Hi ipster,
I know (and thanks), but it’s just so bloody frustrating dealing with people like this because, no matter what, they never engage with what’s actually being said. In 28614 I made various points about the hopelessness of the arguments he attempts and his reply either ignored or plain misrepresented all of it. Is he fundamentally deliberately dishonest, or can he just not process anything that he sees as chipping away at the edifice of faith beliefs he’s built for himself over the decades?
I can see – just I think – that if I really, really found a faith belief to be as meaningful to me as AB’s faith belief is to him I’d want to protect it, but I cannot imagine the internal convolutions it would require for me then to mangle or run away from the falsifications of the arguments I thought supported it so as to do that.
It’s very weird and almost incomprehensible behaviour I find, and a bit chilling too when seen close up. It’s the same misplaced certainty and contempt for reason that’s underpinned the worst of humanity through the ages and, as if religion didn’t have enough to answer for already, this corrupting of (presumably otherwise able) minds is just one more charge to add to the rap sheet.
Depressing innit?
I think AB's a mixture of things, the poor bloke has to be from a strong Catholic background which usually has a big time indoctrinational base it rests on.
AB, then has the problem of not being able to deny, probably, his whole personal historical background and because this religious belief of his covers him more than likely from his very earliest awakenings of recognition, this in turn would cause him so much embarrassment were he to give way to reason on almost any part of this implanted catholic dogma he is obviously riddled with, the poor chap.
Who's to say we wouldn't be anything like him having gone through a similar background?
I really don't think he actually realises it when he makes his usual baseless assertions, I really think he would be stunned if he was to one day wake up to the fact and realise they are baseless assertions without the necessary back up plus how useless they are without accompanying varifycations.
I know I keep banging on about V C Ramachanderon's ambulance chasing fervour style of neurology, please invest in his book 'Phantoms in the Brain', the things people refuse to recognise in themselves, the book's really enlightening, his straight lines between A to B combined with a dry wit, 'A to B' no pun intended, I learned so much on reading his book I'm thinking of setting up, perhaps not.
I would think any good neurologist would find A B a challenge as we all do.
It's as you say it's the children need some form of protection from all of this religion stuff, how that's achieved? Tell me if you find out?
Regards ippy
