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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
October 30, 2019 at 2:22 pm
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
October 30, 2019 at 2:35 pm
(October 30, 2019 at 6:43 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: (October 29, 2019 at 2:47 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Like I tried to explain: we are surrounded with science and complicated machines machines, so complete lack of knowledge about science and how it works makes people scared and they even create superstitious beliefs about it, like that HAARP is a weather changing machine that can also induce Earthquakes, volcano eruptions and floods.
I'm talking about stuff like this:
![[Image: Alzheimer-brain-scan-620x330.jpg]](https://cdn.ps.emap.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/06/Alzheimer-brain-scan-620x330.jpg)
If you an atheist/materialist then diseases like this will horrify you because you are your brain. But for a theist/dualist this is not scary since soul is external.
Those sorts of diseases do argue against an eternal soul.
When your brain changes so does the personality and temperament of the person. If they were a "soul" then all that would change would be the speed they reacted not the fundamental nature of who they are.
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
October 30, 2019 at 9:48 pm
The brain may just be a transceiver
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
October 30, 2019 at 10:14 pm
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Nope. Perhaps you should lean into facts? Whats the harm, it's not like you're terrified of death or anything, since seeing the light. Who cares that the brain is the seat of everything identifiable and demonstrable about you? Theres another, additional seat. A copy...for some reason, of the biological you, that's magical..and not affected.
Once you appeal to magic there is no problem that can't be solved by magic. Nothing that needs denying or going full retard for.....like this brain as transceiver shit.
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
October 31, 2019 at 2:45 pm
Mmm someone hasn't been Muslim trained yet
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
October 31, 2019 at 3:55 pm
(October 30, 2019 at 9:56 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: (October 30, 2019 at 8:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: No, you're terrified. I was terrified when I was an atheist. Now I'm uncomfortable about death and that's it.
The amount of true terror is best judged how much self deception it takes to appear to mitigate it. The amount of true terror in your case must have been astronomical, leading to cosmological scale of self delusion in a laboriously cowardly attempt to avoid it rather than face it.
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
October 31, 2019 at 5:18 pm
(October 31, 2019 at 3:55 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (October 30, 2019 at 9:56 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote: I was terrified when I was an atheist. Now I'm uncomfortable about death and that's it.
The amount of true terror is best judged how much self deception it takes to appear to mitigate it. The amount of true terror in your case must have been astronomical, leading to cosmological scale of self delusion in a laboriously cowardly attempt to avoid it rather than face it.
Well that is interesting, is it not?
Dmitry believes that this venial life is no more than a doormat upon which to wipe his shoes before entering the blissful forever afterlife of utter boredom.
On the other hand, atheists believe that this very one is the only one you have.
Given that, which is better motivated to make the world a better place? Certainly not Dmitry, He thinks he is away off to spend eternity grovelling. He has no motivation to make the only world we know for certain exists any better. He even has a motivation to refuse to even try. God made it this way. Don't oppose god.
It is another version of the justification used by islamic terrorists or isis.
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
October 31, 2019 at 9:36 pm
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
October 31, 2019 at 9:58 pm
(October 31, 2019 at 9:36 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: ![[Image: D-n4-FTWXYAE0-OQ1.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/FHj5jRLY/D-n4-FTWXYAE0-OQ1.png)
More likely to be a priest who sees a choirboy...
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RE: "Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread
October 31, 2019 at 11:11 pm
(October 31, 2019 at 5:18 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Given that, which is better motivated to make the world a better place?
1 What's the point of making the world a better place if humanity will cease to exist eventually? Species last 3 million years on average according to theory of evolution. Fermi paradox indicates that technologically advanced civilizations don't last long so humanity likely has less than 500 years left before it vanishes if atheism is true.
2 Good is what God defines as good. Homosexual marriages, kids having sex change surgeries and abortions don't make the world a better place.
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