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RE: incurable/chronic/terminal illnesses
April 16, 2015 at 5:17 am
It has been said that if there were one true god performing miracles such as curing the incurable, we should expect to see a religion centred around that god growing exponentially at the expense of all other religions. That we don't see that is pretty decent evidence of the non-existence of such a god, at least.
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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April 16, 2015 at 5:25 am
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Certainly. What the evidence instead points to is several gods with limited range of influence, or no gods. Competing "one true God" claims make all sides look stupid.
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RE: incurable/chronic/terminal illnesses
April 16, 2015 at 5:32 am
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Given that most if not all religions assert that theirs is the one true god, or god pantheon, and all others are false, we can conclude that either they're all as false as the god they rode in on, or a proportion may be true but their pet god is not what it says on the tin, or the true god and associated religion hasn't shown up yet.
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: incurable/chronic/terminal illnesses
April 16, 2015 at 6:02 am
Arkhum assylum's razor tells us that it's bullshit city all round.
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RE: incurable/chronic/terminal illnesses
April 16, 2015 at 6:05 am
Well, according to Scientology, there's no such thing as mental illnesses.
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RE: incurable/chronic/terminal illnesses
April 16, 2015 at 2:58 pm
(April 16, 2015 at 3:24 am)robvalue Wrote: I've got two chronic conditions so I must be a super evil posessed demon bastard or something.
Same here. I was born severely physically disabled. I must've done some bad shit in my mom's womb.
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RE: incurable/chronic/terminal illnesses
April 16, 2015 at 3:16 pm
(April 16, 2015 at 2:58 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: (April 16, 2015 at 3:24 am)robvalue Wrote: I've got two chronic conditions so I must be a super evil posessed demon bastard or something.
Same here. I was born severely physically disabled. I must've done some bad shit in my mom's womb.
Meh, it was probably your great-grandfather's great-grandfather's fault for thinking about breasts
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RE: incurable/chronic/terminal illnesses
April 16, 2015 at 3:30 pm
Sorry to hear that Kevin 
I was at least lucky enough to get to 14 before I got my first.
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RE: incurable/chronic/terminal illnesses
April 16, 2015 at 3:38 pm
(April 16, 2015 at 3:30 pm)robvalue Wrote: Sorry to hear that Kevin
I was at least lucky enough to get to 14 before I got my first.
In a weird way, I think I like it better to have had my condition since birth. At least there's nothing to miss, you know?
... heh, and now we're both sad 
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RE: incurable/chronic/terminal illnesses
April 16, 2015 at 3:42 pm
Sorry, didn't mean to bring you down.
I know what you mean, I guess if you know no different it's easier in some sense.
You seem to be coping very well, as far as I can tell from your posts 
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