So, I'm a Buddhist now.

[Agent]

[Despanan]

[Despanan]

[Agent]

Is there a reason you don't believe my arguments? Do you think I'm lying?

[Despanan]

It's not that I don't believe your arguments - I haven't seen you make any arguments. You've taken shots at what I've said, and you've linked other people you imagine I disagree with but you haven't actually put forward anything representative of your own views, other than the repeated assertion that your views are different than mine.

[Agent]

OK here is an argument: Emotions cannot be positive or negative, they are just emotions, so there is no such thing as a negative emotional state.

As far as me not putting forward my views, I have been very careful not to commit to anything I don't actually fully believe in because of how prone you are to jumping to conclusions and making assumptions about beliefs I never professed.

[Despanan]

A negative emotional state is just a value judgment about the desirability of an emotional state at a given time. No one is arguing that emotions are objectively good or bad.

As for you being careful not to say anything - that actually makes me more likely to suppose things about you, since I'm doing my best to understand what seems to me to be obtuse and evasive behavior.

Better to just explain to me your position in the clearest possible manner and I'll do my best to avoid making suppositions.

[Agent]

If I knew how to do that I'm pretty sure I would have done it already.

[Agent]

You're probably one of those people who thinks Neil deGrasse Tyson shouldn't do that thing he does that jerkasses get upset about.

[Despanan]

No, I like Cosmos. He's a bit heavy-handed at times but I like what he has to say.

In Nichiren Buddhism there really isn't a difference between the natural world and the spiritual world, they are one and the same.

That ship of the Imagination is dumb though.