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Spacey Orange
still loves trance.

Registered: Jul 2004
Location: California
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Jun-12-2009 06:13
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Zombie0915

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argh, again, this is not requiring faith in an all-creator; that part is entirely optional. This ashley stuff is cute and all, but there is a clear difference in his thing, which is this whole "everything is wonderful and happy and good" rationale which I am totally shooting down with my denial of a divine moral code or any sort of afterlife, cmon now.
belief for the sake of belief isn't a bad thing. If people didn't believe in any mythical shit, then imagine how much less inspiration there would be in the world. Seriously, people have done some amazing shit in the name of the things they believe in, we hardly have the right to deny people their beliefs and put a stop to a potentially good source of further amazing shit. Even if the thing they did their deeds in the name of was entirely fictional, if people find a fucking spear and assume that that spear was the same one that impaled jesus, and then that silly tale is enough motivation to win this huge unlikely fucking battle, that is amazing shit no matter how you feel about whether jesus was divine or not. These insanely powerful sources of inspiration for people to make amazing works of art or to turn the tides of battles and other shit, should not be denied to people, we would be so fucking boring if nobody believed in anything.
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Jun-12-2009 07:24
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pkcRAISTLIN
arbiter's chief minion

Registered: Jul 2002
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| quote: | Originally posted by Zombie0915
argh, again, this is not requiring faith in an all-creator; that part is entirely optional. This ashley stuff is cute and all, but there is a clear difference in his thing, which is this whole "everything is wonderful and happy and good" rationale which I am totally shooting down with my denial of a divine moral code or any sort of afterlife, cmon now. |
you clearly make more sense than ********. but there's just not anything particularly interesting or new about your new religion. its a bastard child of deism and atheism with perhaps a smidgen of theism in how you express it.
and i dont really see how it would differ from atheism in practical terms.
| quote: | Originally posted by Zombie0915
belief for the sake of belief isn't a bad thing. If people didn't believe in any mythical shit, then imagine how much less inspiration there would be in the world. |
im sure mythic beliefs inspire some people some of the time. but there is little that such beliefs inspire that is not inspired by any number of other facets of human society. and i would argue that such "beliefs for believing's sake" cause at least as much bad shit as good, so i dont find your argument particularly compelling.
| quote: | Originally posted by Zombie0915
Seriously, people have done some amazing shit in the name of the things they believe in, we hardly have the right to deny people their beliefs and put a stop to a potentially good source of further amazing shit. |
im not denying anyone anything. believe what you want. but we're at an age now where new religious doctrines (as you're supposedly creating) don't get automatic respect or deference anymore.
simply put, if this "god" (or whatever term you wish to use) doesn't care about us and has no plans or interest in human beings generally, then what is the point in recognising him in the doctrine at all? why care about the concept for a second, and thus, why start a religion concerning the position at all? if its some kind of secular argument you're making, you're well behind some other isms i could mention 
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Jun-12-2009 08:10
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Xan_2v2
Senior tranceaddict

Registered: Aug 2008
Location: lost in London
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| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
PKC, YOU PROVE THERE ISN'T A GOD! OH WAIT, YOU CAN'T PROVE A NEGATIVE. WTF!? |
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the statement that “you cannot prove a negative” is simply false. On the surface, it seems to be true: if Person A says “I think God exists” and Person B says “I don’t think God exists,” it’s pretty clear that Person B is going to have a hard time proving that there isn’t a God. However, if you look a little closer, it actually depends on the nature of the negative statement being made. Here are some negative statements that can be proven very easily:
Five is not equal to four
The ancient Egyptians did not watch Seinfeld
The tsetse fly is not native to North America
Clearly, it’s possible to prove a negative statement. The real problem here is clearly the nature of the positive statement being refuted. When a person asserts that God exists, he does not specify the nature of God – that is, is God small, large, blue, red? And where is he? Of course it is not possible to prove that God does not exist, if “God” is a thing that has no definition, no characteristics, and no location. In fact, you can prove just about any kind of negative you can think of – except for (surprise!) the non-existence of mystical beings. When you get right down to it, the statement “you cannot prove a negative” is really just a different way of saying “You can’t prove me wrong because I don’t even know what I’m talking about.”
Logical statements have to abide by certain rules and restrictions. In order for a statement to be logical, it must be falsifiable, which means that it has to be presented in such a way that it could be proven incorrect. A statement is not logical if it cannot be tested to make sure it is true. The existence of God is not a logical question at all, and is therefore nonsensical. Of course you can’t prove that God doesn’t exist – no one even knows what God is supposed to be
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