The Glass Prison <glassprison51@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I know that I can not pursuade any member of a group to agree with me
> on a subject that threatens to destroy part of that group's belief. I
> have anger and have found the perfect forum where I scream, and yell,
> and call names knowing that even if I am calm and rational, I will
> never get any grouper to agree. So why bother to make an effective
> point? No one knows who I am anyway and I won't get a standing ovation.
>
> No grouper, especially religious and 12-steppers, will ever agree with
> anyone's beliefs that are different from outside the group.
>
> And quite frankly, I don't think you can challenge that last statement.
> After all, isn't all this based on belief and not fact?

I think you have a very deeply prejudiced and narrow viewpoint if you feel
that "groupers believe" this, that or anything else.