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RE: How Christians and there god sound to me.
November 6, 2012 at 6:50 pm
(November 6, 2012 at 5:57 pm)John V Wrote: (November 6, 2012 at 5:33 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Indeed you did... I must have misinterpreted it. Sorry about that...
Then you say they were smarter than we are now. Like I said, they knew about their environment, like we know about ours. We keep adapting to new things... back then, new things were not that common... Think about it in terms of natural selection. Technology allows more and dumber people to survive and reproduce. It also allows people to score and not reproduce. If those people tend to be the more intelligent ones, that's another blow to average fitness.
Not that I think of it only in those terms, but those might make sense to you. LOL!
Reminds me of this movie:
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RE: How Christians and there god sound to me.
November 6, 2012 at 7:35 pm
(November 6, 2012 at 6:50 pm)pocaracas Wrote: (November 6, 2012 at 5:57 pm)John V Wrote: Think about it in terms of natural selection. Technology allows more and dumber people to survive and reproduce. It also allows people to score and not reproduce. If those people tend to be the more intelligent ones, that's another blow to average fitness.
Not that I think of it only in those terms, but those might make sense to you. LOL!
Reminds me of this movie:
Its Funny because It is true at least for the USA.
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RE: How Christians and there god sound to me.
November 6, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Consider also that these bronze age goat herders and their successors are the best selling authors in history.
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RE: How Christians and there god sound to me.
November 6, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Meaningless.
But typical of the kind of shit you clowns trot out when rationality fails.
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RE: How Christians and there god sound to me.
November 6, 2012 at 8:01 pm
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(November 6, 2012 at 7:49 pm)John V Wrote: Consider also that these bronze age goat herders and their successors are the best selling authors in history.
Congratulations are in order. After all, they're in good company...
...with all of the other writers of popular fiction.
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RE: How Christians and there god sound to me.
November 6, 2012 at 8:11 pm
(November 6, 2012 at 7:49 pm)John V Wrote: Consider also that these bronze age goat herders and their successors are the best selling authors in history.
I'm pretty sure that Harry Potter will have sold more when it's been around 2,000 years.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
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RE: How Christians and there god sound to me.
November 6, 2012 at 8:15 pm
(November 6, 2012 at 7:49 pm)John V Wrote: Consider also that these bronze age goat herders and their successors are the best selling authors in history.
Only because they forced their novel with the sword until there was enough idiots to accept it as fact. Back in those days I could have forced Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings as fact and today people would believe it as revealed truth. Despite it being complete 100% bullshit and fictitious.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
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Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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RE: How Christians and there god sound to me.
November 7, 2012 at 8:04 am
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(November 6, 2012 at 8:11 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: (November 6, 2012 at 7:49 pm)John V Wrote: Consider also that these bronze age goat herders and their successors are the best selling authors in history.
I'm pretty sure that Harry Potter will have sold more when it's been around 2,000 years. I'm pretty sure people will say "Harry who?" in well less than 2,000 years.
(November 6, 2012 at 8:15 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: (November 6, 2012 at 7:49 pm)John V Wrote: Consider also that these bronze age goat herders and their successors are the best selling authors in history.
Only because they forced their novel with the sword until there was enough idiots to accept it as fact. Back in those days I could have forced Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings as fact and today people would believe it as revealed truth. Despite it being complete 100% bullshit and fictitious. Ah. the always popular (and unsupported) "back in those days" argument. Speaking of bullshit...
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RE: How Christians and there god sound to me.
November 7, 2012 at 10:05 am
(November 7, 2012 at 8:04 am)John V Wrote: (November 6, 2012 at 8:15 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: Only because they forced their novel with the sword until there was enough idiots to accept it as fact. Back in those days I could have forced Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings as fact and today people would believe it as revealed truth. Despite it being complete 100% bullshit and fictitious. Ah. the always popular (and unsupported) "back in those days" argument. Speaking of bullshit...
There's the good example of Macbeth and Hamlet... 400 years later, people still know them.
Of course, no one thinks it's fact, because everyone knows it's fiction. Was developed as fiction and sold to people as fiction.
Religious texts, are developed as .............. (fill in the blank) and sold as fact. Some people buy them and then spread it out... because the text explicitly orders people to spread it out... I wonder what would happen if it didn't specify that so explicitly.
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RE: How Christians and there god sound to me.
November 7, 2012 at 11:17 am
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(November 7, 2012 at 8:04 am)John V Wrote: (November 6, 2012 at 8:15 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: Only because they forced their novel with the sword until there was enough idiots to accept it as fact. Back in those days I could have forced Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings as fact and today people would believe it as revealed truth. Despite it being complete 100% bullshit and fictitious. Ah. the always popular (and unsupported) "back in those days" argument. Speaking of bullshit... Well I could have, people 2000+ year ago would have believe anything I told them, nothing has chanced in the Bible belt today.
just like this, and its more historically accurate then your little book.
Any other Christians want to try my 9 points?
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
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