failures art
 
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Thu 17 Feb, 2011 10:23 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
what?

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Fil Albuquerque
 
  1  
Thu 17 Feb, 2011 10:35 am
@failures art,
I think you can see it for yourself somewhere in a video in TED...
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Francis
 
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Thu 17 Feb, 2011 10:41 am
Fil de Albuquerque wrote:
Although it is also true that atheists used to become the common meal of lions and leopards in the African Savannah


Do you mind backing your assertion or, at least, substantiating it?
Fil Albuquerque
 
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Thu 17 Feb, 2011 11:07 am
@Francis,
I can look up for the vid as I agree that that kind of stuff must be backed up Francis...the fact is that I saw that video in TED a while ago and it makes perfect sense...bottom line and meaning those who actually believed that the noise in the bushes could be about something super natural used to pay more attention to their surroundings them those who only would take in consideration rational factors...of course it was not always a predator in there... less alone a "true" manifestation of the "spirit of the ancestors"...sometimes it was just really the wind in the bushes, but the "religious ones", those who were prompt to believe in the unknown, would actually always pay more attention...anyway I will look up for the source for a more complete approach on it...
MJA
 
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Thu 17 Feb, 2011 11:32 am
God is just another name for everything,
And everything is everything,
Including you and me.

=
MJA

Setanta
 
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Thu 17 Feb, 2011 11:36 am
We're knee-deep in the bullshit now . . .
JTT
 
  0  
Thu 17 Feb, 2011 01:11 pm
@Setanta,
And being the grateful guy that you are, you're finding it much less a chore than having to plow thru your normal chest deep variety.
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Fil Albuquerque
 
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Thu 17 Feb, 2011 01:43 pm
@Setanta,
Speak for yourself...I know where I stand up...oh and let the children play, you irritating walking on legs frustration project ! Laughing
Setanta
 
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Thu 17 Feb, 2011 02:07 pm
@Fil Albuquerque,
Someday, if you master the English language, you might produce something interesting or amusing to read . . . although it's not as though i'm sitting up nights waiting for it . . .
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hingehead
 
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Thu 17 Feb, 2011 04:10 pm
@Fil Albuquerque,
Quote:
bottom line and meaning those who actually believed that the noise in the bushes could be about something super natural used to pay more attention to their surroundings them those who only would take in consideration rational factors...of course it was not always a predator in there... less alone a "true" manifestation of the "spirit of the ancestors"...sometimes it was just really the wind in the bushes, but the "religious ones", those who were prompt to believe in the unknown,


That's a very spurious piece of reasoning.

I think having seen some of my tribesman eaten by lions would make me very suspicious of noises in the bushes, much more than the possibility god was having a wander.

I'd love if you could find the TED link, I'm a fan, this doesn't sound worthy - although I realise it's a simplistic paraphrase.
Ionus
 
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Thu 17 Feb, 2011 04:15 pm
@hingehead,
Quote:
That's a very spurious piece of reasoning.
Your opinion is right up there with **** for brains.
Quote:
I think having seen some of my tribesman eaten by lions would make me very suspicious of noises in the bushes, much more than the possibility god was having a wander.
AS usual, your stupidity is baffling. The point being made is that the non-suspicious ones are eaten. How do you imagine they come back from there ?

No doubt you are aware of facts, like it only takes a 3% advantage for one set of genes to replenish an entire population.
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Night Ripper
 
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Thu 17 Feb, 2011 09:23 pm
@MJA,
MJA wrote:

God is just another name for everything,
And everything is everything,
Including you and me.

=
MJA




You say we're parts of a whole, like a skin cell is to an entire body. Of course, that's not very encouraging. When a skin cell dies, we don't have a funeral. None of us cares about any individual skin cell, only that we have a certain aggregate quantity and quality.
Ionus
 
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Thu 17 Feb, 2011 10:30 pm
@Night Ripper,
Quote:
None of us cares about any individual skin cell
None of us cares about any individual in the world of atheism.

Quote:
When a skin cell dies, we don't have a funeral.
Atheists have funerals for the living, not for the dea.
spendius
 
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Fri 18 Feb, 2011 05:28 am
@Ionus,
What do they have funerals for Io. Bodies are a valuable food resource. There must be nearly 4 million bodies to dispose of in the US in any one year and at 20 stone each that's a lot of meat. All paid for.

Soylent Green. That depicted a materialist society. It had the courage of its convictions. Female companions came with the accomodation and were called "furniture".

I saw a programme which showed a forensic science research project where they buried bodies at different depths and checked them out from time to time. It was to help them establish time of death in murder cases where the killer had buried the victim. It was gruesome and ghoulish to me but I'm a big softie Mummy's boy.
tenderfoot
 
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Fri 18 Feb, 2011 10:45 pm
Spendi.
know of a book where someone told his mob to go in to town and rape the women and take some home for slaves plus kill off all the useless males and bash heads of baby again the walls or something like that. I won't tell it's name, you being a soft mummy's boy and all.
Ionus
 
  1  
Sat 19 Feb, 2011 03:39 am
@spendius,
Any atheist worth their salt would be in favour of soylent green. There is no afterlife, so why get all huffy about death ? Yet they do.....this is all they have so they hand on with their finger nails digging in.
Ionus
 
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Sat 19 Feb, 2011 03:40 am
@tenderfoot,
The PLO's handbook ?
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Francis
 
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Sat 19 Feb, 2011 04:23 am
@Ionus,
You have a special way of defining atheists..

I'm an atheist myself, obviously influenced by my christian upbringing, but I feel worlds apart from your definitions...

If you have ever encountered the kind of atheists you depict, I feel sorry for you and for them...
spendius
 
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Sat 19 Feb, 2011 06:17 am
@Francis,
Well Francis--people who make pretty famous movies with Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson in them must be pretty sharp and have taken the trouble to think through the logic of atheism and materialism.

Your Christianised atheism is not really atheism at all. It's more a pose or a justification for avoiding Christian discipline on sexual behaviour but only up to a certain point of course.

Your atheism is not of much significance. It is your promoting it that is the problem and backing off from the logical severities of it which not everybody will do. You're too nice a guy for that.
Francis
 
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Sat 19 Feb, 2011 06:24 am
@spendius,
Then none of the ways you define atheism is of much significance.

Your temptation to always bring up the sexual behaviour, of which you know nothing about, tells me that you must have a Freudian problem.

Oedipus complex or something...
 

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