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RE: Atheists... one term if you will...
October 15, 2015 at 12:49 am
I really don't know what to think since no one can tell me what is a God and how do I tell a god from a non God?
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: Atheists... one term if you will...
October 15, 2015 at 2:35 am
(October 14, 2015 at 8:20 pm)JBrentonK Wrote: [...]Tell us what you think about this word.[...]
Who's "us"? You've got a hamster up your ar*e?
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RE: Atheists... one term if you will...
October 15, 2015 at 3:25 am
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2015 at 3:27 am by robvalue.)
I'm always asking this question, and I've still never been given a definition that I can distinguish from a figment of someone's imagination.
Until then, it's:
1) A placeholder for lack of knowledge
2) An unecessary assumption
3) The personification of the argument from ignorance
4) An idealised projection of the self
5) An imaginary friend
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RE: Atheists... one term if you will...
October 15, 2015 at 3:59 am
Hurry up. A magician will lose his audience if he takes too long.
Bet you we've already seen it. :-)
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RE: Atheists... one term if you will...
October 15, 2015 at 4:22 am
(October 14, 2015 at 8:20 pm)JBrentonK Wrote: I am going to ask you about a word. The word is this:
God.
Tell us what you think about this word.
And why is it even a word?
(this is going to get interesting 
)
It's your term you define it. I have heard so many definitions for it that the term itself is meaningless.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: Atheists... one term if you will...
October 15, 2015 at 4:25 am
Maybe I should just add:
6) A thing that interacts with reality in ways which just happen to look exactly like nothing interacting
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RE: Atheists... one term if you will...
October 15, 2015 at 4:57 am
God (n): one of those things which, no matter how much you believe in it, doesn't exist. Antonym: Evolution (no matter how much you refuse to accept it, it won't stop happening).
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