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Old 10-16-2006, 08:45 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos View Post
What does free-thinking have to do with this? You aren't a free-thinker. You believe what you believe and you refuse to entertain any other explanation. You go so far as to insult anyone who doesn't agree with you. You call them the dregs of society for crying out loud. You've made up your mind. You aren't thinking (free or not) about anything.

One of us? Sheesh. Talk about delusional.
Free thinking and open mindedness are not the same thing.

I am a free thinker. I am free of the oppressive shackles that religion places on thought.

I think what I want to think, and not what someone else tells me to think. That is free thinking.
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