A Little Cup of Cyanide

So, I’m on gather.com, and I joined this group that’s called “for the sake of a good debate” or something like that. They had a featured article about what the world would be like without organized religion. I had to put my two cents in. Of course, I have more along the lines of 75 cents to put in on the topic, but, yeah. Anyway, I was reading over some of the responses other people have given, and it’s just crazy. People are going over and over the same thing, saying the exact same thing to argue a point that in turn gets argued against by someone with a different point of view with yet another point that’s already been argued a million times.

What’s the point of religious debate? It doesn’t do any good. You’re not going to change anyone’s opinion by telling them what you think. And if you change someone’s opinion, chances are they never had a real strong opinion to begin with, so it’s not like it’s some huge accomplishment or something. Give yourself a pat on the back, sonny. You just changed the evolving mind. Furthermore, there’s a good chance that if someone with an even better argument comes along, they’ll just change their mind again.

Yes, I get that there are some people (such as myself) who just like giving their opinions for the simple enjoyment of getting your thoughts out there. But what’s the deal with these people who will seriously go on and on for days? Are they really trying to change someone’s mind, or are they just too stupid to realize that they’ve reached the point where no one is even taking them seriously anymore.

My opinion? Things would be hell of a lot better if people could just realize that everyone has different opinions, and leave it at that. It would be great if people could just debate things for the fun of it, but unfortunately that doesn’t happen often.

Having said that, it’s time to completely contradict everything I just said by saying that there needs to be debate. The world would be boring if everyone just accepted things for the way they are.
Okay, I’m done with my pointless blather for today. I’m sure it makes absolutely no sense to anyone but me, but I just felt like saying it. It’s that need to get stuff out there, you know?