MontyZ said:Uh. Okay. It's just my opinion. I've never seen any real evidence of ghosts, spirits or dead people communicating. It's superstition (or the onset of dementia), and that's fine if people want to believe in psychics and mediums and cults. I don't, which is why I have no respect for it. I feel the same way about UFOs, Bigfoot, God and the Lochness Monster. Humans have vivid imaginations.
Dont Hurt Me said:As far as ghosts and all that otherstuff it aint real................................ Ufo's now thats a very different matter dont fool yourself. Our Govt has never come clean on this subject. Even today the truth is kept hidden and secret. It pisses them off there is someone outthere with tech that makes our tech look like stone knives and bearskins.
MontyZ said:Why are "non-believers" of things like God, occult, interplanetary aliens, etc., the ones that have to be respectful and reverent to those beliefs, yet the views of the "non-believers" are considered rude, blasphemes, closed-minded or unpatriotic?
MontyZ said:How would people react to a grown man that still believed in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy?
MontyZ said:Seems to be a double-standard.
God was created by society, also a simple fact.~Shard~ said:Well, since these things have been purposely created by society for little children and this is a simple fact...![]()
~Shard~ said:"Close-minded" is simply a objective term - either a person is open to new ideas and ways of thinking or they are not - independent of the specific beliefs in question.
cr2sh said:I can push your "I'm open minded" thinking a lot further than you're comfortable with. At that point, it's not objective anymore. If I go outside your comfort zone, suddenly I'm crazy or stupid, or insane.
cr2sh said:A very small percentage of people in this world are normal, nice, decent people... as far as my definition goes. I don't have to be respectful or nice to any of the crazy ones - because they'll cut your throat and not think twice about it.
cr2sh said:but labeling yourself as "better" because you're "open minded" in your narrow definition.. isn't right.
cr2sh said:and part of that might be not getting all worked up over gods.![]()