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Originally posted by TruthSeeker
1 Corinthians 13:4
"4 Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant."
Sorry about that... but please, accept my criticism...
I feel you are being a little rude, impatient and arrogant with Xev...*
Actually, she's fun to discuss things with, so I don't think rudeness, impatience and arrogance apply here.
Secondly, we just "met" a few hours ago, so there is an initial period of adjustment as "we" ascertain each other's standpoint.
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If you want to preach the Gospel of Love and Compassion, do it by using it.*
So far, I've been trying to figure out her devotion to cthulhu.
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Be patient and respect other people's beliefs.*
YOU are telling ME to be patient?
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They carried those beliefs for a long time and just trying to destroy them, being them "right" or "wrong", is not good.*
I don't think Xev's old enough to have carried her beliefs for a "long time."
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Be humble and accept that each one have his or hers own belief, eventhough we both agree that our Religion is right.*
Are you falling in love with Xev now?
Granted, if her icon is her own picture, she's a good-looking woman, but being a demon-worshipper is trouble with a capital T.
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Trying to change their beliefs by even insulting them, or insulting their beliefs just hurt them and cause a meaningless war that is worth nothing.*
What insults are you talking about?
She's basing the direction of her life on a fictional character in a book.
One needs to examine that.
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Love your "enemies".
(If they are your enemies, how can you Love them? They are NOT the enemy you are really trying to atttack... if you understand what I'm saying... 
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She's not my enemy, if YOU get MY drift.
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Originally posted by Xev
It produces results, does it not?*
Results aren't the determining factor.
GOOD results are.
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Do you think you could create a vaccine for polio with the New Testament?*
Wouldn't need to.
If everyone believed, and acted on, the NT, there wouldn't be anyone around with polio.
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Science and religion are separate, except when one tries to tread on the 'turf' of another, they do not conflict.*
Science is forever treading on the turf of religion by claiming to deal with knowledge, hence the conflict.
OTOH, if science left the turf of religion, it would be nothing, so the conflict won't end for the time being.
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Mr.Id, eh?*
Only from your POV.
From God's POV, I'm just being obedient.
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
(Psalms 35:27, KJV).
Why would I want to displease God?
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I find morality more important than blind sensuality. To live with every want gratified the second you wish it, to live without morality, is to live the life of a brute.*
Your POV is blocking your view.
No one is talking about blind sensuality, although that reveals more about you than you might want to admit.
No one is talking about living without morality, either.
I have repented, which means my mind is CHANGED.
Thus, whenever you try to interpret what I'm getting at, you arrive at the incorrect conclusion, because my mind is not the same as yours.
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You sound more like a Satanist than a Christian, and at least the Satanists do believe in morality. *
See what I mean about incorrect conclusions?
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Why be so facetious and combative?
My point was that scientific advance allows medical advance.*
So far, that "advance" has resulted in a major reduction in life expectancy, which is slowly returning to somewhere near normal.
Just out of curiosity, how can one be facetious and combative at the same time?
That's like fighting a funny war.
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Your arrogance is amusing, although your over-inflated ego is annoying.*
Glad to be of some positive influence in your life.
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I am a Skeptic. That means that I try (I try, I am not perfect) not to accept any proposition unless it has some sort of proof or validity. I question, I explore. I don't think anyone has a monopoly on the truth.
Not my teachers, not any scientist, not any human. *
The giant, glaring exception to that is that the scientific method is untouchable.
You revere that even more than cthulhu.
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No. Homo Sapiens is only about half a million years old.*
Aside from the fact that that statement is completely baseless, I guess I should have said "genus Homo" rather than "man."
But that opens that can of worms.
What's the evidence for a half million years of Homo Sapiens?
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Perhaps you could link to this? I am not sure of your argument. *
Why do I need to link to that?
Are you unaware of Leakey's "work?"
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Onto the affairs of better men:*
Ah, such subtle snideness.
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And perhaps Tony thinks that he never wanted somthing that could hurt another? I would be suprised.*
Nope.
Every time I eat meat, some animal has to die.
Not only that, I often eat fruits and vegetables while they are still COMPLETELY ALIVE.
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He keeps me honest. He is a grotesque caricature of a part of my personality that I do not like, and, seeing myself 'through a glass darkly' helps me avoid becoming like him.*
Aw, shucks.
Let me analyze that.
There is a part of you that you do not like.
I am a grotesque caricature of that part, therefore you like me, because, if you didn't, I would be exactly like that part of you that you do not like.
Thus, if you do not like me, then I am exactly like you, and you know I'm not.
