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RE: Atheism is unreasonable
November 12, 2014 at 7:08 pm
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(November 12, 2014 at 6:59 pm)Chuck Wrote: I am usually too lazy to read through all the earlier responses on any thread, so if the thread generates some capricious interest, I might respond to which ever post catches my eye, even if it is 20 pages back.
You're lucky; I have to read all this shit...
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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RE: Atheism is unreasonable
November 12, 2014 at 7:11 pm
(November 12, 2014 at 7:08 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (November 12, 2014 at 6:59 pm)Chuck Wrote: I am usually too lazy to read through all the earlier responses on any thread, so if the thread generates some capricious interest, I might respond to which ever post catches my eye, even if it is 20 pages back.
You're lucky; I have to read all this shit...
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RE: Atheism is unreasonable
November 12, 2014 at 7:32 pm
(November 12, 2014 at 7:08 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (November 12, 2014 at 6:59 pm)Chuck Wrote: I am usually too lazy to read through all the earlier responses on any thread, so if the thread generates some capricious interest, I might respond to which ever post catches my eye, even if it is 20 pages back.
You're lucky; I have to read all this shit...
Clearly, I'm doing it wrong, I sure as hell don't read everything. 
I read and post on mobile a lot - but I don't care much for the long back-and-forth threads. I prefer to focus in on a single weak point and pull on the loose thread and see how far it unravels.
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RE: Atheism is unreasonable
November 12, 2014 at 7:41 pm
(November 12, 2014 at 7:32 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (November 12, 2014 at 7:08 pm)Stimbo Wrote: You're lucky; I have to read all this shit...
Clearly, I'm doing it wrong, I sure as hell don't read everything.
I read and post on mobile a lot - but I don't care much for the long back-and-forth threads. I prefer to focus in on a single weak point and pull on the loose thread and see how far it unravels.
Relegated to the people with their names in green, huh?
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RE: Atheism is unreasonable
November 12, 2014 at 8:42 pm
(November 12, 2014 at 4:14 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: (November 12, 2014 at 4:12 pm)dyresand Wrote: I'm so lazy i use speech to text.
I'm so lazy I just let others reply to long posts then give them a like if I agree.
I kudo'ed this post.
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RE: Atheism is unreasonable
November 13, 2014 at 12:00 am
I almost did .. but apathy and laziness got in the way.
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RE: Atheism is unreasonable
November 13, 2014 at 4:12 am
(November 2, 2014 at 1:16 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: Lets take away all of the fluff and feathers for a minute. Let's take away all of the technical babble, all of the rhetoric for just a second.
I can't speak for every religion, but I am a Christian theist. Now what does that imply? Well, that would mean that I believe Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of mankind, and that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
That is basically my belief in a nut shell. Now, if you are an atheist, you may find my beliefs laughable, sickening, stupid, etc....which is fine, Christianity isn't for everyone because after all, Jesus said "But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it." (Matt 7:14).
But as an atheist, here is what you have to believe...you have to believe that billions of years ago before humanity, dead matter was floating around in space...and for whatever reason, suddenly, this dead matter "came to life". Not only did it come to life, but it came to life and began thinking, talking, and having sex.
Just think about that for a second. This non-living material suddenly CAME TO LIFE. For the life of me, I just can't get myself to believe that, even if I tried. I just don't understand how naturalism/atheism is a more reasonable position than theism.
You have to believe that a process that can't think or see, created consciousness. So consciousness came from a process that can't think??
I just don't have enough faith to be an atheist.
Notice research on Higgs Bison. The simplistic theory goes that Higgs Bison creates mass. A fluctuation in Higgs Bison could destroy the universe and the reverse. Some theorize that it has happened before, maybe many times over and over. In other words, Big Bangs.
The problem with religion is that it portrays man as superior. That is just ego. Roaches will be around a lot longer than we will. Dogs dream, so they they must have a consciousness. Do they have a god. I doubt it. Consciousness developed as a branch of survival instinct
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RE: Atheism is unreasonable
November 13, 2014 at 4:24 am
Oh no! The bison are coming!
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RE: Atheism is unreasonable
November 13, 2014 at 4:29 am
From which direction?!?!?
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RE: Atheism is unreasonable
November 13, 2014 at 6:40 am
(November 13, 2014 at 4:29 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: From which direction?!?!?
Some place called Higgs, that's why they're called Higgs Bison!
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