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Why do atheists deny that they are just biorobots?
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RE: Why do atheists deny that they are just biorobots?
(November 2, 2014 at 11:57 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I prefer to think of myself as a nest or a habitat for trillions of infinitesimal micro-robots, thank you very much.

All working in unison to create some sort of meta-robot that is self-aware of its experiences of pain and joy, yet somehow theists speak negatively of this understanding, as if we cannot value these experiences as much without belief in a quasi-comforting, anthroprocentric fairy-tale. The funny thing is that by devaluing our view, they're really just demonstrating their own insecurities.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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#32
RE: Why do atheists deny that they are just biorobots?
(November 2, 2014 at 1:29 pm)Faith No More Wrote: yet somehow theists speak negatively of this understanding
actually many atheists do this
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#33
RE: Why do atheists deny that they are just biorobots?
Citation?
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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#34
RE: Why do atheists deny that they are just biorobots?
(November 2, 2014 at 1:45 pm)dimaniac Wrote:
(November 2, 2014 at 1:29 pm)Faith No More Wrote: yet somehow theists speak negatively of this understanding
actually many atheists do this
Who? Where?
Quote:To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
- Lau Tzu

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#35
RE: Why do atheists deny that they are just biorobots?
Did somebody put our url on the asylum wall again?
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#36
RE: Why do atheists deny that they are just biorobots?
Sorry....
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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#37
RE: Why do atheists deny that they are just biorobots?
Dammit, Stim!
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#38
RE: Why do atheists deny that they are just biorobots?
(November 2, 2014 at 2:15 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Sorry....

If you're going to put urls on walls for the loons to get hold of, please put the WBC, the GOP, or Young Earth Creationist websites - those are where the loons seem to gather anyway.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#39
RE: Why do atheists deny that they are just biorobots?
I specifically wrote "whatever you do, most emphatically DO NOT visit atheistforums.org." I even used my best piss handwriting. Maybe I changed the context when I shook it afterwards; added a comma here and there or something.
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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#40
RE: Why do atheists deny that they are just biorobots?
You have to be so careful with those shitheads. They take everything literally.
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