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14 Aug 2010, 5:32 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
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I agree. My ex girlfriend used to go on about how she was a great anti racist in the past and was "heavily involved" with the Islamic community and knew so much about Islam. Then one day we walked past a Sikh gurdwara and she said "see thats a nice muslim church i bet it is peaceful in there" or some such. It just goes to show how people can talk themself up sometimes but you shouldnt take it so seriously. I can't see how anyone could mistake a gurdwara for a mosque with the huge sword logo on the front, and I am enough of an ignoramus.

You're such a prick!! ! My special interest is not religion, unlike you. I've never claimed to be heavily involved with the Islamic community and have only seen a couple of mosques in my life. I've never, in my life, seen a Sikh temple before. Don't blame me because you feel intimidated arguing with me, that's your problem, not mine. I've never said I know more about religion than you but you seem to take pride in ridiculing me and condemning my views. Even though I dated a Muslim man for a year, we never talked about religion as I'm not interested in it, if anything I would only talk about atheism with him, but mostly we didn't talk as he hardly spoke any English!

Shall I make a thread about you thinking that caterpillars were mammals then?

No, no, I'm such a prick. I corrected all of your grammar mistakes. (Possibly inserted my own though....)

Also, I would love it if you did make a thread about thinking that caterpillars are mammals. :P (Also, I know the humor might be lost in this, but I am totally doing this in a joking manner)

You realise that by correcting my grammar, you now have to live with me and help correct me all the time :wink:

I refuse.

good choice

see Tom, nothing happens when someone refuses me something, it was easy for Awesomelyglorious to do, there is no need to blame me for your lack of assertion.



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14 Aug 2010, 6:58 pm

I think extraverts draw both politically and religiously a lot from their sense of community and their social relationships. For many extraverts, religion is mostly about community. This also makes them more pragmatic; they want to seek out political solutions that are best for them and the people they know best. Introverts, I think, tend to be more intellectual and concerned with the correctness or utility of the idea; they envision an ideal society more from an abstract perspective. For religion, they will tend more to seek out logical arguments justifying a religious belief, and they'll be more concerned with a religion's dogmas, theology, and rites than in its community.



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16 Aug 2010, 1:43 am

NeantHumain wrote:
I think extraverts draw both politically and religiously a lot from their sense of community and their social relationships. For many extraverts, religion is mostly about community. This also makes them more pragmatic; they want to seek out political solutions that are best for them and the people they know best. Introverts, I think, tend to be more intellectual and concerned with the correctness or utility of the idea; they envision an ideal society more from an abstract perspective. For religion, they will tend more to seek out logical arguments justifying a religious belief, and they'll be more concerned with a religion's dogmas, theology, and rites than in its community.


That's a neat way to put it. ^

As for the OP, remember, people who name drop are often kinda braggarts. They can find things on the internet or read about it in an opinions column and then pass it off as something they heard in person.



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16 Aug 2010, 2:31 am

Yes, I do that. 8)



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16 Aug 2010, 1:55 pm

look i lied to be spiteful, it did not happen that way. How it happened was that one day we walked past it and looked in the windows and said it looked nice and interesting in here but did not discuss with faith it would be. Then later on someone mentioned it giving directions or something, i said it i though it was a sikh temple, and LB said she did not know and thought it might have been a mosque. i later checked when going past and i was right. it was just a spiteful lie of me how i said it before. :oops: and it is right she never claimed to know about religion only political parties who stick up for religious people and opressed minorities.



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16 Aug 2010, 1:59 pm

Mutate wrote:
look i lied to be spiteful, it did not happen that way. How it happened was that one day we walked past it and looked in the windows and said it looked nice and interesting in here but did not discuss with faith it would be. Then later on someone mentioned it giving directions or something, i said it i though it was a sikh temple, and LB said she did not know and thought it might have been a mosque. i later checked when going past and i was right. it was just a spiteful lie of me how i said it before. :oops: and it is right she never claimed to know about religion only political parties who stick up for religious people and opressed minorities.

putting right your karma eh?

Its ok, you could have said worse. I have to be less arrogant in my manner of saying things.

Ive done a lot of things to make you cross, its understandable that you would get cross sometimes, everyone does.