TheBrotherMario - 31 January 2012 06:46 AM

I only came to Project Reason to make delusional claims about the existence of God and boastful posts about my life.

Bingo, Sister! Your expressions are the epitome of incredible PERSONAL OPINION and vaingloriousness with no depth, substance or support to render them relevant in any way. In other words, you’re a big hypocrite who is begging for respect that will never be earned here. A wannabe that isn’t.

Another accumulation of froth and foam all over the place.  BM’s contribution in every post amounts to: 

1 (I have a personal experience of god, i.e., I am special) + 1 (you have no experience of god, i.e., you are not special) = 3 (I win).

This is why Christians are narcissists. They absolutely in all cases, boast about their personal experiences. They must tell us about them and talk about them, because they think everybody should have what they have. They KNOW God, anybody that does not experience what they do, does not.

Monotheistic religions are for people who have self important psychological issues. They are very insecure about life and reality.

TheBrotherMario - 31 January 2012 06:46 AM

Yes. I understand you all very well, indeed.

Understanding a thing, idea, event, or person requires that a person be able to fit it into an explanatory framework.  The limits of the understanding then become the limits of the framework.  This can be a source of great misunderstanding.

burt - 31 January 2012 08:53 AM

TheBrotherMario - 31 January 2012 06:46 AM

Yes. I understand you all very well, indeed.

Understanding a thing, idea, event, or person requires that a person be able to fit it into an explanatory framework.  The limits of the understanding then become the limits of the framework.  This can be a source of great misunderstanding.

In his case, the source of great errancy.

So, what you are saying is that when I respond to three pages of personal characterizations about who and what I am, I am being narcissistic in doing so.

So, what you are saying is that religious people, especially Christians, are narcissistic because they claim that they have experienced a living God “personally”, rather than only in a group…I guess like the sun shines on a group of walruses.

So, what you are saying is that I am vainglorious, have only opinion, have no depth, have no substance, have no support, am a hypocrite, am irrelevant, am begging for respect, am a wannabe, am an accumulation of froth and foam, am self-important, have psychological issues, am very insecure about life, and am very insecure about reality—and, saying all this in a few sentences.

So, what you are saying is that you have this picture of me because God absolutely does not exist and anyone who claims a certitude to the contrary must be all these things above.

So, what you are saying is that if I ended all my posts, which are “the epitome of incredible PERSONAL OPINION”, about the experience of God, the knowledge of God, and the understanding of God with IMO, I would be acceptable to people like you with a certitude of intellect, not PERSONAL OPINION, that God does not exist, so therefore there is no experience, knowledge, or understanding to be had.

So, what you are saying is that you are none of these characterizations above and I am all of them, because God does not exist, and you brilliant thinkers know it.

Okay. I understand what you are saying.

TheBrotherMario - 31 January 2012 09:12 AM

So, what you are saying is that you have this picture of me because God absolutely does not exist ...

No. It’s because it’s the picture you paint of yourself, hang in our gallery and are perplexed why no one stops to admire it. So you rationalize that we can’t appreciate the beauty in art, when the fact is ... YOU SUCK as an artist.

TheBrotherMario - 31 January 2012 09:12 AM

So, what you are saying is that when I respond to three pages of personal characterizations about who and what I am, I am being narcissistic in doing so.

So, what you are saying is that I am vainglorious, have only opinion, have no depth, have no substance, have no support, am a hypocrite, am irrelevant, am begging for respect, am a wannabe, am an accumulation of froth and foam, am self-important, have psychological issues, am very insecure about life, and am very insecure about reality—and, saying all this in a few sentences.

Exactly correct (light dawns on marble head?).  It has nothing to do with god’s non-existence.  Your conduct and the content of your offerings are a consistent record of all the above.  The way in which you end your posts would not change a thing.  The only hope for improvement for you is therapy.

Mike78 - 31 January 2012 10:36 AM

TheBrotherMario - 31 January 2012 09:12 AM

So, what you are saying is that when I respond to three pages of personal characterizations about who and what I am, I am being narcissistic in doing so.

So, what you are saying is that I am vainglorious, have only opinion, have no depth, have no substance, have no support, am a hypocrite, am irrelevant, am begging for respect, am a wannabe, am an accumulation of froth and foam, am self-important, have psychological issues, am very insecure about life, and am very insecure about reality—and, saying all this in a few sentences.

Exactly correct (light dawns on marble head?).  It has nothing to do with god’s non-existence.  Your conduct and the content of your offerings are a consistent record of all the above.  The way in which you end your posts would not change a thing.  The only hope for improvement for you is therapy.

Agree all above.

Wait, do you mean to say that you don’t hate me because of my religion? Are you implying that its possible to disagree with another person and remain civil? Friendly even? Could it be that there are, in fact, dysfunctional and solipsistic individuals to be found within practically every theology? And that there isn’t always a necessary connection between personality disputes and the relative merit of competing truth claims? Is it even possible that simple courtesies of conversation are worth extending across party lines just for the satisfaction of being a nice person?

Have a seat, I’ll get you a drink.