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Being good without god
#71
RE: Being good without god
Yeah, I think it's "cato"...
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#72
RE: Being good without god
(February 23, 2013 at 4:09 am)catfish Wrote: Yeah, I think it's "cato"...

I googled an English-Greek dictionary. I'm quite confident that you're wrong. Despite this bit of knowledge, I took your last comment as a compliment.
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#73
RE: Being good without god
Gotta take anything you can get, eh?
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#74
RE: Being good without god
Of course people can be good without god, hell even god can't be good (even according to his standards). ;-)
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#75
RE: Being good without god
(February 23, 2013 at 4:15 am)catfish Wrote: Gotta take anything you can get, eh?

If this is all you have to give, then yes.
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#76
RE: Being good without god
(February 23, 2013 at 4:03 am)Esquilax Wrote: Is disagreeing with everyone who won't walk in lockstep with your views really that important to you that you'll give up any sense of credibility to keep it up?

Some would say he pissed that up the wall a long time ago. Others would no doubt agree.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#77
RE: Being good without god
Well this thread evolved into something it clearly didn't start out as.
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#78
RE: Being good without god
(February 22, 2013 at 11:44 pm)apophenia Wrote: Are we boring you, Chad?
Not at all, Appo. I find this infinitely amusing.

(February 22, 2013 at 3:06 pm)Baalzebutt Wrote: You're right. We are the ones that follow things like science and logical thought blindly. Shame on us for believing something we actually have evidence for.
Science is an on-going process of inquiry into the natural world. Those who treat its findings like Holy Script, like you seem to do, lack the spirit of critical thinking needed to advance its cause. Try not to forget that paradigm shifts happen all the time.

As for logic, have you ever considered that rational thought is only possible because the universe conforms to a pre-existing logical order?
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#79
RE: Being good without god
(February 23, 2013 at 9:25 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: As for logic, have you ever considered that rational thought is only possible because the universe conforms to a pre-existing logical order?

Pre-existing as applied to what, myself? Unsurprising, since I've only been here few decades. Have you ever considered that logic conforms to a preexisting set of patterns or circumstances?
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#80
RE: Being good without god
Yes, one can be good without god, and, apparently, one can be god without being good.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders
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