Originally posted by pragmathen
<b>Loone</b>,
Miss-guided.
Miss-informed.
Mystified.
Okay, that last one was a stretch, but you get the point. Then again, based solely on your empty words and nil-thought-provoking comments, I could surmise that after all the fluff has run out of your mouth, you remain as deflated as before you puffed your chest up.
Axons fire within the brain, which is a chemical means of transferring electrical impulses along neurons, which is a means of communicating ideas and words and concepts. Unfortunately, Loone, your axons have been fried, making the gap between each axon that much greater. Your ill-suited action potentials must work that much harder in order to bridge the ever-widening gap between coherent connections.
As <b>tiassa</b> points out: <i>When you enter into the fold of Christ, you leave your intellect at the door</i>. Of course, it requires intellect to realize this point. Since you don't realize this point, a logical conclusion can be reached. Perhaps, if you did, you would understand why someone with a thinking and reasoning and <i>questioning</i> brain would not be welcomed inside the halls of Christ. Mustn't think outside of the box--the outside world is pure concentrated evil which is just waiting for the right time to get inside the chink in your mail and corrupt you everlastingly.
You seem to have a wholly fallacious outlook on non-believers. You seem to think that, if perchance, you were to venture out into the outside world, you would be greeted with miserable wretches chanting, "Ha, now you're here with us. Suffer as we do!" Ah, but we do indeed suffer. We suffer through the rhetoric-spewing troglodytes such as yourself--those that think without applying thought, reason without using logic, and question without searching for answers.
If you were to sit back, once. Just once. And take a broader view of what others were trying to tell you, then perhaps your infantile reactionary words would carry more weight. As it is, you sink back into that hole of ignorance--very comfortable, wouldn't you say? Nice and cosy in there. Climbing outside of the hole would imply that you seek to learn. At the very least, that you seek to understand things from another's point of view. Much too difficult. Better to stay in the hole and the cave. Better to think the shadows on the wall dancing from the light of the fire behind you are real. The outside world is much too bright. The cave has never deceived you, so what if the outside is much clearer.
The cave reaches into your brain and steals whatever remains of your enfeebled axon connections. Wither and die out, they will, through disuse.
It doesn't have to be like that, though. You could try. Just for once. Just to see. Think differently and see where it gets you. Your brain will thank you for it.
Of course, this will undoubtedly enter in one ear and exit through the other, <b>Loone</b>, unperturbed.