Read good the number I wrote — EugeneW
Your number has nothing to do with the memory capacity of the human brain. — universeness
Your number has nothing to do with the memory capacity of the human brain. — universeness
It seems a big enough number to be called infinity — EugeneW
What?? there is no number big enough to be called infinity, that's just mathematical fact! — universeness
For all practical purposes a 1 with 10exp20 is infinite — EugeneW
so what's 1 with a trillion zero's? closer to infinite — universeness
That those who enjoyed watching people being eaten alive by lions should find the compassion of Christians offensive heresy makes sense.
I'm not religious, but can still say thank God for Christianity. — Gregory A
I'm not religious, but can still say thank God for Christianity
— Gregory A
I think this just about sums up your logic.
I am sure we all await more such 'pearls of wisdom' from you.
How about:
I am not religious but thank god for Islam.
I am not religious but thank god for religion.
I am not political but thank providence for Politics.
I am not scientific but thank providence for Science.
I am not a thinker but thank providence for Thinking. — universeness
. For Christ's sake!
— Gregory A — EugeneW
But the arrogance that leads to presumptions like this above is unbelievable
— Gregory A
It's your naivety that is unbelievable!
have been aware of evangelist types since the 70's (the documentary 'Marjoe', Jim Bakker in the 80's
— Gregory A
If you watched a documentary about evanhellical nasties like Jim and Tammy Baker, then perhaps you fell asleep or were not paying attention or.........as you forgot to condemn them as the horrors that they are.
An appeal to Christ means nothing to me as I don't think he ever existed.
I recommend you read Creating Christ by James Valliant or Caesar's Messiah by Joe Atwill or alternatively the works of Dr Richard Carrier. These might help you progress a little. — universeness
I've been an atheist for about 20 years, so I feel pretty neutral on this issue. Maybe there was such a guy. Maybe not. Some of the words in the book are nice. Others not. I consider myself influenced by some Christian ideas, but I guess many of us must be
— lll
Sounds like a pretty well-balanced approach to me, although I think the influences are from more ancient storytelling as all the Christian stories are rehashed from earlier ones. — universeness
Yours is an appeal to popular usage and if accepted why then the title of this thread 'The Invalidity of Atheism'.
— Gregory A
Oh, so we get to make up our own meanings ? My girl soak inky. I appreciate this weeps mail over potty. A roach beep some witch? A go sinner claws it ?
For get a boot out ! Its shelf help noses same stew me. Spore me your plops and puns and your both dump flu of has it. Go brick to pet. (But hairy back !) — lll
I suspect trolling is as common amongst theists as it is amongst atheists. That is, its hard to imagine they actually believe everything they are saying. My guess is they are angry because they feel insulted by atheists, which in itself is a staggering hypocrisy. — DingoJones
My own argument against God is that we are images of God but are forced to suffer while God is not forced to suffer. This is not symmetrical because one would expect God to have the power to get us to heaven effortlessly like he is in heaven — Gregory
We have to work for it i.e. we need to earn our place in heaven here on earth, — Agent Smith
theism is a rejection of free-speech
— Gregory A
Eh? Atheism is the view that there are no gods. What has it got to do with free speech? It's nothing to do with politics, it's not a political movement or anything of the sort.
When you say 'invalid' what I think you mean is 'false'. Atheism is not an argument but an assertion/proposition about the way things are. Only arguments can be valid or invalid. Beliefs, assertions etc, can be true or false. — bert1
Imagine that. Im on the edge of a forrest area, typing about infinity on my phone, while the dog is in fight with a trunk, after she has chased away another dog (shes in heat), and the gods above enjoy it! If that aint philosophical romantics.. — EugeneW
A one with 24 zeros, like for a computerchip, is zero in comparison. — EugeneW
You really think man is able to construct a living 3d structure of neuronlike material, many of which are interlinked, with variable connection strengths — EugeneW
A lot closer than a 1 with 24 zeros! — EugeneW
What if we are forced to life, created to live like the gods did?
— EugeneW
Sci-fi shows play with this concept all the time but from the point of sentient lifeforms who existed in our galaxy millions of years before humans. In Babylon 5 they are called the first ones. The Vorlons, The Shadows etc. To us, they would seem like gods, but they are not. Why are these god-like descriptions less likely than the descriptions you have been posting here to describe your version of god(s). Could I replace every mention you have made of god(s) on this thread with 'The Vorlons,' would it change your claims much? Apart from your 'but mine are real and yours are fantasy,' claim. The same claim that the Christians have about the Muslim god or hindu god(s) and vice versa. — universeness
And, you can't teach an old dogmatist new tricks.
— Gregory A
Precisely! The poor bugger got caught up in his own fucking meme (excusez les mots). Which would be no problem, but he's actively engaged in fighting theism. Like a real inquisitor. — EugeneW
and I know for a fact that computing technology can already surpass the memory capacity and processing speed of a single human brain. — universeness
read recently in New Scientist magazine suggests that the first human to live to 150 to 170, is alive today! — universeness
Why should anyone's status change by being grateful to a religion. — Gregory A
how does that not make me very aware of a nasty side to evangelism. — Gregory A
What's atheism and Christianity got to do with each other??? You really have no idea what any of this is about. Your bias makes you unable to look at any of these things in a clinical way. — Gregory A
the most pernicious con tricks in human history such as Christianity and Islam — universeness
↪Gregory A Frankly that is utter garbage. An atheist doesn’t ‘reject’ god, they just never really considered it at all and when told about some said ‘god’ simply don’t know/understand what the hell people are talking about - hence comparison to Santa.
You can see this is hunter gatherer tribes who were told of some ‘god’ and they asked where the god was. They believe what they see and have some vague belief in a possible afterlife (but they are non-committal).
Everyone is born an atheist because everyone is born without any real conception of themselves let alone some hypothetical being. — I like sushi
would need a book a similar number of pages as the babbling bumbelling bible to list my complaints against horrible doctrines like Christianity and Islam. Have you got it yet? — universeness
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