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Useless / Unhelpful statements religious people make
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RE: Useless / Unhelpful statements religious people make
April 24, 2013 at 1:13 pm
If there is no God then life has no meaning.
Does plane that flys in the sky(and there wont be refuell) has any meaning?
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RE: Useless / Unhelpful statements religious people make
April 24, 2013 at 1:15 pm
Shock

This one has gone into the deep end Big Grin
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RE: Useless / Unhelpful statements religious people make
April 24, 2013 at 1:22 pm
(April 24, 2013 at 1:13 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: If there is no God then life has no meaning.
Speak for your own life.
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RE: Useless / Unhelpful statements religious people make
April 24, 2013 at 1:25 pm
A plane that's up in the sky ostensibly has fuel enough to get up there in the first place, and its 'meaning' (read: purpose) is to get somewhere. Because the hand of god doesn't move us anywhere.
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RE: Useless / Unhelpful statements religious people make
April 24, 2013 at 1:33 pm
(April 24, 2013 at 1:13 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: If there is no God then life has no meaning.

Must be a pretty sad life for you if god's the only meaning you've got.

Me, I've got my family, my friends, my fiancee, my writing, music, videogames, books, movies, tv, nature, science, new toys, and certainly not least of all, my dog. And I found all of that without divine guidance.

How about that shit?
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RE: Useless / Unhelpful statements religious people make
April 24, 2013 at 2:40 pm
(April 24, 2013 at 1:25 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: A plane that's up in the sky ostensibly has fuel enough to get up there in the first place, and its 'meaning' (read: purpose) is to get somewhere. Because the hand of god doesn't move us anywhere.

Everybody knows that planes with no fuel just stop!
Here's proof: (skip to 8:10)


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RE: Useless / Unhelpful statements religious people make
April 24, 2013 at 2:48 pm (This post was last modified: April 24, 2013 at 2:48 pm by Faith No More.)
I heard this one from a super nice Christian in a mental hospital that had just been diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of 40.

"You may not believe in god, but god believes in you."
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Useless / Unhelpful statements religious people make
April 24, 2013 at 2:48 pm
Unfortunately my work comp isn't showing the video (I don't have a sound driver anyway).

It still doesn't change the fact that the plane had a meaning and purpose. The fuel doesn't give it purpose, it just gives it a means to do what it was constructed to do. However, as there is no god who constructed us, it's left to us to build things with purpose.
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RE: Useless / Unhelpful statements religious people make
April 24, 2013 at 2:49 pm
(April 24, 2013 at 2:48 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Unfortunately my work comp isn't showing the video (I don't have a sound driver anyway).

It still doesn't change the fact that the plane had a meaning and purpose. The fuel doesn't give it purpose, it just gives it a means to do what it was constructed to do. However, as there is no god who constructed us, it's left to us to build things with purpose.

You really need to watch the video... Wink
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RE: Useless / Unhelpful statements religious people make
April 24, 2013 at 2:50 pm
(April 24, 2013 at 1:13 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: If there is no God then life has no meaning.
Does plane that flys in the sky(and there wont be refuell) has any meaning?
Do any of your posts have meaning? ROFLOL
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