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What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?

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RE: What philosophical evidence is there against believing in non-physical entities?

September 1, 2016 at 6:14 pm

(August 31, 2016 at 2:42 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
(August 31, 2016 at 2:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: At least the believers on this forum are willing to challenge each other.

Are they........lol?

Sure they are. They challenge each other to see who can come up with the most ludicrous assertions.

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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