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Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?

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Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
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RE: Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 20, 2016 at 2:42 pm
"Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do"

No.

But it's all we need.

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RE: Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 20, 2016 at 2:57 pm
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
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Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 20, 2016 at 2:59 pm (This post was last modified: March 20, 2016 at 3:01 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(March 20, 2016 at 2:38 pm)robvalue Wrote: We really don't need to "do" anything. We're surrounded by people who have imaginary friends. What exactly should we do? What can we do?

We try and get along with them as best we can, and to step in if we seem harm being caused.

Remember, not even members of the same sect of the same religion can even agree what the hell it is they're even talking about. So how they expect to put a coherent case to atheists, I have no idea.

And believing "in God" is quite different from believing a bunch of really specific things about that God, and worshipping it. The reason many of us aren't in religion has nothing to do with the existence of "God".

It has crossed my mind that some theists might be jealous. I'm not trying to be a dick about, but seriously, I wonder. It's such an easy stance to defend (not that you are required to defend it): I don't believe stuff until I have evidence. The theist, on the other hand, has to jump through hoops and twist themselves in knots trying to define and validate their belief; then to try and correlate it with reality.

Yeah, I think you hit on something here, Rob. It has got to be exhausting after years and years (or walls and walls of text in some cases) of attempts to justify a belief in this thing you can't demonstrate exists. Compare that to the ease with which we can justify our position: "please provide evidence." -END

If I were a theist I might become resentful of this burden over time, especially if I felt responsible for convincing people that they should believe in God, which is why I think Chad (and others) try so hard to share it with us.
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RE: Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 20, 2016 at 3:28 pm (This post was last modified: March 20, 2016 at 3:29 pm by Mystic.)
(March 20, 2016 at 2:38 pm)robvalue Wrote: It has crossed my mind that some theists might be jealous.
If I'm jealous, it would be like something for not getting to see all those pics of Valkyrie or SummerQueen in A69.
And if I'm jealous it would be for not being able to do what I want like have sex with "friends with benefits" relationship. 
However I am grateful for the favor of guidance and thank God for guiding me to Mohammad and his 12 Successors.
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RE: Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 20, 2016 at 3:39 pm
YOu better play closer attention because allah will fry your ass for even thinking that!
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RE: Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 20, 2016 at 4:01 pm (This post was last modified: March 20, 2016 at 4:02 pm by Ben Davis.)
Sum ergo sum
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Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 20, 2016 at 4:22 pm
(March 20, 2016 at 3:28 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:
(March 20, 2016 at 2:38 pm)robvalue Wrote: It has crossed my mind that some theists might be jealous.
If I'm jealous, it would be like something for not getting to see all those pics of Valkyrie or SummerQueen in A69.
And if I'm jealous it would be for not being able to do what I want like have sex with "friends with benefits" relationship. 
However I am grateful for the favor of guidance and thank God for guiding me to Mohammad and his 12 Successors.

What?! There are naked photographs of members in A69?! I didn't know people did that here. What a salacious bunch you are! [emoji12]
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RE: Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 20, 2016 at 5:23 pm
(March 20, 2016 at 4:22 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: What?!  There are naked photographs of members in A69?!  I didn't know people did that here.  What a salacious bunch you are! [emoji12]

It's basically one big porn pile- pictorial and written alike- with like one weed thread in there too.
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Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 20, 2016 at 5:29 pm
(March 20, 2016 at 5:23 pm)Esquilax Wrote:
(March 20, 2016 at 4:22 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: What?!  There are naked photographs of members in A69?!  I didn't know people did that here.  What a salacious bunch you are! [emoji12]

It's basically one big porn pile- pictorial and written alike- with like one weed thread in there too.

LOL, that sounds amazing!
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RE: Is Lack of Belief the Best You Can Do?
March 20, 2016 at 5:43 pm
(March 20, 2016 at 4:22 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(March 20, 2016 at 3:28 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: If I'm jealous, it would be like something for not getting to see all those pics of Valkyrie or SummerQueen in A69.
And if I'm jealous it would be for not being able to do what I want like have sex with "friends with benefits" relationship. 
However I am grateful for the favor of guidance and thank God for guiding me to Mohammad and his 12 Successors.

What?!  There are naked photographs of members in A69?!  I didn't know people did that here.  What a salacious bunch you are! [emoji12]

yes, there are quite a few pictures of "members" in there.

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