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Originally Posted by ubertuber
I'll say it again: evolution works through selection, not inclusion. We can discuss anything here, but that doesn't mean that we can't have honest conversations about the quality of the ideas. That was the beauty of the 9/11 thread.
In other words, you aren't helping your ideas get selected if the best defense you can mount is complaining about the other side and a few anecdotes. Surely astrology's supporters have produced more convincing arguments and evidence than have been presented in this thread?
And Pan, you know as well as I do that "the forum" didn't put this thread in Paranoia. The OP did.
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"My ideas get selected" selected for what????? I didn't know my ideas were part of some selection process. What do I win if they are selected? If it's a cool trip or something I like I'll come up with some truly inspiring ideas that will get selected and I can win all kinds of neat things.
I don't know I'm not into astrology, never have been.... doesn't mean I don't think there isn't merit in it.
I shouldn't have to "defend" my beliefs to anyone. I don't ask others to, nor do I have the right to have others have to defend their religious beliefs, their philosophical beliefs, their personal beliefs, what right does anyone have to ask me to?
(This excludes politics and sports, which are just fun to argue but get nothing truly accomplished because the people who are truly playing the game and out on the field are the ones making the decisions... we just idly watch and make judgment calls after the fact.)
I honestly didn't know the OP put it here, I thought I read it had been moved from Philosophy... my mistake.