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Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
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 (September 10, 2014 at 3:15 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Put another way, love is feeling the same way about someone when you're no longer horny. There is no such state.
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.'
 (September 8, 2014 at 2:55 pm)naimless Wrote: 1. Does love exist?Cleveland Cavaliers fans read this and get a very warm and tingly feeling all over.
"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."
-Stephen Jay Gould 
Love is overrated.
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Naimless, you really want to know what I think love is? Especially the romantic kind? Love is when you're sick and your girlfriend walks all the way from DC to Bethesda to find a lost umbrella, and not only that, she buys you a non-stick frying pan for your eggs. I think I would propose tomorrow if our financial situation was a lot more stable.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.  RE: Atheists Only Please: Serious Question About Love
September 10, 2014 at 2:36 pm
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2014 at 2:36 pm by naimless.)
(September 10, 2014 at 2:22 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: Naimless, you really want to know what I think love is? Especially the romantic kind? Love is when you're sick and your girlfriend walks all the way from DC to Bethesda to find a lost umbrella, and not only that, she buys you a non-stick frying pan for your eggs. I think I would propose tomorrow if our financial situation was a lot more stable. [content removed] 
What a lovely and informative anecdote.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson  (September 10, 2014 at 12:27 pm)Tonus Wrote:(September 8, 2014 at 2:55 pm)naimless Wrote: 1. Does love exist?Cleveland Cavaliers fans read this and get a very warm and tingly feeling all over. You know it! This may be our only shot at a championship. Believeland baby! I can feel the Love. (September 10, 2014 at 2:36 pm)naimless Wrote:(September 10, 2014 at 2:22 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: Naimless, you really want to know what I think love is? Especially the romantic kind? Love is when you're sick and your girlfriend walks all the way from DC to Bethesda to find a lost umbrella, and not only that, she buys you a non-stick frying pan for your eggs. I think I would propose tomorrow if our financial situation was a lot more stable. ![[Image: 92d7e53d933fd6dd1b9a5042c6cbb31e.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F92%2Fd7%2Fe5%2F92d7e53d933fd6dd1b9a5042c6cbb31e.jpg)
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.  (September 10, 2014 at 2:22 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: Naimless, you really want to know what I think love is? Especially the romantic kind? Love is when you're sick and your girlfriend walks all the way from DC to Bethesda to find a lost umbrella, and not only that, she buys you a non-stick frying pan for your eggs. I think I would propose tomorrow if our financial situation was a lot more stable. Love is going to bed with a problem and waking up with a solution in hand. MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment) (September 10, 2014 at 3:35 pm)ManMachine Wrote:(September 10, 2014 at 2:22 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote: Naimless, you really want to know what I think love is? Especially the romantic kind? Love is when you're sick and your girlfriend walks all the way from DC to Bethesda to find a lost umbrella, and not only that, she buys you a non-stick frying pan for your eggs. I think I would propose tomorrow if our financial situation was a lot more stable. so love is whiskey |
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