FR>MR> I have nothing more to say except I'm sure that
FR>MR> atheists are a sad lot.

FR>sk> Even if "we atheists" treated him like shit in here
FR>sk> (which was well deserved) that doesn't logically
FR>sk> infer that ALL atheists are "a sad lot".

FR>Transferance, perhaps?  If someone needs to pretend to believe in
FR>gods in order to escape the unavoidable eventuality of their own
FR>death and pretend to be happy about it, perhaps that someone also
FR>hates the fact that there are millions of people around him/her
FR>that doesn't feel the need to contrive gods to play pretend with.

FR>Perhaps the person who's sad is Mike.

Heh!

Isn't the term "projection" though?
I thought transference was the falling in love with one's psychiatrist. 
:-P

Nevermind, I looked it up. 

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In these years he also developed the theory of transference, the process
by which emotional attitudes, established originally toward parental 
figures in childhood, are transferred in later life to others.

"Freud, Sigmund," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2000. © 1993-1999 
Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Freud also placed great value on what could be learned from 
transference, the patient's emotional response to the therapist. Freud 
believed that during therapy, patients transfer repressed feelings 
toward their family members to their relationship with the therapist. 
Transference exposes these repressed feelings and allows the patient to 
work through them. Free association and transference are still central 
features of Freudian psychoanalysis.

"Psychotherapy," Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2000. © 1993-1999 
Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

FR>It's funny, the happiest, most lively people I've ever known as
FR>a group have been Wiccans and Pagans, people who may adopt or
FR>discard deity constructs as needed.

I've noticed that to a point too.

My wife and I are a happy and lively little godless horde though. ;)

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