RE: Atheist billboards in Atlanta
September 16, 2010 at 12:03 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2010 at 12:13 pm by everythingafter.)
(September 15, 2010 at 1:29 am)Minimalist Wrote: Shit, son. I was happy in 2008 when we stopped electing it.
I prophesy more stupid to come in 2012.
(September 16, 2010 at 5:30 am)solja247 Wrote: Lets remove God out of the picture, lets say a being created the universe. That being was created by another being, that being was created by another being, that being was created by another and so forth. We dont get anywhere, unless we say there was an uncaused cause, which is God.
I dont see any logical inconsistencies...
You see, you're assuming there has to be a being to create the universe. And what name would we give this being who created everything if not God? I suppose we can call him/it anything we want, but then it's totally ambiguous. You're also assuming the universe has to be created, for this is the only way many people can make sense out of existence. But the only beings that create things, at least in complicated ways (like computers and metal and plastic), are humans. Everything else that we know about the world (how plants grow, why animals go extinct, how lightning works) are all driven by natural forces. There's no reason to suppose the universe would be any different, even if our very finite minds can't grasp it.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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