Atheism to Defeat Religion by 2038

[Brit Expat]

The Irish question:-
Pure religion(Catholic nonsense) in action!!!
Slave labour in the laundries!
Nuns making millions of Dollars!
Monks getting a free "legover"
What next??? Abdul and the Mullahs doing the same things!
Brainwashed religous types please wake up you're being screwed.
BUT! SADLY BRAINWASHING THE HUMAN MONKEY REALLY DOES WORK.
The Atheist.

[Givemeliberty]

Ladies and gentlemen this anti science idiot has all the answers! What flows through our veins?

God-stuff!

Bravo!

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahah a!

insidesecrets wrote:

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Or the narrow minded atheist whose skewed world view is scraping the bottom of the barrel of human ignorance.

[rio]

Givemeliberty wrote:

Sheesh email your preacher pray to your Jewsus and calm down. You are really making a jackass out of yourself now.
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Do you always answer to posts 3 days later?

[Hedonist]

insidesecrets wrote:

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Refer to post #12246

Again, you're just making stuff up.

[It aint necessarily so]

01Justsayin wrote:

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That dude bores me. Was the interview at least entertaining?

I haven't seen it yet. It's on my DVR.

[Hedonist]

insidesecrets wrote:

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If you have never experienced transcendent events, how would you know such experiences do not exist and are not legitimate?

How can you know it is legitimate?

"Are there things in the Universe that we cannot know in the usual way of observing and measuring, but that we can know in some other way -- intuition, revelation, mad insight?

If so, how can you know that what you know in these non-knowing ways is really so?

Anything you know without knowing, others can know only through your flat statement without any proof other than 'I know!'

All this leads to such madness that I, for one, am content with the knowable. That is enough to know." ~ Isaac Asimov

[polymath257]

insidesecrets wrote:

If you have never experienced transcendent events, how would you know such experiences do not exist and are not legitimate?

Why would you assume that nobody here has experienced a 'transcendental event'? I do assume that such *experiences* exists, but know they are not legitimate. They are one of the many ways that the brain can fool itself; illusions, if you wish.

[Givemeliberty]

Certainly she is unable to keep up with her lies. Not surprising as she is a Christhole flailing and just failing.

jacktheladat1 wrote:

<quoted text>This is just one example where the adage I posted, and some know-alls on here shot-down a while ago, applies,= "Good liars need even better memories."

[Brit Expat]

Worth watching. Religion in action. You wont find this on the BBC or FOXCRAP.
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/europe/2013/02...

[Givemeliberty]

Sharp as a marble that Rio and thick as pigsht.

Best pray for 40 IQ points ok wanker?

rio wrote:

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Do you always answer to posts 3 days later?

[insidesecrets]

polymath257 wrote:

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Which are inherently imprecise and unreliable. Using vague language to make irrational points is not an increase of knowledge.

Neither will ignoring transcendent human experience add to one's knowledge. An atheist looks into the abyss and sees nothing. The theist experiences God, and the abyss opens unto worlds of knowledge.

[insidesecrets]

polymath257 wrote:

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Why would you assume that nobody here has experienced a 'transcendental event'? I do assume that such *experiences* exists, but know they are not legitimate. They are one of the many ways that the brain can fool itself; illusions, if you wish.

If it exists, it is legitimate.

[It aint necessarily so]

01Justsayin wrote:

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Youtubed it. It was a very interesting interview. Maher looked like a corpse as always, but the other guy did bring up some good points. Not enough to make me convert, of course. But I could definitely view them objectively. Still gonna hang onto my 1st amendment rights.

I looked for that on YouTube and found an earlier interview of Harris on Maher's show dated August 21, 2009. That's probably the one you saw. That was a good interview.

[tick-tock]

I just watched most of the recent Sam Harris spot. Unfortunately, the five minutes or so of it that I saw was all about gun control. What he said wasn't too interesting or useful.

[insidesecrets]

Hedonist wrote:

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How can you know it is legitimate?
"Are there things in the Universe that we cannot know in the usual way of observing and measuring, but that we can know in some other way -- intuition, revelation, mad insight?
If so, how can you know that what you know in these non-knowing ways is really so?
Anything you know without knowing, others can know only through your flat statement without any proof other than 'I know!'
All this leads to such madness that I, for one, am content with the knowable. That is enough to know." ~ Isaac Asimov

It is not science that makes your life legitimate, it is your own experiences. If you cannot trust your experiences, you end up denying your human nature.

[insidesecrets]

Thinking wrote:

What has spirituality got that reality plus imagination hasn't?
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The development of one's moral consciousness through "action" which in turn gives meaning and dignity to life.

[-Skeptic-]

insidesecrets wrote:

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It is not science that makes your life legitimate, it is your own experiences. If you cannot trust your experiences, you end up denying your human nature.

Experiences don't make life legitimate either. Just because you believe you can fly doesn't mean you will survive a 50ft fall.

[It aint necessarily so]

trekx wrote:

Lets just put it this way, to be religious (any religion) you first have to be taught that religion. But to be an Atheist you dont have to be taught anything at all, its just a natural state of mind and the way we are all born ...

Fromt he August 21, 2009 appearance of Sam Harris on Bill Maher's show:

BILL MAHER: How did you get to where you are, and what advice would you give to kids today who wanna break into atheism?

SAM HARRIS: Well, I started there, and that's kind of the point.

MAHER: You did?

HARRIS: Yeah, unless you're indoctrinated at some point early on -- it's kind of like smoking -- you tend not to pick it up later in life.

MAHER: As a child, you were an atheist?

HARRIS: Atheism has no content.

[Givemeliberty]

I bet those scientists see god-stuff all the time under the microscope but refuse to publish it!

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahah a!

insidesecrets wrote:

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Neither will ignoring transcendent human experience add to one's knowledge. An atheist looks into the abyss and sees nothing. The theist experiences God, and the abyss opens unto worlds of knowledge.

[-Skeptic-]

insidesecrets wrote:

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The development of one's moral consciousness through "action" which in turn gives meaning and dignity to life.

Atheists aren't here to discuss morals or philosophy. Many theists make the mistake that because religion tries to talk about these subjects, atheism must also.

Atheist is just a classification - a lack of belief or faith in god, In fact from an atheist's point of view, it's not a lack of anything at all.

As many atheists will tell you, they may also have philosophical viewpoints about life, etc.

The problem is that uneducated theists put this pressure on atheists and have an expectation that atheism is out to solve spiritual or philosophical problems, which is absolutely is not trying to do or claiming to do.

[Thinking]

That's just a subset of "reality plus imagination".

insidesecrets wrote:

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The development of one's moral consciousness through "action" which in turn gives meaning and dignity to life.