Religous Fundamentalism mental disorder?

Yogi · Post by **Yogi** » 2003-02-13 03:28am

http://www.betterhumans.com/Features/Co ... 02-12-15-2

Yes I'm an lazy person who devoted a full 30 seconds to making this post. Still I find it an interesting read, and apolagize if it has been posted before.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-13 03:34am

It's the sort of article you'll find written by a member of the Toronto Transhumanist Association. However, I suspect it would get somebody in hot water if it were published in Dallas.

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2003-02-13 04:49pm

Wow, that certainly was an interesting read. It's a shame I'll be away from my computer this weekend, otherwise I'd drop this off at another message board, just to watch the ensuing shenanigans.

Oh well, there's always Monday.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-02-13 05:34pm

I wholeheartedly support this guy. Transhumanism..

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-02-13 05:47pm

Ever read Manifold: Origin and Manifold:Space? You see a lot of these arguments in those books...

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2003-02-13 06:19pm

SOMEONE STICKY THIS!

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-02-13 08:01pm

I don't like transhumanism. They all seem like a bunch of technophiles who'd rather drill a fuckhole into their harddrives than actually go outside and have contact with normal people.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-02-13 08:56pm

Fundamentalist religion was created too justify war. My God(s) are better then your God(s). But anyways I agree more or lees with Freud and Dawkins. While in it's much later stages it ca classified as a mental disease. You or your Fundamentalist brethern are locked in your own insanity.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-02-13 09:09pm

If you tried, you could probably consider anything to be a social meme complex. Various types of education, rumors/gossip, paranoia, The Jerry Springer Show, just plain crazy shit, so on and on and on...

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-13 09:11pm

True, but not all of those things are delusional, whereas religious fundamentalism quite literally has people ignoring the evidence of their senses.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-02-13 09:21pm

I'm going to say something that will make everyone on this board consider me an insane rambling man: fundamentalism is one of those things that is so fucked up it reminds me that the world is still real, and functions normally ("normally" meaning "fucking chaotic"). It really doesn't bother me much. More comic relief than a threat. Hell, it discredits itself just by existing* thus saving normal people most of the trouble.

*referring to Creationism here.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-02-13 09:24pm

Oh, I might as well say this, too: I LIVE WITH A CREATIONIST FUNIDE! MY UNCLE!! Help me...

We got into an argument last night over wether Al-Qada(sp?) has a suitcase-sized nuclear bomb ready to go off as soon as we attack Iraq. I'm trying to tell him that such a small nuke is impossible, and that he's probably thinking of a radiation bomb. He claims the former. He also subscribes to ultra-paranoid Doomsday fundie shit that tells him all this.

Help me...

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-13 09:29pm

UltraViolence83 wrote:Oh, I might as well say this, too: I LIVE WITH A CREATIONIST FUNIDE! MY UNCLE!! Help me...

We got into an argument last night over wether Al-Qada(sp?) has a suitcase-sized nuclear bomb ready to go off as soon as we attack Iraq. I'm trying to tell him that such a small nuke is impossible, and that he's probably thinking of a radiation bomb. He claims the former. He also subscribes to ultra-paranoid Doomsday fundie shit that tells him all this.

Help me...

He's a moron, but because you're his nephew, he treats you with a condescending attitude that tells you he will never seriously consider anything you say because he saw you in diapers. Sorry, but you're SOL.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-02-13 09:30pm

Ultra, condiser yourself lucky you can argue with him. I have too take a near left to moderate Christian view too survive in my town. And I am really the farthest opposite of the Fundamentalists. My acting Left Christian lie not my atheist truth. If I would told the truth they'd go apeshit.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-02-13 09:34pm

The sad thing is, he's a pretty smart guy. He is as critical as any skeptical atheist out there on anything other than his wacko-training. This is his computer, so he's a nice guy for letting me use it, but I'm sure he only bought it so he could get all that wacko-fundie shit faster than with the mail. He's been getting worse ever since.