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Daniel Dennett
#11
RE: Daniel Dennett
You can still believe in santa, should you be so inclined.

Look the other way, have misplaced childish faith, ignore contradictory scientific evidence, define santa outside of falsifiability, or come up with a wealth of apologetics.....

"Santa doesn't literally come down the chimney, it's a metaphor for how he insinuates himself into our lives, and reveals himself to us via the heart and hearth of our homes."
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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#12
RE: Daniel Dennett
(November 19, 2009 at 6:00 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: But Santa Clause is at best/ worst a lie. God is an 'adult' or coherent concept worthy of serious consideration. Only a delusional adult would dismiss it as childish.

Keep dreaming fr0d0.

EvF
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#13
RE: Daniel Dennett
Dreaming that you might become adult?? Wink
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#14
RE: Daniel Dennett
(November 20, 2009 at 2:33 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Well that would be a particularly warped way of looking at it, but of course you know that very well. Point stands, God is a coherent concept.

I tend to agree with you fr0d0 - a deity is one in a long list of utterly unproven causes of origin, a concept, where as Santa is a character.

Now, when we narrow the deistic focus to Yahweh we are faced with a different problem - we have not just an unproven concept of origins, but a provably wrong one. We have a character in a book, just like santa.
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#15
RE: Daniel Dennett
Prove it wrong then VOID
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#16
RE: Daniel Dennett
(November 22, 2009 at 11:33 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Dreaming that you might become adult?? Wink

What a strange dream to have, consider I'm 21 years of age and here in the UK 18 years is, of course, adult. As I would hope you know?

But them dreams are strange aren't they? Wink

Anyway... how is "God" any more valid than Santa Claus? Enlighten me...

EvF
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#17
RE: Daniel Dennett
Not again thanks Evie. Please refer to your memory and have the discussion there.
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#18
RE: Daniel Dennett
What are you talking about?

EvF
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#19
RE: Daniel Dennett
"Anyway... how is "God" any more valid than Santa Claus? Enlighten me..."
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#20
RE: Daniel Dennett
I can't have that discussion by memory... because we never finished the discussion(s) Wink

EvF
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