Message from @Larbi

Discord ID: 612396125504143457


2019-08-17 21:16:12 UTC  

Do you worship your God?

2019-08-17 21:17:15 UTC  

Yes, it's called having personal beliefs

2019-08-17 21:17:30 UTC  

that does not equate to "all of X people are brainwashed"

2019-08-17 21:17:37 UTC  

No...

2019-08-17 21:17:39 UTC  

it's an ignorant, collectivist thing to say

2019-08-17 21:17:51 UTC  

I simply asked if you worshiped your god, I didn't ask you to strawman me

2019-08-17 21:18:01 UTC  

strawman?

2019-08-17 21:18:28 UTC  

At no point did I strawman you

2019-08-17 21:18:52 UTC  

Yes, I have not argued that 'All of X people are brainwashed', where X people are people that have personal beliefs.

2019-08-17 21:19:12 UTC  

I answered your question and made 2 additional salient points about how ignorant it is to generalize

2019-08-17 21:19:30 UTC  

Without acknowledging what it is I was about to say

2019-08-17 21:19:46 UTC  

Well in fairness, I was responding to someone else

2019-08-17 21:19:52 UTC  

probably should have pinged him

2019-08-17 21:19:54 UTC  

'I answered your question'

2019-08-17 21:19:56 UTC  

kek

2019-08-17 21:20:25 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/611780143530246155/612395334336905218/unknown.png

2019-08-17 21:21:14 UTC  

Anyways, what was the point you were about to make

2019-08-17 21:22:07 UTC  

I don't care if you follow the principles of Christianity, nor if you like the bible, but worshipping god is treating god as an absolute.

2019-08-17 21:22:49 UTC  

Do you believe people who worship a creator are brainwashed?

2019-08-17 21:22:59 UTC  

because that was the topic at hand lol

2019-08-17 21:23:34 UTC  

Yes, you can believe in a creator, worshipping a creator of which there is no evidence to point towards them or their need for worship I'd argue is brainwashed.

2019-08-17 21:24:14 UTC  

Even though that's literally the opposite of what it is?

2019-08-17 21:24:29 UTC  

Expand.

2019-08-17 21:24:34 UTC  

Do you know what the term brainwashed means?

2019-08-17 21:24:44 UTC  

Not trying to be shitty here, honest question

2019-08-17 21:25:45 UTC  

I'd think It's synonymous with indoctrinated, where the indoctrination can be considered as lacking in verifiable fact.

2019-08-17 21:26:00 UTC  

I use the Oxford dictionary, seems to be free from leftist meddling

2019-08-17 21:26:08 UTC  

here's their definition: `to force someone to accept your ideas or beliefs, for example by repeating the same thing many times or by preventing the person from thinking clearly`

2019-08-17 21:26:18 UTC  

'preventing the person from thinking clearly'

2019-08-17 21:26:38 UTC  

Now I'm not thinking clearly?

2019-08-17 21:26:43 UTC  

to impose belief in something where there is nothing to suggest belief or contrary is 'not thinking clearly'

2019-08-17 21:27:06 UTC  

I am thinking very clearly, and nobody has forced their ideas or beliefs onto me

2019-08-17 21:27:21 UTC  

brainwashing necessarily requires a 2nd *human* party

2019-08-17 21:27:26 UTC  

Right

2019-08-17 21:27:33 UTC  

How about did you come across your faith?

2019-08-17 21:27:37 UTC  

freely choosing to believe something is not a form of brainwashing

2019-08-17 21:27:49 UTC  

you could say I'm misguided

2019-08-17 21:27:52 UTC  

but that's an opinion

2019-08-17 21:28:10 UTC  

I'd argue it's a statement considering there isn't evidence for the position

2019-08-17 21:28:32 UTC  

evidence and facts aren't relevant here

2019-08-17 21:28:37 UTC  

Why so?