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Parasomnium
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Message 209 of 577 (557625)
04-27-2010 10:41 AM
Reply to: Message 207 by sac51495
04-27-2010 9:19 AM


Re: I
sac51495 writes:
if there were a Santa Claus, and if there were a god, the god must have created Santa Claus, so the two are incomparable.
Ah, but you forgot about the Egyptian god Amun, who trumps your Christian God and was the hidden power that caused all the other creator gods to form.
In all seriousness, how can you not see that to an outside observer all gods, fairies and what-not are indistinguisable in terms of figments-of-somebody's-imagination-ness? How do you distinguish them yourself?
So Hitler killing millions of Jews under the pretense that they were hurting his society is justified?
Haven't you heard of Godwin's Law? "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

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Message 512 of 577 (569641)
07-22-2010 3:55 PM
Reply to: Message 511 by Dr Adequate
07-22-2010 3:49 PM


Re: The Irrelevance Of Ontology
I enjoyed reading that very much. If anything, Dr A is a very good and humorous writer.
Sorry for the interruption.

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