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RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 24, 2015 at 8:13 pm
(November 24, 2015 at 8:11 pm)Napoléon Wrote: (November 24, 2015 at 8:06 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Cathy can bring the whipped cream
Ah, if only you were not joking.
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RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 24, 2015 at 8:14 pm
(November 24, 2015 at 8:13 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I tried looking for you on my facebook just now. Did you delete me?
I deleted everyone. Don't use it.
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RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 24, 2015 at 8:52 pm
(November 24, 2015 at 7:44 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (November 24, 2015 at 7:20 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: ![[Image: giphy.gif]](https://media.giphy.com/media/iB7aWZ54LkpW0/giphy.gif)
Well ain't that embarrassing...
I so deserve it...
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RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 24, 2015 at 8:56 pm
(November 24, 2015 at 7:55 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I know, I know CL, you made an argument-and that's what's important, when it comes to the dead kids family and gods style. I think you've set the bar awfully low for a god, that's all. We'd expect people to do more - we do expect people to do more....and we even hold them liable when they don't. All, mind you, with far lesser ability. I couldn't worship a god that offered the excuse you offered, even if it existed. I can't even stand people that offer that excuse.
Maybe from God the Almighty's point of view we are like a swarm of blow flies and maggots. He really, really wants the best for us .. as a whole. But individually, He just doesn't name us or recognize us as individuals. Maybe that's what Cathy was getting at? 
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RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 25, 2015 at 12:58 am
DBP: No, I've not played Unity yet. I have thought about things that may indicate a simulation, you're right, glitches could well be one of them. I wondered if all the shit about QM being uncertain until it is observed is like a memory saving device, sort of like a fog of war.
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RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 25, 2015 at 12:59 am
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Did the first option of the pole always state: There is no God, and I am certain of this.?
I must have misread it the first time around, for I thought it stated, There is a God, and I am certain of this..
That is why I did not vote for the first option, but rather the fourth.
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RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 25, 2015 at 1:38 am
(November 24, 2015 at 8:56 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: Maybe from God the Almighty's point of view we are like a swarm of blow flies and maggots. He really, really wants the best for us .. as a whole. But individually, He just doesn't name us or recognize us as individuals. Maybe that's what Cathy was getting at?
That would sort of fly in the face of a lot of Christian dogma, w'ist. 
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RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 25, 2015 at 1:47 am
(November 25, 2015 at 1:38 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: (November 24, 2015 at 8:56 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: Maybe from God the Almighty's point of view we are like a swarm of blow flies and maggots. He really, really wants the best for us .. as a whole. But individually, He just doesn't name us or recognize us as individuals. Maybe that's what Cathy was getting at?
That would sort of fly in the face of a lot of Christian dogma, w'ist.
Well exactly. The dogma is the main thing I question.
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RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 25, 2015 at 1:48 am
I just see no way that god could exist. I'd be devastated to be proven wrong. I think godbelief trivializes what science proves to us to be true.
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RE: Where do you stand on the existence of God?
November 25, 2015 at 2:57 am
Number 1 on your poll and number 7 on the Dawkins's scale.
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