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KingOftheThing
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wake up!
#6217900 - 10/27/06 12:53 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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stop debating fairytales and focus
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dblaney
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That's a wonderful video. I noticed echoes of a Kantian morality: duty for the sake of duty. His Categorical Imperative (act only by that maxim that you would will be universal) is essentially the same as the Golden Rule, and makes a lot of sense.
One assertion the video made is that altruism is genetic and was favored by natural selection. I question whether altruism is indeed nature or is nurture. Or perhaps, it is some combination of the two?
I do like their affirmation of life and the here and now by the rejection of some future fantasy world. However, atheism is still a fixed conclusion, just as much as theism is. Agnosticism to me is the only truly rational and reasonable attitude to take with these matters.
I liked it
-------------------- "What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?" "Belief is a beautiful armor But makes for the heaviest sword" - John Mayer Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
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KingOftheThing
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Re: wake up! [Re: dblaney]
#6218029 - 10/27/06 01:47 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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you are correct and that's why i am an agnostic. i cant fully disprove a diety in general. however through history and facts you can pick apart and invalidate ANY of the abrahmic religions. also you can easily disprove the really stupid religions like mormonism and scientology
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fireworks_god
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Wake up from what?
-------------------- If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
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dblaney
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Scientology!?...STUPID!?
EVERYONE knows Scientology is the way of God!!!!!
-------------------- "What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?" "Belief is a beautiful armor But makes for the heaviest sword" - John Mayer Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
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Silversoul
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I woke up over a year ago. I'm waiting for others to do the same.
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Icelander
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I like the King
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Basilides
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Oh noes! Religion!
Seriously, if only one knew that God is THE source of Compassion, Love and Kindness, the world would truly be "waking up".
-------------------- "Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is. Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death."
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dblaney
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Who's God?
-------------------- "What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?" "Belief is a beautiful armor But makes for the heaviest sword" - John Mayer Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln
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Icelander
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Who is this God of which you speaketh?
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: wake up! [Re: dblaney]
#6219094 - 10/27/06 07:45 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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This one's too easy
-------------------- “Strengthened by contemplation and study, I will not fear my passions like a coward. My body I will give to pleasures, to diversions that I’ve dreamed of, to the most daring erotic desires, to the lustful impulses of my blood, without any fear at all, for whenever I will— and I will have the will, strengthened as I’ll be with contemplation and study— at the crucial moments I’ll recover my spirit as was before: ascetic.”
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Quote:
Icelander said: Who is this God of which you speaketh?
Thou art God(and so am I).
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Icelander
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Then I must be truly waking up.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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redgreenvines
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resembles santa wake me to the dream of christmas nahhh...
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Icelander
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-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Icelander
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When I told Veritas that we are all God she said that that explains a lot.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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redgreenvines
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we are all santa as her if that explains anything
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thatiAM
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If you are awake why are you waiting for other people to wake up?
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Silversoul
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Re: wake up! [Re: thatiAM]
#6219207 - 10/27/06 08:25 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
thatiAM said: If you are awake why are you waiting for other people to wake up?
Because they've been asleep for too long.
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redgreenvines
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Re: wake up! [Re: thatiAM]
#6219230 - 10/27/06 08:32 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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because only part of you is awake in that particular way
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