are you talking to me? ok. seriously, is it not a bit arrogant to say “if you were only searching for the truth”. i don’t think people mean to be arrogant when they say that, but the assumption that i will find it if i just “keep looking” instead of assuming there are no answers because religion is a bunch of made up hooey… is arrogant.
I’m sowwy-are we hurting your feewings? If you want to unintelligently blather on and on without criticism, you might want to consider starting blog…and not tell anybody about it.
oh, i see, because you are intelligent and hostile and i am unintelligent and hostile, that makes you what… even sadder than i am because you are smarter than me, right?
you know what, i’ll acknowledge that you are correct. i’m not really sure what to say after admitting that but i wont be so stubborn as to say that i am without flaws.
I don’t ask questions, then immediately tell people I’m not interested in the answers. You’re not even bright enough to be devious.
Dude, do you ever have conversations with people? I mean, in real life?
Generally speaking, when you’re jumping rather wildly from one topic to another it’s hard to follow. In text as well as conversation. Pick a direction. Pick a stance. Admit when you’re talking out your ass. I promise, things will go more smoothly.
i have a fair amount or real life friends. i’ve been kind of depressed for two months and don’t see them as much but even now i do have contact with people.
as to jumping from topic to topic people have complained about that before on other places on the net. not as much as people do here though.
or maybe you’re not bright enough to notice that i’m just f_ucking with people. like not all the time but yeah, i do it a lot. BUT it seems as if most everyone else here does too.
Well, that’s likely because this MB is oriented toward conversations about topics.
I can understand criticism putting your back up, but damn. Seriously. You know you’re kind of all over the place, why not try to rein it in a little?
Possibly, but you’re not doing it very well.
Because trolls gotta troll.
And don’t we have a word for that?
edited to add: Damn-ninja’d by John Mace.
yeah, you’re right, i’ve kind of been shut in the house for a few days and i think maybe i got a little too obsessed with posting here. sometimes i do that when i pick up a new habit.
No, everybody doesn’t.
Read just about every other thread and you’ll see conversations going on. Sometimes they get heated, sometimes they are bizarre, but for the most part they are actual conversations.
You want better quality interactions? Hang out in better quality threads (and read before you start posting many of your own). If you want to jerk people around, then don’t be surprised when people treat you like a jerk, too.
you’re right. all i have really paid attention to is the most heated threads and haven’t looked much at the other ones.
How can you put down a place that has threads like this one:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17124527#post17124527
Seriously- it made my whole day. 
But I’m weird that way.
well, that particular entry didn’t interest me much but thanks for your last couple comments.
Does anyone else find it just the tiniest bit ironic that someone who comes in and announces that an entire field of philosophic study is “stupid” and “childish” and only for high school-level intellects then flings around accusations of arrogance at the drop of a hat?
[continuing indological hijack over here in the corner]
Sure, but that doesn’t mean that every possible sense of the term is necessarily going to have an officially designated doctoral program specifically tailored to it.
What aspects of South Asian religious thought and culture do you feel are being academically neglected due specifically to the lack of the official title “Hindu studies” on a doctoral program?
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when did i ever say i wasn’t arrogant? when did i ever put on any pretense at humility? not that that would excuse truly horrible behavior but calling the bible a stupid book for people with child like beliefs can’t really be THAT bad, can it?