Deism in the Dock

We agnostics are more loyal to logic than either the atheist or deist/theist camps: any God or "ultimate reality" is unknown and probably unknowable.The rest of you just like to choose sides and pick fights.Extremists, all of you--true believers, every last one.

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Hmm...capacity of knowledge, capacity of knowledge, capacity of knowledge... You sure you're a verbally gifted language professional?Splitting linguistic hairs outside the context provided by the thread doesn't make you more logical, crash, but it does seem (what's that word you like to apply to others so much?) masturbatory. You think it through, tadpole.You could define a singularity as your asshole and collect data scientists never dreamed would be available. So what? Others could define your asshole as a singularity, too, but if scientists are attempting to determine whether or not it is, in fact, a singularity, they won't be asking themselves whether you are an asshole.I didn't say "the existence of any God"--the construction of "God or ultimate reality" is quite clear in the context of this thread. Don't be deliberately thick. You do well enough casually.Still, let's look at your boo-boo. If I put a penquin in a box in Times Square and call it God, and you verify its presence, you'll accept that it is a god? How would you determine that? No, not the trivial quibble of whether or not someone calls it a god, but whether it has the god-like nature and power addressed by this thread.Wringing its neck or noting its refusal to perform miracles won't work. Cannot a god sacrifice itself or remain deaf to prayer? You once believed those things possible for a god, if I recall correctly. For the purposes of this thread, God was already defined. You're like the context-free kid who runs into the nudist colony screaming, "The Emperor has no clothes!"By the way, the word is averse, O wisest of poopy-headed penquin pilgrims.If you're going to split other people's hairs, comb your own first.

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PaulK, I simply take people at their word, devout and disbeliever alike.It's true that self-identified atheists may secretly believe, and the self-identified religious may secretly not, but I'm just a simple Unfrozen Caveman agnostic and accept their declarations at face value.If some of them are lying, who does that refute?

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Crash, if you can't recall any of your posts asserting authoritative langauge skills based on your studies, acting, and native intelligence, I'll find one for you. Why pretend otherwise when my posting the material will only make you look ridiculous?Still, I don't really mind that--you are obviously a bright and articulate person, one I often agree with, esp. politically. But seizing on a word out of context and progressing from myopic misrepresentation to insult was stupid.You screwed up. Just accept that. Move on. More precisely, it is one word in a post of many words conditioned by the context of the thread's OP and other posts to date. Jumping up and down and yelling "It's what you said! It's what you said!" when called for taking a remark out of context is childish. Crash, laughing at you does not consistute a tizzy.The civil part must have been where you said: I see you preferred to ignore rather than attempt to refute my comments about context. I'm not surprised, but I am still smiling. No, kid, you were wrong. Now that you understand that, you can grow.

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That's fine then. Run along now.

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