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Time to decide what's worse ->
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Polls are worse than both of those hypotheticals. 😛
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.  RE: Time to decide what's worse ->
February 4, 2018 at 6:24 pm
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2018 at 6:24 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
The Placebo effect may be nice but I am certain I would overall be less happy as a theist because I'd waste my time praying and worrying about what God thinks instead of listening to and making music. It's a waste of time. God is a waste of time.
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February 4, 2018 at 7:25 pm
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2018 at 7:57 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(February 4, 2018 at 12:59 pm)pool the matey Wrote: What's worse - You believe in a god all your life but when you die it's nothing,no afterlife , no punishment for your sins or reward for your good deeds... It's just blank. Or the opposite? For scenario 2, it depends on where the person goes lol. (February 4, 2018 at 1:04 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Find out you wasted the one life that was given to you, following a god that never existed? Or live life to the fullest, going only by what there's evidence for, and finding out eternity waits for you after all? I'd say the first. Granted there's the threat of some god that will cast you into a fire, or abandon you completely, because you didn't believe in something there was no evidence for. That says more about the god than you, though. Well you wouldn't "find out" first of all, because you would just be dead without any consciousness left. And believing in God doesn't mean you're "wasting your life".
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh 
Pascal, you devil, is that you?
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"  (February 4, 2018 at 7:25 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(February 4, 2018 at 12:59 pm)pool the matey Wrote: What's worse - You believe in a god all your life but when you die it's nothing,no afterlife , no punishment for your sins or reward for your good deeds... It's just blank. Or the opposite? It is a waste from the position of an outsider. But that might come off a bit more callous than I intend for it to, to a believer. I might should word it better.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html  (February 4, 2018 at 12:59 pm)pool the matey Wrote: What's worse - You believe in a god all your life but when you die it's nothing,no afterlife , no punishment for your sins or reward for your good deeds... It's just blank. Or the opposite? It depends on which god it is, and what they're like as a god. Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason.  RE: Time to decide what's worse ->
February 4, 2018 at 8:28 pm
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2018 at 8:31 pm by Mr.Obvious.)
What's worse?
1) You believe in a god all your life but when you die it's nothing,no afterlife , no punishment for your sins or reward for your good deeds... It's just blank. 2) You don't believe in a god but when you die, you realize you should have because he's real. And your life without believing in him is therefore counted as a sin, making it so that you have to deal with the punishment. 3) You believe in a god all your life but when you die you find out that rather than him wanting to believe in him, his one requirement to getting into heaven was you NOT believing in him. And finding out that's why he didn't leave any evidence of his involvement behind in the first place. Serious, pool, without anything substantial to back up scenario 2, scenario 3 is EXACTLY as likely. Pascal's wager gives you no advantage. Because not only does it assume the one God you 'could' believe in, is the right one. It makes the assumption that we can understand the inner mechanisations and reasonings of a being that hypothetically has infinitely more knowledge and wisdom than us and looks at the world (an time and space) from a fundamentally different position. Pascal's wager is mental masturbation; nothing more. Go tug somewhere else.
"If we go down, we go down together!"
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RE: Time to decide what's worse ->
February 4, 2018 at 10:58 pm
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2018 at 10:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I can see it now, lol. You accepted -what- for all the shitty things you ever did in life!?!
-"but magic book said......" What book..what the fuck...godamnit pull the plug again I have no idea wtf they're doing down there but it can;t be good.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
 (February 4, 2018 at 12:59 pm)pool the matey Wrote: What's worse - You believe in a god all your life but when you die it's nothing,no afterlife , no punishment for your sins or reward for your good deeds... It's just blank. Or the opposite? The opposite being you wake up and are at the mercy of an omni-despot who will either torture you eternally or expect you to toss his salad for all time? Hell, give me the nothing, please.  RE: Time to decide what's worse ->
February 5, 2018 at 12:46 am
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2018 at 12:47 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(February 4, 2018 at 12:59 pm)pool the matey Wrote: What's worse - You believe in a god all your life but when you die it's nothing,no afterlife , no punishment for your sins or reward for your good deeds... It's just blank. Or the opposite? What makes you think those are the only two options? You tell me what is worse - going to hell for eternity, because you lived your life as a free man, or going to hell for eternity, because you lived your life as a slave to the wrong invisible wizard? 
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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