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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
The big bang theory! is as crazy as a white bearded man sitting in the clouds throwing lighting bolts! im surrounded by idiots!!!  |
Then you're in good company.
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
| The big bang theory! is as crazy as a white bearded man sitting in the clouds throwing lighting bolts! im surrounded by idiots!!! |
There are admitedly things about the Big Bang that are counterintuitive and just plain odd, but it remains clear the universe was previously closer together and previously at the same point. Study of black holes reveals that when stars die, they shrink to a tiny (yet simultaneously massive) entity. The reverse occurred at the Big Bang. Reading Hawking's Universe in a Nutshell and Brief History of Time reveals as much.
Basically, the BB is borne out by evidence. The biblical god is not. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
| The big bang theory! is as crazy as a white bearded man sitting in the clouds throwing lighting bolts! im surrounded by idiots!!! |
I quite like that show. Kinda like Friends but with geeks. There were a couple of crazy episodes but it's still a fairly mild mannered comedy. I just like the way they work scientific references into the jokes.
I'll keep an eye out for any comedies that have a white bearded man sitting in the clouds throwing lighting bolts. Think this may have happened in Up Pompeii! |
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Been There, Taught That
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
Location: Mungyeong: not a village, not yet a metroplex.
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:21 am Post subject: |
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| Justin Hale wrote: |
| Miles Rationis wrote: |
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| Rteacher wrote: |
Yeah, it would be better to base it on a 5000 year old book (with an oral tradition going back much farther than that ...)
Actually, atheistic philosophies - just as sophisticated if not more so - than the current "bright" ideas also were extant in ancient times.
However, they were logically defeated by Vedic personalist philosophies (and even Buddhism was later intellectually driven from India ...)
The atheistic materialists of today have nothing spiritually positive to offer - good Christians are better role-models for kids... |
By disclaiming the idea of a next life, we can have more excitement in this one. The here and now is all we have and an inspiration to make the most of it. Atheism is life-affirming in a way religion nor spirituality can never be. |
Don't plagiarise; attribute it to Dawkins as he said it first... |
Couldn't remember who said it. Could remember the quote word for word though. What I've done is write my own reviews of the books I've read with many quotations and it's all jumbled up in my head. |
And then you die. Anyone out there living forever? Teaching English in Korea forever (Rod Serling-esque, eh?)? At least a man can manufacture some hope until it happens. "No use Joe, you gotta go!" "Not me! They'll never take me alive!" (That's true). To quote 'Going On Seventeen' from The Sound of Music': 'If that happens, when it happens'.
How many out there, by the way, have the dream of passing from this life, Side By Side book in hand, making some obscure point about English Grammar as the attentive faces of Korean youth stare up at you?
You've been tenured by Korea!
The Bible does not say that a man should not enjoy this life, though he is a fool who can't weep for all the human evil against humans going on. That's what your atheism tolerates? |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:21 am Post subject: |
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any physical manifestation of god in the bible or otherwise has since been explained away by modern assesments of 1. mental illness 2. weather or seismic aberrations.
burning bushes - fire
burning talking bushes - fire seen by 1. a scam artist 2. a dude with mental health issues.
god speaking - schizophrenia or syphillis eating away a 'prophet's brain.
god getting pissed off - thunder/earthquakes and the hebrew folk going "oh shit, what's that? wait, we don't have grade 7 science books, so that is most likely god getting angry. let's go kill a sheep and a few masturbators/homosexuals right away!"
yeah. but seriously, just have faith. faith will help you see the truth. |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Been There, Taught That wrote: |
| Justin Hale wrote: |
| Miles Rationis wrote: |
| Justin Hale wrote: |
| Rteacher wrote: |
Yeah, it would be better to base it on a 5000 year old book (with an oral tradition going back much farther than that ...)
Actually, atheistic philosophies - just as sophisticated if not more so - than the current "bright" ideas also were extant in ancient times.
However, they were logically defeated by Vedic personalist philosophies (and even Buddhism was later intellectually driven from India ...)
The atheistic materialists of today have nothing spiritually positive to offer - good Christians are better role-models for kids... |
By disclaiming the idea of a next life, we can have more excitement in this one. The here and now is all we have and an inspiration to make the most of it. Atheism is life-affirming in a way religion nor spirituality can never be. |
Don't plagiarise; attribute it to Dawkins as he said it first... |
Couldn't remember who said it. Could remember the quote word for word though. What I've done is write my own reviews of the books I've read with many quotations and it's all jumbled up in my head. |
And then you die. Anyone out there living forever? Teaching English in Korea forever (Rod Serling-esque, eh?)? At least a man can manufacture some hope until it happens. "No use Joe, you gotta go!" "Not me! They'll never take me alive!" (That's true). To quote 'Going On Seventeen' from The Sound of Music': 'If that happens, when it happens'.
How many out there, by the way, have the dream of passing from this life, Side By Side book in hand, making some obscure point about English Grammar as the attentive faces of Korean youth stare up at you?
You've been tenured by Korea!
The Bible does not say that a man should not enjoy this life, though he is a fool who can't weep for all the human evil against humans going on. That's what your atheism tolerates? |
Atheism certainly does not tolerate evil. That's precisely why we don't tolerate religion. The Western religions are evil. The word religion is a euphemism for 'subscription to celestial totalitarianisn'. We atheists and anti-theists say that the pictures sent down from the Hubble Space Telescope showing billion of galaxies billions of light years away aren't exactly sympathetic to the view that the Biblical or Koranic God watches us night and day and knows our thoughts. The fact that so much evil is perpetrated in the name of religion is a powerful reason to complete reject theism. Else, your sad, confused and largely nonsensical blather and bluster above was garbled and unintellible gibberish scarcely worthy of consideration. |
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