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Re: What?
« Reply #50 on: April 21, 2008, 10:56:16 AM »
lol! Good answer
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Re: What?
« Reply #51 on: April 21, 2008, 11:12:34 AM »
I'm not shitting on your religious experience, or whatever - in my opinion that's the only reason to believe in it.  But let me say something about your "statistical anomalies". 

In cards, it's incredibly rare that you would be dealt a royal flush, but it can happen. 
But if you shuffle and deal enough cards, over a long enough period of time, it eventually becomes extremely unlikely that you *wouldn't* be dealt a royal flush.
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"God places cherubim with a flaming sword east of Eden to guard the Tree of Life from the ambitions of man.

Cherubim is plural; Genesis 3:24 specifies one flaming sword. Presumably flaming swords were in short supply."

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Re: What?
« Reply #52 on: April 21, 2008, 11:47:44 AM »
Sure.  But that's why I phrased things the way I did, rather than calling them "miracles."
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Re: What?
« Reply #53 on: April 21, 2008, 03:42:15 PM »
I assert that our entire universe is just a simulation program running on someone's computer.
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Re: What?
« Reply #54 on: April 21, 2008, 03:48:05 PM »
Quote from: Demosthenes on April 21, 2008, 03:42:15 PM
I assert that our entire universe is just a simulation program running on someone's computer.

Not a flower being carried by an elephant?
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Re: What?
« Reply #55 on: April 21, 2008, 04:13:49 PM »
Quote from: sociald1077 on April 21, 2008, 03:48:05 PM
Not a flower being carried by an elephant?

No, of course not.

That would be ridiculous.
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Re: What?
« Reply #56 on: April 21, 2008, 04:31:54 PM »
Quote from: Demosthenes on April 21, 2008, 03:42:15 PM
I assert that our entire universe is just a simulation program running on someone's computer.

A big, giant version of "Sim City" that some deity cranked the time speed up on, then went afk for a few million years?
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Re: What?
« Reply #57 on: April 21, 2008, 04:59:21 PM »
I remember playing SimLife back in the mid 90s.
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Re: What?
« Reply #58 on: April 21, 2008, 05:17:18 PM »
Quote from: xolik on April 21, 2008, 04:31:54 PM
A big, giant version of "Sim City" that some deity cranked the time speed up on, then went afk for a few million years?

If by "deity" you mean some mouth-breather programmer who went out for a pack of smokes and some ding dongs, yeah.  Precisely.
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Re: What?
« Reply #59 on: April 21, 2008, 05:42:52 PM »
Ding dongs should've been in the sweet lovin'
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Re: What?
« Reply #60 on: April 21, 2008, 07:17:22 PM »
Quote from: Demosthenes on April 21, 2008, 03:42:15 PM
I assert that our entire universe is just a simulation program running on someone's computer.

The movie was decent, but the sequels sucked.
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Re: What?
« Reply #61 on: April 21, 2008, 11:43:07 PM »
Quote from: TheJudge on April 21, 2008, 09:50:28 AM
1 - Have you considered the real possibility that you are completly wrong?
Yes.

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2 - And if so, what was your thought process, how did you reach a conclusion?
This is a very difficult question, because if I am brutally honest with myself I will answer like this. "I cannot say." Bear with me. There are things that came about in the course of my very early life that brought me to the conclusion that there is an entity similiar to a god in exsistence, but when you ask me to explain how I came to that conclusion, I can't ever form the words to make it make sense the way it does to me. So I don't try. I came to this conclusion, because there is something there, whether or not it is "god" is still a matter to be questioned, and I will.

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3 - And now, to entertain my personal greed theory: After you've conducted the analysis and reached your conclusions as per your response in #2, do you think that your choice in the end was the option that directly provided the greates personal benefit to you? In order words, did you really choose your faith because if either promises rewards, or it provides the threat of punishement should you choose any other option (or both)?
Both. It was some bizarre mixture of my grandmother screaming sulfur and brimstone and my mother taking peace and love. Ironically enough, I chose the one religion, my grandmother is stilling screaming sulfur and brimstone at me for, I don't know what that might say about me, but I'll let you decide how that might be important.

Quote from: reimero on April 21, 2008, 07:17:22 PM
The movie was decent, but the sequels sucked.
I read this whole thread up to this point, and even though I knew what this was about, I still took it in context of religions and died laughing.

I still think the mice are really in control of everything, and this all just delusion we're allowed.
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Re: What?
« Reply #62 on: April 22, 2008, 08:01:46 AM »
Regardless of whether we're just a program running on some yo yo's computer, or a flower in an elephant's trunk*, it's clear that religions developed either as a power grab or an explanation for what was scientifically unexplainable at the time - except for Buddhism.  Notwithstanding these truths, religion keeps the brainless masses in line – let’s not take it away from them and cause chaos.  In other words – nothing to see here, nothing at all – move along please, keep it moving.  Thank you.






*personally I’ve always thought we’re just an experiment placed on this planet by a bunch of futuristic astronauts with names like Adam, Eve and Jesus (as in “Hay Zeus”, the Hispanic astronaut).
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Re: What?
« Reply #63 on: April 22, 2008, 09:41:33 AM »
Maybe we're in hell.
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Re: What?
« Reply #64 on: April 22, 2008, 11:31:43 AM »
"Hell is other people." -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Re: What?
« Reply #65 on: April 23, 2008, 11:05:56 AM »
I'm pretty sure Hell is Kansas in the daylight.
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Re: What?
« Reply #66 on: April 28, 2008, 01:44:35 PM »
That's funny, I was certain it was on the lower east side of manhattan where the crackheads and tranny hookers run like antelope on the plain.
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Re: What?
« Reply #67 on: April 28, 2008, 02:12:06 PM »
What you call hell is what I call Saturday Night.
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Re: What?
« Reply #68 on: April 28, 2008, 02:45:26 PM »
Quote from: Joe Sixpack on April 23, 2008, 11:05:56 AM
I'm pretty sure Hell is Kansas in the daylight.

Yeah, maybe if you're sober. :roll:
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Re: What?
« Reply #69 on: April 28, 2008, 04:59:15 PM »
GIS result for "dry counties in Kansas".


*shudder*
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Re: What?
« Reply #70 on: April 28, 2008, 05:05:02 PM »
Sedgwick for the win!
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