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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 27, 2016 at 8:05 pm
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(September 27, 2016 at 7:58 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: I can end up in the hospital for any reason and create a fantastical story that those doctors would consider credible, not because of any actual reasoning but instead due to confirmation bias.
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 27, 2016 at 8:06 pm
(September 27, 2016 at 7:58 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: (September 27, 2016 at 7:57 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: I have no idea what that means.
If there is no financial benefit, there is no financial backing, it won't be studied.
Scams can benefit financially, backers for scams benefit also. Look at Peter Popoff, UFO authors (History Channel), crop circle research. There are suckers born every day (maybe millions).
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 27, 2016 at 8:23 pm
How long till Rik shows up?
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
September 28, 2016 at 1:06 am
(September 27, 2016 at 12:41 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: If I cared any about internet points, I'd join the atheist camp and stick my nose up the nearest atheist backside for a kudos...
Or, alternatively, if you didn't care about them, you'd follow the context of the conversation and quit trying to find "aha!" moments later shown vapid due to your shitty language comprehension.
You seem like a nice guy when we're talking about real life, and I don't doubt you have a good heart, at the core, but shit like this makes me wonder.
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
October 2, 2016 at 4:16 pm
I find that life having no point to it is actually kind of a freeing thought.
I understand that some people are afraid of it, so they can make up a God if they want to. I only have a problem if they tell me to do the same.
To each their own.
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
October 2, 2016 at 4:25 pm
(October 2, 2016 at 4:16 pm)Martian Mermaid Wrote: I find that life having no point to it is actually kind of a freeing thought.
I understand that some people are afraid of it, so they can make up a God if they want to. I only have a problem if they tell me to do the same.
To each their own.
What's the point of a "choose your own adventure" book? Choosing an adventure, then choosing a different one, then another... 
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
October 2, 2016 at 6:03 pm
Indeed. But not choosing someone else's for them.
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: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
October 2, 2016 at 6:13 pm
(October 2, 2016 at 6:03 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Indeed. But not choosing someone else's for them. So it is with God?
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RE: If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?
October 2, 2016 at 6:20 pm
Well, I don't have that belief. So of course I'm going say no. Why, do you think it is? And why do you think it is?
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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