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In reply to the discussion: Either China's screwed, or everybody is. [View all]GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Your behaviour and kristopher's are quite understandable. Think of the three of us as competing prophets in the agora. The more people who buy my vision, the fewer there are to buy yours. So it becomes a three-way fight for followers, in which each of you have to discredit two competing visions - the other's brand of hopium, and my brand of Doom.
You're both objecting that I don't worship your god by following your rules and spouting the "right" numbers (saying the correct prayers). From where I stand, the issue is more fundamental. We have utterly different views of how the world works and the forces that are at work in it. This isn't a technical dispute, as much as it might look like one on the surface, and as much as you two would like to re-frame it into one. It's a philosophical and psychological divergence.
Speaking now as a prophet of doom, it's too bad you guys are wrong, but two more lost souls in a world of 7 billion aren't going to make me lose much sleep.