i was making a bit of a joke suggesting that part of your arguement was allowing the opposing debaters to win.
dry humour.
Well I say sorry that I missed it.
Often my humour is misinterpreted and I have to explain.
however i am more inclined to beleive in higher beings/life forms than a single god entity.
Now that could make an interesting thread.
remember that just because 1 person decides to declare a god concept atributable to some star does not mean the potential underlying premise is suddenly void.
I am not sure if you are offering support for God or astrology.
modern secular LGBTQ & Womens equality religions im all for.
I am unaware of such religions.
Leaving aside the belief in a mythical unevidenced character my objection to religions (those we discuss here generally) is their hatred of gay folk and their low regard for women generally.
Imagine how domestic violence is supported by this crazy belief men are superior and that women are not more than possessions...these misserable men who are so insecure constructed religion because they want to control another humans behaviour make me sick.
Heck if someone wants to leave let them ... and so often a woman only wants out bevause the guy is a dominating fool.
Yet teligion comes down on the side of man..how convenient...how invented.
One god??? Heck why not a man and a woman...cause the inventors of god were just miserable insecure males...they give decent men a bad name.
i see no need to try and pull their world apart.
I suspect you see that negative quality in me and when I think about it there is no need for me to be even in the slightest the way you observe but maybe I am guilty..In fact in the real world that is how I interact I respect others and dont jump in with the views I present in this place...But I do get upset and behave badly here because I dont like to see folk conned and I do think that religion is conning folk with an unsupported promise of an after life and a horrible threat of eternal torture.
And looking at those who use religion for control and profit has me seemingly attacking the poor victims of the con when indeed it is the con artists I should focus upon.
They manipulate by deceipt and threat...not decent in my view.
and try to damage another person who is not attempting to damage me.
And that is a wonderful quality.
I can understand you may think I am ego driven but I say the impression may come from the vigour of my attack rather than some self belief gone wild...although when others make such an observation I do try and see what they see not see what I want to see.
The view we have of ourselves is often very different to those around you.
I was near heart broken once when told I was seen as violent..My self image is that of an extremely peaceful person.
Folk judged me on the rare times I made a stand not the years and years I sat quietly in the corner.
But when I go off you do notice...but that is all they notice and judge you by.
i love the ignore feature it allows me to keep myself in check and not respond in kind to those soo mentally damaged that they seek to damage other peoples sense of hapines or Ego.
You seem like a nice gentle person trying to tactfully point out a problem without being critical.
I do like your gentleness.
It seems that there is something in my op that upsets you and I suspect it may be that you think I am running down astrology.
I am not as anti astrology as you may think.
I have a friend who educates me in astrology and what I take from it is that it is an effort to relate activity to times of the year.
And I conceed if you are born at a certain time of the year it may influence your character...may...but me giving that concession is a big deal..I do not have that type of concession for religion.
It has been very nice hearing your views and nice to be talking with a gentle person.
Have a wonderful day.
Alex
