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Quote Originally Posted by ShadowWarrior:

Buddhism has no " heaven ."  We practice our faith not necessarily for rewards after death but for a better life now and hopefully move on to another place after death to a better place than this.  Hopefully a world with less hatred and violence and more peace and serenity.  This world will always be troubled because of the worldly fires of GREED, ANGER and DESIRES known as defilements.  The root causes of human sufferings and hardship can be traced to these.

Yes I can only hope I get a better life than MY LIFE

So wince we all likely become some stardust in probably a few billion years I guess that's not gods will, he created my BRAIN and I think it provides me w/ some conceptual idea to understand :"any/all god bullshit is a fallacy"...I know Jesus wrote it in a book and clearly Humans started w/ a Virgin Bitch and probably only some 3,000 yr's ago...Of course that turns a blind eye to science which can explain many 50'000 yr's ago and beyond that for intelligent species (but again the 1 book said I'm wrong) so the shit MUST BE RIGHT

Ignorance, God's supposed agreement, yes any dumbfuck who believies, well you ARE a dumb dick unintelligent fuck who probably believes in ghosts

Explain your ignorance PLEASE, since I am currently reading a book that can explain your moronic perception/acception, but that's boring for us who know your a fucking moron....Kind of like the movie Dinner For Schmucks since we all wanna hear your dumb-shit bullshit just to laugh at your ignorance
 
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Quote Originally Posted by mwhit82:


Yes I can only hope I get a better life than MY LIFE

So wince we all likely become some stardust in probably a few billion years I guess that's not gods will, he created my BRAIN and I think it provides me w/ some conceptual idea to understand :"any/all god bullshit is a fallacy"...I know Jesus wrote it in a book and clearly Humans started w/ a Virgin Bitch and probably only some 3,000 yr's ago...Of course that turns a blind eye to science which can explain many 50'000 yr's ago and beyond that for intelligent species (but again the 1 book said I'm wrong) so the shit MUST BE RIGHT

Ignorance, God's supposed agreement, yes any dumbfuck who believies, well you ARE a dumb dick unintelligent fuck who probably believes in ghosts

Explain your ignorance PLEASE, since I am currently reading a book that can explain your moronic perception/acception, but that's boring for us who know your a fucking moron....Kind of like the movie Dinner For Schmucks since we all wanna hear your dumb-shit bullshit just to laugh at your ignorance

Ignorance............

A humans brain processing power is apprximately 100 teraflops, roughly 100 trillion calculations per second. This is faster than the combined top 500 supercomputers that have been built.

And people think our brains werent designed but came together by chance and fluke?

Now who is ignorant.......

 

 
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Did you bother to read ShadowWarrior's entire post before you ripped him?i think not,and because of that i think a little less of your intellegence now.
 
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Ignorance............

A humans brain processing power is apprximately 100 teraflops, roughly 100 trillion calculations per second. This is faster than the combined top 500 supercomputers that have been built.

And people think our brains werent designed but came together by chance and fluke?

Now who is ignorant.......

 

You are such a dope.  Your posts are all teraflops.

And worse than being a dope - you continuously post false facts.

There already has been a computer built faster than a human brain.

A Computer with the Power of a Human Brain

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It feels strange when a milestone that has always seemed far off in the future passes without you noticing. That happened to me this week when I found out that a supercomputer with the same performance as a human brain was built… back in 2008. There is something a little bit creepy about the fact that the world’s largest supercomputers also have names, but this one, built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is disarmingly called Roadrunner. Of course, when we remember that the animated roadrunner easily outsmarted the more likable character Wyle E. Coyote in Chuck Jones’ cartoon, the name no longer seems so inconsequential. Roadrunner is capable of performing 1.5 peta FLOPS (that’s 1.5×10^15 floating-point operations per second). It cost $133 million USD to build and contains 6,480 Opteron processors as well as 12,960 Cell processors. When it’s not being used to simulate nuclear weapon explosions, it spends some of its idle moments simulating portions of the human visual cortex.

In a seminal 1997 paper, Hans Moravec estimated the computing speed of the human brain at 100,000,000 MIPS, or one quadrillion instructions per second, roughly equivalent to the 1.5 petaflop speed record achieved by Roadrunner. Exact calculations on the processing power of a standard human brain vary, but credible projections place it between 1 and 20 petaflops. So even if Roadrunner turns out to me more dunce than Einstein, It is still within an order of magnitude of the smartest humans.

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Quote Originally Posted by Whodeysb09:



Come on man you're better than that.

 

i grew up a notre dame fan too..................

 

unfortunelty, religion forced me to abandon them.............

 

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Guys,  I can't even begin to argue with you on this thread cause it seems most of you are lost souls, and we wonder why  crime and murders and lack of respesct for each other is at an all time high ! 

Well  weather you like it or not, I will pray for you today when I'm at church...  

 
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Quote Originally Posted by raywapuzzo:

Guys,  I can't even begin to argue with you on this thread cause it seems most of you are lost souls, and we wonder why  crime and murders and lack of respesct for each other is at an all time high ! 

Well  weather you like it or not, I will pray for you today when I'm at church...  

Yeah, murders are way up because of you nutjob Christians!

At least 93 this week.

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Quote Originally Posted by raywapuzzo:

Guys,  I can't even begin to argue with you on this thread cause it seems most of you are lost souls, and we wonder why  crime and murders and lack of respesct for each other is at an all time high ! 

Well  weather you like it or not, I will pray for you today when I'm at church...  


get over yourself buddy
 
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Quote Originally Posted by vanzack:

Yeah, murders are way up because of you nutjob Christians!

At least 93 this week.


it's been a bad week for christian nut victims.  

yes, murders are way up because of the christian nuts but i can tell you from personal experience that instances of born again christianity are way up because of murderers (and rapists, child molesters, people who assault others, wife beaters, etc. etc.).

now, for all of you sensitive types, i'm not saying all born agains are hardcore criminals (just the many i've met), but ignoring the ridiculousness of the concept for a second, you can probably understand how one can be turned off by the idea after talking to some of the worst people on this planet and have them tell you over and over how they shouldn't be punished and the legal system shouldn't apply to them because gd loves them, or they've found some god or it should be up to god, or whatever.     

 
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Quote Originally Posted by slikstiks99:




Religion: Institutionalized mental illness that enables greed, corruption, and mindless propaganda to reign supreme over reason, compassion, and the good of humanity.




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I agree, there are corrupt religious organizations...BUT  

Just because there are few dirty cops, doesn't mean all cops are dirty,right? same goes for any group of race or religion.

How can all the beautiful miracles of life that surrounds us each and everyday mean nothing to the non believers? 


 
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Quote Originally Posted by PokinSmot:

I agree, there are corrupt religious organizations...BUT  

Just because there are few dirty cops, doesn't mean all cops are dirty,right? same goes for any group of race or religion.

How can all the beautiful miracles of life that surrounds us each and everyday mean nothing to the non believers? 



nonbelievers in what?  your god?  one of the other hundreds of god?  what?

but setting that aside for a second, an atheist might argue that the atheist might argue that the miracles of life mean everything toi the atheist because he believes that this life is all there is so he takes advantage of everything in this life without worrying about heaven or 72 virgins or whatever religions promise, none of this, "he's in a better place" stuff which might seem to imply that the religious take the miracles of life for granted since they have been led to believe there is a better place than this.  

of course, some have to believe that because they've made some bad choices in this life (see my earlier post about all the criminals who become born agains) or they just got dealt a bad hand in this life (perhaps why you see so many churches in the poor and rural areas).  
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Colts03:


get over yourself buddy

                 Ok guys,  I knew I would get crapped on for my comments..  It's all good   Colts 03   and  Vanzack , I'm sure you guys are good people and if we were in a bar having a beer together we would probably  not even know the difference..  However   my daughter is Norwegian and lives in Norway so that horrible incident that just happen bothers me  I'm sure more than most.  Come On, I know most of you are smart enough to realize that people hide behind religious groups to carry out their own evil in their hearts.  Do you guys really believe that guy who shot all those children is man of God.. Please!! and that goes for molesters , rapist ,addicts ect.    Colt03  when you say get over yourself buddy , believe me I'm about as humble as they come.. I don't ever preach to anyone friends ect. I can't stand probably as most of you some jehovah witness knocking on my door saying fear for your life or some bullshit, but on the other end   Man,! it seems like such anger and venom from some of you for people that are a little spiritual. 

Ok I like church not because of any self rightous act or heaven per say but really just gives me that 45 min or so just to reflect on me and what I could do to be a better person each week.  Thats all.   Hey I did not start this thread nor would I on a sports forum...  Kool ?  Think I will go have a beer and watch the Sox game now.       Ray...     

 

 

 
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nonbelievers in what?  your god?  one of the other hundreds of god?  what?

but setting that aside for a second, an atheist might argue that the atheist might argue that the miracles of life mean everything toi the atheist because he believes that this life is all there is so he takes advantage of everything in this life without worrying about heaven or 72 virgins or whatever religions promise, none of this, "he's in a better place" stuff which might seem to imply that the religious take the miracles of life for granted since they have been led to believe there is a better place than this.  

of course, some have to believe that because they've made some bad choices in this life (see my earlier post about all the criminals who become born agains) or they just got dealt a bad hand in this life (perhaps why you see so many churches in the poor and rural areas).  


I believe there is A Creator...and by our definition He is called God, Allah, Jehovah, or what ever dialect you choose. who are you to dismiss the claim that there isn't? who am i to tell you there is? you come into this world alone and you will leave this world alone, everyone is held accountable for their own actions.

If the world was without religion or faith...i suppose there would be no law and order, there would be anarchy.  humans by nature are barbarians and have no respect for each other (look at posts from covers members) Be thankful there are people of religion to keep rapist and murderers in the minority.


 
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Quote Originally Posted by PokinSmot:



I believe there is A Creator...and by our definition He is called God, Allah, Jehovah, or what ever dialect you choose. who are you to dismiss the claim that there isn't? who am i to tell you there is? you come into this world alone and you will leave this world alone, everyone is held accountable for their own actions.

If the world was without religion or faith...i suppose there would be no law and order, there would be anarchy.  humans by nature are barbarians and have no respect for each other (look at posts from covers members) Be thankful there are people of religion to keep rapist and murderers in the minority.



i don't dismiss your belief in a creator.  how would i know?

i didn't come into this world alone.  mty parents were there and i understand other relatives were there and i've had freinds and relatives around ever since.  i plan to keep it that way until i leave.

as to your second paragraph, without religion, i think we'd have all of the laws we need and the world would be a better place, with more order and less manipulation.   as someone who knows the criminal justice system and knows who commits crimes and why, i don't know these people of religion who keep rapists and murderes in the minority.  on the other hand, i know of many religious people who commit rape, murder and other crimes and i'm aware of a lot of rape, murder and other crimes committed as a result of religion.  
 
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As far as people go my rule is basically: The stronger the faith, the bigger the flaw in character.

Essentially: I don't need a book or imaginary boss in the sky to be a good person. 

In Logic, one can not be called upon to prove a negative.

It all sounds so crass and arrogant. So it doesn't convince many, but it really is that simple.

 
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i don't dismiss your belief in a creator.  how would i know?

i didn't come into this world alone.  mty parents were there and i understand other relatives were there and i've had freinds and relatives around ever since.  i plan to keep it that way until i leave.

as to your second paragraph, without religion, i think we'd have all of the laws we need and the world would be a better place, with more order and less manipulation.   as someone who knows the criminal justice system and knows who commits crimes and why, i don't know these people of religion who keep rapists and murderes in the minority.  on the other hand, i know of many religious people who commit rape, murder and other crimes and i'm aware of a lot of rape, murder and other crimes committed as a result of religion.  


your parents had a hand in your conception, your relatives may have watched you being born, doctors helped,  but you still enter this world by yourself, unless you have a twin then you entered together, lol. seriously though, you cant take anything or anyone with you when you die. thus the saying, "you enter the world alone and you will die alone"

i guess all cops are dirty and corrupted. there is never enough acknowledgement of good deeds done by people of faith because the non believers are too busy trying to knock it down with the few bad apples. humans were barbarians...religion enlightened us and gave us knowledge of things we couldn't comprehend in the beginning. without religion and divine intervention i believe humans would still be living in the Jurassic period. 

but what do i know, there are always 3 sides to a story....the right, the wrong, and the truth.

 
 
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Quote Originally Posted by vanzack:

You are such a dope.  Your posts are all teraflops.

And worse than being a dope - you continuously post false facts.

There already has been a computer built faster than a human brain.

A Computer with the Power of a Human Brain

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It feels strange when a milestone that has always seemed far off in the future passes without you noticing. That happened to me this week when I found out that a supercomputer with the same performance as a human brain was built… back in 2008. There is something a little bit creepy about the fact that the world’s largest supercomputers also have names, but this one, built by IBM at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is disarmingly called Roadrunner. Of course, when we remember that the animated roadrunner easily outsmarted the more likable character Wyle E. Coyote in Chuck Jones’ cartoon, the name no longer seems so inconsequential. Roadrunner is capable of performing 1.5 peta FLOPS (that’s 1.5×10^15 floating-point operations per second). It cost $133 million USD to build and contains 6,480 Opteron processors as well as 12,960 Cell processors. When it’s not being used to simulate nuclear weapon explosions, it spends some of its idle moments simulating portions of the human visual cortex.

In a seminal 1997 paper, Hans Moravec estimated the computing speed of the human brain at 100,000,000 MIPS, or one quadrillion instructions per second, roughly equivalent to the 1.5 petaflop speed record achieved by Roadrunner. Exact calculations on the processing power of a standard human brain vary, but credible projections place it between 1 and 20 petaflops. So even if Roadrunner turns out to me more dunce than Einstein, It is still within an order of magnitude of the smartest humans.

https://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2002/11/56459

 
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Quote Originally Posted by vanzack:

Yeah, murders are way up because of you nutjob Christians!

At least 93 this week.

By your logic

1. A fan was murdered in the Dodger stadium car park after the Giants played the LA Dodgers.

2. The murderer was wearing a Dodgers shirt and was obviously a Dodgers fan. 

3. Dodgers fans are murderers.....

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Quote Originally Posted by NASCAR-Sucks:

As far as people go my rule is basically: The stronger the faith, the bigger the flaw in character.

Essentially: I don't need a book or imaginary boss in the sky to be a good person. 

In Logic, one can not be called upon to prove a negative.

It all sounds so crass and arrogant. So it doesn't convince many, but it really is that simple.

Fine, if you dont believe in a creator, you are then ultimately led to believe that something can come from nothing. Things create itself out of nothing, by nothing, for nothing.

And everything we see and do today, even though it looks like it has been designed, isnt, it simply came about by chance, fluke and luck.

 
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Quote Originally Posted by PokinSmot:



your parents had a hand in your conception, your relatives may have watched you being born, doctors helped,  but you still enter this world by yourself, unless you have a twin then you entered together, lol. seriously though, you cant take anything or anyone with you when you die. thus the saying, "you enter the world alone and you will die alone"

i guess all cops are dirty and corrupted. there is never enough acknowledgement of good deeds done by people of faith because the non believers are too busy trying to knock it down with the few bad apples. humans were barbarians...religion enlightened us and gave us knowledge of things we couldn't comprehend in the beginning. without religion and divine intervention i believe humans would still be living in the Jurassic period. 

but what do i know, there are always 3 sides to a story....the right, the wrong, and the truth.

 

 
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Quote Originally Posted by ClubDirt:


nonbelievers in what?  your god?  one of the other hundreds of god?  what?

but setting that aside for a second, an atheist might argue that the atheist might argue that the miracles of life mean everything toi the atheist because he believes that this life is all there is so he takes advantage of everything in this life without worrying about heaven or 72 virgins or whatever religions promise, none of this, "he's in a better place" stuff which might seem to imply that the religious take the miracles of life for granted since they have been led to believe there is a better place than this.  

of course, some have to believe that because they've made some bad choices in this life (see my earlier post about all the criminals who become born agains) or they just got dealt a bad hand in this life (perhaps why you see so many churches in the poor and rural areas).  

Is a camera just a coincidence?

Is a computer just a coincidence?

Is a water filter just a coincidence?

Your eye is far more sophisticated then any camera in the world.

Your brain is far more sophisticated then any computer in the world.

Your kidneys are 1 of the most sophisticated filters to ever exist.

The list goes on & on.....

How can one even have the audacity to even entertain the thought the we are a coincidence!

What a joke !
 
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Quote Originally Posted by Rostos:

https://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2002/11/56459

That article is dated 2002!

You are so dopey.

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Quote Originally Posted by raywapuzzo:

                 Ok guys,  I knew I would get crapped on for my comments..  It's all good   Colts 03   and  Vanzack , I'm sure you guys are good people and if we were in a bar having a beer together we would probably  not even know the difference..  However   my daughter is Norwegian and lives in Norway so that horrible incident that just happen bothers me  I'm sure more than most.  Come On, I know most of you are smart enough to realize that people hide behind religious groups to carry out their own evil in their hearts.  Do you guys really believe that guy who shot all those children is man of God.. Please!! and that goes for molesters , rapist ,addicts ect.    Colt03  when you say get over yourself buddy , believe me I'm about as humble as they come.. I don't ever preach to anyone friends ect. I can't stand probably as most of you some jehovah witness knocking on my door saying fear for your life or some bullshit, but on the other end   Man,! it seems like such anger and venom from some of you for people that are a little spiritual. 

Ok I like church not because of any self rightous act or heaven per say but really just gives me that 45 min or so just to reflect on me and what I could do to be a better person each week.  Thats all.   Hey I did not start this thread nor would I on a sports forum...  Kool ?  Think I will go have a beer and watch the Sox game now.       Ray...     



 


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