legendary_zell is obnoxiously far left, arguably even a SJW. It is pointless to try to reason with him or have nuanced conversation. I routinely get him mixed up with hollow_shrine who is also extremely far left, to give you an idea of the content of his posts.
Pot meet kettle. Everything you've said here applies directly to you and always has, whether it's religion, capitalism, or Elon Musk. You fundamentally cannot help but become a hard liner for whatever belief system or person you're obsessed with this year. It shows an unbelievable lack of self awareness for you of all people to label someone else as doctrinaire.
I haven't said anything especially left wing or SJW like on this board or in real life. You are simply the same Proudclad that's always viewed those that don't believe as you believe to be idiots foaming at the mouth.
I've practiced and continue to practice changing my beliefs whenever new and better evidence becomes available. Even when it meant a massive 180 switch from my previous beliefs and acknowledging that I was egregiously wrong about something. That's not something you can say about yourself, so I'm not going to place any stock into your accusations/barbs.
It's not about your beliefs, it's about your attitude. I'm saying that regardless of your beliefs, you still have the same dogmatic attitude underlying everything and that's something anyone can see. Going from militant Christianity to militant atheism along with militant capitalism isn't as impressive when you approach all of them with the same attitude.
We're not even talking about the TCs point though. Or my original point in this topic.
You mistake confidence in what is the best available evidence I've got with dogma. I'm demonstrably not dogmatic because I consider alternative explanations of the evidence all the time. All you're doing is trying to refute any possible thing I say by pointing to a supposed character flaw because you know you wouldn't be able to refute what I say.
This is absolutely amazing. Don't you realize this whole thing started when you actually did that to me? Talk about projection.
People who actually act based on evidence and not ideology are a lot less certain and a lot less abrasive than you generally.
My goal isn't to character assassinate you as you clearly attempted to do to me, it's to point out a long standing pattern that is evident even when I agree with you.
Hmmm, well you're not wrong. I apologize for that. I saw your responses to Anarchy_Juiblex and thought they were...rather representative, so I decided to interject too. But if you promise to do better then I'll promise to do better too.
Alright, we're good. I don't see a reason for us to hate each other. And it does take a good bit of intellectual honesty to switch world views.
The problem with Anarchy is his views that he's attempted to present a compatible with liberalism and his increasing reliance on video conservatism. Those are huge pet peeves for me. ---