I'm only 12.5% sure that God exists...
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Sander Rossel wrote:
I guess that makes me an 1/8 theist.
What makes up the other 7/8? I consider myself to be a Transient Agnostic Misotheist who isn't quite sure if he's also a Dysthiest. I might be Polythiestic, but I might be Monotheistic. I can't figure that out because I'm Agnostic. If God does exist, he's severely bipolar. One minute, he's flooding the entire Earth to kill everything. The next minute he creates a rainbow as a symbol showing that he will never flood the Earth ever again. That's nice and all, but we all know the next time he kills everything on Earth, he'll use fire. I think He may be a few tacos short of a combination plate.
Steve Raw wrote:
One minute, he's flooding the entire Earth to kill everything. The next minute he creates a rainbow as a symbol showing that he will never flood the Earth ever again. That's nice and all, but we all know the next time he kills everything on Earth, he'll use fire.
The rainbow (Genesis 9, 12-15) is a promise that God will not destroy the world again by flood. But a few verses earlier (Genesis 8, 22) God promises that the laws of nature will not change. That seems to preclude universal floods, fires, etc. Of course God said nothing about us doing it to ourselves. :~
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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if a God exists who is he she it ? he she it presumably is an entity being "person" . why that particular entity being "person" is God and not another . how did he she it get the job ?
Douglas Adams wrote:
Oolon Colluphid is the author of the "trilogy of philosophical blockbusters" entitled Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who is this God Person Anyway?. He later used the Babel Fish argument as the basis for a fourth book, entitled Well, That About Wraps It Up For God.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I guarantee all y'all gonna be singing a different tune when you come near the end of your life.
William Shakespeare Wrote:
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Just because someone writes a play doesn't make them the arbiter of truth. Also, my statement doesn't _necessarily_ mean there's a hell, insofar as the common understanding of it. Granted, I can see the inference given its popularity. But anyway, I'd not use a playwriter as a gauge to determine anything of substance without first doing my own thinking.
Jeremy Falcon
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If you take the entire set of laws of nature, both those that we know well and those we do not yet fully understand, and call it "god", that is OK with me. I call them laws of nature. If you say that some entity can tell nature and its laws to bug off, set aside the laws, then I am not with you. Like setting aside math: 1 + 1 is no longer 2. Or logic: true OR false is not necessarily true. If you dead serious present an entity that can cancel math, logic and laws of nature, then you make me stall. (Well, not actually - to me it is so far out that I do not care to spend the effort of stalling). If math, logic and laws of nature are absolute, then there is no need for an entity that can_not_ set them aside. If there really was such an entity, it would be noticeable, in ways that left no doubt. Like math: If I got this many: *** and this many: ** and add them together, I obviously have this many: *****. Noone in their right senses would argue that. If someone says: I've got a god that can make *** + ** to be **** or ******! then I consider that person not to be in his right senses, even if he refers to something he calls 'god'. As long as that god is not willing to really show his ability to set my addition aside (without stealing one * away, or let an extra one roll out of his sleeve), then I tend to think that this 'god' entity only exists in the fantasy of the person promoting the belief. I will not be willing to cease believing in math, logic and laws of nature even on my dying day, no matter what you "know". (Jeremy: Don't forget UDHR Article 19 this time!)
I AM NOT READING YOUR REPLY. TAKE A HINT! I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU. GO AWAY!
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy: I have to remind you of UDHR Article 19. Please note that my posts are directed to every reader of this forum. Others may care for what I write, even if it was triggered by something you wrote. You have no right to censor what other people read, written by others than yourself, certainly not on the grounds that it is triggered by what you wrote. You have no god-given right to have the last word in a conversation. That is a right I might give you, by not answering to your last word, but that is my choice.
I AM NOT READING YOUR REPLY. TAKE A HINT! I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU. GO AWAY!
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah, you have to collect stamps to be healthy. I guess you do. Btw: I respect UDHR Article 19, for your entries. I wish you would do the same for mine, but it doesn't look that way!
I AM NOT READING YOUR REPLY. TAKE A HINT! I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU. GO AWAY!
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah, you have to collect stamps to be healthy. I guess you do. Btw: I respect UDHR Article 19, for your entries. I wish you would do the same for mine, but it doesn't look that way!
IF YOU DO NOT STOP THE HARRASING, I'LL REPORT YOU. CP DOESN'T LET ME BLOCK YOU, BUT I CAN REPORT YOU.
Jeremy Falcon
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I AM NOT READING YOUR REPLY. TAKE A HINT! I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU. GO AWAY!
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I AM NOT READING YOUR REPLY
Good. Then you can not say that you are being harassed, it you don't know what I am writing. You are talking to me all the time. If you don't want to, why don't you just stop it? "GO AWAY!" is your attempt to censor my posts. Please read UDHR-19 and see if it gives you the right to.
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IF YOU DO NOT STOP THE HARRASING, I'LL REPORT YOU. CP DOESN'T LET ME BLOCK YOU, BUT I CAN REPORT YOU.
Jeremy Falcon
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I AM NOT READING YOUR REPLY. TAKE A HINT! I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU. GO AWAY!
Jeremy Falcon
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I AM NOT READING YOUR REPLY. TAKE A HINT! I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU. GO AWAY!
Jeremy Falcon
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Just because someone writes a play doesn't make them the arbiter of truth. Also, my statement doesn't _necessarily_ mean there's a hell, insofar as the common understanding of it. Granted, I can see the inference given its popularity. But anyway, I'd not use a playwriter as a gauge to determine anything of substance without first doing my own thinking.
Jeremy Falcon
Yet, just because someone wrote a book claiming they didn't - some other 'god' entity really wrote it for them - you think that is a good reason for setting aside laws of nature, common logic and math when it it fits the goals of your religion and yourself. You think that it gives you the right to declare about everybody else that "I guarantee all y'all gonna be singing a different tune when you come near the end of your life" - displaying an extreme disrespect for the integrity of everybody else. And you demand the right to censor everybody who does not unconditionally accept every word in that book someone wrote long ago - or rather: The way you interpret those words, which may be quite different from the literal words. In spite of your readings, you apparently still haven't gotten around to read UDHR-19.
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You seem to be completely unfamiliar with UDHR-19. On the other hand, you seem to be very eager on censorship.
YOU'VE BEEN REPORTED
Jeremy Falcon
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Yet, just because someone wrote a book claiming they didn't - some other 'god' entity really wrote it for them - you think that is a good reason for setting aside laws of nature, common logic and math when it it fits the goals of your religion and yourself. You think that it gives you the right to declare about everybody else that "I guarantee all y'all gonna be singing a different tune when you come near the end of your life" - displaying an extreme disrespect for the integrity of everybody else. And you demand the right to censor everybody who does not unconditionally accept every word in that book someone wrote long ago - or rather: The way you interpret those words, which may be quite different from the literal words. In spite of your readings, you apparently still haven't gotten around to read UDHR-19.
I DO NO ASSOCIATE WITH EVIL. LEAVE ME ALONE.
Jeremy Falcon
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YOU'VE BEEN REPORTED
Jeremy Falcon
Good thing. You may succeed in having CP respect your right to silence people who disagrees with your opinions, the way you demand. Maybe they don't. Maybe they will even find your attacks against me more harassing than the follow ups I have made in discussion threads where you have participated. I expect CP to make contact with me to explain what makes it a harassment to refer to UDHR-19. Alternately: When you try to unconditionally silence me, why it makes it a 'harassment' when I continue exercising my right to speak.
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Good thing. You may succeed in having CP respect your right to silence people who disagrees with your opinions, the way you demand. Maybe they don't. Maybe they will even find your attacks against me more harassing than the follow ups I have made in discussion threads where you have participated. I expect CP to make contact with me to explain what makes it a harassment to refer to UDHR-19. Alternately: When you try to unconditionally silence me, why it makes it a 'harassment' when I continue exercising my right to speak.
LEAVE ME ALONE! YOU'VE BEEN REPORTED! GO BACK TO YOUR MISERABLE LIFE AND LEAVE ME ALONE.
Jeremy Falcon
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I DO NO ASSOCIATE WITH EVIL. LEAVE ME ALONE.
Jeremy Falcon
As you have a couple of times declared that you do not read my responses, I do not consider that a problem. I will upheld my right to speak, based on UDHR-19, but even setting that aside, it would be outright silly to be silenced by someone who doesn't even read what I am writing. My posts go to other readers of this forum. They are available to you as well, and your choice to not read them is yours alone. What I do not understand is why something that you don't read can upset you so badly!
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As you have a couple of times declared that you do not read my responses, I do not consider that a problem. I will upheld my right to speak, based on UDHR-19, but even setting that aside, it would be outright silly to be silenced by someone who doesn't even read what I am writing. My posts go to other readers of this forum. They are available to you as well, and your choice to not read them is yours alone. What I do not understand is why something that you don't read can upset you so badly!
LEAVE ME ALONE. I'M NOT READING YOUR POSTS. YOU'RE WASTING MY TIME.
Jeremy Falcon
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LEAVE ME ALONE! YOU'VE BEEN REPORTED! GO BACK TO YOUR MISERABLE LIFE AND LEAVE ME ALONE.
Jeremy Falcon
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LEAVE ME ALONE. I'M NOT READING YOUR POSTS. YOU'RE WASTING MY TIME.
Jeremy Falcon
Apparently you DO read my posts. If you do not, you are threatening with reporting me to the admins for something that you haven't read. That is strange. Now that you do not read my posts, there is nothing more I can do to save your precious time for you. The one most obvious thing would be for you not to waste time trying to censor and silence me, through a series of censor-demanding, trump case posts. Especially making these outbursts without having read the statements you are trying to suppress sounds like a real waste of time and energy. But as you are not reading my posts, you unfortunately will not see this little piece of advice.