The Predicament of Existence

@fmf said
There have been no cheap shots, KellyJay. You suddenly mentioned cockroaches in the context of your toxic comments about the supposed "meaningless" of life if there is no eternal life after death [i.e. "nothing after death"]. It wasn't me who suddenly made the human/cockroaches 'debating point', it was you. Nothing is being twisted. There have been no cheap shots.

If we were both talking to one another in good faith, that would mean when I take something you say and get it wrong, and you correct me, you'd take my correction in good faith. This is not what you are doing; when I correct you, you tell me I'm wrong; that is not good faith; that is simply saying you know me better, so when I say this, you know I mean that. That is not good faith; that is prejudice, a warped view of your ability to read people even after they tell you that is not what they meant you out of your hubous refuse to accept them in their word.

@kellyjay said
If we were both talking to one another in good faith, that would mean when I take something you say and get it wrong, and you correct me, you'd take my correction in good faith. This is not what you are doing; when I correct you, you tell me I'm wrong; that is not good faith; that is simply saying you know me better, so when I say this, you know I mean that. That is not good ...[text shortened]... hey tell you that is not what they meant you out of your hubous refuse to accept them in their word.

I sense that you are not "correcting" me, as such; what you are doing is trying to back-peddle away from some ugly assertions you made about your fellow human beings.

Having talked to you for many years, I know full well that these ugly notions sit at the very heart of your belief system.

You can get bent out of shape all you want, KellyJay. The "in good faith" side of what I am doing is that I am confronting you candidly about what your obvious meaning and stance is ~ while all this talk of "correcting" me is simply you trying to distance yourself from what you clearly meant by all the words you typed ~ which are still there.

@kellyjay said
That is not good faith; that is prejudice, a warped view of your ability to read people even after they tell you that is not what they meant you out of your hubous refuse to accept them in their word.

Rather than making accusations against me, KellyJay, you should be taking back what you clearly said/meant if you've now thought better of the words you posted.

Instead, you have been rattled by my responses and are playing the I've-been-misunderstood card.

It's not as if my responses have been relying on reiterations or paraphrasing: I have quoted your posts verbatim over and over again.

@kellyjay said
If there is nothing after this life, you can dance all you want; you'll end up no different than someone who sits in the corner all day doing nothing.

Do you believe that "someone who sits in the corner all day doing nothing" can be "saved"?

@fmf said
Do you believe that "someone who sits in the corner all day doing nothing" can be "saved"?

You prove my point; you entirely turn something I said into something else.

@kellyjay said
You prove my point; you entirely turn something I said into something else.

It's just a question.