Posted on 05/12/2009 6:58:19 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
THANKS.
THAT’S GUY MALONE’S GIG. He put it together with a lot of help from his friends.
Great guy, Guy. An excellent authentic Christian who walks the talk.
John Peel is mostly wrong, imho about the craft.
My relative worked around manufactured craft.
Certainly the critters are in cahoots with satan and the globalist oligarchy.
Thanks for the ping!
Your comment is a perfect example of “obfuscation” in that it seeks to confuse instead of clarify.
Most of the time, capable and demonstrating are quite different things hereon in that regard.
FWIW,
Seems to me this thread would be more fitting in the Religion Forum.
I've already noted that it was your post 15, to wit:
Skeptics are the mirror image of those who believe without evidence...neither approach the subject scientifically. To both, their belief is a matter of faith and/or desire...and not the product of rational thought.
I know plenty of skeptics right here at the Freep who are rational and use logic.
What's confusing? You made a global statement that skeptics were incapable of rational thought.You used no qualifiers. Read your post 15 again.
In fact, it doesn't even imply that their conclusion, however reached, is in error. All it means is that their examination is open to error in correlation to the strength or power of their bias.
See my point?
Quix, you know that the burden of proof, without fail, is always on those who make extraordinary claims.
I stated that belief/faith is not a product of rational thought. I did not say that a person who holds beliefs (as we all do) is incapable of rational thought.
That said, I would love to see you parse my statement to prove your point...so have at it.
A person setting out to prove something exists is similar to one who sets out to prove the same thing doesn't exist.They both start from a point of bias and their judgment will be so colored.
Skeptics are the mirror image of those who believe without evidence...neither approach the subject scientifically. To both, their belief is a matter of faith and/or desire...and not the product of rational thought.
Yes.
As well as a solid, honest man to do business with. ;^)
{~just thought I'd throw that in, my friend. :^) }
They both start from a point of bias and their judgment will be so colored. Skeptics are the mirror image of those who believe without evidence...neither approach the subject scientifically. To both, their belief is a matter of faith and/or desire...and not the product of rational thought.
And, as an obviouis truism, it has a global reach. I think it does encompass accurately both perspectives in such a matter.
However, most naysayers break out in hives, appoplexy and hysterical frothing at the mouth when confronted with anything remotely accusing them of having a shred of faith about anything. One wonders how they manage to have faith that other drivers will stop at red lights.
INDEED!
Are you the FREEPER who’s his personal Friend?
At the risk of being [grossly] misunderstood, whether I am or not?
I'm the kiss and don't tell type, Quix. :^)
No, all I see is a bunch of pseudo-intellectual psychobabble. The fact remains, however, that you made a global all-encompassing statement that skeptics aren't capable of rational thought, which certainly reveals your biases as a True Believer.
Skeptics are certainly capable of rational thought as I have stated previously. You are the one who is insisting they are not...and doing so rather irrationally if I may say so.
Skeptics are the mirror image of those who believe without evidence...neither approach the subject scientifically. To both, their belief is a matter of faith and/or desire...and not the product of rational thought.
I'm a skeptic and it has nothing to do with a belief system or "faith" or "desire". When the kook fringies make their insane claims, I and the other "naysayers" question them and easily take them apart with nothing but common sense and rationality, which the True Believers would try, in typical leftist fashion, to demonize.
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