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Kyrie eleison posted:Fact: when most of you are elderly, you will believe in God. Yes it's called fear, do you love to be governed by it?
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Big Scary Owl posted:I think there is an easy way to disprove the existence of God, at least the christian one, with a very simple argument: How come the creation of other planets are never discussed in the Bible? Why talk only about Earth, specifically? For all we know, there could be a similar planet to Earth out there that no one knew about before and with some form of life. Look at you trying to find out about different planets. You'd better find Planet "I don't want to burn in hell."
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Dec 4, 2014 07:10
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It's really not strange that the universe exists. Or I guess what we mean when we talk about strangeness is the universe existing with natural laws and Mickey's malt liquor and so forth. But there is a whole lot of stuff out there, so some of it had to be Mickey's. QED
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Dec 4, 2014 08:40
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WMain00 posted:I'm also agnostic, but I believe that God is the Universe. The manifestation of life is the Universe attempting to understand itself. That doesn't even mean anything bro
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Dec 4, 2014 17:40
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steinrokkan posted:Hegel, bro. Nah
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Dec 4, 2014 18:08
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Go land in the Panamint Range and tell me how the earth is awesome for life 
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Dec 4, 2014 21:57
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markgreyam posted:And when He returns (in about 4 billion years) then we'll all be returned to The Lord. By which I mean that the red giant that the sun becomes will consume us all. It doesn't help that the vigor of an apocalyptic, world-denying church is bound to taper off as the centuries pass "Yeah...he's not coming back." <---the secret, true belief of all priests
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Dec 9, 2014 06:09
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Ernest Hemingway posted:You're thinking in terms of existence/non-existence and not in terms of necessary existence/contingent existence - your conception of the perfect cookie might include it's existence - but as Kant established, existence is not something that can be predicated onto something- i.e. regardless of what qualities A consists of, it either exists or it doesn't (You can have a real or imaginary A with qualities C,B,D - but you can't have an imaginary A that also exists ) this is why "The perfect (X) argument fails to address a more refined understanding of the ontological argument. When you imagine the perfect cookie existing, you don't imagine it necessarily existing - and you couldn't because cookies can't necessarily exist (i.e. there is at least one possible world where the cookie is not on the table). I don't say this really ever, but lay off the pot.
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Dec 11, 2014 08:59
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Spirituality and wonder are different things.
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For me "spirituality" has a connotation of playing fast and loose with the truth. At a certain point you wave your hands and say "the ineffable mystery!" Science fetishists will do that, they're the sort who think that technology is going to sort everything out. There's no reason to believe everything will be sorted out; that's faith, and could be a kind of spirituality. If you say "I really like learning things it makes my brain feel neat," it would be cheapening the language to call that spirituality.
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