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Yabuturtle wrote: Gisteron, Kyrin and Obi1 don't offer anything to me as I have nothing to discuss with them. I don't want conflict and talking to them accomplishes nothing. They will not listen ...

Excuse me, what? You ignore any and every substantive response even when you do engage in conversation. You just hit the quote button and then blabber on something either wholly irrelevant or just repeat the same points or questions already addressed in the very post you quote. It is YOU, my good sir, who never ever listens, or learns, or brings forth an argument to get someone else to learn, or admits any flaw in reason, or in understanding of your own, either of the things being said here, or the subjects on which you speak. You are always the one to cry persecution, and never the one to actually read what others say or stick with the topic. You will also outright lie about what people said or how they conducted themselves in past threads or present ones, use pretty much every fallacy in the book and always play the victim at the end of it all. You will sooner oppose intellectual discourse than engage in any, bash education before receiving any, and of course shift your faults and burdens onto others who share none of them, rather than carry any of your own. How - frankly - dare you...

My words are harsh, sure, and my criticisms harsher still than that. I can handle the superstitious and the credulous, the dogmatic and the stubborn. I can handle personal attacks, too, because sticks and stones. If my baring my teeth at this insult was intimidating to you, then by all means, I apologize, for that was not my intent at all. I'd much rather we could have kept it all civil anyhow, yet, I can only do so much. One of the things I can do, maybe, is invite back the peace you drove away. But I cannot force it back, alas.

Hi Yabuturtle and everyone else interested,

I have found an online course worth exploring
https://www.coursera.org/learn/understanding-arguments

I'll be enrolling. It starts today.

I thought it worth bringing to attention because I want us all to grow and develop. Sometimes that means examining old thoughts in new ways. Seeing which hold up to scrutiny and which one's don't. Critical thinking (examining an idea fully) is one of the ways this is done

It's a good thing to look into, I'll consider it and thank you.

It's really about the main video I posted and to get people to think. The thing is it isn't really to debate on whether or not this stuff it's true but mostly to get people thinking about it and kind of discuss it with people who already know about it

Such as when I talk about spiritual experiences. The topic is not a debate talking about whether or not it exists, but if other people are interested and perhaps shared similar experiences.

So in other words, you just want your own biases repeated back to you. You are, by your own admission, interested in discussing it with people who already "know about it". You are not interested in discussing any specific points, because I was the first to ask whether you did and you ignored that query, and when you posted the next video for our consideration I asked again and you ignored the query again. You are also - as always - not interested in getting people to think either, because you only care to share with and echo at each other. All you want to hear is "thanks for the share, that's really interesting", and sure enough, you get some of that and just ignore all the rest. But dare someone actually engage with the topic and take you seriously and respond to you with substance, then they are the evildoers, the closed-minded and stubborn ones who'd neither listen nor learn, let alone ever change their mind. Another lie, of course, addressed more often than can be counted at this point...

Silvermane wrote:

OB1Shinobi wrote:

My psychic powers inform me that you made this up.

You can do better than this. Be coachable!

I agree that people should be more coach-able and willing to accept feedback. However I believe the feedback needs to be constructive to help someone grow and not just tell them they are wrong. The feedback also needs to have provable facts in it as well, especially if you are blatantly telling someone they are wrong.

To play Devil's Advocate on what you said, OB1, how do you know that Yabuturtle made up what happened to him in the forest? Were you physically there when it happened? What proof do you offer, besides your own opinion on what is real and what is not, to substantiate your claim? Yabuturtle told us something he experienced and I've spoken with others who have experienced the same phenomenon. None of them had proof to back it up but does that mean they are instantly lying? Do we instantly discredit someone because it does not fit into our reality? Something to think about.

It's ok. I wouldn't worry about what they say. I never understood that. I feel like we should try respect each other's experiences instead of putting each other down. It doesn't help us grow. Much like how if I am in a Jedi forum and say "lolz you didn't experience the force" It's kind of arrogant really.

On another note, I noticed you are into the norse religion which I find interesting. I know some of those videos like the ones I was posting talk about the mythologies. I have known many religions talk about the different realms. I wanted to ask if perhaps the norse faith touches on the subject of different realms aside from the afterlife.

Interestingly In Celtic religion there is the Otherworld which is debatable and somewhat tricky as celts hardly wrote stuff down. Some had said if you died, you ended up in this world and if you died there you end up back here? Something interesting I had found almost like reincarnation and you are born into another body but in a different world

Yabuturtle wrote:

Silvermane wrote:

OB1Shinobi wrote:

My psychic powers inform me that you made this up.

You can do better than this. Be coachable!

I agree that people should be more coach-able and willing to accept feedback. However I believe the feedback needs to be constructive to help someone grow and not just tell them they are wrong. The feedback also needs to have provable facts in it as well, especially if you are blatantly telling someone they are wrong.

To play Devil's Advocate on what you said, OB1, how do you know that Yabuturtle made up what happened to him in the forest? Were you physically there when it happened? What proof do you offer, besides your own opinion on what is real and what is not, to substantiate your claim? Yabuturtle told us something he experienced and I've spoken with others who have experienced the same phenomenon. None of them had proof to back it up but does that mean they are instantly lying? Do we instantly discredit someone because it does not fit into our reality? Something to think about.

It's ok. I wouldn't worry about what they say. I never understood that. I feel like we should try respect each other's experiences instead of putting each other down. It doesn't help us grow. Much like how if I am in a Jedi forum and say "lolz you didn't experience the force" It's kind of arrogant really.

On another note, I noticed you are into the norse religion which I find interesting. I know some of those videos like the ones I was posting talk about the mythologies. I have known many religions talk about the different realms. I wanted to ask if perhaps the norse faith touches on the subject of different realms aside from the afterlife.

Interestingly In Celtic religion there is the Otherworld which is debatable and somewhat tricky as celts hardly wrote stuff down. Some had said if you died, you ended up in this world and if you died there you end up back here? Something interesting I had found almost like reincarnation and you are born into another body but in a different world

Yes. The Norse Mythology has 9 worlds in it:
Niflheim
Muspelheim
Asgard
Midgard
Jotunheim
Vanaheim
Alfheim
Svartalfheim
Helheim

Most the Æsir (Norse Gods) live in Asgard while the humans live on Midgard. It doesn’t take much to look up some information on it. If you really want some of the best information I would recommend reading the Poetic Edda. It is a long book and it’s all poems but it has most of the information pertaining to the Norse mythology. I will tell you though, it is not an easy read so if you want simple, you can find sites that have a lot of the information pulled from the Eddas and listed for easier reading. If you are gathering information from the MCU, you are barking up the wrong tree. That’s like trying to find historical facts in reading or watching “Interview with a Vampire”.

As for what the others are saying, they aren’t doing it to be malicious or to be arrogant. There are many people here who like a strong, in-depth discussion and they can get pretty animated when the discussions heat up. They also supply facts and ways to find/check those facts. Believe me, Gisteron used to get my blood boiling at times because of the way he would phrase things and I would feel like he was being arrogant and condescending. I’ve since learned that is not what he is doing but he is very blunt and to the point, which many people, myself included, thought he was just being rude. Like I said previously, you have to be willing to take the feedback that is given. Personal experiences are great but if they are on the far side of most people’s believability spectrum you have to be ready for the hard questions and be able to present facts to back it up. Also, don’t get so easily offended. It is easier said than done sometimes but we are all here to learn and grow. If you aren’t willing to open yourself to the information the are trying to share with you, you are stunting your own growth.

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