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by JTP on March 24th, 2008

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Is there some possible way for the athiestards and the fundies to reach an agreement and stop all the insulting questions? Come on here, I'm an atheist, but this is just getting annoying with all the anti-religion/anti-atheist questions. So Peace?

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  • by Brand Y on March 24th, 2008

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    Before you can have peace, you have to make peace with conflict -- i.e. you have to appreciate conflict for what it is and where it comes from. There's nothing "wrong" with conflict, it's a byproduct of the way we think about ourselves and others and the we relate to concepts and views, etc.

    To make conflict the enemy is to just do more of the same at the next level of abstraction: "oh no, we're fighting, we shouldn't fight! Lets fight against fighting! Join the Anti-Fight Club!", etc.

    As long as human beings are prone to identify with their viewpoints, groups, desires, and beliefs, there will be conflict. To make peace with that leaves us with a choice: how should I respond to the current situation at this moment? That's all I ever really have any control over.

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    • The clear answer is we need to ban thought.

      EL1 2

      by EL1 2 on March 24th, 2008

    • Go right ahead. Don't forget to come back and report the results of your experiment! :)

      Brand Y

      by Brand Y on March 24th, 2008

    • Okay. You all are hereby not allowed to have opinions. Be sheep.

      EL1 2

      by EL1 2 on March 24th, 2008

    • I don't want to ban any conflict or thought, I just feel that the sensible people on AB know that their not influencing anyone with their clearly antagonistic questions and answers (I've been plenty guilty of this before) and all it does is cause conflict for conflicts sake. Theirs nothing wrong with debate, there is something wrong when it turns into your everyday argument I'm right your wrong kind of thing.

      JTP

      by JTP on March 24th, 2008

    • But that is the problem. When it comes to religion vs nonreligion it IS a matter of 'I'm right, you're wrong'. The two points are mutually exclusive. Either there is a God, and those who don't believe will pay a heavy consequence, or there isn't one, and those who believe there is are being irritating for no good reason.

      LarryH54

      by LarryH54 on August 2nd, 2010

    • They're not being irritating, Larry, they're being dangerous. Big difference. The world is becoming too small for competing mythologies to coexist peacefully, as evidenced by the persistent eruptions of violence between Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, etc.

      Either mankind will survive the Age of Religion and emerge with a rational world view, or we'll likely perish on the altars to one or more of our Gods. Only time will tell, but all the people of true vision are eschewing the Big Myths and doing what they can to take responsibility for the future.

      HasntBeen

      by HasntBeen on January 2nd, 2011

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