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Tooth Fairy Bullshit
RE: Tooth Fairy Bullshit
(January 22, 2017 at 10:53 am)Stimbo Wrote: In Mother Russia, voices heed you.

 . . . and then a sedan filled with scary stoic types pulls up in front of your place at three in the morning.
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... and proceed to dance Swan Lake in full costume.
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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(January 22, 2017 at 10:59 am)Stimbo Wrote: ... and proceed to dance Swan Lake in full costume.

. . . while some drunk guy who stammers reads Chekhov through a bullhorn.
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Vysotsky sings "Horses" while Putin dreams of Cossacks.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!






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(January 22, 2017 at 11:02 am)Crossless1 Wrote:
(January 22, 2017 at 10:59 am)Stimbo Wrote: ... and proceed to dance Swan Lake in full costume.

. . . while some drunk guy who stammers reads Chekhov through a bullhorn.

Pavel?
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Nukweer Wessels
Quote:I don't understand why you'd come to a discussion forum, and then proceed to reap from visibility any voice that disagrees with you. If you're going to do that, why not just sit in front of a mirror and pat yourself on the back continuously?
-Esquilax

Evolution - Adapt or be eaten.
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(January 21, 2017 at 6:23 pm)Aroura Wrote: ...now that solid counter-arguments exist, and have for quite some time now, that have not been countered again, as it were, it's time to let it go.  Once a person has learned, and repeated these arguments numerous times, it just becomes easier to go to snarky dismissal, I suppose, since the well thought logical rebuttals (repeated ad-nauseum) got them nowhere, I suppose the average person goes for the quick fix.

Isn't that rather the point though. For the sake of argument let's assume that the standard objections are valid. You must admit that at least some of those refutations require an high level of discernment to find the faulty premise, break in logic, or misleading ambiguity. Now if it takes that much work to counter the logical demonstrations for the existence of God, can you say that sorting out whether or not these complex objections are valid should be as easy to the average person as dismissing the tooth fairy as a childhood superstition?
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When the issue is "there's no evidence", it doesn't seem terribly complex.

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(January 22, 2017 at 3:20 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:
(January 21, 2017 at 6:23 pm)Aroura Wrote: ...now that solid counter-arguments exist, and have for quite some time now, that have not been countered again, as it were, it's time to let it go.  Once a person has learned, and repeated these arguments numerous times, it just becomes easier to go to snarky dismissal, I suppose, since the well thought logical rebuttals (repeated ad-nauseum) got them nowhere, I suppose the average person goes for the quick fix.

Isn't that rather the point though. For the sake of argument let's assume that the standard objections are valid. You must admit that at least some of those refutations require an high level of discernment to find the faulty premise, break in logic, or misleading ambiguity. Now if it takes that much work to counter the logical demonstrations for the existence of God, can you say that sorting out whether or not these complex objections are valid should be as easy to the average person as dismissing the tooth fairy as a childhood superstition?

It is because the two things to anyone who isn't religiously the tooth fairy in every way sounds the same as god  that's not complex in the least

(January 21, 2017 at 11:06 pm)Stimbo Wrote: [Image: images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQh_1AZMPWWq-UNs7_NgaE...kZ8wa1C4AQ]

Indeed generally respect goes one way
" but  there  not saying it god is" copout
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

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(January 22, 2017 at 3:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: When the issue is "there's no evidence", it doesn't seem terribly complex.

Where is your evidence for personal identity?
Where is your evidence for human equality?
Where is your evidence that intentions exist?

Hmmm...suddenly doesn't seem so simple, does it?  Thinking
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