OMG!
Your run-ons are quite a pain to get a handle of.
You can at least be proud of that.
"perhaps... annoying_skill, pissy_skill, no_skill."
You're too kind.
The essence is... you don't control it really."
Duh I'm jaded, and I lost my brain on the way to the keyboard.
Let's be ignorant of the fact that just because you don't control what you believe doesn't mean you can't stand up for it.
"With being an Atheist, I can understand pride. Proud you've seen through the web of lies."
LOL.
With being an Christians, I can understand pride. Proud you've seen through the web of lies.
Can you be any more bias?
"Thanks for that, "cool_skil" - you are an idiot."
What's with the underscore and one l?
lol
"And now, I will delight myself by explaining to you all the ways in which this is so."
Goody.
"in case those surts of temporary blindness you seem to have have covered your eyes and not allowed you to see"
Woops I must have overlooked the rest of it. Not.
jaded: "But I am not proud of it"
cool: "Why are you not proud of what you are?"
jaded: I am more than an atheist... and maybe I'm proud of other aspects of me.
Should I rephrase?: Why are you not proud of it?
('what you are' and 'it' refers to being an atheist)
Let me try again: Why are you not proud of being an atheist?
"I may not be proud, but I didn't say I was displeased... or that I wanted to be something else. "
That's fine.
But because you are not proud of what you are, perhaps you would like to change or improve.
Not necessarily be something else, but be something better.
Furthermore, although you don't claim you are displeased, that is not to say you do not have things about you that you are displeased about.
And even if you were displeased, that is not to say you can't still be proud of whatever it is you are.
Especially if part of what you are wishes to improve.
"I am not JUST an atheist. There is more to me."
Is there really?
It sure doesn't appear that way.
Looks to me more like a typical intolerant atheist posting another presumptuous thread.
"I have one. And I do believe it is better than that cheap fake you're parading around as being one."
Which fake?
I'd love for you to find somebody realer than me.
Perhaps you were referring to this cheap facade of a thread?
"I, for one, do not go round picking fights in random threads. I don't hold grudges. I don't fuel vendettas."
Good for you. Should I be proud?
Oh I forgot, you for one simply start threads made for conflict such as this one.
Then, you jump on others for doing the same, but without the facade.
"I'm not "proud" of much - which isn't to say I'm ashamed."
Oh please. You seem to like that little clause.
Is it working out for you?
The only person you really need to convince is yourself.
Are you convincing yourself?
I hope so because you sure aren't convincing me.
"There is more to life than pride."
No kidding.
"I'm proud of my writings, my book, my paintings, my drawings, my imagination as a whole, my creations - what I make with my own hands, my capacity to stay calm,"
Is this really necessary?
"and believe it or not, my sense of humor and style."
At least somebody is.
"This thread?
What? With you here?
and no, not proud of this Thread. Nothing really to be proud of. I didn't do much."
Yes not much except splatter your ignorance all over the place.
"I don't QUESTION it.... I ask for enlightenment.
Understanding. I want to understand. Comprehend."
No.
Manipulation.
You did not start this to understand. You started it to manipulate your POV: That it is silly to be proud of a belief.
Only you cover up your real intentions with a facade.
"was just honestly curious about how some people can be "proud" of something that is really not due to themselves."
Ya OK.
Have you really convinced yourself that?
""Jade" had nothing presumptuous in her intentions."
I'm sorry. Was it me you were trying to convince?
"There's more to life, than being proud."
Of course.
A person believes in water.
Unless there is really anyone out there seriously disputing that person's belief in water, and persecuting that person for their belief in water, I doubt that person will have that much pride in their belief in water.
Got it?
"just don't understand the pride of believing."
"Be pround of founders of a religion, be proud of a heratige...
proud you believe?"
"it's nothing to be proud of"
"it's just weird to be proud of an opinion... you've not really *done* anything... so, why be proud?"
"but proud of a religion... I don't see it. I don't understand it."
No big deal. It's just part of being intolerant.
Just accept your intolerance and be proud of it.