RE: High there
August 22, 2013 at 8:14 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2013 at 8:17 pm by Cyberman.)
It's like you can see me through the screen, Captain C! (Is this damn webcam still on?)
Herman, you've made a lot of assertions there that you need either to justify or abandon. And I don't much care for your tone either.
First, you need to look up Pascal's Wager if you're going to keep up. If after reading it you dismiss it as bollocks, great - we agree. Somehow I think our reasons aren't going to mesh, though.
I also agree that people 'should' invest belief in things that are true. Here's where evidence comes in. Do you have any? I'm not merely being facetious either. If you believe the world is a cube when we know it's more-or-less a sphere, you are the one out of step with reality (I won't be so patronising as to say you're living in a dream world).
Phrases such as "there is one Deity that's real" are the very bread and butter of Special Pleading. Look up Burden of Proof as well, while you're at it, as well as the definition of atheism. Atheists aren't the ones asserting "God" doesn't exist; instead we say "God exists? Show me!" Do you see the difference? The former is a strawman so famous, it's outstanding in its field.
I'll skim the rest as I'm falling asleep here. I can do it in four words: knock off the proselytising. I can even do it in three: quit monking around.
Herman, you've made a lot of assertions there that you need either to justify or abandon. And I don't much care for your tone either.
First, you need to look up Pascal's Wager if you're going to keep up. If after reading it you dismiss it as bollocks, great - we agree. Somehow I think our reasons aren't going to mesh, though.
I also agree that people 'should' invest belief in things that are true. Here's where evidence comes in. Do you have any? I'm not merely being facetious either. If you believe the world is a cube when we know it's more-or-less a sphere, you are the one out of step with reality (I won't be so patronising as to say you're living in a dream world).
Phrases such as "there is one Deity that's real" are the very bread and butter of Special Pleading. Look up Burden of Proof as well, while you're at it, as well as the definition of atheism. Atheists aren't the ones asserting "God" doesn't exist; instead we say "God exists? Show me!" Do you see the difference? The former is a strawman so famous, it's outstanding in its field.
I'll skim the rest as I'm falling asleep here. I can do it in four words: knock off the proselytising. I can even do it in three: quit monking around.
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.'
