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Yeah, semi-mystical attempts at veiled messages. Who was that?

I think he'd just read "The da Vinci Code", whoever he was.

Mindwalker. Luckily, I don't invoke the Rosicrucians all that often on this forum thus making it an easy word to search for.

Hitler killed Jesus. And Kelvy.

Manicheas?

I don't know how the hell to spell it. It was just one of those early orders of christians that Augustine was in for a while before he discovered the true path and renounced them as heretics.

Lots of stuff about material vs ideal and spiritual realms, what the soul is, all that good stuff. He talks about it at length in the Confessions which I highly recommend. It is an easy read... if a bit preachy. Augustine was a hell of a guy before he became a saint... in mostly bad ways.

Like I said, I often confuse them for Marcionites.

I believe it was marcion that wrote the Antithesis, which was a work attempting to completely divorce the christian god from the creator god of the jews. I also believe that it was Marcion that put together the first bible, which contained only like two of the gospels and the antitheses, but it was a start.

You're a freak of nature for remembering four and a half years later that you invoked them then.

Freak.

That's why I included a picture...

I'm passionate about lots of things, but I don't allow it to consume me, and I don't allow it to rule my life.

There isn't a topic brought up here that you don't relate to some philosophy or another, so it's nearly impossible to have a conversation with you that isn't intense.

Manatees

Nope.

[quote=Pensive the LudicrousI understand your annoyance but I ask you to try to understand the psychology behind that particular habit of posting.[/quote]

Ok. I'll try to stop making friendly overtures and small talk. I'll just avoid your posts unless I feel like debating with you. However, knowing how you blow up and curse at people when they disagree with you... Well... Perhaps I'll just try to avoid all of your posts.

You know, you often come across as extremely frigid in my opinion, but I still believe that you are a good hearted and enjoyable person with whom I like to talk on occasion. I actually LIKE you; it took a while to warm up, but you seem like a decent lady. I have been nothing to you but earnest and honest about my mind and thoughts, about which you truly seemed inquisitive and I earnestly attempted to explain them to you. If you do not feel like meeting me halfway on that, then I ain't taking the blame for what apparently is some major affront to you when someone doesn't recognize a joke.

I also believe that the only times I have blown up and cursed at people for disagreeing with me were during extremely painful periods in my life in which I should not have been posting at all. This is clearly not one of those times.

Now, if you want to talk about my supreme arrogance that feeds on itself as a debate continues, then that is another story. That arrogance is a defense mechanism for both admitting defeat as well as gaining power in terms of self image. Its presence is required to mask a terribly weak and fragile ego. Anyone should be able to see that. I don't know how to change it. Do you have a suggestion? Then by all means please do suggest.



I disagree. Read above.

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After rereading each post of mine in this thread that reached sub-defailt level, I could find not a single event of emotional outrage and the barest minimums of swearing occurring. I did find a large deal of smug satisfaction, which I have explained above. I stand by my original hypothesis that they were sub-defaulted for derailing a thread viciously and misunderstanding the context of the argument.

Do the same, present counterexamples, and I might take the claim that I get easily emotive and vulgar more seriously.

Edited, Apr 22nd 2009 3:56pm by Pensive

I'm not sure why you think it's a "major affront." I'm not upset about it, I just don't feel like having to explain every joke I try to make with you. It makes me feel like I'm talking down to you when I know you're not stupid. I'm not trying to make you angry or upset, but if the only discussions you participate in are the ones that make you fly into one-track-mind mode where nothing else but serious discussion about that topic can possibly get through to you, I'm not sure what else to do.

I'm also not sure it's considered "meeting you halfway" when you say, "I get in a one track mode when I discuss things I'm passionate about, and I don't really want to change that."