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Dr Adequate
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Message 5 of 23 (669989)
08-07-2012 7:42 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by michael?
08-07-2012 12:28 AM


Well, if the universe is an art gallery, it's one of the avant-garde kind which is filled with mantraps that kill the patrons. The Dadaists had nothing on God.

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Message 11 of 23 (670105)
08-08-2012 8:01 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by New Cat's Eye
08-08-2012 10:29 AM


Too broad. The universe as a whole is a lifeless and colorless emptyness.
The black bits are there for contrast. What color would you like the background of the universe to be, beige?

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Message 23 of 23 (672400)
09-07-2012 5:01 PM
Reply to: Message 21 by Hawkins
09-07-2012 3:34 PM


The Afterlife
For example, I see a lot of atheists sound as if they already know that nothing would happen after death. It's their own faith and without proof. However, their argument may be it is because their "god" the science never say that there is anything exists (soul or afterlife and such) after death. Thus nothing will be there after death. To say otherwise will be completely not scientific and thus not acceptable.
Well, there's an abundance of proof, unfortunately.
Consider the known connection between my brain and my mind. If you damage one part of my brain, I lose the ability to distinguish between different kinds of fruit (I kid you not). Damage another part, and I can't read or write. Damage another part, and I don't know right from wrong. Damage another part, and I lose the ability to give a damn about anything --- a doctor can tell me: "Dr A, you're dying of brain cancer", and I'll just say: "Oh, really?"
And then along comes a religious person and tells me that if every part of my brain is completely destroyed, then somehow I will retain all of my mental faculties.
This is like saying: "Sure, it would disable you slightly if I cut off one of your fingers. But if I cut off both your hands then you'll find you're not handicapped at all. Losing one of your fingers is an inconvenience, as you say. But if you lose all ten of them then you'll be just fine."

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