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"I've had one nuisance blogger suggest that I was immoral for blocking him." Well duh, gomedome, don't you realize that this blogger is the one and only true disciple of God, and because he/she has a direct line to the object of his worship, that no one should dare question him??????????????????? 
Sticks & stones, my friend.
posted by
FineYoungSinger
on July 31, 2008 at 6:07 AM
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Luz_Briar - that is a prevalent view fostered by generation after
generation of social conditioning.
It makes me wonder however why more people holding this view don't stop and say: "Hey, wait a minute, we are the dominant majority and the world is one messed up place?" . . but so few do come to this realization, instead they simply redouble their efforts to blame everything that is wrong with the world on the much smaller group.
posted by
gomedome
on July 30, 2008 at 2:25 PM
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Gomedome,
It's interesting to me that the list of names you have been called is not so different from the names that many believers are called. Perhaps not the same words , but the intent is the same, to discredit someone. It is universal almost when a person seems unsure of his own position he feels a good old fashioned personal attack to the speaker of an opposing point of view will quiet the questions. How sad to be reduced to name calling in order to do... what? It seems that any clear discussion or further "enlightenment" gets lost in a fury of kindergarten behavior. Nobody sees anything. Nobody learns anything, except perhaps a new way to use old 4 letter words. ~Peace. OTA
posted by
Blue_feathers
on July 30, 2008 at 2:24 PM
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unfortunately, much of my family thinks this way: aethist=immoral. wow. it's pretty frestrating.
posted by
Luz_Briar
on July 30, 2008 at 2:01 PM
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Sunnybeach7 - thank you for the kind words
The Houdini comparison probably doesn't work as you suggest, though he was considered as a clairvoyant by a great number of people other than himself. Once he had gained fame, he spent a great deal of his time attempting to debunk other so called clairvoyants and psychics of his day. I used it more as a take off on the popular television commercial of recent years where a drill seargent asks one of his new recruits "What'd they send me, a regular Houdini?" after the recruit in question removes a stain from his uniform with a Tide stick.
posted by
gomedome
on July 30, 2008 at 1:54 PM
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Gome,
They don't have any clue who you are. They read a post of yours, or someone else's, and they see what they want to see.
They don't and won't see any further than they want. If they did, God knows they might get sucked into that satanic circle that many of us thrive in. (now were is my Satan emoticon?)
In my opinion...those who are secure in their beliefs, have no need to discredit others for theirs, or their lack of. Those who are secure in their beliefs can open their minds and at least try to hear what someone is saying.
You have helped me with some issues on a few occasions, and I could definitely affirm that you are NOT immoral, or any such thing. Like I said, they don't know you...and they don't want to...that's all there is to it.
BTW... I didn't get the correlation with Houdini, who was an escape artist, an illusionist. Maybe you can find a better comparison?
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on July 30, 2008 at 11:27 AM
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what can i say
what we all have been called
posted by
Xeno-x
on July 30, 2008 at 11:11 AM
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