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[quote="Xenon"]I know this, too. :wink: What I meant is that you brought the word 'prove' to attention by inserting quotation marks around it.  If you had absolutely no intention of referring to my choice of the word, then I have misinterpreted your post.[/quote]
You did misinterpret my post. By no means did I intend to target your use of the term ‘prove’ as incorrect; I thought you were saying what you meant, and I responded appropriately. I placed the word within quotation marks because I did not feel right applying such concrete terms to the abstract and the infinite (as the rest of my post should indicate). It did not even occur to me that this might be construed as some sort of grammatical criticism until after the fact.

[quote="Xenon"]However, your disposition to correct and educate shines through even in this post.
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This is a really long-winded way of saying "humans cannot understand superior beings because we don't know anything about them".  Religious people [i]already[/i] have their own interpretation of God, and they collectively perceive God as being benevolent.  They may not know anything about him, as such, but that is what faith and religion is all about.  It is not unreasonable if their subjective views are altered by events like the Japan tsunami.

As for the millions of other natural disasters, I never said anything about them.[/quote]
Subjective perceptions of God can be shaped by any manner of external circumstances; of course a religious person can make personal decisions about their perceived God by observing and contemplating the events that take place around them. However, I do not accept the notion that such conclusions have any merit. Altering the perceptions of individuals is one thing, but drawing objective conclusions (which I thought you were doing before you corrected your wording) is quite another. I do not believe the latter is even possible. I know you did not mention the millions of other natural disasters; I simply think that the fact of them serves to further undermine the idea that the occurrence of the tsunami could have any profound meaning on one’s perception of God. If the tsunami is enough to convince someone that God is uncaring or non-existent, wouldn’t they have already arrived at this conclusion purely through their knowledge of the millions of similar catastrophes?

[quote="RayFan9876"]Yes, ehm, you are ruining this thread, Spiral. You pick on Xenon's wording of "prove" even after he admitted "suggest" was a better word, and then... never mind. All you ever appear to do is go around looking for things to pick on. I'm not saying that's what you're doing, but it's what it heavily appears to be. I think you need to learn some life skills and let some things like a miswording-and-admittance go, which any reasonable person without a mane of glory would rightfully do. Answer me this: Why do you think pretty much nobody ever agrees with you? And it's not just that - I wouldn't have a problem with it if you expressed your thoughts as opinions - it's that your force your opinions upon others and act super offended with the person's reply no matter how they reply. Would I want to have someone like that for a friend? No. Would I want to engage in a conversation with that person? No. Would I want to be near that person? No.[/quote]
I am troubled by your seeming inability to absorb any of the information I give to you. I have already explained – several times – that I did not pick on Xenon’s wording, and that my issue was with his philosophical comment regarding God and the tsunami. You continually call me a ‘grammar Nazi’, say that I am ‘barraging’ the forum with my ‘extensive’ corrections of others’ grammar mistakes... none of these accusations are true in the slightest, yet you continue to hurl them at me. How many times will I have to explain that Xenon’s grammar was not the subject of my post before you will stop calling me these names? You claim that ‘all you ever appear to do is go around looking for things to pick on’ – I have absolutely no idea where you are getting these absurd ideas. Could you please give me some examples of what you perceive as my ‘looking for things to pick on’? You claim that I ‘need to learn some life skills’ – this is a highly personal and uncalled-for comment, and again you fail to explain what you mean. You say I refuse to ‘let a miswording-and-admittance go’; you act as if I am viciously pursuing Xenon for his choice of words, when in reality I am simply defending myself from your bizarre insistence that I am a ‘grammar Nazi’. Could you please point out exactly where I demonstrate my lack of ‘life skills’ by calling out Xenon’s wording? I never did such a thing. You claim that nobody ever agrees with me – this is simply not true at all. Do you want me to post a list of times when people agreed with me? What an absurd criticism to make. You accuse me of ‘forcing my opinions upon others’ – yet again you leave me baffled. I have no idea what you are talking about. Please start using examples to illustrate these comments; it is difficult to defend myself from such abstract criticisms. Are you saying that I am forcing my opinions of God on people? My opinions of humanity? Of perfectionism? Of grammar? This is an open forum where everyone is free to share their views; I see nothing untoward or oppressive about my posts here. You say I ‘act super-offended’ when people reply to me, ‘no matter how they reply’. Like most things you have said to me in this thread, this is untrue. While I have indeed been offended by several of the things you have said about me (particularly your relentless insistence that I was criticising Xenon’s grammar when I have explained clearly and repeatedly that this is not the case), I have remained perfectly calm and respectful throughout this discussion. Xenon’s replies to my posts are actually relevant to the points I raise, and he does not insult me – these are the sort of discussions I like to have. I assure you that your dislike for me is reciprocated; judging by the posts you have directed at me thus far, you are not the sort of person I would like to befriend or be near (though I am happy to converse with all sorts; I think it is healthy).

[quote="RayFan9876"]Bam, that's black-and-white. Xenon and you both agreed that it's an easy thing to understand, why correct it unnecessarily? It was extremely unnecessary.[/quote]
I never ‘corrected’ Xenon. I simply responded to what I thought he was saying. In the paragraph you just quoted, I explained that his choice of words was irrelevant, as my response remained valid under the meaning he intended or the one I perceived. I then posted a revised version of my response, slightly tailored to suit Xenon’s slightly revised wording.

[quote="RayFan9876"]Why am I pointing this out then? Because it annoys everyone. Kind of like this: "Oh Jeez, would this guy just let it go? The other guy just tripped across the wrong word. He never stops...."[/quote]
Yet again you resort to utterly false accusations of ‘grammar Nazism’. When will it end? I don’t understand why you are doing this to me. Do you genuinely still not understand the meaning of those quotation marks, even after my numerous and thorough explanations? Even if I had been correcting his grammer (which I certainly was not), you are still exaggerating this situation to an absurd and unjustifiable magnitude with your claims of my ‘extensive barrage’ of grammatical corrections. You are behaving like a character from some sort of comedy sketch. There is also the matter that you have ignored perhaps 90% of the points I raised in my previous posts in favour of sweeping dismissals (and are likely to ignore the majority of this post in the same way), but that behaviour seems engrained and unlikely to change – your posts in our two or three previous debates were of a very similar persuasion.

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, that makes your useless walls of text less annoying.