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Atheism is the absence of reason..
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RE: Atheism is the absence of reason..
August 4, 2015 at 1:04 pm
(August 4, 2015 at 12:54 pm)lkingpinl Wrote:
(August 4, 2015 at 12:52 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: And dependent on an existing mind and minds are just the output of physical processes in the brain. So the thoughts can indeed be material.

Let me know when one of my thoughts whacks you in the head.

If I monitored your brain to map the specific configuration of chemicals of a given thought and replicated them once I removed your brain, in a very real sense I could indeed slap someone in the face with the physical components that your thoughts represent. Did you just think there wouldn't be an answer to such a flippant, dismissive answer?

I can't whack you in the head with a projection on a movie screen either. Doesn't mean that the projection is immaterial, just that the nature of the physical properties that make it up precludes overt physical violence with it, on a scale that we could perceive. Projected images are composed of light, even if I can't slap you with them. Thoughts are composed of neurochemistry, in exactly the same way.
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Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Vault Boy - August 4, 2015 at 9:56 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Mister Agenda - August 4, 2015 at 10:01 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by loganonekenobi - August 4, 2015 at 11:51 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by robvalue - August 4, 2015 at 10:04 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by loganonekenobi - August 4, 2015 at 10:05 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Alex K - August 4, 2015 at 10:07 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by KevinM1 - August 4, 2015 at 10:29 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by robvalue - August 4, 2015 at 10:33 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Aoi Magi - August 4, 2015 at 10:33 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Tiberius - August 4, 2015 at 10:36 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by I_am_not_mafia - August 4, 2015 at 10:46 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Brian37 - August 4, 2015 at 10:58 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by JesusHChrist - August 4, 2015 at 11:11 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Longhorn - August 4, 2015 at 11:24 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by LostLocke - August 4, 2015 at 11:29 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Exian - August 4, 2015 at 11:37 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Longhorn - August 4, 2015 at 11:43 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by robvalue - August 4, 2015 at 11:46 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by JesusHChrist - August 4, 2015 at 11:51 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Vault Boy - August 4, 2015 at 11:49 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by robvalue - August 4, 2015 at 11:50 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Whateverist - August 4, 2015 at 4:30 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by robvalue - August 4, 2015 at 11:52 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by LastPoet - August 4, 2015 at 11:58 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Kingpin - August 4, 2015 at 12:09 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by robvalue - August 4, 2015 at 12:13 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Kingpin - August 4, 2015 at 12:23 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by LastPoet - August 4, 2015 at 12:38 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by downbeatplumb - August 4, 2015 at 12:52 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Kingpin - August 4, 2015 at 12:54 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by downbeatplumb - August 4, 2015 at 1:03 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Esquilax - August 4, 2015 at 1:04 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Longhorn - August 4, 2015 at 12:33 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by robvalue - August 4, 2015 at 1:09 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Iroscato - August 4, 2015 at 1:10 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Iroscato - August 4, 2015 at 1:26 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Whateverist - August 4, 2015 at 1:30 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by LastPoet - August 4, 2015 at 1:48 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Aoi Magi - August 4, 2015 at 2:14 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Aoi Magi - August 4, 2015 at 2:27 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by LastPoet - August 4, 2015 at 4:18 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Whateverist - August 4, 2015 at 4:36 pm
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by Vault Boy - August 6, 2015 at 10:55 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by robvalue - August 6, 2015 at 10:57 am
RE: Atheism is the absence of reason.. - by JesusHChrist - August 6, 2015 at 12:30 pm

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