[Popsyche]

Originally Posted by daybean

i dont think your mom is stupid, it was just a stupid comment. My dad says crazy shit all the time, mind you he went to vietnam at 18 and has test done to see if his mentally ok all the time.

I agree. She would be better classified as ignorant of the facts, and somewhat disinterested in the truth.
Being a parent, there are things that I deserve respect for and some that I don't. I don't feel disrespected when I am proven wrong(which is often!)

[urklvt]

God, ain't that the truth! Parenting is a comedy of errors. I just hope my kid succeeds in life despite his father.

[TheMissing]

Originally Posted by Ancestor

Sometimes parents don't deserve respect. Mostly they do, but just because someone got pregnant or got someone pregnant doesn't make them (dare I say ) god. Ha!

Originally Posted by daybean

i dont think your mom is stupid, it was just a stupid comment.

Originally Posted by Popsyche

I agree. She would be better classified as ignorant of the facts, and somewhat disinterested in the truth.
Being a parent, there are things that I deserve respect for and some that I don't. I dont't feel disrespected when I am proven wrong(which is often!)

Read my post a few pages back, I meerly said 'idiot' in a candid manner to get my point across.

Much in the same way I call best friend Frank a Dumbass sometimes, It's candid and doesn't have the same meaning.

I wouldn't disrespect my mom. (My dad on the other hand... Well, that's just personal.)

[Xaios]

I believe in God. I also believe the Earth is round.

Really, when you get down to it, I don't have any more to go on with the latter point than the former. After all, the only proof I have that the Earth is round is what people such as scientists and professors tell me which I accept in good faith, plus the occasional picture. After all, who knows, there may be some grand conspiracy where someone is making a crapload of money by falsely convincing people that the world is round, when it's actually flat. But despite that, I still believe the world is round. Granted, no one has ever photographed God, but somehow I think even if God were to be proven to exist, we still wouldn't be able to.

But the inevitable failing of science is the same is that of most religion. Someone tells us something, they tell us why they think so, and we choose whether to believe it or not. Some people claim pomegranates are some sort of miracle health fruit. They have boatloads to say, but really, barring the possibility of doing a whole crapload of tests myself over time, I simply choose to believe it or not.

I'm a person who can admit the fault of religion, despite the fact that I follow a certain faith. My point, however, is that believing what so-called scientists say is as much an act of faith as believing what a holy book says. In order to believe either, you must first believe that they're telling you something without an agenda of their own, or that if they do have agenda, they're not going so far as to alter their message to sway you into their train of thought. But unless you do all the required tests for yourself, you never actually have conclusive proof, you simply have the belief that someone else does.

[Naren]

Originally Posted by Xaios

I believe in God. I also believe the Earth is round.

Really, when you get down to it, I don't have any more to go on with the latter point than the former. After all, the only proof I have that the Earth is round is what people such as scientists and professors tell me which I accept in good faith, plus the occasional picture. After all, who knows, there may be some grand conspiracy where someone is making a crapload of money by falsely convincing people that the world is round, when it's actually flat. But despite that, I still believe the world is round. Granted, no one has ever photographed God, but somehow I think even if God were to be proven to exist, we still wouldn't be able to.

But the inevitable failing of science is the same is that of most religion. Someone tells us something, they tell us why they think so, and we choose whether to believe it or not. Some people claim pomegranates are some sort of miracle health fruit. They have boatloads to say, but really, barring the possibility of doing a whole crapload of tests myself over time, I simply choose to believe it or not.

I'm a person who can admit the fault of religion, despite the fact that I follow a certain faith. My point, however, is that believing what so-called scientists say is as much an act of faith as believing what a holy book says. In order to believe either, you must first believe that they're telling you something without an agenda of their own, or that if they do have agenda, they're not going so far as to alter their message to sway you into their train of thought. But unless you do all the required tests for yourself, you never actually have conclusive proof, you simply have the belief that someone else does.

That's a pretty shitty example. Especially since we know for a FACT that the world is round. I guess some country bumpkin who has never ridden an airplane before or who believes that the world truly is the center of the universe might be able to believe that, but anyone with common sense or reason would have to know that the world is round.

I wonder how such conspiracy theorists explain off people who have flown in a perfect circle around the world (such as myself). That they're lying and that they actually saw the edge of the world and made a promise with "the government" (the secret world government) not to tell anyone that the world is really flat and that the sun and planets actually revolve around the Earth?

I also fail to see how this has anything to do with the uninformed nonsense TheMissing's mother expressed. Relevence?

[TheMissing]

Originally Posted by Naren

I also fail to see how this has anything to do with the uninformed nonsense TheMissing's mother expressed. Relevence?

I think he was trying to say that people will believe almost anything that they're told if they trust the source, and have little proof otherwise.

At least... I think so

[noodles]

Originally Posted by Xaios

I believe in God. I also believe the Earth is round.

Really, when you get down to it, I don't have any more to go on with the latter point than the former. After all, the only proof I have that the Earth is round is what people such as scientists and professors tell me which I accept in good faith, plus the occasional picture. After all, who knows, there may be some grand conspiracy where someone is making a crapload of money by falsely convincing people that the world is round, when it's actually flat. But despite that, I still believe the world is round. Granted, no one has ever photographed God, but somehow I think even if God were to be proven to exist, we still wouldn't be able to.

But the inevitable failing of science is the same is that of most religion. Someone tells us something, they tell us why they think so, and we choose whether to believe it or not. Some people claim pomegranates are some sort of miracle health fruit. They have boatloads to say, but really, barring the possibility of doing a whole crapload of tests myself over time, I simply choose to believe it or not.

I'm a person who can admit the fault of religion, despite the fact that I follow a certain faith. My point, however, is that believing what so-called scientists say is as much an act of faith as believing what a holy book says. In order to believe either, you must first believe that they're telling you something without an agenda of their own, or that if they do have agenda, they're not going so far as to alter their message to sway you into their train of thought. But unless you do all the required tests for yourself, you never actually have conclusive proof, you simply have the belief that someone else does.

And this has exactly what to do with this thread?

[Naren]

Originally Posted by TheMissing

I think he was trying to say that people will believe almost anything that they're told if they trust the source.

At least... I think so

It makes a lot more sense when you say it.

To me, his entire post seems like it belongs in another thread.

[TheMissing]

Originally Posted by Naren

It makes a lot more sense when you say it.

To me, his entire post seems like it belongs in another thread.

It took me a few tries, but I think I grasp his point now.

[noodles]

Trying to avoid this, guys.