Debussy Symbolism, Pianistimo has said many things that can be taken as 'insulting'.
If saying that the idea that the earth is 6000 years old is 'not adhering to proven fact' is arrogant or insulting or bad social conduct then what is saying that suggesting that I should be a nazi for accepting Darwinian evolution as science, saying that Dawkins is a nazi and saying that it is ok to butcher children, even babies, if god 'justifies' it?
I don't see how stating something like that can ever be claimed as arrogant simply because stating something out of belief and without knowing the facts is not necessarily something to be angry about. "Back then" people had the notion that Earth was flat, so would you consider those people arrogant?
Yes, people trying to debate religious people often end up failing to have a read debate. But who is to blame? It is the religious person because this person is unable to justify their views and not honest enough to admit this. So they end up ignoring what is said, ignoring facts, bending facts, making up arguments along the way, constructing everyhting in a desperate attempt to stay in the 'debate'.
Then the other person becomes frustrated.
If you provide the pictures of 22 proto-humans and the other person just calls all of them 'hoaxes' without reason then it is very hard not to become frustrated.
If someone repeats the same logical fallacy 20 times after you already explained 19 times why this is wrong and even whined 15 times about the failure to realise or even read the explenation then yes a person will become frustrated.
I see your point, but you have to understand that to the believer, all of what you are saying is false. For example, if you were surrounded by a group of extremely religious people and they were trying to inculcate religious matter to you, you would reject it blatantly over and over again. Same thing here, only here it is only several (or just one) persons arguing religion over scientific fact.
By repeating the same explanation 15-20 times with no avail means that even if you should repeat it a 100 times you still wouldn't get results. Therefore it is best to just leave it there.
Hah! In all of my readings of Pianistimo's text, I never have encountered a single example that could ensure her beliefs. I myself trust facts over beliefs, although a few ruminations are definately worth it as somethings are still unexplained. Overall, what you may assume is arrogant, Pianistimo would assume as true, and what you may assume as truthful, she considers arrogant. Heh, according to Oscar Wilde, it is wrong to stifle other's beliefs, as that only suppresses that person's character. Furthermore, I think that this forum would benefit alot from not having any more material posted that could irritate others, namely other's propagation or religion and other's propagation of stifling the religion.
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