So it seems I've outlined your belief system correctly, which is not difficult to do. I'm not sure why you felt a need to write a post telling me I ought to believe those things too. I'm not interested in carrying on a lengthy discussion about this because it's a matter of belief and I don't agree with you. I'm not going to take on board your anxiety about conspiracies or a punishing god, nor am I going to allow myself to be brainwashed to the extent that I start typing words from my leaders without thinking about them to any great degree because I believe the leaders speak holy words. I have a mind of my own and I will continue to use it.



What philosopher said this, or did it come from the Book of Russ? I don't understand how someone who has lived for so many years and seen a bit of life can think this.



Those Native American prophecies were pretty cool too. You tried to find bits that you could shoehorn into congruence with Bible stories and dismissed the rest for no logical reason. Stop calling me willfully blind if you're going to do this sort of thing yourself.



You are telling me to be tolerant, after the posts you've recently typed here.

I have a bee in my bonnet about people not using their brains. My job involves making people think. If she's going to type things about creationism and evolution here then I believe she ought to think about them, which is what my questions are designed to do. I would do the same to an evolutionist who simply pasted chunks of text without commentary -- though strangely, I haven't encountered that yet.

In fact, I am going to try hard to keep my conversations along those sorts of lines. I hear a lot from you about how you are right and I am wrong but you don't present any logical evidence, just personal beliefs that you try to pass off as evidence. You also ignore a lot of scientific evidence that contradicts the idea of a 6,000 year old earth on which life was created all at once. I suspect you will simply dismiss this out of hand as well, now that there's really no one left here to carry on presenting evidence for evolution. Cognitive dissonance theory states that you and others here won't listen to it anyway, you never have before, which is why I'm not spending so much of my time doing it here anymore.

My favourite conversations include the words why, maybe, and what if. You might think about including them in your vocabulary. They don't have to be frightening; on the contrary, they will open up worlds for you.