Phat writes:
I'm a stubborn one, though. I see no internal evidence that prayer has failed me.
Except you've been praying for 8 years and haven't had an answer. In the real world, if you called a number for 8 years and didn't get an answer, what would your conclusion be?
Why the obsession or passion at eliminating religion and beliefs, however?
Despite me saying repeatedly that I don't think that eliminating religion is desirable or possible and that it is eliminating itself by exposure to modern science, you need to impose your own version of my beliefs on it?
...but your proselytizing of evidence and logic is taken to an extreme, in my opinion.
I would say that it's evidence taken to it's logical conclusion, but I can understand why you'd see it as extreem. I'm certainly at the opposite end of the belief spectrum to yourself.
So you are saying that Freud made stuff up also?
Of course he did. There's no such thing as 'ids', 'egos' and 'superegos' - they're his theoretical constructs. They can't be measured or monitored - they're essentially untestable. Still, his work had a lot of impact, though largely disgarded by modern clinical psychologists.
But my main point is that you spend endless time thinking about yourself - thatseems to me to be counter-productive.
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