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Radar · 12-29-2004, 07:42 AM

I can admit when I'm wrong. In fact I've done so many times, especially when I was married the first time. But there are some things I just know are right....at least for me. Asking me to change my mind would be like me asking a devout Christian to consider Buddhism. Once your mind is made up, and you've got credible evidence to back your beliefs as I do, there's no need to change your mind. I know that 2+2 = 4 so if someone were to come to me and say, "Why are you being so closed minded and a jerk? Why can't you just admit that 2+2 = 22?" I'd argue until I can't anymore. I might give basic math lessons, or links to pages that have the answer. But in the end I can't force someone else to see the truth, I can just repeat it in hopes someone might agree with me and I don't feel like I'm alone.

And believe me when I say, if you tell Penn there is a god, he'll laugh at you. If you tell him you do psychic surgery, or read crystal balls, etc., he'll likely insult you and attack you. He will never change his mind on these things, but he tells people, "I could be wrong" as a means of sounding humble, when he knows he's not wrong."

Penn would need about the same evidence as me to believe in a god. He'd need actual entity of god to show themself and make a suitable demonstration of power to prove his identity and a means of recording and measuring his presence so we'd know it wasn't a hallucination. So I guess I could be wrong, but it's not likely.

12-29-2004, 07:42 AM	#7
Radar Constitutional Scholar Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 4,006	I can admit when I'm wrong. In fact I've done so many times, especially when I was married the first time. But there are some things I just know are right....at least for me. Asking me to change my mind would be like me asking a devout Christian to consider Buddhism. Once your mind is made up, and you've got credible evidence to back your beliefs as I do, there's no need to change your mind. I know that 2+2 = 4 so if someone were to come to me and say, "Why are you being so closed minded and a jerk? Why can't you just admit that 2+2 = 22?" I'd argue until I can't anymore. I might give basic math lessons, or links to pages that have the answer. But in the end I can't force someone else to see the truth, I can just repeat it in hopes someone might agree with me and I don't feel like I'm alone. And believe me when I say, if you tell Penn there is a god, he'll laugh at you. If you tell him you do psychic surgery, or read crystal balls, etc., he'll likely insult you and attack you. He will never change his mind on these things, but he tells people, "I could be wrong" as a means of sounding humble, when he knows he's not wrong." Penn would need about the same evidence as me to believe in a god. He'd need actual entity of god to show themself and make a suitable demonstration of power to prove his identity and a means of recording and measuring his presence so we'd know it wasn't a hallucination. So I guess I could be wrong, but it's not likely. __________________ "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin Last edited by Radar; 12-29-2004 at 07:45 AM.