Different things are important to different people. You'll have some folk bitching about politics in CA, some bitching about their SOs in HWLR, some bitching about Blackberrys and iPhones in their various sub-forums, some bitching about religion in PD and some just sommer bitching for the sake of it in OT. Why? Because these things affect all of us daily, to varying degrees.Originally Posted by Garyvdh
The distinction you'd like to see made is without merit.
Last edited by HapticSimian; 20-07-2012 at 01:46 PM.
Meh, athletes do all kinds of weird superstitious rituals that they think helps them perform better. Some wear lucky charms, some talk to invisible fairies in the sky, etc. This one does appear a bit more loony than most but he's not really harming anyone from what I can see.
So y'all need to hide yo uzis, hide yo assault rifles and hide yo bazookas 'cos they disarmin' everybody out here!
-Darkmatter2525
I have yet to see atheism help people change their lives from desructive lifestyles of crime and narcotics . But that is the real purpose of atheism so I guees that would be counter productive if they did.
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You are welcome here friend!I have yet to see atheism help people change their lives from desructive lifestyles of crime and narcotics . But is the real purpose of atheism so I guees that would be counter productive if they did.
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Where exactly do you park your spaceship?I have yet to see atheism help people change their lives from desructive lifestyles of crime and narcotics . But that is the real purpose of atheism so I guees that would be counter productive if they did.
I swear sometime you say things just to get a reaction cause damn no one can be that ignorant.
Last edited by RazedInBlack; 20-07-2012 at 02:11 PM.
DEL PythonFSi
You'd be surprised how much the dissipation of cognitive dissonance, which follows upon realising that the whole god-hypothesis is a bit daft, can improve one's quality of life. It's a bit more than superficially analogous to coming off mind-altering drugs.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense...But is the real purpose of atheism so I guees that would be counter productive if they did.
Random stupidity of the day award goes to this post.I have yet to see atheism help people change their lives from desructive lifestyles of crime and narcotics . But that is the real purpose of atheism so I guees that would be counter productive if they did.
who cares anyway
By the same reasoning, if someone comes first and makes a cross on their chest (like most athletes do), does this prove that there is a God for you?
Some people have stupid arguments.
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God."
This. That doublethink you have to endure is like poison for your mind, and getting rid of it is like going on a nice, long detox.
So y'all need to hide yo uzis, hide yo assault rifles and hide yo bazookas 'cos they disarmin' everybody out here!
-Darkmatter2525
From Dawkins:
THE ARGUMENT FROM BEAUTY
Another character in the Aldous Huxley novel just mentioned
proved the existence of God by playing Beethoven's string quartet
no. 15 in A minor ('heiliger Dankgesang') on a gramophone.
Unconvincing as that sounds, it does represent a popular strand of
argument. I have given up counting the number of times I receive
the more or less truculent challenge: 'How do you account for
Shakespeare, then?' (Substitute Schubert, Michelangelo, etc. to
taste.) The argument will be so familiar, I needn't document it
further. But the logic behind it is never spelled out, and the more
you think about it the more vacuous you realize it to be. Obviously
Beethoven's late quartets are sublime. So are Shakespeare's sonnets.
They are sublime if God is there and they are sublime if he isn't. They
do not prove the existence of God; they prove the existence of
Beethoven and of Shakespeare. A great conductor is credited with
saying: 'If you have Mozart to listen to, why would you need God?'
DEL PythonFSi
Ryan Hall subsequently failed his drug test
Pity Jesus couldn't hook him up with some clean urine.Ryan Hall subsequently failed his drug test
"Unseen, in the background, Fate was quietly slipping the lead into the boxing-glove..."
LMFAO!
For someone not believing in god you are sure putting a lot of time into him.
Now what exactly are we debating here since this is the Philosophical Debates section.
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