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Why do you actually believe in God?

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Why do you actually believe in God?
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RE: Why do you actually believe in God?
July 1, 2016 at 8:10 pm
(July 1, 2016 at 8:05 pm)Veritas_Vincit Wrote:
(July 1, 2016 at 8:02 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: How can you praise a single person for a single act without belief in free-will though?

What are you praising if they had no choice in the matter?

What are you actually respecting?

How can I without free will? I can't help it, it just happens ;-)

I respect awesomeness. Respect is the appreciation of awesomeness.
Dude when you like music it's not an act of free will, correct? You are respecting the people who have managed to do something amazing or something you enjoy / appreciate. Simple.

I believe the taste we acquire for music does involve free-will as does falling in love with a person.  It's not that it's totally us deciding but neither is it without a free-will on our part.

So there is no such thing as objective merit type value, but there is an objective awesomeness to people you can't help but respect. Ok, define what awesomeness is. Why not include merit type value in that definition?
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Why do you actually believe in God?

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Why do you actually believe in God? - by Veritas_Vincit - June 29, 2016 at 8:09 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Chad32 - June 29, 2016 at 8:42 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ignorant - June 29, 2016 at 9:18 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ayen - June 29, 2016 at 9:47 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - June 29, 2016 at 10:02 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ayen - June 29, 2016 at 10:04 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by rexbeccarox - June 29, 2016 at 10:56 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ayen - June 29, 2016 at 11:02 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ayen - June 29, 2016 at 2:41 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Crossless1 - June 29, 2016 at 3:51 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - June 29, 2016 at 10:15 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Athene - June 29, 2016 at 11:19 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Spirian - June 29, 2016 at 2:10 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ayen - June 29, 2016 at 3:45 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ignorant - June 29, 2016 at 4:30 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ayen - June 29, 2016 at 5:05 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ignorant - June 29, 2016 at 5:21 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Angrboda - June 29, 2016 at 7:33 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ayen - June 29, 2016 at 5:50 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ignorant - June 29, 2016 at 6:16 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Ayen - June 29, 2016 at 6:20 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by KevinM1 - June 29, 2016 at 9:52 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Angrboda - July 5, 2016 at 3:38 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by lisah - June 29, 2016 at 9:58 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by KevinM1 - June 29, 2016 at 11:26 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by drfuzzy - June 29, 2016 at 11:42 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by drfuzzy - June 30, 2016 at 1:16 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by John V - June 30, 2016 at 2:36 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Crossless1 - July 1, 2016 at 12:41 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 1, 2016 at 1:03 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Angrboda - July 1, 2016 at 3:11 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 1, 2016 at 1:38 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by drfuzzy - July 1, 2016 at 2:59 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 1, 2016 at 3:04 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Mr.wizard - July 1, 2016 at 7:23 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 1, 2016 at 7:48 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by deleteduser12345 - July 3, 2016 at 9:10 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Angrboda - July 1, 2016 at 7:55 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by MysticKnight - July 1, 2016 at 8:10 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by deleteduser12345 - July 3, 2016 at 9:12 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Mr.wizard - July 1, 2016 at 8:12 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Mr.wizard - July 1, 2016 at 8:17 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Mr.wizard - July 1, 2016 at 8:47 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by deleteduser12345 - July 3, 2016 at 9:08 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 1, 2016 at 8:50 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 1, 2016 at 8:56 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Mr.wizard - July 1, 2016 at 8:55 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Expired - July 1, 2016 at 9:13 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by deleteduser12345 - July 3, 2016 at 9:15 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Sheed1980 - July 2, 2016 at 6:50 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Cyberman - July 2, 2016 at 7:35 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 2, 2016 at 8:56 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Cyberman - July 2, 2016 at 11:29 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Cyberman - July 2, 2016 at 12:07 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 2, 2016 at 12:41 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Expired - July 2, 2016 at 6:50 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Sheed1980 - July 3, 2016 at 4:08 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 3, 2016 at 1:13 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 3, 2016 at 5:09 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Cyberman - July 3, 2016 at 6:32 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 3, 2016 at 6:35 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by deleteduser12345 - July 3, 2016 at 9:42 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 5, 2016 at 3:33 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 6, 2016 at 2:08 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 6, 2016 at 9:53 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by madog - July 6, 2016 at 11:04 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 6, 2016 at 11:20 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by madog - July 6, 2016 at 11:35 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 6, 2016 at 11:47 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 6, 2016 at 11:53 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by robvalue - July 7, 2016 at 12:03 am
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by Safirno - July 8, 2016 at 4:35 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by madog - July 8, 2016 at 4:51 pm
RE: Why do you actually believe in God? - by drfuzzy - July 9, 2016 at 6:23 pm

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