Wait... you can stretch your imagination around a sentient truck that transforms into a massive war-robot or a kid who can summon magical powers with a stick and some Latin-esque phrases... but can't stretch it around deities or their opposite?
I can understand having a personal dislike of religion, or even being vehemently opposed to the concept of deities. I can see how a modern, rational person of healthy skepticism can adhere to a firm belief in a secular universe. I can even see rationality becoming almost dogmatic in the face of world that contains religious fundamentalists of every ilk.
I can't understand why a rational person, who I know has an healthy and active imagination, being able to put those things aside for the sake of a funny little word game where everyone tries to come up with the best arguments why one fictional/literary/celebrity personality would win in a barfight with another.
I think we ALL assume what folks presuppose. It's part of communications that a common language and meaning be inferred in everything we say. I choose to assume my friend Yags is making a funny statement about the popularity of Oprah and Martha when he puts them in the same league with Jesus and Beelzebub. I presume, because he's been doing this for a looooong time, that every one of the WWWIAF questions is designed with entertainment in mind, despite any mention of deities. If an when Yags decides to change that and take a soapbox for any of the personalities mentioned I'll revisit my assumption.
Pope Yagathai, First Scion of the Church of Oprah... I like this.
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Date: 2009-06-30 05:46 pm (UTC)I'll say it again, it's too far fetched for rational humans, hence it was dismissed out of hand.
By all the rational humans.
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Date: 2009-06-30 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-30 06:27 pm (UTC)I can understand having a personal dislike of religion, or even being vehemently opposed to the concept of deities. I can see how a modern, rational person of healthy skepticism can adhere to a firm belief in a secular universe. I can even see rationality becoming almost dogmatic in the face of world that contains religious fundamentalists of every ilk.
I can't understand why a rational person, who I know has an healthy and active imagination, being able to put those things aside for the sake of a funny little word game where everyone tries to come up with the best arguments why one fictional/literary/celebrity personality would win in a barfight with another.
I think we ALL assume what folks presuppose. It's part of communications that a common language and meaning be inferred in everything we say. I choose to assume my friend Yags is making a funny statement about the popularity of Oprah and Martha when he puts them in the same league with Jesus and Beelzebub. I presume, because he's been doing this for a looooong time, that every one of the WWWIAF questions is designed with entertainment in mind, despite any mention of deities. If an when Yags decides to change that and take a soapbox for any of the personalities mentioned I'll revisit my assumption.
Pope Yagathai, First Scion of the Church of Oprah... I like this.