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smokeyone, on 13 June 2013 - 09:29 PM, said:

I find it amusing that you are accusing someone of not dealing with reality... when you yourself wrote in another thread "You state that your core beliefs should evolve based on evidence and experience. I disagree."

It seems that every opinion you have is based on Mickey-mouse type logic and critical thinking skills.  Every reply of yours in this thread shows how completely ignorant you are about this subject.

smokeyone, on 09 June 2013 - 10:10 PM, said:

"Only when presented with evidence to the contrary to their convictions. "

Wrong.  Belief is only justified when there is evidence to support belief.  I've already told you this like 3 times in this thread, but you keep repeating this same statement over and over.

Just because your beliefs have not been disproven by evidence, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are justified in holding these beleifs.  If you care about the truth, then you will start believing in something once there is EVIDENCE (not a good feeling, or convenience) to support what you believe.  

I'm done talking to you.  You have repeated multiple times that you don't care about evidence, so there's no point talking to you about anything.  Keep living in your dream world were you believe whatever you want, and you look down at people who base their beliefs on reality.

smokeyone, on 08 June 2013 - 08:28 PM, said:

"My believes are supported by experience and knowledge gained by exposure to the world. "

You have yet to demonstrate this to be true, and I strongly suspect that the above statement is not true.  Especially after just 1 day ago, you wrote: "You state that your core beliefs should evolve based on evidence and experience. I disagree."

I don't know how else to explain this to you, but I value believing TRUE things more than having strong conviction.  And I'm amazed that you keep repeating over and over that you think it's childish to change one's beliefs if presented with enough evidence to warrant the change.  If you care about believing true things, then you must change your beliefs (whether you like it or not) if reality suggests that your beliefs are wrong.  I'm amazed (or maybe I shouldn't be) that you keep insisting that this is a childish way of reasoning.

You are easily the most irrational person I've ever communicated with.

smokeyone, on 08 June 2013 - 03:32 PM, said:

I don't know why I'm replying to you.. but here it is.

The fact that you haven't found evidence to disprove what you believe, doesn't mean that what you believe is true.  There are millions of false things that you can believe in, which could not be disproven (unfalsifiable hypothesis... look it up).  Belief is only justified when there is proof FOR the belief.  

The fact that you have not found anything to DISPROVE your beliefs says nothing as to whether your beliefs are true.  And why do you care if there's proof or not?  You've repeating multiple times that you don't base your beliefs on proof.

smokeyone, on 08 June 2013 - 02:34 PM, said:

No shit you haven't seen anything that challenges your beliefs, since you don't believe that your beliefs should conform to reality.  You wrote earlier: "You state that your core beliefs should evolve based on evidence and experience. I disagree."

If you think that it is childish to change one's beliefs if faced with the evidence to justify such change... then you are beyond hope.  There's no point in talking to you, since you have repeated multiple times that evidence doesn't matter to you, and that evidence does not shape what you believe to be true.  

I don't think I've ever seen a person so proud of admitting that they don't care about the evidence, and that they don't care if their beliefs are true or not.  The only one acting childish here is you.