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   Message 88,445 of 89,766   
   Chris F.A. Johnson to mur   
   Re: Theotech: God Is the Ultimate Techno   
   13 Jun 15 16:42:09   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism   
   From: cfajohnson@cfaj.ca   
      
   On 2015-06-13, mur wrote:   
   > On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 17:15:50 -0400, "Chris F.A. Johnson"    
   > wrote:   
   > .   
   >>On 2015-06-05, mur wrote:   
   >>> On Fri, 29 May 2015 21:25:58 -0400, "Chris F.A. Johnson"    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>> .   
   >>>>On 2015-05-30, mur wrote:   
   >>>>..   
   >>>>>     I'm not persuaded that God does exist. Like you I consider the   
   possibility   
   >>>>> that he doesn't. But unlike you I can also consider the possibility that   
   he   
   >>>>> does   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  I'll consider that possibility when I see some evidence for it.   
   >>>   
   >>>     What sort of evidence are you imagining?   
   >>   
   >>  I'm not imagining any evidence, because I haven't seen any.   
   >   
   >     It's because you can't imagine what you think there should be, or where   
   you   
   > think it should be, etc. Not one of you can imagine anything respectable.   
   You're   
   > convinced something should be somewhere, but have no idea what, or where, or   
   why   
   > it should be wherever.   
      
     In other words, you have no idea what evidence there is.   
      
     I don't need to, because I'm not making any claim.   
      
   >>> So far not a single one of you has been able to imagine anything   
   >>> respectable at all. None of you can imagine what you think there   
   >>> should be, but you all think there should be something more than   
   >>> there is. That absurdity is evidence to me.   
   >>   
   >>  You are making the claim;   
   >   
   >     I'm pointing out one of the things you atheists are ALL competely   
   clueless   
   > about.   
   >   
   >>it is up to you to provide evidence.   
   >   
   >     Every one of you has PROVEN what I'm pointing out to be correct.   
      
     You haven't pointed out anything with any relevance.   
      
   > How do you think you're "teaching" anyone anything when you're   
   > entirely clueless about what you're attempting to "teach" and can't   
   > pretend you're not even when asked directly about it?   
      
     I'm not attempting to teach anything (except, perhaps, some   
     elementary logic).   
      
   --   
   Chris F.A. Johnson   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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