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LOL...I'll have to read that PDF, it looks interesting...2 BS generators to boot.
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If You Truly Believed, Would You...
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Colonel Sanders
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I skimmed through it and it was exactly what Pops is: someone who uses a bunch of words that sound profound because their meaning isn't immediately apparent, and upon examination, it's revealed that it's nonsense. But it fools people. At bottom it's the tried and true, "It's not what you say, but how you say it." And people buy that shit.
T.G.G. Moogly
Traditional Atheist
It's all about the emotional reward that is just a hit of brain chemicals. We all need them, but some of us use them in place of intellect. There. Just got mine.
But I'm not dedicating my life to a 2000 year old flying jewish superman that lives in the sky and wants me to come live with it when I'm dead. It's also very interested in how I wield my sex organs, and will send me off to live with a mean evil space creature if I don't do what the flying jew wants me to do.
There. Got another hit.
Maybe we could use this emotional thing to raise intellect. Maybe that's even how it worked before religion got invented and short-circuited the very nice process.
hurtinbuckaroo
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Whenever you see a reference to "true believers", just go here:
http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/you-will-suffer-humiliation-when-the-sports-team-f-10804
and substitute "God" for "sports team".
http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/you-will-suffer-humiliation-when-the-sports-team-f-10804
and substitute "God" for "sports team".
popsthebuilder
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Already analized myself...and still do continually. Nice to know people who only know what they assume about me think they know anything at all, and by nice I mean useless.
Faith in selfless Unity for Good.
Faith in selfless Unity for Good.
bilby
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Perhaps if you analysed yourself (when you have finished playing with your bottom) that would help?
popsthebuilder
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If you want to know of my general mindset then research "infp" personality type, and enniogram 4w5.
Faith in selfless Unity for Good.
Faith in selfless Unity for Good.
It's a trap. Googling those terms leads you to hardcode gay porn sites and you'll be fired for surfing them from work.
Nice try, pops, but this ain't our first rodeo.
popsthebuilder
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Lol
Faith in selfless Unity for Good.
Faith in selfless Unity for Good.
So far you have attempted to explain nothing. You have merely made assertions. So explain, what evidence do you have to support your claim that the universe has a creator, and that this creator is the one described in the Bible? What research have you conducted that led you to this conclusion?
I am not going to hold my breath. Christians like you are a dime a dozen around these parts. All preachy bleating, but never any content or any attempt to engage in honest discussion.
T.G.G. Moogly
Traditional Atheist
There's lots of evidence. It's the scientific value of that evidence that christers do not scrutinize.
I know lots of christers who don't know "under god" was not in the POA until a couple generations ago. They also believe that their bible invented celebration at this time of year because they are ignorant of history and have no idea there is this thing called the winter solstice. I could go on forever. All it demonstrates is that the Dunning Kruger effect is alive and well.