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Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?

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Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 5, 2014 at 12:20 am
There u go parading your xtraordinary humility, meekness, and poverty of spirit Wink
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 5, 2014 at 6:59 am
(April 4, 2014 at 9:32 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote:
(April 4, 2014 at 9:26 pm)tor Wrote: Well if you are not better than me what's the ramble about bigoted atheists?
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I simply stated that I can't stand them. I can't stand going to work either but learn to deal with it.

Then you suck.
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 5, 2014 at 12:58 pm
If a belief is a lie, it does not matter that good feelings or comfort can come from those beliefs. One is still living a lie by adhering to those beliefs. There is no rational reason behind living a lie rather than accepting the truth.
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#44
RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 5, 2014 at 6:58 pm
(April 5, 2014 at 12:58 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: If a belief is a lie, it does not matter that good feelings or comfort can come from those beliefs. One is still living a lie by adhering to those beliefs. There is no rational reason behind living a lie rather than accepting the truth.

Sing it sister
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#45
Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 5, 2014 at 8:14 pm
(April 5, 2014 at 6:58 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:
(April 5, 2014 at 12:58 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: If a belief is a lie, it does not matter that good feelings or comfort can come from those beliefs. One is still living a lie by adhering to those beliefs. There is no rational reason behind living a lie rather than accepting the truth.

Sing it sister

From Frodo, believer in no rational support for his irrational beliefs that are indistinguishable from lies.
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 5, 2014 at 8:19 pm (This post was last modified: April 5, 2014 at 8:19 pm by Phatt Matt s.)
(April 5, 2014 at 12:58 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: If a belief is a lie, it does not matter that good feelings or comfort can come from those beliefs. One is still living a lie by adhering to those beliefs. There is no rational reason behind living a lie rather than accepting the truth.

The problem is there are a lot of theories. A person that doesnt believe in god could be adhering to a lie as well.
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 6, 2014 at 5:11 am
(April 5, 2014 at 8:14 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: From Frodo, believer in no rational support for his irrational beliefs that are indistinguishable from lies.

Say what? lol

Is your post purely flaming? Again? (/sarcasm) What's your secret? How come you can get away with constant flaming where other people can't?

1. I constantly offer rational explanations to explain all of my beliefs, as they are rationally held.

2. Please demonstrate where I have lied.

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#48
RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 7, 2014 at 7:42 am
yes and no.

It really does depend. But then again, some people don'y much care about "truth" unless it supports what they want.
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 7, 2014 at 10:36 am
(April 5, 2014 at 8:19 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: The problem is there are a lot of theories. A person that doesnt believe in god could be adhering to a lie as well.

True. However, it is more rational to not believe in something when there is no evidence to support its existence than to believe in it for the sake of believing a lie over what is apparently the truth.

The truth right now is that supernatural deities do not exist any more than leprechauns or unicorns exist. If proof relating to the existences of these things can be provided, only then can we state that not believing in them would be lying to ourselves.
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RE: Can believing in bullshit be a good thing?
April 7, 2014 at 10:39 am
*supernatural deities don't exist because we can't sense them with our 5 senses*

Hmmm Thinking

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