Do you insult those on your "side" in this forum, or in the real world, when they are incredibly stupid and/or

Question

annoying?

I have noticed that I try to avoid conflict with a few true blue morons who happen to be fellow disbelievers/weirdos.

I have also noticed that the Xtians sometimes seem more willing to attack their own then we are.

I will continue to write it as Xtian. Thank you for your concern over my intellectual health and well being.

Answer 1

To be honest with you a moron is a moron regardless if they are a Theist and Atheist or even a fellow Agnostic. So I am fair in my assesments of all. To me ignorance and stupidity is incredibly annoying to me regardless of what the person's religion or non religion is.

Answer 2

The blogbaba is a simple man. I don't even know what a Xitan is. What I do know is this. Since Ronald Reagan thru Bush, and with Clinton the worst offender of the three, and now with George W. running the show the American economy has been deteriorating, and the label made in American is going the way of the Buffalo. Here is why that is happening:

A product, any product it can be cars, shoes, clothing or cardboard, cost for discussions sake say a dollar's worth of labor to make in America and a dime's worth of labor to make the same thing in say China. Prior to Reagan, the Federal government's position on free trade was, fine its a free country, make your product anywhere you like, but if you sell it on the American market, and import it from a cheaper labor market at a 90 cent deficit, you will have to pay a 90 cent tariff to sell it here, thereby leveling the playing field for the American industrial base. It was fair, and companies producing whatever had the choice were to do business. Most chose American, since this was their market, and America prospered. Understand, both Conservatives, Reagan & the Bush's and Liberal's most notably the worst offender Clinton, destroyed this type of economy. Now cheap labor, without the check and balance of govermental regulaton is leaching away the industrial might of the United States, most of which has vanished in the last 20 years. This process is slow, much like a frog in a pot of water who's tempeture is raised slowly. As long as the tempeture increase is gradual, the frog doesn't react, and eventually is boiled to death. Same principle applies to the American economy.

Until we as a people force big governement to govern "the people" of this country instead of pandering to big business, this trend will continue, and American will fall from internal decay. No external force on this Planet can withstand the might of the United States. Not Iraq, Iran, Soviet Russia, the European Union, China or a united Asia. But they know this, and will not risk a direct confrontation. It is easier and more effective to simply slowly draine away the might of the United States economically without it's people noticing.

It may be too late already, the great powers of the world have all eventually fallen, the Ming dynasty, Greece, Rome, U.S.S.R and most likely The United States, the current great power. Nothing last forever, not ever great societies. I was privilegded to live in the Greatest Civilization mankind ever created at it's peak. Much like Socrates loved his society enough to die for it when it wronged him, I love the United States of America in like manner. But I choose to live, not die, and I chose long ago to impact positively in an effort to protect and strengthen my society.

This in not a Conservative vs Liberal or a Democrat vs Republican problem. It is an American problem, and the American public is the frog in the analogy. We, both you and I and eveyone we know must be aware of the problem, and do what we are able. It is all that can be expected of reasonable men and women.

Hope I helped.

Answer 3

Funny question... but a good one.

I tend to speak my mind to anyone who's opinion is completely off the mark and unsubstantiated.... Let the insults fall however they will. Sometimes the truth hurts.

By the way, what's up with this "side vs side" thing? Aren't people all on the same side anymore? Aren't we all looking for the same truth? (...the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - so help me, [out a little here and please don't sing Elvis songs. Raman.])

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Post Script: I say give Wolfeblay a good dose of your clap. She's got it right.

Post Script (and here's a perfect example of the morons were discussing) to fireball2...: Obviously, not "only God can judge" since we're seeing a good bit of judging right here, aren't we? And if you're about to say that only God has the right to judge the living and the dead... phhaa-laaatttt-u-lence... that's just a lot of hogwash, isn't it?
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Answer 4

I've just done so in answering a moronic question from somewhat who wants to know whether smoking in an enclosed garage damages a cars exterior finish. My point was to suggest that, if he's the smoker or even is a bystander, he should be more concerned about his own interior than his car's exterior.

After that true confession, I think that whether one is a believer or a nonbeliever, one should remember that, in general, "a soft answer turns aside wrath." In cases where it doesn't, our right to wallk away or avoid contact. When I haven't, I've had cause to regret it.

Answer 5

Well there's 2 kinds of Christians. One is like me I believe but I don't expect anyone else to, nor do I think that the atheists & Jews will burn. The other kind are the people who do & yes I will insult those close minded bigoted morons because they insult others

Answer 6

It depends. If they're clearly nuts, I just feel badly for them and don't feed the flames. If they're hateful or mean I might say something to them though.

In the real world, I avoid conflict unless I really have to speak up. Like when a child is involved or someone is being horrible to an innocent.

I've noticed that too. Believers are meaner when they attack their own. I guess it's like "domestic violence" - you can get rougher with those in your "family"

Answer 7

Even tho it is very difficult sometimes I try not to deliberately insult anyone. I do find it more annoying/upsetting when a fellow Christian is a jerk, bigot, zealot, or simply a moron. I don't want people to think that their comments represent me.

Answer 8

I'm incredibly sarcastic by nature, so I don't consider what I say (most of the time) to be insulting; I'm just stating my point of view in a particular way that some can appreciate, and some cannot.

Answer 9

Uh oh...now I'm getting paranoid. Am I one of the few true blue moron disbelievers? I need to call my therapist immediately. I'll put it on speaker phone.

Answer 10

I have noticed that too. I suspect since we are a minority we may feel the need to look the other way when "one of our own" is an idiot.

In all reality we shouldn't do that. The idiots among us make us all look bad.