comment on Reasonably Good by Dovina	3-Apr-05/3:39 AM
Dovina: Two people who agree on something are an incrowd. zodiac: Two people who agree on something are the same person. Dovina: That's not what I actually said. zodiac: Whatever, I was exaggerating. What you actually said is wrong, too.
Re: a comment on The Symbol by Dovina	3-Apr-05/3:36 AM
I'm going to say, "Did you write this poem for anyone other than yourself?" You're going to say, "No." And I'm going to say, "What a load of crap." I'm tired of this. Can we talk about something else?
Re: a comment on The Symbol by Dovina	3-Apr-05/3:35 AM
Who are you agreeing with?
Re: a comment on stab in the dark by not_a_philosopher	3-Apr-05/3:33 AM
I repeat: Spinoza is a goob. Everybody knows about Spinoza.
Re: a comment on stab in the dark by not_a_philosopher	3-Apr-05/3:32 AM
I believe there is a lot wrong with right-wing fundamentalism. For instance, I believe it made you say "their" instead of "there", and consistently punctuate like an epilept.
Re: a comment on The Symbol by Dovina	2-Apr-05/5:07 AM
"gruesome education" is a typo, but funny. Of course, I meant "gruesome execution".
Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina	2-Apr-05/5:03 AM
You're so full of crap you're steaming. 1) What if one happens by chance to believe only true propositions and reject false ones? Surely you'd agree that's as possible as anything else. 2) Would you say "to determine the truth of a proposition requires it to be considered"? Of course you would. So basically you're saying anyone who believes any proposition is true or false is openminded. Doesn't that strike you as obviously crap? Oh, you mean "to determine the REAL truth/falsity of a proposition..." Then you're doubly full of crap. 3) Would you consider yourself openminded regarding the proposition that you're a total wackjob?
Re: a comment on Maybe Someday by Luzr	2-Apr-05/4:56 AM
I can't help noticing that whenever you're dissed you just pretend you were talking about something totally different. Does that work?
Re: a comment on Reasonably Good by Dovina	2-Apr-05/4:55 AM
Stop saying straw man. You've said almost exactly those words twice now on other poems. One of them is here: http://www.poemranker.com/poem-details.jsp?id=121987
Re: a comment on stab in the dark by not_a_philosopher	2-Apr-05/4:41 AM
You dope. Newsflash: Philosophy is your religion. The Great Divorce is crap. So is Spinoza. You are a right-wing fundamentalist.
Re: a comment on stab in the dark by not_a_philosopher	2-Apr-05/4:38 AM
1) You heard that somewhere. 2) You don't think Durr_T_hip_E is reasonable either. And I happen to know he heard all that somewhere. 3) Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying now. No, that's not what I said before. For that, I'm truly, pants-fillingly ashamed.
Re: a comment on The Symbol by Dovina	2-Apr-05/4:35 AM
Only figuratively. Since moving to the desert I'm lucky to fill my bloomers once weekly, and only with rabbit pellets at that. What does a symbolic cross look like? Who looks at a symbolic cross and thinks "hey, that calls to mind a gruesome method of execution!"?
Re: a comment on The Symbol by Dovina	2-Apr-05/4:32 AM
What do you mean, "see thourgh a grammatical error"? The topic of the conversation is whether or not the cross is a symbol of gruesome execution or an instrument of gruesome education. It think that makes it pretty relevant that you're trying to make the cross a "symbol" of execution by grammar-mangling. PS-Don't whemy yourself. I disagree with -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I.
Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina	2-Apr-05/4:28 AM
You're full of crap.
Re: a comment on No Worries by Dovina	2-Apr-05/4:26 AM
Okay, stop. One, no one here hates open minds, least of all me. I hate people who say they have open minds and are actually addlebrained bigots and hypocrites. Two, no one's claiming to have a more open mind than you. Three, if someone says "I'm probably not 100% openminded" and you say "I'm 100% openminded", you think that means you're more openminded than they are. It doesn't. For one thing, it means they're openminded about the possibility of having a closed mind, while you're not. If that were the only criterion for openmindedness, they'd be more openminded than you. (Incidentally, this is most of the reason why you think you're less racist, sexist, ageist and gayist than everybody here, too.) Four, openmindedness has nothing to do with accepting or knowing anything, truth or not. I thought that was demonstrated about a week ago. Would you like diagrams? Five, your above comment doesn't make any sense. Six, all those things you say are vague platitudes (see below) you say all the time. And they're not platitudes. So shut up.
Re: a comment on stab in the dark by not_a_philosopher	31-Mar-05/6:43 AM
Of course belief can't be turned on or off at will. Unfortunately (for you), Pascal's Wager only says that it's more reasonable to believe in God than to not believe in God; it doesn't do anything to make people who don't believe into believers or vice versa. So if the question is, "If everyone were logical and reasonable, would they be agnostic?" then the answer is no, they'd believe in God. If the question is, "If everyone became logical and reasonable, would they become agnostic?" the answer's probably also no, they probably wouldn't change, since reason doesn't seem to have much to do with it. If the question is, "If everyone were as logical and reasonable as durr_T_hippie, would they be agnostic?" the answer's again probably no, they'd just spout off a bunch of unreasonable nonsense they'd heard somewhere, like he does.