RE: Do you wish there's a god?
March 21, 2019 at 2:27 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2019 at 2:32 am by Catharsis.)
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Do you wish there's a god?
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 RE: Do you wish there's a god?
March 21, 2019 at 5:16 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2019 at 5:17 am by Peebothuhlu.)
(March 20, 2019 at 3:28 am)Catharsis Wrote: When the sun rises over the good and the bad Well... no. Because there'd be nothing for people to strive to learn. Said diety has 'Done' everything for their own inscrutable purpose. Not only that, but, if the diety has the powers that most Mono-thiests assert... then said deity can simply change any and all of reality to whatever new setting it likes. Now, just replying with the assertion that said deity must be good is like me asserting that Cthuhlu must not be hungry when awoken. Your beliefe of any diety's state is nothing but that. Wishful thinking on your part. No diety need confrom to any mundane soul's wishes, after all. Not at work.  RE: Do you wish there's a god?
March 21, 2019 at 5:23 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2019 at 5:26 am by robvalue.)
Well sure, if a nice guy could take over the running over our reality and make everything better, that would be great.
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 (March 20, 2019 at 5:25 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(March 20, 2019 at 9:37 am)possibletarian Wrote: So how do you go about deciding what is real or not meant to be taken as real ? You seem to be saying that anyone who doesn't already believe in God isn't fit to study the subject. The upshot of this is that we can only trust the conclusions of people who already loved God before attempting to determine God's existence. Helluva way to run a research programme. Boru
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RE: Do you wish there's a god?
March 21, 2019 at 8:00 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2019 at 8:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Adding to the fact that atheists love fantasy as much as the next cretin..is that anthropology is as chock full of atheists as any other portion of academia. I suppose we should just throw all of their work in the dustbin, since it's unlikely to be sincere and account of how they don't like gods™ despite spending their lives studying the various myths?
Of all the silly conversations that we have to have over and over on these boards, this one is the worst, lol. People are atheists because they don't believe in gods. People who don't like the gods are called maltheists. If someone wants to have a conversation about maltheism, then fine..but what we're going to find is that maltheists have often been very much in the know about the traditions of gods they didn't like.
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 (March 21, 2019 at 8:02 am)Belaqua Wrote:(March 21, 2019 at 7:41 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: You seem to be saying that anyone who doesn't already believe in God isn't fit to study the subject. Certainly looks that way: Quote:In cases of subjects which aren't immediately practical, people usually have to love the subject before they study it. Boru
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RE: Do you wish there's a god?
March 21, 2019 at 8:15 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2019 at 8:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Theism is no more equivalent to enjoying the subject of gods than atheism is to disliking the same. The most ardent theists have very little patience for the subject of gods, whilst the worlds leading authorities on the subject tend not to believe in quetzalcoatl.
The whole thing is nutter shit, a variation on the theme of "you just don't like god". ...but that's not actually how any of this works. It's not how atheism works, it's not how academic satisfaction works, it's not how sincerity of effort is judged, and it's not representative of reality in the slightest.
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 (March 21, 2019 at 5:23 am)robvalue Wrote: Well sure, if a nice guy could take over the running over our reality and make everything better, that would be great. That's brilliant! You answered the question asked in the OP without saying anything about how loaded it was, or accusing the poster of making assumptions, or attacking them personally.
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