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8. I wasn't trying to antagonize.
Sun Apr 10, 2016, 10:31 PM
Apr 2016

I'm pointing out the downside of antagonizing the very people who would stand with you and support you in about 85% of what you'd like to accomplish. That's all.

If you're all about getting as many people pissed at you as possible, that's your prerogative. Go for it. But, IMO, the suggestion that substituting "God-Myth" for "God" in the course of discourse is just... coarse.

All of your conversations with anyone will just hit a brick wall right at that interjection. Whatever good ideas were bracketing that phrase -- before it or after it -- will be lost. It's like going to a job interview with a neck tattoo sticking part way out from under your collar. It just stands out in competition with your mad skills and resume -- unless, of course, you're applying to do ink at a tattoo parlor.

Is 'parlor' even correct parlance now? I dunno. I enjoyed the digression, though.

Thanks for engaging.

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