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RE: New guy with questions
November 28, 2014 at 3:20 pm
N-N-N-Necropost!
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RE: New guy with questions
November 28, 2014 at 3:25 pm
Another arrogant true believer. *yawn* bring it on.
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RE: New guy with questions
November 29, 2014 at 2:11 pm
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(January 25, 2014 at 10:30 am)The Last Lamenter Wrote: (January 25, 2014 at 6:23 am)pocaracas Wrote: Welcome, New guy.
So much text for the same old loaded question... "Why?"
This "why?" presupposes some intelligence that thought up the Universe and then proceeded to create it.
If you want some form of honest discussion, please refrain from posing loaded questions.
If you'll pardon me, I'm new to all this and I'm still navigating what is and is not considered constructive. I wanted to know how the atheist community responded to this question, I meant no offense.
The answer is that they don't know. Then they'll say that it doesn't really matter why, so it's stupid to try to understand why. I myself believe the why is a very important question. If you ask how something came from nothing or something always existed and was never created, they also will try to explain that "nothing" is really not "nothing". Then the debate over the meaning of "nothing" will ensue. I always thought that the definition of "nothing" is a given. It just goes around and around and probably always will.
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RE: New guy with questions
November 29, 2014 at 2:21 pm
(January 24, 2014 at 8:00 pm)The Last Lamenter Wrote: My first question to this Atheist community is how do you respond to Hawking’s question? We may know “the how?” and “the what?” of the universe’s origins, but why does it bother to exist in the first place?
First of all, welcome.
Second, we don't know - yet.
But as has been pointed out, science came a very long way within the last century alone. Noone can say what we will know within another century. And it doesn't bother me the least bit that we don't have all the answers. The world and the universe surrounding us is immensly complex and right now, we only have the technology to sneak a peek.
You also mentioned the old greek philosophers. Well, they're certainly interesting when it comes to philosophy, but they had no real knowledge about the world, only observations.
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RE: New guy with questions
November 29, 2014 at 3:06 pm
(November 29, 2014 at 2:21 pm)abaris Wrote: (January 24, 2014 at 8:00 pm)The Last Lamenter Wrote: My first question to this Atheist community is how do you respond to Hawking’s question?
First of all, welcome.
You also mentioned the old greek philosophers.
The old greek philosophers are not quite as old as this post. The Last Lamenter is long gone, God torture his soul, and no one here laments that.
(You're fucking with the dead, what we call a necro-post. Still, you have a puppy for your avatar so do whatever you like. I've never understood the prohibition against fucking with the dead anyway. One thing's for sure, they'll never bring you up on charges.)
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RE: New guy with questions
November 29, 2014 at 3:12 pm
(November 29, 2014 at 3:06 pm)whateverist Wrote: (You're fucking with the dead, what we call a necro-post. Still, you have a puppy for your avatar so do whatever you like. I've never understood the prohibition against fucking with the dead anyway. One thing's for sure, they'll never bring you up on charges.)
oops, didn't notice that someone practised thread zombyfication. Probably one of the new christers.
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RE: New guy with questions
November 29, 2014 at 10:07 pm
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(January 24, 2014 at 8:00 pm)The Last Lamenter Wrote: and watched Donnie Darko
It's a great movie, I loved it, but I don't understand how it's relevant. It's a fictional movie...
Oh and welcome by the way 
Oh jeez hehe
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