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RE: The stupidity of sin
October 4, 2016 at 4:33 pm
You're welcome 
I totally agree. Religion is too simplistic and inflexible to be of any real use in this regard.
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RE: The stupidity of sin
October 4, 2016 at 8:44 pm
(October 3, 2016 at 9:43 am)Huggy74 Wrote: How is belief not a choice? You either accept something as true or you don't...
If that's the entire basis of your argument and your religion then you and your God deserve each other because you're both as stupid as each other. Belief is not a choice. You believe something if you are convinced by the arguments/evidence in favour of it and you don't believe it if you are not, it's that simple.
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RE: The stupidity of sin
October 4, 2016 at 9:48 pm
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RE: The stupidity of sin
October 4, 2016 at 9:52 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2016 at 9:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 4, 2016 at 9:48 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: (September 26, 2014 at 6:29 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Bees, btw...all have 2 parents. They reproduce sexually.........
Rhythm clearly believed the above statement was true (as evidenced by the facepalm emoticon), what caused him to believe that? He couldn't have possibly read any factual information that led him to believe the above was true, therefore he made a CHOICE to believe it was true.
Upon being corrected he CHOSE to abandon that belief.
(September 26, 2014 at 6:29 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Wrong, males come from a unfertilized egg, meaning they have no father....
(September 26, 2014 at 6:40 pm)Rhythm Wrote: LOL, mea culpa, mea culpa. Haplodiploidy. So, armed with that knowledge....interested in making a remark on any other portion of my post?
There you go, instant change in belief... You're such a reliable moron, lol. Thanks for thinking of me, again. I'm really flattered that you think I have abilities which I do not, btw. I -could- tell you why I thought that, but it wouldn't matter, since it had nothing to do with any choice, just like realizing my mistake left me with none. As you so lovingly recorded, and so conveniently chose to bring up..yet again. That's three times now, that me being wrong about that -one- thing ended up demonstrating why the claims to which you applied the statements were batshit crazy. What're the odds?
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RE: The stupidity of sin
October 4, 2016 at 9:55 pm
You'll always have a special place in my heart buddy...
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RE: The stupidity of sin
October 4, 2016 at 10:26 pm
So you think Rhythm just sat down one day and arbitrarily decided to make it a fact to himself that Bees mate? It doesn't work like that. More likely his original belief was a generalisation/stereotype of some sort which hadn't been questioned until his next statement triggered some information to contradict it, and then he facepalmed as it clicked.
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RE: The stupidity of sin
October 4, 2016 at 10:27 pm
The entire concept of sin is simply unnecessary, especially considering its primitive origin.
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RE: The stupidity of sin
October 4, 2016 at 10:37 pm
(October 4, 2016 at 10:27 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: The entire concept of sin is simply unnecessary, especially considering its primitive origin.
Economic systems based on the assumption of infinite resources and growth are sinful. We error and the entire biosphere suffers the consequences.
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RE: The stupidity of sin
October 4, 2016 at 10:38 pm
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(October 4, 2016 at 10:37 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Economic systems based on the assumption of infinite resources and growth are sinful. We error and the entire biosphere suffers the consequences.
Things can be considered wrong, from a subjective point of view, but certainly not sinful.
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RE: The stupidity of sin
October 4, 2016 at 11:08 pm
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(October 4, 2016 at 10:26 pm)Emjay Wrote: So you think Rhythm just sat down one day and arbitrarily decided to make it a fact to himself that Bees mate? It doesn't work like that. More likely his original belief was a generalisation/stereotype of some sort which hadn't been questioned until his next statement triggered some information to contradict it, and then he facepalmed as it clicked.
Since when is "randomness" a prerequisite for belief?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief
Quote:Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case, with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty.
The above describes the two examples I presented to a tee.
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