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   jojo to All   
   Re: Blasphemy Day   
   14 Mar 25 02:14:37   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, talk.philosophy.humanism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: f00@0f0.00f   
      
   Xx/v]andrak|≡xX wrote:   
   > jojo wrote:   
   >> Xx/v]andrak|≡xX wrote:   
   >>> jojo wrote:   
   >>>> anthk wrote:   
   >>>>> On 2024-10-02, shogun  wrote:   
   >>>>>> Bob Casanova wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:08:20 -0700, the following appeared   
   >>>>>>> in sci.skeptic, posted by Don_from_AZ   
   >>>>>>> :   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> shogun  writes:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Bob Casanova wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>> On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 17:16:28 +0000, the following   
   >>>>>>>>>> appeared in   
   >>>>>>>>>> sci.skeptic, posted by sora :   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> David Dalton wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> Sept. 30 is Blasphemy Day, which from Wikipedia   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> “educates   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> individuals and groups about blasphemy laws and   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> defends freedom   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> of expression, especially the open criticism of   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> religion which is   
   >>>>>>>>>>>> criminalized in many countries”.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>>> religion from 2k or 1k or 200 or even 50 years ago is   
   >>>>>>>>>>> no longer   
   >>>>>>>>>>> relevant.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> Relevant to what?   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> relevant to helping people navigate life in 2020s and post.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> It's relevant if you live anywhere in the Islamic   
   >>>>>>>> controlled world, and   
   >>>>>>>> many other places as well.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Yep. The answer to which you replied is hopelessly   
   >>>>>>> parochial; "it's irrelevant to my immediate social circle,   
   >>>>>>> therefore it's irrelevant for everyone and everywhere".   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> i would regard religious people as fundamentally wrong,   
   >>>>>> being on   
   >>>>>> the wrong side of history. being wrong also means it   
   >>>>>> provides no   
   >>>>>> benefit to its adherents. they are choosing to become   
   >>>>>> obsolete.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The closest to a religion I'd believe would be   
   >>>>> synchronicity+pansichysm, but far from   
   >>>>> any judeo-christian/islamic sect or dogma.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> there might be something to synchronicity, but   
   >>>> panpsychism.... ehhh dont think so.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> No one's saying there's synchronicity jojo.   
   >>   
   >> you are saying it, you are saying there is panpsychism.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I don't know what that is.   
      
   it means you are connected with everyone and everything in the   
   universe through some substrate.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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