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If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
(September 23, 2016 at 8:09 pm)Gemini Wrote:
(September 23, 2016 at 8:02 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Funny how when it come to theist's y'all require nothing less than peer reviewed information, but YOU'RE totally fine with quoting a software engineer from what is essentially a different forum.

Thinking

Fine, if that's your standard, I don't want to hear you complain about a source... EVER!

Your source was balancing a pyramid on a point in the first place. It didn't establish what you claimed. Which is that every species is essential to the ecosystem, which you still haven't established.

If you have no rebuttal to the reply you've dismissed without argument, I'll assume you conceded. Fair's fair.

Not how it works love, my source was an actual ecologist while yours was some random guy from another forum...

There is nothing to rebut since your information is flawed, therefore YOU lose if that's the only source you have.
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
(September 23, 2016 at 8:33 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Not how it works love, my source was an actual ecologist while yours was some random guy from another forum...

There is nothing to rebut since your information is flawed, therefore YOU lose if that's the only source you have.

So what are parasites like mosquitoes good for?
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
This is now the longest internet forum thread I've ever started. And I've started quite a few.
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
I know for a fact that the human race as it is now evolved is not essential to a healthier ecosystem.
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
(September 23, 2016 at 12:55 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:
(September 23, 2016 at 12:21 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Well ofc not...if there were no humans to eat the fish we wouldn't have to manage the fish and there wouldn't be any "us" to manage them...but what does that have to do with anything?

Am I speaking to a goldfish? How did you forget My original point so quickly?

What it has to do with is "us" not being Important to the overall health of an ecosystem,  there would be no need to save an ecosystem from human destruction if humans didn't exist.
There would still be destruction.  There would simply be one less species that modifies the environment in favor of one species or another.  Destruction, like improvement, is another issue of perspective.  A farm is destructive to the ecosystem it does not favor, and the species unable to capitalize.  It's improvement for the converse.  A managed wildlife park..similarly, more of a giant man-made garden than an actual forest.  Even when we attempt to "mimic the natural environment" we can;t help but make improvements.  Burn schedules, stocking species, protection.   Beavers and their dams....great for beavers - "bad" for the ecosystem (that's why we break them up).

Quote:Please provide an example of this.
No end of examples can be provided.  Migratory grazing is nothing but rolling over-exploitation.  We used to do it too...then we found out how to improve the ecosystem. The dearth of birds due to an overabundance of cats is another. These are simply popular and current examples. Over-predation has, ofc, led to much worse with regards to extinct species.

Quote:Tell me something, how did the native Americans manage the hunting of the buffalo?
Poorly.

Quote:Or is it that they had a spiritual connection with nature and treated it with respect?

I'm not sure what the relevance is...is that how you improve an ecosystem?  Spiritual connections and respect?

Look, I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm trying to understand what you could mean by the statement. I'm more interested in why, in your estimation...these improvements are not improvements? Why the things that depend upon us don't count, again in your estimation. I can't get a feel for what you mean unless I understand the metrics. We matter to all of our domesticates -and each other-, we improve ecosystems with them in mind just like any other animal. What bar is being used to call this a wash? That some things don't benefit from our existence? That we destroy habitat? That's not unique to us as a species either. Deer are a menace.

Help me understand.
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
My life isn't meaningless.

Just because meaning isn't intrinsic doesn't mean it isn't present.

Not to mention that I don't see much meaning in groveling. Indeed, the Abrahamic faiths, and many others as well, stress the unimportance -- meaninglessness -- of this life, and only promise meaning in the next.

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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
Because people use it in incomprehensibly stupid ways.

But life isn't really meaningless. We each make of it what we can. I think that's far more meaningful than anything.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
(September 24, 2016 at 12:27 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: My life isn't meaningless.

Just because meaning isn't intrinsic doesn't mean it isn't present.

Not to mention that I don't see much meaning in groveling. Indeed, the Abrahamic faiths, and many others as well, stress the unimportance -- meaninglessness -- of this life, and only promise meaning in the next.

I was under the impression that in the Abrahamic religions what you did in this life determined your fate in the next....?
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
(September 24, 2016 at 1:27 am)Arkilogue Wrote: I was under the impression that in the Abrahamic religions what you did in this life determined your fate in the next....?

Determining our lives by what one of thousands of religions suggests is rather fucking retarded.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
Not in the christian tradition, Ark.    You can't get to heaven through works.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu3VTngm1F0
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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