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[Angrboda]

......Atheism depends on keeping people confused. I’ll have many opportunities to point this out …
(all sing) As time goes on …

To avoid confusion, you need to be attentive to the difference between “god” and “God.” The uncapitalized word refers to the fictional gods of paganism. I pointed this out in an earlier post in this thread, so try to keep up. I'm not speaking of any pagan “god.”

“Eschew obfuscation.”

The intelligent question is: What happens if I don't believe in God?

My hunch is that you're asking What happens on the day of judgment? But I'm not God, so of course I wouldn’t know.

But maybe you're asking What happens here and now? What happens here and now is that you continue confusing and misleading yourself and others. You continue to waste your life imagining that the universe “created itself” or that it's “beginningless;” that life arose by the Chance of the Gaps.

It means you continue living in a dream world.

Good luck with that.

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I'm reminded of a passage in one of Asimov's Foundation novels in which they designed a special computer to strip away all the diplomatic jargon and double-talk from speeches given by ambassadors so that they could unambiguously get at the intentions of such envoys. They tried it out when a high ranking diplomat visited and spent three days of non-stop talking, palm pressing, and speech giving. At the end of the three days, they submitted it all to the computer and the computer determined that in his entire three days of talking he hadn't said a single thing. You talk about truth, yet you do the dance of the liar. Why? Are your truths not good enough to stand naked before us?


Answering your questions in reverse order, the image is that of famed Christian mystic, .

And the meaning of my name can be found here: Wikipedia:

When you say the Kellion of St. Makarios, is that attached to the mission near Chicago?

I'm looking forward to your description of the path of a monk.