“At the same time, I don’t sit here in my PJ’s and try to disprove your faith.”
I work all day and night in my Hugh Hefner autographed smoking jacket, attended to by my adoring bunny disciples. Let us not distort the true meaning of Fast Coyoteism.
“Your continuous attacks strike me as demonstrative of intolerance.”
And your attacks on my attacks bespeak an intolerance to my views as well. Intolerance of intolerance is by definition intolerance. That’s why those kinds of statements should crawl away from intelligent discussion like the cockroaches of thought they are, except being only three legged cockroaches they are doomed to wander forever in circles irritating everyone.
I’m am intolerant of anyone who believes 2 + 2 = 5. What about you?
“I’m am intolerant of anyone who believes 2 + 2 = 5. What about you?”
I don’t care. If they won’t listen to me when I tell them it’s four, I move along. I have the truth that they refuse to accept, so I have the advantage.
Your approach appears to be to bludgeon them over the head until they get it. Of course, you neglect the fact that 2.4 rounds to two, and 4.8 rounds to five; so the person that says 2 + 2 = 5 may well simply have more information than you - he’s decided not to exclude the second significant digit.
Therefore, a much more productive approach is to try and -understand- why they think the way they do. If, once you have that understanding, you continue to disagree with them, you have a much better basis on which to do it.
“your attacks on my attacks bespeak an intolerance to my views”
That’s a good one.
Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re still not out to get me.
I am offended that you are offended.
(I am joshin’ you, FReeper pal.)