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Why atheism always has a burden of proof
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RE: Why atheism always has a burden of proof
October 26, 2013 at 9:10 am
(October 26, 2013 at 1:00 am)Polaris Wrote: Yeah continue lying like your former President Bush, you dishonest shithead. You're a lying sack of shit, goober. Or maybe you're a fucking retard who mistakes state-sponsored atheism (which ends up being a religion for all intensive purposes) for being atheism.

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"for all intents and purposes"

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RE: Why atheism always has a burden of proof
October 26, 2013 at 10:30 am
Thanks Chas, you saved me the trouble. Have a kudos.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Why atheism always has a burden of proof
October 26, 2013 at 11:06 am (This post was last modified: October 26, 2013 at 11:06 am by Mister Agenda.)
I think the bar should be that someone has to prove that theism is a religion before they get to try to pull it on atheism.
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RE: Why atheism always has a burden of proof
October 26, 2013 at 11:54 am
I kinda like the idea of having an intensive purpose
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RE: Why atheism always has a burden of proof
October 26, 2013 at 11:40 pm
(October 26, 2013 at 9:10 am)Chas Wrote:
(October 26, 2013 at 1:00 am)Polaris Wrote: Yeah continue lying like your former President Bush, you dishonest shithead. You're a lying sack of shit, goober. Or maybe you're a fucking retard who mistakes state-sponsored atheism (which ends up being a religion for all intensive purposes) for being atheism.

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"for all intents and purposes"

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RE: Why atheism always has a burden of proof
October 28, 2013 at 1:03 pm
(October 26, 2013 at 9:10 am)Chas Wrote:
(October 26, 2013 at 1:00 am)Polaris Wrote: Yeah continue lying like your former President Bush, you dishonest shithead. You're a lying sack of shit, goober. Or maybe you're a fucking retard who mistakes state-sponsored atheism (which ends up being a religion for all intensive purposes) for being atheism.

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"for all intents and purposes"

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Hold on.

Maybe his purposes are intense?
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RE: Why atheism always has a burden of proof
October 28, 2013 at 1:09 pm
(October 28, 2013 at 1:03 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Hold on.

Maybe his purposes are intense?

But that'd be "for all intense purposes." An intensive purpose would be a quick one, whereas an intense purpose would be a hard or powerful one. Mixing up the two could be dangerous!
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RE: Why atheism always has a burden of proof
October 31, 2013 at 8:08 pm
(October 26, 2013 at 9:10 am)Chas Wrote:
(October 26, 2013 at 1:00 am)Polaris Wrote: Yeah continue lying like your former President Bush, you dishonest shithead. You're a lying sack of shit, goober. Or maybe you're a fucking retard who mistakes state-sponsored atheism (which ends up being a religion for all intensive purposes) for being atheism.

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"for all intents and purposes"

You're welcome. [Image: coffeedrinker.gif]

Thanks. One of the English phrases I tend to get incorrect.
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RE: Why atheism always has a burden of proof
October 31, 2013 at 8:40 pm
(October 28, 2013 at 1:09 pm)Esquilax Wrote: An intensive purpose would be a quick one, whereas an intense purpose would be a hard or powerful one. Mixing up the two could be dangerous!

An intensive purpose would in fact be a thorough one, which rather implies anything other than haste.
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