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   mur@.not. to Olrik   
   Re: SAD defeat of the atheist community    
   30 Jul 14 12:20:28   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, sci.skeptic   
   XPost: alt.christnet   
      
   On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 01:28:57 -0400, Olrik  wrote:   
      
   >Le 2014-07-26 14:18, mur@.not. a écrit :   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >Name it. I actually do like facts.   
      
       I consider what I told you about God and magic to be a fact. You apparently   
   don't.   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >That applies to you too.   
      
       Like what?   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >You seem confused.   
      
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