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Critical thought is hard
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RE: Critical thought is hard
April 19, 2015 at 11:27 am
(April 6, 2015 at 12:38 pm)Mezmo! Wrote: The most important line in the whole movie was the one that I invite you to ask yourself: "What gives you hope?"
I woke up today and the sun was shining.
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RE: Critical thought is hard
April 19, 2015 at 11:30 am (This post was last modified: April 19, 2015 at 11:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Those mornings I manage to zip my pants up without knicking my unit.  Gonna be a good day tater!

(your welcome for that sunrise btw nestor - I worked on it real hard..yet another service I provide)
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RE: Critical thought is hard
April 19, 2015 at 11:54 am
You know it's gonna be a pile-on of a day whenever you look into the sky and see "SUN.exe has stopped working."
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RE: Critical thought is hard
April 19, 2015 at 12:22 pm
Take off the fedora and try again Tongue
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RE: Critical thought is hard
April 19, 2015 at 6:39 pm
For those interested, a thorough philosophical takedown of the arguments in the movie referenced in the OP:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithh...e-for-god/
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RE: Critical thought is hard
April 19, 2015 at 7:13 pm
(April 9, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Iroscato Wrote:
(April 9, 2015 at 4:53 pm)Mezmo! Wrote: Discontent sometimes makes you dig deeper for the truth. 
As I understand it, your belief means that there is an all-encompassing force which pervades the universe and keeps the plates spinning, rather than a fat old man sitting on a cloud eternally battling haemorrhoids, am I correct? Please correct me if I've got it wrong.
Still, I have a question. Why do you feel there has to be an intelligence driving the universe? Why can it not just be a result of natural processes acting out as a result of entropy?

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RE: Critical thought is hard
April 19, 2015 at 7:36 pm
(April 19, 2015 at 6:39 pm)Cato Wrote: For those interested, a thorough philosophical takedown of the arguments in the movie referenced in the OP:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithh...e-for-god/

That's a really fantastic review. Thanks. I especially enjoyed his speculations about time as the eternity of each moment is an idea I've been openly exploring the past couple of weeks (at the same time, one could hardly think of a more depressing concept).
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