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Re: happy atheistmas
« Reply #75 on: December 22, 2008, 02:10:31 PM »
It's like having a vagina in you ear.
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Re: happy atheistmas
« Reply #76 on: December 22, 2008, 02:12:24 PM »
Yup. Or a dickhead.
« Last Edit: December 22, 2008, 02:19:08 PM by 12AX7 »
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Re: happy atheistmas
« Reply #77 on: December 22, 2008, 07:40:13 PM »
I don't like the term possible.  I prefer "almost infinitely improbable"
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Re: happy atheistmas
« Reply #78 on: December 22, 2008, 08:24:59 PM »
There ya go.
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Re: happy atheistmas
« Reply #79 on: December 22, 2008, 10:15:59 PM »
That would make it a different discussion :)
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Re: happy atheistmas
« Reply #80 on: December 23, 2008, 11:01:05 AM »
Quote from: ivan on December 22, 2008, 01:35:39 PM
And furthermore:

When it comes to, say, pondering whether the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will win the Superbowl in March, I can say "who knows? ANYTHING is possible", and it wouldn't really matter.

But when it comes down to something fundamental like, should you live your life with the belief that God is looking over you, deciding whether you're worthy of eternal bliss at His side, then such beliefs have consequences.

In the abstract, the unknowable is not critical to one's life. However, we are not pondering the questions raised by religions in the abstract. Individual lives and the lives of nations are influenced by religious dogma. And what allows religious dogma to take hold is our individual fear of mortality.

So in the end, and in the beginning, my position is a moral choice. Do I base my ethics, my life choices, on the idea that there is a God, might be a God, or is not a God?

I base mine on the latter. Everything that matters is right here, right now. I don't try to score brownie points with God; I try to score them with my family, friends, and in particularly self-delusionally vainglorious moments, with humanity.


That.   :-D
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Re: happy atheistmas
« Reply #81 on: December 23, 2008, 11:28:28 AM »
Happy Festivus!  :-D

I'VE GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE  :x
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Re: happy atheistmas
« Reply #82 on: December 23, 2008, 06:44:32 PM »
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Cain slew Abel, Seth knew not why
For if the children of Israel were to multiply
Why must any of the children die?
So he asked the Lord
And the Lord said:

Man means nothing, he means less to me
Than the lowliest cactus flower
On the humblest yucca tree
He chases round this desert
'Cause he thinks that's where I'll be
That's why I love mankind

I recoil in horror from the foulness of thee
From the squalor and the filth and the misery
How we laugh up here in heaven at the prayers you offer me
That's why I love mankind

The christians and the jews were having a jamboree
The buddhists and the hindus joined on satellite tv
They picked their four greatest priests
And they began to speak
They said, "Lord, a plague is on the world
Lord, no man is free
The temples that we built to you
Have tumbled into the sea
Lord, if you won't take care of us
Won't you please, please let us be?"
And the lord said
And the lord said

I burn down your cities -- how blind you must be
I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we
You all must be crazy to put your faith in me
That's why I love mankind
You really need me
That's why I love mankind
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