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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 4, 2014 at 8:04 pm
(April 4, 2014 at 7:34 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: Well I hate to answer your question because I believe it was grace that made me that way...shit I sound like a fool when I say that. 
Yeah, that makes no sense to an atheist.
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 4, 2014 at 8:38 pm
(April 4, 2014 at 8:03 pm)ShaMan Wrote: (April 4, 2014 at 7:48 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: Why is it that every time I see shaman, there is someone talking shit to him? Hey shaman, why are you always surrounded by assholes?  I never see it that way. Everyone has their own unique experience. I know you're kidding, but just to clear the decks... I judge no one. If my posts sound judgmental it is not my intention. The things I express with certainty come from my heart and my experience. I see no reason to consider why others are not having their own unique respective experience of the 'truth'. My outright criticisms of certain traditions are made in the same spirit that theists and atheists alike make their own observances. I see no reason why we cannot all commune with one another apart from our respective [beliefs] or lack thereof.
Thanks Ghandi! I'm with ya! You follow the law of Christianity better than most Christians
I don't know who makes me more sick. A closed minded bigoted and arrogant atheist or a closed minded self-righteous Christian. One runs east, the other runs west, and they wind up meeting eachother in the same place (as far as I'm concerned.)
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 4, 2014 at 8:43 pm
Thunder are you better than me?
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Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 4, 2014 at 8:58 pm
(April 4, 2014 at 7:57 pm)tor Wrote: (April 4, 2014 at 7:56 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: What thing have I spread around? I've told people that if Religion turns you into an asshole than move on to a different remedy. It just so happens that most of the assholes I've known in my life were not Pious people
The religion is in your head. It slips through your mouth and actions onto other people. It's contagious :wink-shades:
You keep it alive.
I'll take it a step further. There is no factual distinction between an omnipotent, omnipresent and omnibenevolent God, and that God which is wholly illusory and an artifact of the human subjective experience.
God has no form, no weight, no definable physical characteristics. One cannot quantify God by reduction.
Such a being would continue to exist even as only a fantasy in the minds of believers, and sustain no measurable loss against its existence or potency.
And yet entertaining such thoughts are apocryphal to true believers.
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 4, 2014 at 8:59 pm
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(April 4, 2014 at 8:43 pm)tor Wrote: Thunder are you better than me?
If you are more humble, meek, generous, patient, altruistic, compassionate, honest, and do more than me to ease suffering in the world…then No!
In my opinnion you are better than me. ABSOFUCKINLUTELY! 
(April 4, 2014 at 8:58 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: (April 4, 2014 at 7:57 pm)tor Wrote: The religion is in your head. It slips through your mouth and actions onto other people. It's contagious 
You keep it alive.
I'll take it a step further. There is no factual distinction between an omnipotent, omnipresent and omnibenevolent God, and that God which is wholly illusory and an artifact of the human subjective experience.
God has no form, no weight, no definable physical characteristics. One cannot quantify God by reduction.
Such a being would continue to exist even as only a fantasy in the minds of believers, and sustain no measurable loss against its existence or potency.
And yet entertaining such thoughts are apocryphal to true believers.
If there were factual distinction between the two there would be no more faith. There would be no more unbelievers.
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 4, 2014 at 9:22 pm
(April 4, 2014 at 8:59 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: If there were factual distinction between the two there would be no more faith. There would be no more unbelievers.
Yes. We could go from debating his existence, to discussing the things that have happened in the past few thousand years, and relly talk about what to do with issues instead of clinging to the bible as the only source of information we have.
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 4, 2014 at 9:26 pm
Well if you are not better than me what's the ramble about bigoted atheists?
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Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 4, 2014 at 9:31 pm
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Belief in bullshit frees the mind to think about temporal bullshit, and possibly excel at dealing with the bullshit of everyday life.
(April 4, 2014 at 8:59 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: (April 4, 2014 at 8:43 pm)tor Wrote: Thunder are you better than me?
If you are more humble, meek, generous, patient, altruistic, compassionate, honest, and do more than me to ease suffering in the world…then No!
In my opinnion you are better than me. ABSOFUCKINLUTELY!:worship-large:
(April 4, 2014 at 8:58 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: I'll take it a step further. There is no factual distinction between an omnipotent, omnipresent and omnibenevolent God, and that God which is wholly illusory and an artifact of the human subjective experience.
God has no form, no weight, no definable physical characteristics. One cannot quantify God by reduction.
Such a being would continue to exist even as only a fantasy in the minds of believers, and sustain no measurable loss against its existence or potency.
And yet entertaining such thoughts are apocryphal to true believers.
If there were factual distinction between the two there would be no more faith. There would be no more unbelievers.
If only.
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 4, 2014 at 9:32 pm
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(April 4, 2014 at 9:22 pm)Chad32 Wrote: (April 4, 2014 at 8:59 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: If there were factual distinction between the two there would be no more faith. There would be no more unbelievers.
Yes. We could go from debating his existence, to discussing the things that have happened in the past few thousand years, and relly talk about what to do with issues instead of clinging to the bible as the only source of information we have.
I dont consider that about the bible at all
That would be absurd
(April 4, 2014 at 9:26 pm)tor Wrote: Well if you are not better than me what's the ramble about bigoted atheists? t
I simply stated that I can't stand them. I can't stand going to work either but learn to deal with it.
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 5, 2014 at 12:13 am
(April 4, 2014 at 8:38 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: (April 4, 2014 at 8:03 pm)ShaMan Wrote: I never see it that way. Everyone has their own unique experience. I know you're kidding, but just to clear the decks... I judge no one. If my posts sound judgmental it is not my intention. The things I express with certainty come from my heart and my experience. I see no reason to consider why others are not having their own unique respective experience of the 'truth'. My outright criticisms of certain traditions are made in the same spirit that theists and atheists alike make their own observances. I see no reason why we cannot all commune with one another apart from our respective [beliefs] or lack thereof.
Thanks Ghandi! I'm with ya! You follow the law of Christianity better than most Christians Dude... I know you're semi-goofin'! BUT!!! I have no wisdom that is not common to all mankind. I'm simply the simpleton who perceives the in-between, and plays the role of spiritual scapegoat. I have nothing to gain because I have nothing I can possess.
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