Which is more important to you? Christians Muslims and Atheists, STAY AWAY please do not bother to answer.

Question

Is placating your confrontational nature more important to you than Intellectual or spiritual honesty?

Be honest, were you drawn to this question by the simple fact that you were asked to stay away from it?,

Answer 1

Oh, but I'm Pagan. (Ok, and technically an atheist.) So I figured I could give a good answer from a Pagan view...

And yes, I'd rather be confrontational than obedient. :-P Honesty has nothing to do with it.

Answer 2

Well, I'm not a Christian, Muslim, or Atheist, so I wasn't being asked to stay away.

However, yes, if a question looks confrontational, I usually want to at least read it and see what others have said. But because I don't believe that I "need to" avoid a question just because someone on here asks me to, I don't think going and looking (or answering) has anything to do with intellectual or spiritual honesty. Obedience, sure, but not honesty.

Now, if someone ever answered dishonestly (and not in the sense of making a joke) to something in order to be confrontational, THEN you would have someone who is *really* into confrontation for its own sake.

Answer 3

<...Christians Muslims and Atheists...>



No, because I do not fall into any of the above categories.



Personally I'd go for the honesty bit.

Answer 4

I suppose I am an atheist in the sense that I do not believe in the literal existence of the gods seen in world myths. I am also a monist and a symbolist, however, and I believe in a unifying force in the universe even if I do not deify it in a traditional way.

And the question is oddly intriguing with its warning for so many to stay away, yes. I am curious why you set it up that way.

Honesty is important to me. Integrity is even more important. Sometimes a confrontational nature can lead to addressing issues that really need to be dealt with.

Answer 5

Both questions are based purely on assumptions that reek of blatant ignorance.

A confrontational nature is surely displayed by the writer.

A question simply asking, "Which is more important?" may very well attract as many viewers.

And the implication that one is dishonest if they were drawn to this question by any other means as suggested is insulting.

Forcing readers to guess what the writer means by "intellectual or spiritual honesty" simply causes answers to be a scattering of meaningless blather not directly addressing what the writer initally intended the questions to ask.

The real intent here was to insult and falsely accuse all who clicked to here to read what was being asked.

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Answer 6

I just wanted to keep an eye on whatever nonsense the religious types were up to.

And I'm not entirely sure how I go about 'placating my confrontational nature', nor how that might be at odds with intellectual honesty.

By the way, you really do need to pay a bit more attention to punctuation.

Answer 7

It wasn't the "stay away" that drew me, but the fact that I'm neither Christian, Muslim, nor Atheist--in fact, I do not label myself at all, since labels are limitations. I was drawn to the question to see who else you might invite and whether I would be welcome to answer. More importantly, I wanted to see whether the question itself interested me, and it does. I'm more and more working on NOT placating my conditioned, egoistic, confrontational nature, with sometimes minor success, sometimes major success. Definitely, intellectual and especially spiritual honesty are far more important to me. I am Sirius

Answer 8

I'm None Of The Above, I'm not greatly confrontational, and I get a buzz from intellectual and spiritual honesty whenever I can manage it.

Answer 9

i am not christian, muslim or athiest.
authenticity is the most important value to me. I don't know what you're talking about 'placating my confrontational nature' but maybe that is because i might not have a confrontational nature. but i really still don't understand what it means. does it mean acting nice even when you don't want to? the real goal here is not to hide the truth or be someone you're not. the real goal is to be the person who does not feel the need to be mean.

Answer 10

I think placating your confrontational nature is not an "enlightening" reaction, but rather is a "lower instinct" reaction that has been described as "tribalism". Our "lower instincts", which are fall-backs, have a tendency to make us act in "pack behavior". If you notice two dogs that see each other for the first time, whether they may get along fine eventually, greet the differences in each other at first glance by barking. Two cats that may become life-long friends later on, will hiss at each other for the first two weeks that they are in a house together. Intellectual or spiritual honesty takes more effort and requires us to remove ourselves from our animalistic tribal natures. Most individuals will describe one religion as "us" and others as "them", describe one action as "good" and another as "evil", or refer to something as "light" or "darkness". When we look at these dualistic concepts by themselves, we can see that dualism itself is a false statement. Darkness is simply the absence of light, not its opposite, goodness is simply the absence of evil, and all of humanity are just variations on the same species. These "dualistic confrontational" approaches to the world always find enemies, and "whole inclusive" approaches always bring compromise and peace. This isn't an opinion. It is a proven, repeatable, verifyable fact with the same results regardless of the independent experimentation. "Cold" has never existed, it is just a reaction to the absence of "heat".