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Picking Your Brain...
#21
RE: Picking Your Brain...
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#22
RE: Picking Your Brain...
(July 15, 2014 at 3:30 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: It was once believed one's soul could escape from sneezing
I assume that most christians no longer believe this. Why then, do they persist in a behavior which is groundless and fanciful to the point of disbelief?

-Rhetorical.
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#23
RE: Picking Your Brain...
(July 13, 2014 at 11:33 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Just a little break from the other treads. Not to stereotype but you atheists are brilliant and intelligent in once sense but seemingly blinded, ignorant, and clueless to God's Truth. Nevertheless, I have a question to ask that has more to do with Science and Nature than anything else...

If a person, let's say lived in Antarctica, and never ever had contact with another human being, would it be possible for he/she to ever contract a cold?

Yes. If they were exposed to the appropriate virus through a non human vector. Unlikely, but possible.

Why?
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#24
RE: Picking Your Brain...
(July 13, 2014 at 11:33 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Not to stereotype but you atheists are brilliant and intelligent in once sense but seemingly blinded, ignorant, and clueless to God's Truth.
(bold added)
(July 14, 2014 at 8:26 am)Revelation777 Wrote: This tread was not intended to discussion belief in God or not.
And yet your OP does just that Thinking
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#25
RE: Picking Your Brain...
(July 13, 2014 at 11:33 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Not to stereotype but you atheists are brilliant and intelligent in once sense but seemingly blinded, ignorant, and clueless to God's Truth.
Not to obnoxiously condescend, but perhaps we're brilliant and intelligent in more than "one sense" and it turns out that "god's truth" only makes sense to the blind, ignorant, and clueless?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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#26
RE: Picking Your Brain...
Or "God's Truth" makes you blind, ignorant and clueless.
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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#27
RE: Picking Your Brain...
(July 13, 2014 at 11:33 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Just a little break from the other treads. Not to stereotype but you atheists are brilliant and intelligent in once sense but seemingly blinded, ignorant, and clueless to God's Truth. Nevertheless, I have a question to ask that has more to do with Science and Nature than anything else...

If a person, let's say lived in Antarctica, and never ever had contact with another human being, would it be possible for he/she to ever contract a cold?

Of course we're blinded to the claims of something that's not there.

There's no truth in the imaginary.

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#28
RE: Picking Your Brain...
(July 15, 2014 at 3:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
(July 15, 2014 at 3:30 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: It was once believed one's soul could escape from sneezing
I assume that most christians no longer believe this. Why then, do they persist in a behavior which is groundless and fanciful to the point of disbelief?

-Rhetorical.

Maybe habit and it appears to be considerate and polite.

(July 15, 2014 at 3:47 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: [Image: atheist-response-to-jehovah-amp-039-s-wi...950155.jpg]

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(July 15, 2014 at 4:58 pm)ShaMan Wrote:
(July 13, 2014 at 11:33 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Not to stereotype but you atheists are brilliant and intelligent in once sense but seemingly blinded, ignorant, and clueless to God's Truth.
(bold added)
(July 14, 2014 at 8:26 am)Revelation777 Wrote: This tread was not intended to discussion belief in God or not.
And yet your OP does just that Thinking

Sorry, was thinking out loud, was wrong of me

(July 15, 2014 at 5:36 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Or "God's Truth" makes you blind, ignorant and clueless.

huh? that's your opinion which I heartily disagree
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#29
RE: Picking Your Brain...
(July 15, 2014 at 2:15 pm)Losty Wrote:
(July 15, 2014 at 2:08 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: What do atheist's tell each other when they sneeze?

I usually go with "cover your face, asshole" regardless if whether or not they're atheist...

I go with the slightly more subtle "Damn dude! Need a tissue?" Big Grin

(July 15, 2014 at 3:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote:
(July 15, 2014 at 3:30 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: It was once believed one's soul could escape from sneezing
I assume that most christians no longer believe this. Why then, do they persist in a behavior which is groundless and fanciful to the point of disbelief?

-Rhetorical.

Because it gives 'em a cheap thrill whenever they say gawd bless?
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#30
RE: Picking Your Brain...
Op to which god do you refer? There are just so many and they all claim to be the true God, yet they all contradict each other so much that I can not help but find that skepticism is my natural position to all of their claims.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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