UltraViolence83 wrote:Oh god I can't believe I said all that. Now that I've calmed down it feels like I'm in a bad hangover and just realized I made an ass out of myself again. Ugh. What a day. Sorry about that for all involved.
Fair enough. Do take in mind though that this is a message board. If at any time you don't feel up to responding, you don't have to. You have the ability to think through your posts before you write them and before you post them. Most importantly, if you aren't knowledgable of a subject, just don't make a huge deal over it. I'm not an expert on a great number of things, and where I find my knowledge lacking, I try to withhold a concrete judgement until I have a better understanding of the subject.
Hotfoot, I really don't want to debate this. I'd site my ignorance of the subject but big reason is that I really don't want to be wrong regarding this issue. It freaks me out way too fucking much to even think about it. Gave me nightmares a couple times, too.
Nothing like a good flipping out, eh?
*Edited to make me look like less of a raving madman*
What you want, I'm afraid, is irrelevant. I can want Spring Break to start now, but the fact of the matter is I've got to hold out until Friday. I can want there to be no class tomorrow so I can sleep in and do some work and relax some, but chances are that my lecture will occur right on schedule. I might want to live forever, but one day I will die. I don't want to die, I don't want to grow old and frail, I don't want to be just another tombstone or jar of ashes to be be forgotten as time marches on without me.
But it will happen. I will die. I will be forgotten by humanity as a whole. I doubt that five hundred years from now that I will be anything but a footnote on some child's family tree project for school, if that. Despite that, my mark will have been made in the world. In order to eradicate my existance from history, one would have to exterminate every single person I have ever influenced in any way, and any person that they had influenced in any way, and so on. It's like ripples in a pond. The only way to get rid of them all is to get rid of the pond.
That's what I believe. My ripples may not be big. They may not be world-shatteringly important, but they may well contribute to some larger wave one day, which is all that I really need.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm willing to argue the point, and if someone else presents a decent argument that uncovers a previously unseen flaw in my belief, then I will go back and revise it accordingly. This current belief structure is nothing like what I believed when I was much younger, when I was much more religious (that being relative, mind you). It's not healthy to not question what you believe, especially out of fear.
If the idea of Geneering really bothers you that much, I suggest that you learn as much as possible about it as you can, from as many different sources as possible. Of course, learning which sources are credible and which are not is going to help immeasurably in that process. Simply sticking your head in the sand will solve nothing.
Ultimately, the power to post is entirely in your hands. If you don't want a debate, then simply don't debate. As I said, nobody is forcing you to post. Nobody is stopping you from leaving, dropping the subject, and moving on. If you're really so disturbed by the concept, I really think it's in your best interests to resolve that problem as best you can. I'm not a qualified psychiatrist by any stretch of the imagination, but if you are having episodes of losing control like this, you should probably look into getting some help. Perhaps anger management or something like that. I know it's not exactly the greatest idea suggesting that in a discussion thread, but if it does affect you as seriously as you are indicating, it warrents further investigation.
I can't debate worth shit even when I'm more than semi-conscious so if you want to win, go ahead, though I'll continue to feel I'm right. I've read compelling evidence from geneticists and biologists that my views on genetics are correct. If you want to look it up, go check Google. I'm through. 
