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Here’s Why You SHOULDN’T Believe In God
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March 27, 2020 at 5:24 pm (This post was last modified: March 27, 2020 at 5:25 pm by Duty.)
(March 27, 2020 at 5:18 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I don’t understand the objections. Is it that people shouldn’t believe what they like, or that people shouldn’t be nice to each other?

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People act, or don't act, based on their beliefs.
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March 27, 2020 at 5:25 pm
(March 27, 2020 at 5:22 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: One of them necessarily contradicts the other.

Oh, I dunno. You believe what you like, and you seem a nice enough fellow.

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March 27, 2020 at 5:27 pm (This post was last modified: March 27, 2020 at 5:28 pm by Duty.)
If I met Donald Trump, I wouldn't be "nice" to him. You would?

ETA: bad example.
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March 27, 2020 at 5:27 pm
(March 27, 2020 at 5:24 pm)Editz Wrote:
(March 27, 2020 at 5:18 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I don’t understand the objections. Is it that people shouldn’t believe what they like, or that people shouldn’t be nice to each other?

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People act, or don't act, based on their beliefs.

Rubbish.

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March 27, 2020 at 5:29 pm
(March 27, 2020 at 5:27 pm)Editz Wrote: If I met Donald Trump, I wouldn't be "nice" to him. You would?

ETA: bad example.

Of course I’d be nice to him. Why wouldn’t I? His being a psychotic cunt doesn’t entitle me to be one as well.

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March 27, 2020 at 5:30 pm (This post was last modified: March 27, 2020 at 5:32 pm by Duty.)
Teachers correct too - they're not psychos
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March 27, 2020 at 5:34 pm
(March 27, 2020 at 5:30 pm)Editz Wrote: Teachers correct too - they're not psychos

What’s teachers got to do with this?

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March 27, 2020 at 5:35 pm (This post was last modified: March 27, 2020 at 5:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 27, 2020 at 5:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(March 27, 2020 at 5:22 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: One of them necessarily contradicts the other.

Oh, I dunno. You believe what you like, and you seem a nice enough fellow.

Boru

-but there's the rub...I actually don't believe anything I like.  I couldn't, and still be a nice enough fellow.  Genuinely and deeply held beliefs are consequential...no matter what they are.
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!
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March 27, 2020 at 5:36 pm (This post was last modified: March 27, 2020 at 5:36 pm by Duty.)
Boru - They're not always totally nice, depending on the type of stupidity, I think. Is getting an "E" grade nice?
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March 27, 2020 at 5:37 pm
(March 27, 2020 at 5:35 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:
(March 27, 2020 at 5:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Oh, I dunno. You believe what you like, and you seem a nice enough fellow.

Boru

-but there's the rub...I actually don't believe anything I like.  I couldn't, and still be a nice enough fellow.  Genuinely and deeply held beliefs are consequential...no matter what they are.

Theism is a very specific genuinely and deeply held belief, with a long enough history of consequence to be predictable.


Do you mean that you hold beliefs that you don’t like, or that you don’t act on the beliefs you hold?

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