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Rubber Band Beliefs
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: cholin on March 26, 2005, 03:42:17 pm ---Who cares how we ruin these threads Im just glad I dont have a president that looks like a monkey!
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Monkey, no. Chimp...yes.
mrC
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 26, 2005, 01:36:42 pm ---Remember, you can't be a rubber band believer if you never peg down one end of it. Things change, your beliefs change, everything changes. People shouldn't be so eager to pigeon hole everything.
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Excellent way to describe it.
The idea of their faith is the nail in the rubber band, and the rubber band is the amount of belief they have in it. Most people casually pull the rubber band in all directions, but they seldom put enough stress on the rubber band to cause any backlash. It's when a person pulls to hard in one direction the rubber band snaps back in the other direction with equal or greater force.
To add to that, the strength of the rubber band is determined by the amount of faith they have in the nail. If they don't have enough strength the rubber band snaps and that person is free of that nail.
That person then hammers a new nail and surrounds it with a different rubber band.
So we are all guided by the band.... until we snap.
shmokes:
I think Couter was saying that the Nail is the bad part. He doesn't think you should have MORE faith to have a stronger nail, he thinks you should just never hammer in a nail to begin with. That way you are free to change your mind as much as you want as you receive new information or come to new conclusions without looking like an ass for having hammered the proverbial nail so deep already.
The overall moral of Couter's story appears to be: Faith is bad. :) Probably not what you are trying to say.
Grasshopper:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on March 28, 2005, 11:36:11 am ---
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 26, 2005, 01:36:42 pm ---Remember, you can't be a rubber band believer if you never peg down one end of it. Things change, your beliefs change, everything changes. People shouldn't be so eager to pigeon hole everything.
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Excellent way to describe it.
The idea of their faith is the nail in the rubber band, and the rubber band is the amount of belief they have in it. Most people casually pull the rubber band in all directions, but they seldom put enough stress on the rubber band to cause any backlash. It's when a person pulls to hard in one direction the rubber band snaps back in the other direction with equal or greater force.
To add to that, the strength of the rubber band is determined by the amount of faith they have in the nail. If they don't have enough strength the rubber band snaps and that person is free of that nail.
That person then hammers a new nail and surrounds it with a different rubber band.
So we are all guided by the band.... until we snap.
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I think I'll just stick to being an atheist, so much less complicated. ;D
Grasshopper:
When you snatch the Rubber Band from my hand Grasshopper then it will be time for you to leave....