[QUOTE=Princhester]
What **Nancarrow ** said. **Der Trihs ** is too obnoxious for his own good, but most of his detractors just can’t lay a glove on his arguments. There are few better reasons to despise someone than the fact that they are right, you are wrong, and they keep rubbing your face in it.
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What arguments would these be? That religious people are stupid just because they are religious? Stupid compared to whom? Der Trihs? I mean, if he’s making this argument, then part of backing it up should involve showing how he’s any better than 80% of the world’s population who are theists, many of whom are doctors, business people, and other productive members of society. More to the point, they are a hell of a lot more productive than Der Trihs, whose specialty in life and main area of output seems to be . . . posting here.
Do you know what I would love to see just once? Just once is all. I would love to see the hard-hitting champions of truth and justice like Der Trihs take those high powered tools of logic and use them on themselves. I would love to see Der Trihs stop posting about how stupid theists are and how US soldiers in Iraq should be slaughtered, and I would like to see him use those standards of absolute truth on himself.
Just once, I would love to be there when Trihs asks himself something like “Hey, I’m almost 40, and I still obsess about getting beaten up in high school which ended for me over half a lifetime ago. I wonder why that is?”
Or look around him wherever he happens to be living and working (assuming the little misfit even has a job) and go "Hey, I’m almost 40. Is this where I want to be in life? "
Or “Hey, I’m almost 40. Shouldn’t I have–you know–a girlfriend or something? I wonder if there’s anything in my world right now that needs changing.”
“Gee, people seem to react to me negatively. Could it possibly have anything to do with the way I talk or act or think? Why am I here? Why am I the way I am? What gets me through the day? What’s my motivation? What are my goals? Where am I going to be when I’m 50? Do I have good friends, a good life? And if not, why not? When was the last time I kissed a girl? When was the last time people told me that they’re glad I was there?”
Get the picture?
I’m no saint, I’m no genius, and I’m no olympian, but at least I have the guts to own up to it, and I will not judge someone by a different standard than I use to judge myself. When Der Trihs starts judging himself and his life by the same yardstick he uses to judge theists and soldiers caught in a bad situation, I’ll listen to his arguments. Until then, fuck him. He’s worthless. Just another useless basement dweller who can’t hack the real world.
Plenty fodder and not simply about Catholicism.