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What Is The Point Of Prayer?
RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
Address our concerns directly, or keep talking into the wind like you've been doing.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
(August 20, 2013 at 8:22 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Address our concerns directly, or keep talking into the wind like you've been doing.

Maybe I should just ask you about the origin and ultimate destiny of homo sapiens and then address your particular view.

How did we get here and where are we going as homo sapiens?
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
The shark doesn't beat up the female shark and threaten to kill her if she doesn't mate with him, and the same if he thinks she might go to the police afterwards. That seems to be a human peculiarity. Rape isn't merely "forceful copulation", it's about power and dominance for the most part.
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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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
(August 20, 2013 at 8:24 pm)discipulus Wrote: Maybe I should just ask you about the origin and ultimate destiny of homo sapiens and then address your particular view.

How did we get here and where are we going as homo sapiens?

I'd imagine that we might become extinct one day, much like Neanderthals did. Bleak destiny, I know, but reality wasn't nice to the dinosaurs either.

How did we get here? That's a good question. I personally got here because my parents had sex and then my mother gave birth to me. Pretty straight forward, but I'm glad you're taking the time to consider these things.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
(August 20, 2013 at 8:41 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote:
(August 20, 2013 at 8:24 pm)discipulus Wrote: Maybe I should just ask you about the origin and ultimate destiny of homo sapiens and then address your particular view.

How did we get here and where are we going as homo sapiens?

I'd imagine that we might become extinct one day, much like Neanderthals did. Bleak destiny, I know, but reality wasn't nice to the dinosaurs either.

How did we get here? That's a good question. I personally got here because my parents had sex and then my mother gave birth to me. Pretty straight forward, but I'm glad you're taking the time to consider these things.

And their parents? And their parent's parents?

I want to know what your view is regarding the explanation of the first instance of biological life on this planet. How did life originate on this planet?
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
How do you think it did?
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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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
I can't say what happened for certain, but we have several working theories, including the idea that perhaps aliens seeded the planet. Pick one, but I don't recommend toting it as infallible truth. I sure don't.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
Quote:I want to know what your view is regarding the explanation of the first instance of biological life on this planet. How did life originate on this planet?

What does that have to do with fucking praying?

There are plenty of threads around on the subject. Use the search feature.
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
(August 20, 2013 at 9:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:I want to know what your view is regarding the explanation of the first instance of biological life on this planet. How did life originate on this planet?

What does that have to do with fucking praying?

There are plenty of threads around on the subject. Use the search feature.

Simple .. He's praying for a change of subject that might be easier for him to argue.. It's prayer pure and simple..
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RE: What Is The Point Of Prayer?
(August 20, 2013 at 8:43 pm)discipulus Wrote:
(August 20, 2013 at 8:41 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: I'd imagine that we might become extinct one day, much like Neanderthals did. Bleak destiny, I know, but reality wasn't nice to the dinosaurs either.

How did we get here? That's a good question. I personally got here because my parents had sex and then my mother gave birth to me. Pretty straight forward, but I'm glad you're taking the time to consider these things.

And their parents? And their parent's parents?

I want to know what your view is regarding the explanation of the first instance of biological life on this planet. How did life originate on this planet?

I don't know, I don't need to know and my not knowing does not make me beholden to any quick and easy god-did-it theory.
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