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   XPost: sci.skeptic, alt.magick   
   From: sylvia@email.invalid   
      
   On 08-Apr-23 1:55 pm, Maximus wrote:   
   > Sylvia Else wrote:   
   >> On 08-Apr-23 9:57 am, Michael McLean wrote:   
   >>> On 7/04/2023 10:33 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:   
   >>>> On 29-Mar-23 4:16 pm, David Dalton wrote:   
   >>>>> Right now I don’t have faith but do have hope that my global new   
   >>>>> age onset magickal workings will have effect.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Having some expectation that something will happen with no   
   >>>> reasonable basis for thinking it will is neither hope, nor faith.   
   >>>> It's delusion.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Sylvia.   
   >>>   
   >>> No, it's life, fool atheist.   
   >>>   
   >>> Life does not exist according YOUR mind's reasonable basis, Ms   
   >>> Glorious Mind.   
   >>>   
   >>> The atheist is always a self-worshiper!  My questions are, why and   
   >>> who anointed them the self-glory?   
   >>>   
   >>> One guess.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Michael   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> I don't really see how you reach the "atheist" conclusion.   
   >>   
   >> Religion mostly seems to involve believing that something, God,   
   >> exists, without supporting evidence. There does not appear to be an   
   >> expectation that something will happen as a consequence. Indeed, much   
   >> of the support for religious belief seems to form around explaining   
   >> the absence of things happening, such as protecting churches from   
   >> earthquakes, despite the supposed existence of God.   
   >>   
   >> OK, NOW you can probably reasonably conclude that I'm an atheist.   
   >   
   > just ignore 'Mad Mike'   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Sylvia.   
   >   
   >   
      
   I would, but sometimes it's fun to play with these people.   
      
   Sylvia.   
      
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