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Originally Posted by durkadurka33
Good, now get off a PHILOSOPHY forum because you're getting an F- and show no inclination to improve.
Well I have a sneaking suspicion you're worthy of respect so I'm going to confide a secret to you that it took me 3 and a half years of concurrent bible study and atheist study to figure out.
When I first posted on 2+2 the thing that stumped me most was the spiritual blindness. So being so very perceptive about people I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what made an atheist tick and when I probed and made statements I pissed a lot of people off. I even tilted tame_deuces who is probably one of the most rational posters on here.
Maybe its all the Sun Tzu or maybe its the Macchiavelli or maybe its my INFJ streak or maybe its just that I'm a player and with these sort of people its all about studying your opponent to spot his weakness.
Well the weakness of the atheist is the degree of spiritual blindness. Everyone is spiritually blind. Even bible believing Christians and this blindness causes people to do unwise, insensitive and terrible things because they tend to over focus on their own reasoning instead of the word of God.
Anyways I finally figured out how the spiritual blindness occurs. It occurs both subjectively and objectively. The devil bombards and disrupts your weighing apparatus inside your head forcing you to assign illegal weights and measures to various categories. Then he subjectively undermines you through pride. The variations he can pull on an individual with just these two tools is endless.
The bible and symbolic imagery explains the devil's methods. The picture of the Lady Justice is always depicted holding a scale and in the OT God tells the Israelites never to use unjust scales and measures while contracting business. Well finally I understood. If the devil can keep your mental apparatus off balance then he can own you. Of course your own inner pride will guarantee your scales stay off balance.