James Randi

[Selski]

Is this place really like a church where atheists or non-believers are not welcome? 

Hi Bird

This place welcomes everyone.  Sharpe has not been booted out.  I was simply wondering why he would choose to stay here.  If he reckons that spirituality and religion are lies, then fair enough, but it's Sharpe's "know-all" attitude and accusations that the rest of us are wrong is where the issue is.  It's one thing to say that you believe religion to be false, and spirituality to be false, it's another to state things like "There's no afterlife. If you do not know how your thoughts work, then don't talk back to someone who does. Good day!  " - which in my book is disrespectful.

How can anyone hope to have a discussion with Sharpe if he won't accept that his "truths" are only his own personal beliefs?  I wanted to respond to Sharpe but as he claims I don't know how my thoughts work and not to talk back to him, then I will respect that and have no more conversations with him.

I respect peoples beliefs although I don't want to share them.

That's all we want - respectful discussions.  We're not asking you to believe in anything - heck, even I believe very little of what's written on this site!! 

Sarah
 

[Bird]

Thanks Sarah
Fair enough, thats fine with me 

I don't want to mess with anyones  beliefs, because what a person believes
at a certain time in their live is probably the right thing for them at that moment.
I'm in no position to judge that. Of course we all think we believe the right thing,
otherwise we would change our mind and believe something else.
So if those things happen to be different, we can only agree to disagree and leave it at that.
The more different viewpoints come together, the more interesting the discussion, I think.

Now I go a bit looking at the older posts, lot's of interesting stuff buried there!

Bird

[Sharpe]

Thank you.

[kiwibonga]

Hmm... What about the original poster? It's a bit worrisome...

If he's not a teenager trying to act cool by making up stories, he's clearly suffering from acute paranoia...

I feel bad that there's nothing we can do to help him.

[cataleptik]

i started this discussion thread...
what are you talking about?

making accusations when you don't have a first hand experience
to back up those accusations
COULD be embarassing.

[cataleptik]

Than why on sweet Earth are you here posting? its like an Atheist going to church every Sunday, are you here simply to provoke? 

manuel, i think you can see what it's about here...

[rygoody]

To get Randi in the corner, might I suggest the power of news sites like digg.com?

You could run the experiment with just a number of friends. Document it all, put it on youtube
Then present it to randi
If he denies, then present the your expiriment, the conversations with randi all to digg.com asking them to email in telling randi to take you on

[rygoody]

Can you guys please not talk bad about Randi?
He's one of the only guys who I respect.

At least someone cares about the fake readings psychics give to people that had lost someone valueble to them.

If you'd think like me, if you would also how fake psychics really are.
You would know what selfish people they are.
They give people this... "hope", these flawed dreams, and flawed realities.

And when they believe it, they lose all track of reality.
The normal human being isn't smart enough to filter out lies, like religion, or spirituality.
And psychics subconsciously exploit this weakness.

To be absolutely honest, psychics make me sick.

rationality and logic is a dogma