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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #154 on: March 08, 2025, 11:18:49 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 08, 2025, 11:14:50 AM
In my OPINION, believing in a thing that is "silly, absurd, and a colossal waste of man hours" qualifies as being stupid.
Then almost everyone is stupid, according to you.  How rude.
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #155 on: March 08, 2025, 11:20:11 AM »
False.  Christians and those who believe in God do not think that it is "silly, absurd, and a colossal waste of man hours".

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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #156 on: March 08, 2025, 11:20:27 AM »
Quote from: Drew4UTk on March 08, 2025, 11:17:22 AM
Love ya, brother, but that^ is funny.

All of us here love CFB, no? We admire the components working in concert accomplishing the moving of a oblong ball up and down a field, or, trying to stop the opponent from doing so... we can all, mostly, agree on the individual components and their skill and talent.

But a team?

'Fro, you hate the vols.  That's fair, as i hate the gayturds.  Who is the better team? Program? What measure are you utilizing to make that determination? How do you complile it?  Did you determine who was best before seeking answers and argue to that ends or were you led by discovery? 

Brother, et al, we're human.  We pretty much all suffer from the same nature of being such.  We're mighty critical of elements we believe we have domination over, and respectful of things we also hold dear... and stomp over others and still yet embrace others... and it can turn on a dime.

...... hate is the issue.  Why allow an irrational emotion rule over our lives?  Yet, we all hate something or have I'll will toward something enough to approximate hate.  That one element, removed, and things are Glorious.  Everywhere.
I sort of agree, as my last reply to Cincy shows.  :72:
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #157 on: March 08, 2025, 11:21:09 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 08, 2025, 11:20:11 AM
False.  Christians and those who believe in God do not think that it is "silly, absurd, and a colossal waste of man hours".


I surely hope not, because THAT would be stupid.
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #158 on: March 08, 2025, 11:22:43 AM »
If I assert that your belief in "X" is "silly, absurd, and a colossal waste of man hours", I'm clearly suggesting your intelligence is highly suspect.

If you are a flat earther, and go around trying to convince others of it, I'd say you are stupid.
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #159 on: March 08, 2025, 11:23:10 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on March 07, 2025, 07:57:50 PM
I live a frustrating life.  Teaching poor kids sucks more often than not. 

Many/most/some people tend to look at humanity with awe and consider how awesome we are.  I can't help but focus on how razor thin we are beyond being shaved chimps.

We're REALLY good at taking 1 step forward and 2 steps back as a species.  But yet we remain, somehow.
Time to change your circumstances.  While humanity may be flawed and heading to disaster, no reason you shouldn't find some happiness along the way. As I said life is too short. 
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #160 on: March 08, 2025, 11:23:29 AM »
Quote from: Drew4UTk on March 08, 2025, 11:17:22 AM
But a team?

'Fro, you hate the vols.  That's fair, as i hate the gayturds.  Who is the better team? Program? What measure are you utilizing to make that determination? How do you complile it?  Did you determine who was best before seeking answers and argue to that ends or were you led by discovery? 
Well, this.  :57:



And all 3 are close wins for you.  The blowouts and the overall one-sidedness is ours.  Cheers!!
« Last Edit: March 08, 2025, 11:29:18 AM by OrangeAfroMan »
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #161 on: March 08, 2025, 11:27:31 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on March 08, 2025, 11:22:43 AM
If I assert that your belief in "X" is "silly, absurd, and a colossal waste of man hours", I'm clearly suggesting your intelligence is highly suspect.

If you are a flat earther, and go around trying to convince others of it, I'd say you are stupid.
You are much meaner than I am.  Yet I get all the flack.

We probably all waste time on stupid shit.  Hell, we post here.  I love this place, and you guys are all great, even the religious ones.  But that doesn't make us stupid.  It means we have leisure time on our hands and are fortunate.


Flat earthers can be called stupid because humanity has known the earth is spherical for thousands of years.  Here's the key:  they make a falsifiable claim.  It can be proven false.  God can't.  So religious people get to parade around making UNfalsifiable claims, pretending like it makes it more likely or true, when it's just so 'out there' that we cannot prove it false.  Because it's impossible to do so.

Yet the utter lack of any evidence at all is a problem.  At least for me it is.  Silly me.  Stupid me? 
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #162 on: March 08, 2025, 02:11:21 PM »
I doubt anyone here could usefully declare another poster "meaner than I am" with any confidence.  We all might be quite different here than in "real life".  And, as I've explained before, I come from an environment where expressing different opinions was highly valued, making arguments coherently was highly valued, trying to point out flaws in another's reasoning was highly valued.

Since I embrace "diversity", I find this approach useful.
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #163 on: March 08, 2025, 02:14:28 PM »
not sure about how mean I am - probably not too mean
but, I'm relatively Fearless regarding my peers
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #164 on: March 08, 2025, 02:26:35 PM »
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #165 on: March 08, 2025, 02:32:50 PM »
As for religious belief, obviously many humans find it compelling, and useful, not a waste of time.  It's their choice, just as ours is to post here.  I obviously support their right to believe in whatever they choose, there are a lot of options out there.  I know friends of mine who were pretty devout Christians found religion to be a critical part of their lives, something which they would not like to give up clearly.  Most are pretty smart folks, it's not for me to decide what is silly and wasteful in their lives.
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #166 on: March 09, 2025, 12:21:46 AM »
What sort of scares me is how many believers think their belief is what keeps them ethical.  A large % of them seem to think without the invisible man in the sky, they'd go around murdering and pillaging for some reason.  Just a clear lack of confidence in one's self to simply act ethically, for the sake of it...
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Re: How do you know what you think you know?
« Reply #167 on: March 09, 2025, 07:40:51 AM »
The folks I know would be ethical regardless of course.  They believe their faith is a kind of guiding light in their lives, a useful and positive influence.

They wouldn't have been bad people had they grown up and lived without any religion.
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