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Bertrand Russel on God (1959)
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That old guy seems pretty smart
binny
God on Bertrand Russell
God: BERTRAND!!! , did you put that friggin' teapot in orbit? Bertrand: What teapot, it's a metaphore I used. God: But should not I be the one using the metaphores? Bertrand: Yes, but the teapot as a teapot is not really there at all, rather it is the set of all empty teapots that contains itself. God: BERTRAND!! Bertrand: Yes, God? God: Don't pull me that shit. Is there a teapot or is there not. Bertrand: Well, that really depends... God: Depends, on what Bertrand, don't use that postmodern shit on me, tell me right now, on what does it depend?? Bertrand: It really depends if you believe in the reality of mathematics. God: There is no reality in mathematics Bertrand, that's just some crap I made up to keep you humans busy for a while so I had some spare time to cause some other universes in existence Bertrand: But if you do not subscribe mathematical truth, then you surely cannot exist. God: How's that? Bertrand: Then you're attributes are incomplete. God: My attributes are what?? Bertrand: Incomplete, since mathematical proof is absolute. And since your attributes are incomplete, you cannot be perfect. And since you cannot be perfect, you are either not god or you don't exist. What will it be? God: Ahhhrgh, I hate that British arrogance of yours Bertrand.... And there, again, god dissapeared in a puff of logic...had he existed
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis Faith is illogical - fr0d0  (December 28, 2009 at 4:08 pm)binny Wrote: That old guy seems pretty smart Ya think? That old guy is Bertrand Russell, arguably the best [and most influential] philosopher of his generation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell I read 'Why I Am Not a Christian' in 1972. Although Russell did not change my basic position, his ideas are expressed so lucidly and so elegantly,he did help me crystalise my views .--having read Russell, who was a first rate thinker is why I'm relatively underwhelmed by Dawkins and Hitchens who are not.. 
Brilliant indeed!
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I agree Bertrand Russel was a hell of a philosopher and I too read many of his works especially on the subject of religion.
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