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Believing In God Is Extremely Immature.
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 RE: Believing In God Is Extremely Immature.
October 18, 2017 at 9:33 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2017 at 9:34 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(October 18, 2017 at 9:30 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote:(October 18, 2017 at 8:52 pm)Hammy Wrote: And that's what theism is all about. Belief in an imaginary friend helps theists cope with life. You prefer a comforting delusion to a harsh reality. I also prefer a comforting delusion but I can't allow myself to believe in it because my rational sense won't let me  Also an imaginary friend doesn't comfort me. 
Why waste your life, the only one you know for absolutely certain that you have, pining for some nebulous second life that might not even happen (and which conveniently is inaccessible until after you die)? Where's the harm in trying to make a heaven of this world?
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.'
(October 18, 2017 at 10:12 pm)Cyberman Wrote: Why waste your life, the only one you know for absolutely certain that you have, pining for some nebulous second life that might not even happen (and which conveniently is inaccessible until after you die)? Where's the harm in trying to make a heaven of this world? 'zactly 
Even if there is a level two to the game of life, what if the criterion for the grand prize is what you did to leave this world better than you found it? Or at least, not measurably worse?
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.'
RE: Believing In God Is Extremely Immature.
October 18, 2017 at 10:18 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2017 at 10:18 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
This is good shit - why is nobody writing this down?
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.'
Never mind; I used the wrong isotope of irony.
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.'
Ah right okay.
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