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Unseul
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Message 52 of 104 (102580)
04-25-2004 10:34 AM


The first question (assuming im allowed more than one) id ask would have to be "why?". Although this could be taken extremely deeply as in why every single event occured id just like an explaination of why he made all this (fraid i havent read the bible, i tried to get the through the old testament, but found it was poorly written, hard to believe, boring and laughable in places) Basically if it says why in the bible then could someone give me the quote. (i reckon one answer i might accept would be "for a laugh."
After that then it becomes extremely tricky, cos its hard to accept something totally since in the end we should always be questioning what the hell is going on. And the existence of god would sorta make things quite definite, i suppose one thing i could ask would be for it to give me all possible knowledge, languages, history, physics, the truth about the things ive learnt in science, what some bloke who wrote some book said on page 51 just after the second full stop that was actually meant to be a comma but the editor got it wrong etc etc. Then i suspect i would actively go out and try and find something i didnt know.
Tricky tho.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life....

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Unseul
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Message 62 of 104 (103800)
04-29-2004 2:52 PM
Reply to: Message 61 by mike the wiz
04-29-2004 1:45 PM


I think that a lot of people who once believed and then stopped werent people that thought they had a personal experience. They were the more normal joes that went along with religion. But still felt that it was true, they did believe. Then at some point in there life something happened that made them really consider their belief. If they come down on the side of athiesm like myself it would probably take another important event to take place in which it seemed eminently more likely that god did exist. Once you decide that god doesnt exist life doesnt get any harder, in some ways it becomes easier (not going to church on sundays, so still having a lie in ) and so you see little point in starting to believe, and even less evidence as such.

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life....

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