The different social rules that apply to different settings have occupied my thoughts for the past several days. It has been noticed that I tend to be much more gentle and conciliatory face-to-face than in the written word. One has gone to far as to describe my words as "socially feral." That would only be true if I had spoken the words while
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I always say that I only debate with people that I respect. :)
I do, however, tolerate a lot of eccentric behavior from fannish acquaintances, and I consider this a good thing. It's a very fine line between wierdness and creativity and I would not want to lose the latter.
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I understand how you feel unwelcome in a room full of people all in agreement that Christians are gullible. You probably should avoid those environments. At the same time, your Bible contains countless insults to good people, so I feel uncomfortable around people rude enough to believe the Bible. That's why I generally avoid them.
Which one of us is a minority, and in what context? Which one is beat up and abused by the other? Do you not see the perfect equivalence in your demand that I change my own viewpoint?
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Eating babies, actually. By conservatism I mean eating babies :-)
Do you not see the perfect equivalence in your demand that I change my own viewpoint?
I didn't demand or even suggest you change your viewpoint. I'll go on record as begging you not to change your viewpoint :-)
You were bemoaning the lack of political and religious debate and I offered the suggestion that there's nobody to debate. If it's debate you want you'll have to debate a viewpoint you've allowed into your social circle.
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However, the subculture of fantasy fans is chock full of a loosely associated memetic cluster of neopaganism, relativism, distrust of science and technology, magical thinking, and a desire to turn back the clock of history to a more idyllic pastoral time. Sometimes that is barely any less annoying than the things I didn't like about church.
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