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10-07-2008, 02:07 AM #401
I only used the term "irrational" as that was a direct quote from the movie.
I think that major point is that, these religious people (those in the movie) have rational beliefs in the rest of their lives, thus saying they are "normal" , another term I'm sure I will get i trouble for, but with regards to religion (to use a movie term) they suspend their belief. Some believe these biblical stories without any. In the movie Bill asked,"if as children you were taught the Jack and , Jack the Beanstalk was a biblical tale, would you all be defending it"?
I have many religious friends, of many different faiths, I respect them all, they are people that seem to have a good moral grounding. Some of them attribute their morals to their religion. If thats what it takes then so be it. I have a similar moral outlook, yet personally I believe in my mind what is morally right, I personally don't require a supernatural being to keep me in line.
It's not even that I don't believe, I just don't know, as a person with freewill and thought, I believe it's my duty as a human to question and explore.
I personally can't understand those that don't question or get upset by others that do question their "faith". To me it's like getting upset when someone tells me they think Star Trek is better than Star Wars, when Star Wars is clearly better (which has many religious themes through out).
This the definition of irrational that I used when using that term
Irrational
-not logical or reasonable.Last edited by Hutch; 10-07-2008 at 02:11 AM.
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10-07-2008, 02:19 AM #402
Now youve gone and ****ED ME OFF! EVERYBODY KNOWS that Star Trek is better than that crap Star Wars! Talk about irrational beliefs.... God help you!
Last edited by nun2sharp; 10-07-2008 at 02:24 AM.
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10-07-2008, 02:19 AM #403
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Thanked: 50Then I think "unrational" would have been a better term for them to have used.
As far as doubt and faith are concerned, I'm with you. One of my theology profs in college actually wrote a book called "Faith to Doubt," which suggested that entertaining doubt could make faith stronger, not weaker.
To each is own.
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10-07-2008, 02:51 AM #404
Is "unrational" a word (or a Bushism). I've yet to find it in any dictionary or thesaurus.
Or are we making up a word to assuage a groups delicate sensibilities.
This should send them all into a tither (.Y.)Last edited by Hutch; 10-07-2008 at 03:00 AM.
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10-07-2008, 02:57 AM #405
Come on the Imperial Cruisers would kick the Enterprise's butt. The blasters, and light sabers were way better than those silly phasers. Then there is the Force, say no more and Darth Vader is way cooler than Kling-ons ( named after little piece of toilet paper that stick to your butt after wiping)
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10-07-2008, 03:02 AM #406
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10-07-2008, 03:08 AM #407
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Thanked: 150The prefixes "UN" and "IR" (along with "DIS", "IL", "IM" and "IN") just mean "to negate the following word" and, conventionally, are used for specific words at the exclusion of the others (most words that begin with "R" are given "IR" as a prefix; irrelevant, irresponsible, irregular, irrational, etc).
So, "irrational" means whatever the user intends it to mean, context clues must be the clarifying agent, not a new word.
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10-07-2008, 05:32 AM #408
Is unrational a real word? I always thought it was either 'ir' or 'un' but not both.
That is exactly what irrational means. For that specific area of debate (Religion), religious people choose faith over logic and rationality.
That does not mean they are irrational people (which is indeed something else altogether) and I am not judging people's religious beliefs. But that is simply how the word 'irrational' applies to religion.Til shade is gone, til water is gone, Into the shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath.
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10-07-2008, 05:37 AM #409Til shade is gone, til water is gone, Into the shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath.
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day
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10-07-2008, 10:34 AM #410
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