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Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.

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Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
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RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
November 29, 2012 at 2:06 pm
(November 29, 2012 at 1:28 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(November 28, 2012 at 4:24 pm)alwayson Wrote: Science will never explain the beginning of the universe, because there is no beginning.

Even from a common sense standpoint, Big Bang has previous causes, which itself has previous causes, which itself has previous causes, which has previous causes, which has previous causes, which has previous causes etc.

Either the universe has always existed or it came into existence suddenly from nowhere.
Both options blow peoples minds.

One cannot claim the universe exists. See post 1.
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#112
RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
November 29, 2012 at 2:08 pm
(November 29, 2012 at 2:06 pm)alwayson Wrote:
(November 29, 2012 at 1:28 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Either the universe has always existed or it came into existence suddenly from nowhere.
Both options blow peoples minds.

One cannot claim the universe exists. See post 1.

Yes one can. See reality.



You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.

Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.




 








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RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
November 29, 2012 at 2:08 pm (This post was last modified: November 29, 2012 at 2:10 pm by alwayson.)
(November 29, 2012 at 1:28 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Even if abiogenesis, evolution, the big bang theory and all the rest of science was fundamentally flawed it would not be an argument for gods existence.


I am an atheist. I don't subscribe to a Creator.
(November 29, 2012 at 2:08 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Yes one can. See reality.

Do you tell yourself that when you dream?
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#114
RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
November 29, 2012 at 2:10 pm
what do you mean?

"see post 1"

what is your argument?

"see post 1"

where is your counterargument to my argument?

"see post 1"

ahhhh fuck it

"I claim victory"



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pathetic.
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RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
November 29, 2012 at 2:15 pm (This post was last modified: November 29, 2012 at 2:28 pm by alwayson.)
you are a funny guy
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RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
November 29, 2012 at 2:20 pm
(November 29, 2012 at 2:15 pm)alwayson Wrote: The two distinct substances of apophenia that make up the universe are your semen and your mom's vaginal secretions.

They were mixed at one point correct?


Well if your defence is acusing me on incest.



You will of course understand that I shall report your thread to the mods.
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RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
November 29, 2012 at 2:28 pm (This post was last modified: November 29, 2012 at 2:29 pm by alwayson.)
I will remove the statement.
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#118
RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
November 29, 2012 at 5:49 pm
So how is this non-reality where we live and breathe and eat, and fuck, and talk, and work, and die?
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#119
RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
November 29, 2012 at 5:52 pm
(November 28, 2012 at 8:08 pm)alwayson Wrote:
(November 28, 2012 at 8:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: When the technician comes by, roll up your sleeve and take your meds.
They will help.

I will take this as another sign of victory.

You must lose a lot, then.

What part of "you are a fucking moron" is hardest for you to comprehend?
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RE: Theism and Western atheism are on the same continuum. Both are realist.
November 29, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Should I take it as a sign of victory that this alwayson guy is currently not on? Line, that is. Perhaps he doesn't exist - I took another look at his post 1 and saw nothing.
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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