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    Thread: Why the Texas shooting is not evil, based on the bible
Post: RE: Why the Texas shooting is not evil, based on t...

LR's not new to me. Although I'm technically a noob, I lurk in the background more often than I should... Have no fear, though! Despite being familiar with LR, I've yet to figure them out :/
Qwraith Religion 56 15567 November 9, 2017 at 10:06 pm
    Thread: Why the Texas shooting is not evil, based on the bible
Post: RE: Why the Texas shooting is not evil, based on t...

(November 9, 2017 at 4:02 am)Little Rik Wrote: You don't get it Face.  :banging-head-on-desk: If you would have read my post carefully you would have understood that I am not argue whether in the ...
Qwraith Religion 56 15567 November 9, 2017 at 8:41 pm
    Thread: Is atheism self-contradictory ?
Post: RE: Is atheism self-contradictory ?

@OP Maybe you gave your reasoning already but I missed it, but why exactly do you believe the human mind with evolutionary origins is untrustworthy? From what I can tell, trust is about verification ...
Qwraith Atheism 259 84512 June 27, 2017 at 4:16 am
    Thread: Objective morality as a proper basic belief
Post: RE: Objective morality as a proper basic belief

@OP Forgive me as I don't have a complete understanding of the Abrahamic religions, let alone Christianity, but I don't understand how you can get to objective morality even with God. Dude regularly ...
Qwraith Atheism 609 160534 June 27, 2017 at 2:38 am
    Thread: Raising an Atheist
Post: RE: Raising an Atheist

Just be sure to love your children unconditionally regardless of what they end up believing as they transition into adulthood. It's important they know that no matter what you'll always be there for t...
Qwraith Atheism 19 1759 November 1, 2016 at 7:26 pm
    Thread: What do you believe in that hasnt been proven to exist?
Post: RE: What do you believe in that hasnt been proven ...

The difference between believing in alien life and say unicorns or fairies is that aliens have a basis in reality, in the natural world. If we do away with the possibility of god creating us, then as ...
Qwraith Religion 197 24025 October 29, 2016 at 6:35 am
    Thread: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof for God existing?
Post: RE: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof f...

(October 28, 2016 at 3:19 am)Mariosep Wrote: Dear colleague Mathilda, first forgive me, but I am not conversant with the formatting codes here, I am more conversant with vBulletin; or simply I am no...
Qwraith Atheism 1101 117756 October 28, 2016 at 4:31 am
    Thread: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof for God existing?
Post: RE: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof f...

You keep asking for our concept of god. This is nonsense... We're Atheists! We don't have a concept of god outside the thousands-if-not-millions of god claims that have been proposed by people. You...
Qwraith Atheism 1101 117756 October 26, 2016 at 4:33 am
    Thread: How I deal with no afterlife
Post: RE: How I deal with no afterlife

Of course it's fine to want for your own happiness. Even solely for your own happiness. But how would you recognize happiness without sadness, pleasure without pain? I'd like to live forever too, but ...
Qwraith Atheism 117 11531 October 21, 2016 at 8:35 pm
    Thread: How I deal with no afterlife
Post: RE: How I deal with no afterlife

So, animals don't experience joy? "my ability to cherish this life is always being hindered by the idea that I will just forever decay one day when I die." This bit doesn't seem sensible to me. In ...
Qwraith Atheism 117 11531 October 21, 2016 at 8:16 pm
    Thread: How I deal with no afterlife
Post: RE: How I deal with no afterlife

What exactly do you think will happen when the time comes? What do you envision the afterlife to be like? There's nothing necessarily about an afterlife ensuring happiness/pleasure/tranquility/what-ha...
Qwraith Atheism 117 11531 October 21, 2016 at 7:57 am
    Thread: How I deal with no afterlife
Post: RE: How I deal with no afterlife

I think most of us can agree, from an atheistic perspective, we are not "special". For to be special implies purpose or external thought. As we do not believe in external thought, outside of human tho...
Qwraith Atheism 117 11531 October 20, 2016 at 4:17 am
    Thread: what do you think about immortality coming?
Post: RE: what do you think about immortality coming?

Why, of course, "they" are the underlying and overarching organisation that lines its tentacles through each corner of the Earth. They are the hidden cockroaches watching you sleep soundly at night. T...
Qwraith Atheism 61 7794 March 5, 2016 at 10:36 pm
    Thread: what do you think about immortality coming?
Post: RE: what do you think about immortality coming?

(March 3, 2016 at 3:19 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Well I certainly wouldn't wanna live in space or in another planet. I still think there would be a population problem. Okay. You stay here and I'll exp...
Qwraith Atheism 61 7794 March 4, 2016 at 10:04 pm
    Thread: How Do You Get Over Death?
Post: RE: How Do You Get Over Death?

Quote:Shuffle (September 2, 2015 at 8:30 pm)Qwraith Wrote: Here's the relevant article: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html Sorry for the late reply: Why would heat death make it imp...
Qwraith Atheism 124 25898 September 2, 2015 at 10:32 pm
    Thread: How Do You Get Over Death?
Post: RE: How Do You Get Over Death?

(August 28, 2015 at 11:38 pm)Shuffle Wrote: (August 28, 2015 at 9:31 pm)IATIA Wrote: Obviously you are behind in the new theories of the universe.  The mainstream thought is that space-time itself...
Qwraith Atheism 124 25898 September 2, 2015 at 8:30 pm
    Thread: Christians. Prove That You Are Real/True Christians
Post: RE: Christians. Prove That You Are Real/True Chris...

(August 30, 2015 at 8:50 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: (August 30, 2015 at 8:29 pm)abaris Wrote: How do you newbs actually find these thread corpses? I would be hard pressed pulling that grave robber...
Qwraith Christianity 155 51218 August 31, 2015 at 1:16 am
    Thread: How Do You Get Over Death?
Post: RE: How Do You Get Over Death?

Pyrrho Wrote:Why be pissed about something that you will not mind when it happens?Because it hasn't happened yet, and I'm allowed to reserve the right to be pissed about things. It's like why be pisse...
Qwraith Atheism 124 25898 August 18, 2015 at 10:42 am
    Thread: How Do You Get Over Death?
Post: RE: How Do You Get Over Death?

(August 18, 2015 at 9:07 am)Pyrrho Wrote: (August 18, 2015 at 4:26 am)Qwraith Wrote: Like others, I'm just pissed I won't get to see what happens to humanity. But I want to see that! I just ...
Qwraith Atheism 124 25898 August 18, 2015 at 9:21 am
    Thread: How Do You Get Over Death?
Post: RE: How Do You Get Over Death?

Like others, I'm just pissed I won't get to see what happens to humanity. Quote:On the plus side, you'll miss the inevitable demise of our species via nuclear/chemical war, economic/environmental dis...
Qwraith Atheism 124 25898 August 18, 2015 at 4:26 am