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What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
No open minded sceptic would deny that an intelligent creator is a possibility. You're asking for something that's already granted.

And there's the little problem of what difference it makes to anything. This is still the same place I woke up in yesterday, whether it came about by natural causes, or has always been here, or is a sandbox for some bored external being.
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
(August 16, 2016 at 7:49 pm)Faith No More Wrote:
(August 16, 2016 at 7:02 pm)fdesilva Wrote: A person with their mind is able to control the hands etc. Thus from the perspective of the mind the body is in its control. So what if the Big bang and as such the universe is the creation of a Mind?  Our own existence is the best evidence that this is a possibility.

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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
(August 16, 2016 at 7:02 pm)fdesilva Wrote: A person with their mind is able to control the hands etc. Thus from the perspective of the mind the body is in its control. So what if the Big bang and as such the universe is the creation of a Mind?  Our own existence is the best evidence that this is a possibility.

No evidence at all is the best evidence you've got?
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
(August 16, 2016 at 7:48 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(August 16, 2016 at 7:11 pm)Rhythm Wrote: A false equivalence leveraged for poor analogy, foisted aloft by a non sequitur.  Gratz.

(Question for the logic bomber:  Is a false equivalence the same thing as conflating two things?)

I'm not the Logic Bomber, but as i understand it, a false equivalence is stating that two things are essentially the same and may be treated as such, while conflation is the grouping of two or more disparate things.

They're related concepts, in that they're both rooted in a category error.

False equivalence: Elephants are herbivores, zebras are herbivores, therefore elephants are zebras.

Conflation: Elephants are herbivores, wolves are carnivores, but since both are mammals we can treat them identically.

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What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
(August 16, 2016 at 9:28 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:
(August 16, 2016 at 7:48 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: (Question for the logic bomber:  Is a false equivalence the same thing as conflating two things?)

I'm not the Logic Bomber, but as i understand it, a false equivalence is stating that two things are essentially the same and may be treated as such, while conflation is the grouping of two or more disparate things.

They're related concepts, in that they're both rooted in a category error.

False equivalence: Elephants are herbivores, zebras are herbivores, therefore elephants are zebras.

Conflation: Elephants are herbivores, wolves are carnivores, but since both are mammals we can treat them identically.


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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
(August 16, 2016 at 7:02 pm)fdesilva Wrote: A person with their mind is able to control the hands etc. Thus from the perspective of the mind the body is in its control. So what if the Big bang and as such the universe is the creation of a Mind?  Our own existence is the best evidence that this is a possibility.

From what I've wrestled out, God is to the universe like the Father is to the Mother and we are the children of their love making, still in the womb.
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
Black holes are proof for a celestial sewer system...
Dying to live, living to die.
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
(August 16, 2016 at 9:32 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:
(August 16, 2016 at 7:02 pm)fdesilva Wrote: A person with their mind is able to control the hands etc. Thus from the perspective of the mind the body is in its control. So what if the Big bang and as such the universe is the creation of a Mind?  Our own existence is the best evidence that this is a possibility.

From what I've wrestled out, God is to the universe like the Father is to the Mother and we are the children of their love making, still in the womb.

The big bang was conception. Big Grin

(August 16, 2016 at 9:35 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Black holes are proof for a celestial sewer system...
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
(August 16, 2016 at 9:32 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: From what I've wrestled out, God is to the universe like the Father is to the Mother and we are the children of their love making, still in the womb.

Given the known size of the universe Arkilogue is now bragging about the size of his god's dick!
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
(August 16, 2016 at 9:43 pm)chimp3 Wrote:
(August 16, 2016 at 9:32 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: From what I've wrestled out, God is to the universe like the Father is to the Mother and we are the children of their love making, still in the womb.

Given the known size of the universe Arkilogue is now bragging about the size of his god's dick!

Silly chimp, I'm a composition of the universe and so are you. Thumb up

And my enormous penis size is none of your monkey business! Tongue
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