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Originally posted by lex400sc no i'd rather post a link to a well articulated argument from a well regarded scientist than to regurgitate all 90 minutes of the same thing in plain text for everyone to get pussyhurt over.

Is that a no then? Weak.

Lex

Has the following ever occurred to you?

Anything is infinitely less plausible than nothing?

or to rephrase

That the basic construct of a universe emerging from a big bang (or God for that matter) is infinitely less logical than nothing for ever in every direction (realizing of course that direction is being used here as a symbolic reference point to make the concept easier to digest rather than referring to any cardinal points)

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Originally posted by lex400sc lol and people call me defensive

I'll settle for calling you a contradiction. Does that work?

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Originally posted by lex400sc no they really aren't. there is only one truth and people of reason are the only ones who seek it out. religion is faith in false hope with a lack of critical thinking required for reasoning and an absence of any disprovable theory which can be applied to form hypotheses...

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Originally posted by lex400sc religion is in fact a virus that infects our intelligent faculties and creates dangerously warped moralities...

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Originally posted by lex400sc i am not an atheist

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Originally posted by analpie Are you going to answer my question?

what makes you think it's of any importance to me what you believe in? i'm only here to show people the path to humanism because i have a social obligation to at least represent the advent of humanity's many social codes. i couldn't give a fuck less what you or anyone else end up doing with my posts. i've come to terms with the fact that the majority in any population of humans will live and die behind the curtain of ignorance.

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I guess it's hard for him to respond, now that we're asking him to give me his OWN thoughts on the matter.

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Originally posted by Echo of Silence I'll settle for calling you a contradiction. Does that work?

why don't you settle for buying a dictionary? there's this thing called agnosticism which is neither theism nor atheism.

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Originally posted by lex400sc what makes you think it's of any importance to me what you believe in? i'm only here to show people the path to humanism because i have a social obligation to at least represent the advent of humanity's many social codes. i couldn't give a fuck less what you or anyone else end up doing with my posts. i've come to terms with the fact that the majority in any population of humans will live and die behind the curtain of ignorance.

Yup, it's an ego thing.

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Originally posted by analpie I guess it's hard for him to respond, now that we're asking him to give me his OWN thoughts on the matter.

i guess it's easier for everyone to respond for me before i get a chance to, so i'll let you all have your fun patting each other on the back. piece!

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Originally posted by analpie Yup, it's an ego thing.

you call it ego, i call it altruism, and i call your condition dependancy and denial

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i just don't believe in anything conventional. I can't see why a god would exist, in any form, the one i relate to closest is the many gods that hindus have, simply because the "gods" to me are people who exist, who i can prove exist and who I learn from. Be them a friend, a sportsman or a musician, ifthey move my life forwards they count. I can't handle any sort of actual religion, I don't pray, I don't believe the arguments & teachings of a society made thousands of years ago can be relevant in todays climate, and things we believe in now won't in the future.

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Originally posted by lex400sc no i'd rather post a link to a well articulated argument from a well regarded scientist than to regurgitate all 90 minutes of the same thing in plain text for everyone to get pussyhurt over.

Ah, right, because then you would just be repeating what somebody else said, and then that may lead to the same widespread hysteria support that made religion the humongous institution that it is now.

All just lots of people believing the same thing, claiming one is right and the other is wrong. Both sides are supported by their own brand of 'proof'. Both sides just results of humanity.

Taking a side makes you a believer.

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Originally posted by lex400sc you call it ego, i call it altruism, and i call your condition denial

It's one thing to exhibit the behavior of altruism. It's another thing to go around acting high and mighty because you think that that's who you are.