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PostPosted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:10 am
Baron von Turkeypants
Her:
i have an argument against your arguement against god.
so in saying there is no god you are acknowledging the possiblity of something called a god, you are associating the word "god" with something...whether that be a higher deity or a scary father-figure with thunderbolts. by associating the word you are affirming the existence.
of course this doesnt work because we all know that unicorns dont exist but we still have a word for them.
but it sounded good at first, yeah?


Um...did she just destroy her own argument?  
PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:35 am
ProjectOmicron88
Amanda Huggenkiss
i dont believe there is a guy sitting up in the sky, or in any tribal god, or anything like that. im talking about an ulitimate reality.


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It is the Force you feel, flowing through you.

AWESOME. Awesome to the max. Anyways, the whole force of the universe thing means, that if she believes it, she is a pantheist, or in Dawkins' term where pantheism is "sexed up atheism".  

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ProjectOmicron88

PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:08 pm
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ProjectOmicron88
Amanda Huggenkiss
i dont believe there is a guy sitting up in the sky, or in any tribal god, or anything like that. im talking about an ulitimate reality.


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It is the Force you feel, flowing through you.

AWESOME. Awesome to the max. Anyways, the whole force of the universe thing means, that if she believes it, she is a pantheist, or in Dawkins' term where pantheism is "sexed up atheism".


I'm not quite sure I understand completely the concept of pantheism. If it operates under the premise that everything in the universe abides by unbreakable laws, then I could see it working, but I don't know what the premise is.  
PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:40 pm
ProjectOmicron88
Baron von Turkeypants
Her:
i have an argument against your arguement against god.
so in saying there is no god you are acknowledging the possiblity of something called a god, you are associating the word "god" with something...whether that be a higher deity or a scary father-figure with thunderbolts. by associating the word you are affirming the existence.
of course this doesnt work because we all know that unicorns dont exist but we still have a word for them.
but it sounded good at first, yeah?


Um...did she just destroy her own argument?


She said the equivalent of, 'This bread is white because we call it white. If we cease to call it white it is no longer 'white bread'. Therefor it does not exist.'

I think she might have divided by zero. gonk  

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ProjectOmicron88

PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:09 pm
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ProjectOmicron88
Baron von Turkeypants
Her:
i have an argument against your arguement against god.
so in saying there is no god you are acknowledging the possiblity of something called a god, you are associating the word "god" with something...whether that be a higher deity or a scary father-figure with thunderbolts. by associating the word you are affirming the existence.
of course this doesnt work because we all know that unicorns dont exist but we still have a word for them.
but it sounded good at first, yeah?


Um...did she just destroy her own argument?


She said the equivalent of, 'This bread is white because we call it white. If we cease to call it white it is no longer 'white bread'. Therefor it does not exist.'

I think she might have divided by zero. gonk


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