Atheism

If humans don't have souls how does science save them?

You were a sex machine at 18 irrespective of James Brown. Assuming you was not a very late developer.

It begins with literacy, and somewhere before the end, an understanding of irony.

In your case, there's no hope. Science can only slow your intellectual entropy. Does it really need to be spelled out for you? Of course not, you're just trolling. The author doesn't believe in souls, and made poetic usage of them to convey a message. One which, might I add, is over your head.

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My sense of irony is so well developed fa that I can be unbearable I'm often told.

5 assertions in 3 lines is not very scientific dontcha know? Nor ironic.

I don't know what it is that is "over my head" so you have a punchbag to play with. I can do that. The book I'm reading is not only over your head but if it isn't you wouldn't even dare take a peek into it. The subject of the 3 vol. biog. is said to be "obsessed with the rabbit warren aspect of human society".

My advice fa is not to take irony too far. Take a tip from one who did. We wouldn't want you thinking yourself the great lover when, as Juvenal said, you are just "juddering up Julie."

I'd like to see this FA. It's blocked on copyright grounds by EMI. I searched for 'science saved my soul' on youtube and got a few mirror hits that work. Was this it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo7lxuwLC9I

No, you doofus, I was satirizing your ridiculously inane post.

What about homosexuality and their protection of perverts ?

Well JT--until they started "coming out" all over the place they did run a very tight ship. They were covering each other like billyo.

What they were saying about women doesn't bear thinking about.

It is the same. Yes.

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That's just about as inane as Ionus's post, Spendi.

“Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of awesome mystical power. We know this because they manage to be invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can’t see them.”
- Steve Eley

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“ I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
- Frederick Douglass

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“ Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.”
- Harvard Lampoon

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“ Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”
- Robert Heinlein

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The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
Denis Diderot

HH, That's a good un. Thx for the laugh.

What did it move in/for you?

My reaction was mixed. The visuals were stunning. I enjoyed looking at it (the video) immensely.
The guy's narration (who is he?) was extremely annoying. He sounds like an arrogant prick.

His take on it all reminded me of one of the guys I work with who is always talking down Americans (he calls me 'the colonist') and I think I was washing my tea mug out differently than he would have done it or something equally as inane and he said, 'Bloody colonists - always have to do things their own way,' and I retorted, 'Bloody Imperialists - always think there's only one way to do something and that's THEIR way'.
This guy's narration was so ******* full of his belief in his own superior intellect, knowledge and/or understanding.
He doesn't offer anything I haven't heard before - but oh - he's gonna save peoples' souls with this NEW information or way to interpret it.
How arrogant.
And in what way is this different from any preacher of any other religion?
'This is how I think you should look at it!' In fact, he's saying, 'If you don't look at it the way I look at it - you're ignorant.'
How is that any different from any other religion?

Why can't I or anyone else interpret the same information differently from this guy?
He assumes people don't know it - maybe they do know it and interpret its meanings or origins differently from how he does.

What is your reason for saying that JT?

I had the Burgess/Maclean/Philby/Blunt Cambridge MI6 spies in mind and something T.S.Eliot is supposed to have said.

That's normal Rebecca. All the preachy atheists I've met were like that.

In what way are you being different of him, Spendi, in your preaching, arrogant manners?

Did you listen to it? He even tells believers what he believes or knows they must feel and why.
He doesn't know me.

I have a similar reaction to door knocking proselytes.