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Why are we here?
June 20, 2015 at 1:23 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2015 at 1:27 pm by IATIA.)
In the infinite span of time and the vastness of the cosmos, why are we even here? If god knows everything, why did not god just send everyone to heaven or hell from the get go? What is to be gained by this infinitesimally short and insignificant life we have? The birth and the death of uncountable universes would be but a blink of the eye from a god's perspective.
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RE: Why are we here?
June 20, 2015 at 1:26 pm
He gets to watch us boink.
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RE: Why are we here?
June 20, 2015 at 1:28 pm
So, it is a voyeur. 
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God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
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Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
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RE: Why are we here?
June 20, 2015 at 1:29 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2015 at 1:31 pm by Pyrrho.)
Take your pick:
1) Because god is an idiot and cannot tell who is worthy of heaven and who isn't without testing people on earth.
2) Or god is incompetent and cannot properly make people without the earth.
3) Or god is evil and enjoys torturing people.
4) God does not exist.
For those who need it, with 1, god is not omniscient. With 2, god is not omnipotent. With 3, god is not perfectly benevolent.
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RE: Why are we here?
June 20, 2015 at 1:29 pm
Why are we here? Because Pikaia gracilens survived the Burgess decimation
Oh, you mean if god exists.....he....got high and didn't think things through?
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RE: Why are we here?
June 20, 2015 at 1:39 pm
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Why are we here?
June 20, 2015 at 1:42 pm
The meaning of life is a personal question that you answer for yourself. Some people decide to let someone else dictate their life for them.
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RE: Why are we here?
June 20, 2015 at 1:47 pm
We accidentally avoided not being here.
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RE: Why are we here?
June 20, 2015 at 4:04 pm
Why are we here? To eat, drink, shit, piss and fuck. Everything else is just static.
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RE: Why are we here?
June 20, 2015 at 4:11 pm
That makes me think of a joke I heard some years ago, that went something like this:
My dog's philosophy of life is, if you can't eat it, drink it, or have sex with it, piss on it!
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