There is no God - discuss:

Lost User

Well, it's been quiet recently...

If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

MrPlankton

Perhaps not, maybe no devil either, let us know when you know for sure.

MrPlankton

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Lost User

Someone gave me The God Delusion for x-mas which I've been trying to plow through on the bus. It's really a fucking boring discussion.

Oakman

Too bad you aren't on the same sleep/wake cycle as the rest of us. . .

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_Damian S_

Are you currently asleep or awake? :rolleyes:

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Lost User

"Don't worry, be happy" - Bobby McFarren :cool:

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Lost User

Oh, I know for sure

If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

Lost User

Yeah - well the 'wheels on the bus' discussion kinda inspired me, I confess (in a non denominational sense).

If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

soap brain

It doesn't matter what people believe, whether it's in God or not. Dr Greg House sums it up best: "Nothing matters - we're all just cockroaches. Wildebeests dying on the riverbed. Nothing we do has any lasting meaning."

Rob Graham

Such an inspiring role model this House (You do realize that he is completely fictional, and a quite flawed character to boot). If you find that comment persuasively true, I can only recommend prompt suicide as a cure.

Rob Graham

And your proof of this assertion is?

Lost User

I offer no proof - what would be the point of discussing it if I offered proof?

If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

Lost User

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

It doesn't matter what people believe, whether it's in God or not.

Well, I think if a person believes it is fine to rape children (for example) it does matter.

If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

soap brain

Rob Graham wrote:

Such an inspiring role model this House (You do realize that he is completely fictional, and a quite flawed character to boot).

"I don't have to trust him to agree with him."

Rob Graham wrote:

If you find that comment persuasively true, I can only recommend prompt suicide as a cure.

Well, what a good idea.

soap brain

Maxxx_ wrote:

Well, I think if a person believes it is fine to rape children (for example) it does matter.

"You can't control your emotions." "No....just your actions." "You didn't do it, did you?" "I couldn't have lived with myself."

Rob Graham

Insisting that others discuss a proposition is not the same as participating in a discussion of that proposition. You not only did not offer proof of the assertion, you offered no supporting argument to disagree with. The only appropriate responses to you post are either of : "Ok, So?" or "Yes there is." ;P

Oakman

_Damian S_ wrote:

Are you currently asleep or awake?

Yes.

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Lost User

?what?

If I knew then what I know today, then I'd know the same now as I did then - then what would be the point? .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

soap brain

There's a great big wall of China between wanting to have sex with an underage person and actually doing it.

Oakman

If one accepts the hypothesis that the nascent universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion that was driven by a negative-pressure vacuum energy density, one can predict an infinite ergodic universe, which, being infinite, must contain Hubble volumes realizing all initial conditions. Max Tegmark argues that these volumes are contained on other quantum branches in inﬁnite-dimensional Hilbert space. Since one aspect of quantum mechanics is that certain observations cannot be predicted absolutely, and instead, there is range of possible observations each with a different probability, there are some volumes, where the Lord God Jehovah reigns supreme, or Zeus still cheats on Hera, or Christ sits at the right hand of His Father, another where we die and spend awhile in the Summerlands before returning for another cycle, or where there is no afterlife at all. The real trick is for you - the you that resides in the same volume of the multiverse that this me resides in (no, not that me, this me) - need to figure out which version you were born in. Pascal's Wager would be much more attractive as a lifestyle choice - except that the choice is no longer binary but has n possibilities. :~

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