🚀 go-pugleaf

"SilverStar" <you.dont.get@it.com> wrote in message
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> FNO wrote:
> > Been there, done that with these yardbirds and their "Superior reasoning
> > powers" and a "couple of months of research equates to years of graduate
> > school for anyone else".  You seem to actually know something about
> > debating.  They don't.  I bit.  A whole lot of time wasted with no gain
at
> > all.  Logic will be wasted on them.
> >
> > You'll be sorry...
> >
> >
>
> There's a difference between debating, which I usually do and almost
> always win, and just telling them to shut the fuck up before they hurt
> themselves, which is what I'm doing now.
>
> All it amounts to, is one saying his imaginary friend is better than
> his, while the other one says that imaginary friends don't exist.
> Neither of them have a case beyond their own experiences and as such are
> both in the complete wrong. In a debate, you have to first start at the
> opponent's view, to see where he's coming from, then debate the points
> with them, until it gets down to whatever the root problem is for why
> they feel that way. In the case of Lauzon, he completely contradicts the
> bible's primary teachings (Do unto others as you would have done unto
> yourself, treat everyone with respect and dignity, forgive and forget,
> do no harm to others for any reason) in order to spew his blind garbage.
> In the case of these 2, they're trying to see who believes what,
> stronger than the other, when it really doesn't matter.
>
> If there's a God, then there's a God. He has always existed and will
> always exist.
>
> If there is NOT a God, then there has never been a God and never will be
> a God.
>
> In either case, things go on no different than they have and everyone
> should just shut up and move on, before they start to get their asses
> kicked by school folding lunch tables, like the bunch of retards they
> really are.
>
> Enlightenment has nothing to do with God. Enlightenment means to
> understand, accept and adapt the ideas, ideals and experiences of
> yourself and others, to achieve a higher truth. A truth which is always
> changing, because the world and the universe are always changing. You
> cannot understand a thing, if you do not know what it is NOT. If you do
> not know what it isn't, you cannot say what it is. But, that knowledge
> changes as the understandings change. And, eventually, you may one day
> fully understand a single thing, simply by knowing everything it is not.
>
> Reality is relative. Understanding is relative. Theory is relative.
> Truth is absolute, but only for the moment in which it is the truth.
> What the truth is, may change from moment to moment. Just as the truth
> is at this moment I am typing this reply, while by time you read it, I
> am not. That is the truth, and it doesn't matter who knows it, or who
> believes it, it will be the truth so long as it is true.

I would have to say that you and I are on the same page.  I find it
refreshing.