I changed my mind.
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Originally posted by Oblivion437:
Well, keep your faith, but faith allowed a vast people to be subjugated for 1000 years. Faith doesn't do a human mind good. You can conjure up invisible men in the sky all you like. But if you're dead, and the thief has the loot, it doesn't much matter in all practicality.
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I don't believe in invisible men in the sky. Prove that faith doesnt do a human mind good. Show me the money.
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I think ABSOLUTE pacifism is a stupid idea as it eliminates that most terrible and sometimes (though very, very rarely) necessary solution of violence.
That last sentence renders you a hypocrite. You won't commit violence, but you will have someone/something do your dirty work for you? That's even lower than someone who bulldozes their way through life. At least they don't have any false pretenses of some higher morality. At the very least, I know where to shoot first if I should ever break into your house.
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My dirty work? Hmmm. If some jackass gets his balls bit by one of the dogs, its not my fault. Being well trained means they won't randomly attack someone. If they follow their instinct to protect me, the lady, or the home, it's not like I put them up to it, now is it? And while my hypothetical attacker is busy with several hundred pounds of angry dog, I'm free to choose my course of action. Since the particular path of pacifistism I practice includes martial arts disipline, I know my hypothetical attacker will be far more scared than me, and that I have the advantage in self-control and expirience.
As far as false pretensde of higher morality, what makes you think I have those? Where did I say my morality was better or worst than anyone elses. Certainly any honest person's, pacifists or not, morality is better than a low-down murdering thief.
Basicially your just slinging insluts where you can, particularly at anyone who doesn't see the world through the same narrow slit you do.
You don't know me and can only pretend to judge me.
BTW How many armed attackers have you threatened, shot, or killed?