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   mur@.not. to Olrik   
   Re: SAD defeat of the atheist community    
   26 Jul 14 14:18:04   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, sci.skeptic   
   XPost: alt.christnet   
      
   On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 23:53:51 -0400, Olrik  wrote:   
   .   
   >Le 2014-07-23 12:07, mur@.not. a écrit :   
   >> On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 00:56:18 -0400, Olrik  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Le 2014-07-19 16:54, mur@.not. a écrit :   
   >>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:49:39 -0400, Olrik  wrote:   
   >>>> .   
   >>>>> Le 2014-07-17 18:16, mur@.not. a écrit :   
   >>>>>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:31:03 -0400, Olrik  wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Le 2014-07-10 02:25, Wisely Non-Theist a écrit :   
   >>>>>>>> In article , Olrik    
   >>>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> It depends on the definition of that «god» thing.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> If your «god» existed, life would me like a Harry Potter book.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Would such a god be like  Harry or like Voldemort?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> There would me magic and fantasy all around.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>        LOL!!! I'll keep presenting this starting line over and over to   
   see if any   
   >>>>>> of you atheists are ever able to get as "far" as this particular   
   starting line:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."   
   - Arthur   
   >>>>>> C. Clarke   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> You absolutely have no clue whatsoever about what Clarke meant, did you?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>       Yes which is why I presented it for you. In your case, relative to   
   God it   
   >>>> means that you believe if God exists what he accomplished he did using   
   some sort   
   >>>> of magic, when the reality is much more likely that if he exists he   
   accomplished   
   >>>> what he did using advanced technology that your little mind can only   
   interpret   
   >>>> as magic.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> It's not «magic» when we understand it, replicate it and manufacture it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>       Some things that aren't magic you can't understand, replicate or   
   manufacture   
   >>>> either. That's another starting line you can't get as "far" as. It would   
   >>>> possibly change your entire way of thinking if you ever could get as   
   "far" as   
   >>>> either of these starting lines, but how could you ever get there? When   
   could you   
   >>>> ever get there?   
   >>>   
   >>> I'll grant you this: you can type words on a keyboard.   
   >>   
   >>      I can share information and point out facts other people don't like to   
   think   
   >> about while doing so too.   
   >   
   >Indeed. That line of «reasoning» also applies to every degenerate   
   >fucktards like you.   
      
       I point out facts you don't like to think about. In responce you make   
   childlike personal insults at me. How do you want people to think that makes   
   you   
   somehow superior?   
      
   >Keep up the good work. And please type words on your keyboard.   
      
       I encourage people to think beyond their tiny little mental comfort zone.   
   People don't like that and act like you do for a while, then they become so   
   defeated by it that they finally give up and go hide. Better to give up and go   
   hide entirely than to risk exposing your poor little brain to thoughts it can't   
   handle, apparently. You might change into someone else, or something spooky   
   like   
   that....  Ooooh...scary....  I guess I was afraid of changing into a Mormon   
   when   
   I read the book of Mormon, less afraid of changing into a Muslim when I read   
   the   
   Koran, and by the time I read the Satanic Bible I wasn't afraid of changing   
   into   
   a Satanist. By then I'd learned that considering different concepts didn't   
   necessarily change me into what the author was encouraging. It just let me know   
   what they were encouraging so I could think more openly and realistically about   
   what it was/is.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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