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Author Topic:   So whose been converted
Stile
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Message 7 of 20 (483449)
09-22-2008 12:04 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Logic
09-21-2008 9:39 PM


Why I'm here
Logic writes:
So of all the people to join have any of you:
1) Been converted
Aye.
I started as a devout Catholic, then a devout Catholic and devout Southern Baptist (yes, strange...). Then I started thinking about things and none of it made much sense. I became mostly-agnostic before I found EvC. About 2 years before I became a member of the board, however, I read pages and pages of posts. Crashfrog, Jar, Ringo, Nosy Ned, Moose (in their non-admin modes), Percy, Rej, Ben, Phat...
it was mostly the atheists that made the most sense to me. But certain believers had excellent points as well. It certainly became very easy to see that there was a lot of knowledge I was unaware of. Over those 2 years, I moved from kinda-agnostic to firmly-agnostic. And then I started posting. During my posting I've moved from firmly-agnostic to pretty-much-an-atheist to firmly-atheist.
As for converting others... it really doesn't cross my mind much. My reasons for coming to this site are mostly selfish. I come here to test thoughts and ideas of my own. I propose them, expecting them to be criticized (which is what I want), and then adjust them as necessary as better ideas become apparent to me.
People "on the other side" aren't so much targets for conversion as they are valuable, possible falsifiers of my own ideas.
When I have an idea, and "the other side" isn't capable of falsifying it, I gain confidence in it's validity.

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Stile
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Posts: 4295
From: Ontario, Canada
Joined: 12-02-2004


Message 19 of 20 (483817)
09-24-2008 11:26 AM
Reply to: Message 16 by mike the wiz
09-23-2008 7:26 PM


Really? You didn't notice?
mike the wiz writes:
How is it my post gets attacked but not the others?
...
I didn't attack the other posts, so why do you attack mine?
Mike, the first line from your post that you claim is "innocently attacked":
mike the wiz writes:
I don't think anyone has ever really understood anything I've said, or they have, and they think it's not sound.
With that statement, you single-handedly insulted the intelligence of every person who has read anything you've ever posted here. I sometimes wonder how you fit through doorways with such a large head.

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