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Dear Theists....Why?
RE: Dear Theists....Why?
I recall once praying as a kid. An odd sensation came over me.


Then I belched and felt better.
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RE: Dear Theists....Why?
(September 12, 2010 at 2:25 am)Minimalist Wrote: I recall once praying as a kid. An odd sensation came over me.


Then I belched and felt better.

Belched? Loudly? How vulgar.

I think the silent farting contests between myself and my little sister (only ever in church) were much more elegant.(If you exclude the last time; Sis miscalculated and shat herself)Confused Fall
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RE: Dear Theists....Why?
(September 11, 2010 at 1:49 pm)DoodleBag Wrote: Is it against forum rules if I told you that it's you who is going to hell?

Nah, since no one is going to hell anyway. No such place exists.
If there really was a god smart enough to design and create everything, do you really think he'd be stupid enough to send people to hell for infinite torture for simply lacking belief in him?
Don't think so some how. Since infinite torture for a finite victemless crime makes absalutly no sense at all.
It's like locking someone up in prison forever because he didn't pay his parking fine.Tongue
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Dear Theists....Why?
I love your stories Padraic, that's just fantastic. It will pop into my head while i am trying to feet to sleep for years to come now. Beshatting oneself in a church.

I remember praying before big meals and when everyone else did in church (bowing, kneeling and standing were all just flock behavior, most of us were not actually paying any attention). I remember it being kinda quiet and I always had to look around and wonder 'am I doing it right?'. I find that form of prayer as a child was not for me.

Nowadays though, and for years, I just kinda say "Sup Almighty?" and she sends little messages encoded in the supposedly random, coincidental and inconsequential. Write that down. For me it works much better as a form of communication with It, prayer is so needy and whiney, I find. I like sheer and unadulterated gratitude. I try to say thank you for every breath and every heartbeat, but sometimes I get distracted.

Belief in God doesn't have to be religious and by someone else's standards and so absolute. Some people, methinks, believe on their own terms. If you counted Atheism as a belief, that would be a stellar example.

So speaketh the Space Chickens,
Bok bok bok,
-Pip
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RE: Dear Theists....Why?
(September 12, 2010 at 8:06 am)Pippy Wrote: Nowadays though, and for years, I just kinda say "Sup Almighty?" and she sends little messages encoded in the supposedly random, coincidental and inconsequential.

Do you mean you find messages encoded in the random, coincidental and inconsequential?
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RE: Dear Theists....Why?
Yes. There is no random, only the appearance of random. So things that appear random or coincidental are actually (very slightly) important and on purpose.

A good example is Radiomancy. The first song that comes on when you turn on the radio. It is best if it just starts when you turn it on. That is a message, and you could choose to spend a moment pondering it's significance. Really, it may just be a tool for self inquiry and a way to feel involved in the universe...

When something coincidental happens to you, what do you do about it? I smile.

-Pip
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RE: Dear Theists....Why?
Quote:Belched? Loudly? How vulgar.


Yeah but 'god' also told me it was okay.


He's so forgiving. He don't care if you belch in public or crash a plane into a building. He's always ready to forgive.

Although, as Robert Ingersoll noted: "If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith."


Big Grin
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RE: Dear Theists....Why?
(September 13, 2010 at 12:48 pm)Pippy Wrote: Yes. There is no random, only the appearance of random. So things that appear random or coincidental are actually (very slightly) important and on purpose.

A good example is Radiomancy. The first song that comes on when you turn on the radio. It is best if it just starts when you turn it on. That is a message, and you could choose to spend a moment pondering it's significance. Really, it may just be a tool for self inquiry and a way to feel involved in the universe...

When something coincidental happens to you, what do you do about it? I smile.

-Pip

I meant, that you find random messages....not that they have been put there for you. You are looking for meaning where there is none.

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RE: Dear Theists....Why?
Quote:I love your stories Padraic, that's just fantastic.

I''m glad. Remind me sometime to tell you about the time mum put an unopened can of plum pudding into the oven to heat. Or perhaps the time I got KO'd boxing. Just the once;never got back into the ring. Couldn't see the point of getting my face bashed in for the amusement of a bunch of neanderthals.

Probably the most entertaining is the time I tumbled 40 feet into an open cut mine and broke myself.ROFLOL
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RE: Dear Theists....Why?
that last one sounds not funny whatsoever!

See this is the real answer to the question posed in this thread. What you and I choose to believe (or think is universal fact) is not the most important thing. We can just believe what we will, and respect others.
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