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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| (November 11, 2014 at 4:50 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Did this guy really necrothread just to shit and run?
Hi Rexbecca,
If you go over the previous 16 pages of this thread, you'll see that this wasn't ... |
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February 24, 2015 at 4:26 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
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| Whenever humans exist as groups, rules evolve to prevent anarchy, which is antithetical to survival and even more so to prosperity. This applies to religion as well as to secular activities.
This is ... |
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February 24, 2015 at 4:17 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Thanks to those who replied.
Here's an executive summary:
1. There are objective, personal benefits associated with being a theist.
2. Certitude is poison, among both theists and atheists. Theisti... |
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November 8, 2014 at 5:44 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Hi, Esquilax,
You object:
(November 7, 2014 at 3:16 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Sorry, but "sentience existing in another universe," no matter how powerful, does not read as any meaningful concept of god,... |
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November 7, 2014 at 3:31 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Since my last post, there has been continuing evolution of data and thought regarding the multiverse theory, which provides a basis for God which is grounded in physical science reality, as opposed to... |
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November 7, 2014 at 2:53 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| (April 1, 2014 at 3:22 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: This is the ultimate form of the God of The Gaps argument. And relies on pure hypotheticals:
Quote:A Boltzmann brain is a hypothesized self aware entit... |
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April 1, 2014 at 3:41 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| It's been two months since my last post. I thought that I'd said all of that which was relevant to the points I was trying to make and that I had reached the point of just going around and around with... |
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April 1, 2014 at 3:13 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| (February 3, 2014 at 2:35 pm)Popsicle Wrote: I think everyone may have scared Larry away.
Hi Popsicle, by no means. I've been impressed and gratified by a number of the more thoughtful replies and c... |
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February 3, 2014 at 4:06 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Resetsu wishes to know the details of the personal flaw which drove me to revisit the possibility of belief in a higher level of sentient consciousness, following 42 years of secular humanist agnostic... |
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February 2, 2014 at 12:57 am |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Thanks once again, Max.
I know that you and most others understand that I'm not an Evangelical Protestant or orthodox Catholic, coming here as some sort of agent provocateur to save souls. I am preci... |
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February 1, 2014 at 4:40 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Hi Rasetsu,
I'm sorry that you don't like me.
Moving on, since you aren't interested in having a serious discussion with me, you might consider the same line of reasoning coming from a fellow atheis... |
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February 1, 2014 at 2:11 am |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Hi Simon, I do thank you and others for clarifying the definition of atheism. Lack of belief, owing to insufficient evidence, as opposed to militant assertion of impossibility. That was helpful to me... |
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January 31, 2014 at 9:51 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Hi Max,
You are a courteous gentleman. Thanks for the constructive tone.
I wouldn't assert that theism is the single most effective means of longevity extension or the only path which leads to happi... |
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January 31, 2014 at 6:49 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Hi Simon,
Firstly, here, again, are the links I originally posted (for convenience):
http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/sp...ive-longer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305900/
htt... |
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January 28, 2014 at 7:12 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Regarding: "pure asinine reasonings" and "Bulls--t"
The longevity advantage associated with religious belief is an extra two years of life, which is equivalent to the population impact of curing all ... |
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January 28, 2014 at 5:23 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Hi Kitanetos,
>>As far as I am concerned, there is no inherent good in religion or its belief system, for even to fall prey to the lie of happiness that religious belief instills is not prefera... |
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January 28, 2014 at 4:28 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Hi Simon:
You say:
>>By what method did you determine plausibility?
>>I mean, plausibility is a far step beyond possibility, and should (unless one is gullible) take into consideration ... |
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January 28, 2014 at 3:30 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Hi Kitanetos ,
You say: "A mind that will accept something for which there is no evidence to support it is susceptible to all sorts of nonsense."
Here is the Wikipedia definition of yoga:
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January 28, 2014 at 3:21 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Hi Max, Thank you indeed for the thoughtful comments. I don't want this to devolve to a tit for tat, point by point, series of rejoinders and counter rejoinders. I don't feel the need to challenge m... |
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January 28, 2014 at 2:51 pm |
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Thread: God: No magic required
Post: RE: God: No magic required
| Thanks, Chad. I don't have a problem with people (particularly women) wishing to remain anonymous. But I think that people who choose to use pseudonyms should try to comment responsibly when they fee... |
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