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Trying to save people
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RE: Trying to save people
August 22, 2014 at 12:36 pm
(August 22, 2014 at 12:27 pm)Losty Wrote: I don't think calling love a biological reaction reduces it or makes it sad. I think knowing that it is technically nothing more than a biological reaction makes it all the more beautiful and mysterious and amazing. Can you imagine? A chemical reaction that creates emotions and thoughts and feelings so powerful in our minds (a place that technically doesn't even exist), what could be more awesome than that?

MDMA is pretty damn cool in a similar respect.
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RE: Trying to save people
August 22, 2014 at 1:06 pm (This post was last modified: August 22, 2014 at 1:36 pm by Losty.)
(August 22, 2014 at 12:36 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: MDMA is pretty damn cool in a similar respect.

The way it works really is cool. I've never tried it and I don't plan to but thinking about that kind of stuff is cool to me. Things like love are cooler IMO because they just happen naturally and you don't have to take anything to induce the effects.
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RE: Trying to save people
August 22, 2014 at 1:23 pm
Some of us have to take things to reduce the effects of the effects...
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: Trying to save people
August 22, 2014 at 1:36 pm
(August 22, 2014 at 1:23 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Some of us have to take things to reduce the effects of the effects...

Me too, bae. *hugs*
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RE: Trying to save people
August 22, 2014 at 3:20 pm
I know what I'd far rather take...
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: Trying to save people
August 22, 2014 at 3:21 pm (This post was last modified: August 22, 2014 at 3:23 pm by Whateverist.)
(August 18, 2014 at 7:25 am)John S Wrote: This isn't the point of this thread but let me just say that the "being saved" doctrine is false. NO human being is "saved" until they die and then GOD decides whether they go to Heaven or not.

I agree with you regarding what you find false but disagree with what you think true.

(August 18, 2014 at 7:25 am)John S Wrote: When people make the statement that they are "saved", what they are actually saying is that THEY have decided that they are going to Heaven. In other words, they are making the statement that they are above God and don't need Him to get into Heaven. To atheists this means nothing but to "Christians", this way of thinking is blasphemy - the WORST offense that a Christian can make.

I would think the worst sort of blasphemy would be to think you understand the mind of god or know the bible is the word of god or that He intended for you to read it literally. Every attempt to reduce the mystery of god to doctrine may be a blasphemy for all we know. Perhaps even to anthropomorphize god is a major put down from His point of view. Could be.
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RE: Trying to save people
August 22, 2014 at 7:39 pm
(August 22, 2014 at 3:21 pm)whateverist Wrote: I would think the worst sort of blasphemy would be to think you understand the mind of god or know the bible is the word of god or that He intended for you to read it literally. Every attempt to reduce the mystery of god to doctrine may be a blasphemy for all we know. Perhaps even to anthropomorphize god is a major put down from His point of view. Could be.

Fantastic point. Thinking that an actual God, capable of creating the entire universe from nothing, could be summarized in a couple hundred pages of text seems almost as ridiculous as thinking such an entity could exist.
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RE: Trying to save people
August 22, 2014 at 7:55 pm
(August 21, 2014 at 7:34 pm)Polaris Wrote:
(August 21, 2014 at 2:00 pm)Mothonis_Cathicgal Wrote: Obey me or burn forever and never question it. Not hard to understand Thinking

Because all theists are Christians...
You dont very often see atheists comlaining about other groups because most of them don't try to force every one to think like them
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RE: Trying to save people
August 23, 2014 at 12:26 am
(August 22, 2014 at 7:55 pm)Mothonis_Cathicgal Wrote:
(August 21, 2014 at 7:34 pm)Polaris Wrote: Because all theists are Christians...
You dont very often see atheists comlaining about other groups because most of them don't try to force every one to think like them

You're from America, aren't you?
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