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Thread #68896   Message #1282682
Posted By: GUEST,Ooh -Aah
27-Sep-04 - 08:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Skepticemia
Subject: RE: BS: Skepticemia
I'm not THAT serious when I say I want to 'help' and 'save', LH - don't get your twickers in a knist! This was tongue-in-cheek stuff (I presume you're American - SOME Americans just do not recognise irony when they see it). The point is that if you put up your ideas on a public forum you presumably want them to be talked about. Some will be agreement, some will be disagreement. If you don't want to be disagreed with, don't discuss things online, especially something as controversial as New Age therapies etc.

I am less 'intolerant' than 'amused'. You seem unable to tolerate any response except agreement.
I am always amused by the intolerance of Born Again Christians because they believe in stuff quite as whacky as you do! (Virgin births anyone?)I attack both, but them more, because as you point out, they would like to actually stop people believing what they want to. I am happy for you to believe what you want, and I believe I am happy to take a poke at it now and then if I don't agree with it.
As for live and let live, I would point out that to live fully involves using the brains critical faculty.

Alas, my body's nowhere near good enough for the porno industry. It would beat Primary teaching!