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Originally Posted by jedaisoul
As with most generalisations, this is an overstatement. If you had used words like "generally" or "often" I'd have not disagreeement with the statement. Taken literally, it is blatantly incorrect, as I'm sure you'd agree after a little reflection. What you are saying is that there is never a disagreement about the underlying ideas. So I agree in principle with creationists do I? I just don't like the words they use! Hmm. I think not.
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What you 'could' say is that you fight over what you 'believe' to be true as they do, not that either one of you is truly correct in your assumptions. When you truly understand the other persons viewpoint, you say 'I see' and stop fighting them. If you don't really see' then you keep fighting them in the hope of 'correcting' their view of reality. All this 'conversion' is about 'belief' (religion) as I say and has nothing to do with reality, even though you've both convinced yourselves it has - hence you fight and try to change each other instead of leaving each other in peace (See thread about forums being battlegrounds)
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