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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
December 7, 2014 at 3:41 pm
Just wanted to nominate this, not only for its epicness but to record its truth for posterity:
(November 30, 2014 at 9:18 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 29, 2014 at 11:39 pm)professor Wrote: Haven't you atheist had any kids?
You tell them- Do NOT go in the street. That street is dangerous.
And still you watch them because you do not trust their judgment.
Actually, I haven't any children of my own, but I get the point you are trying to make, and the point fails utterly.
Yes, I would absolutely tell a child of mine, 'Don't go into the street, dear, it's very dangerous.' And yes, I would keep an eye on my child. But then your analogy falls apart.
God did nothing - absolutely nothing - to prevent Eve from eating the fruit and continued to do nothing when she offered Adam the fruit. If I saw my child about to wander into the street, I would make a mad dash to grab her before she got injured. If she picked up a table knife after I told her not to, I would take it from her. If I saw her climbing into a pen with a littered sow (I grew up on a farm), I would stop her. Christians are fond of make a parent analogy regarding God, and it just doesn't wash. Responsible parents not only warn their children about dangers and watch them, they take steps to protect their children. If your analogy worked, I'd let my child wander into a busy road - while I watched her do it - just for the satisfaction of seeing her killed or crippled so I could crow, 'See what happens when you disobey me?'
Stop using the 'God is a loving parent analogy'. He isn't. If God were a human parent, he'd be brought up on abuse charges.
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
December 7, 2014 at 4:50 pm
Aw, shucks. *goes all blushy*
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
January 18, 2015 at 5:51 pm
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
January 19, 2015 at 5:09 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 1:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Six year olds have the capacity to learn.
Not so sure that is true among believers.
There's a reason this guy wins "Best Poster" every fuckin' year.
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
January 22, 2015 at 12:33 pm
(January 19, 2015 at 5:09 pm)Napoléon Wrote: (January 19, 2015 at 1:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Six year olds have the capacity to learn.
Not so sure that is true among believers.
There's a reason this guy wins "Best Poster" every fuckin' year. He uses the Venture Capitalist model: throwing as many posts at his target markets as he can justify in order to make the big kudo-bucks.
Sum ergo sum
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
January 22, 2015 at 12:40 pm
Min's version of the "invisible hand" is wearing brass knuckles, though.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
January 28, 2015 at 2:41 pm
(January 28, 2015 at 2:38 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: (January 28, 2015 at 2:35 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Yeah, I personally was extremely surprised when I asked my wife to marry me, and her response was to go with me to get a marriage license, sign it, and then purchase rings! I was expecting to be in maximum security by the end of the hour.
It was honestly rather disappointing.
Nah, you're just that 1/100 he was talking about. You just got Luckie~
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
January 28, 2015 at 7:16 pm
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(January 28, 2015 at 6:09 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: It won't even phase them. Creationists are the intellectual Black Knights of the world.
"I cut your arm off."
"No you didn't."
"Well what's that then?"
"I've had worse."
This metaphor is perfect. Even if you completely de-limb creationist arguments and there is absolutely nothing they can say in their own defense, they'll still deny that you've made any good points and continue to insist that they're right.
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
January 28, 2015 at 11:00 pm
Awesome.
(January 28, 2015 at 10:51 pm)Darkstar Wrote: (January 28, 2015 at 10:46 pm)professor Wrote: All fake. But very popular.
Had a friend who would always say, "If it's popular- it's probably false"
You're talking about Christianity, right?
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RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
January 28, 2015 at 11:13 pm
I think that the entire baby eating thread should be nominated
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