The Dark Rigidity of Fundamentalist Rural America

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  1. garyd

    garyd Well-Known Member

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    Reads more like the fundamental rigidity of the leftist mind.
     
  2. Ashwin Poonawal

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    Jesus taught us humbleness, that we are all sinners, and begging forgiveness from God is in order. Unfortunately, human pride gets attached to anything it can get hold of, even to a sound religion, over time. This pride excuses us from introspection and correction of the self. We figure, just following the dogmas makes us special and superior. This excuses us from the painful recognition of our shortcomings and vices.

    All religions have some such fanatics. What breaks our rigidity is the pain we receive from life. Pain takes us deeper in our mind, soul-searching. Poor cultures are more painful. They have smaller percentage of fanatics. America lived culturally isolated life until the world wars. Lack of interaction with others keeps a culture rigid. Then, we have been rich and powerful, for almost a century. That has kept us proud and rigid in our thinking.

    This is how great cultures of history fell. Can we be smarter than them, and save ourselves in time?
     
  3. rahl

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    Boats float on water. Everyone living near water used boats. Nobody else has orders to take 2 of every animal.





    No. All of the sciences I listed show the flood never happened.
     
  4. Maccabee

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    I guess you don't use google.

    http://www.nwcreation.net/noahlegends.html

    This was literally the first thing I found when I searched "flood legends that include two of each animal.

    Poor argument. I can just as easily say the sciences prove the flood actually did happened if you're going to be that lazy.
     
  5. rahl

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    yes, every civilization was near water sources. Water sources flood when it rains. Each civilization thought the "world" was their small portion they occupied. No other civilization has a "noah" story.

    factual and scientific argument.
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    you could say it sure, but you would be incorrect.

    We know beyond any doubt the entire earth has never been flooded in the entire 4.5+ billion years it has existed.
     
  6. Henrycrafter

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    Trying to deal rationally with an irrational person is like trying to blow open a bank vault with a firecracker
     
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  7. Maccabee

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    I literally proved you wrong. What evidence are you basing this on?

    such as?
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    prove it. You're being very intellectually lazy

    Evidence?
     
  8. rahl

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    Lol, no you didn't. No other civilization has a Noah story. Many Have flood stories, because their areas flooded.



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    Science.

    Science has proven there has never been a worldwide flood.

    Physics, geology etc
     

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