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It was 4 years ago that I first discovered who you were as you absolutely killed it in 2010. Here's to another successful run!
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Great job vanzack, You've been the only capper I've truly followed since I discovered you back before the World Cup in 2010. I kind of liked Denver and wanted to root for Peyton, but in 4 years, I've never seen you so confident in a game. When you said "Seattle is going to win the Super Bowl" I knew Seattle was going to win the Super Bowl. 10-1 in the playoffs - absolutely incredible. Thanks a bunch. Looking forward to another World Cup tailing your picks.
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Nice to see you back with some picks. I have never felt so clueless about a slate of games before. The only one I thought I was really confident in was philly, but seeing you on new orleans makes me a bit hesitant. I haven't decided what I wanna do yet. Good luck though!
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It is absolutely mind-boggling that in the year 2013, people still exist that are this unintelligent.
https://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/15/nation/na-sect15 |
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https://news.sky.com/story/1111428/praying-parents-who-let-child-die-lose-appeal
Emotions while reading this story: anger, sadness, even more anger, and finally an ever so slight pinge of hopefulness...but mostly anger
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New thread. Excellent.
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This thread is great.
https://www.alabamas13.com/story/22003428/chelsea-man People like this are actually alive. They exist. They have jobs. They are part of society.
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Ok so Rostos doesn't believe Hawking. And I don't believe your story of magic. How is it any different? You can't prove Hawking wrong. Therefore, his theory is viable. Therefore, you can no longer resort to the "something from nothing" argument. Game over.
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Rostos says the best explanation is a supreme being created the universe because he has CONCLUDED that something cannot come from nothing.
Unlike Rostos, I'm willing to provide the basis for my claims. I do not know how the universe began, but god certainly is no more logical than this... https://singularityhub.com/2010/09/07/stephen-hawking-says-god-is-unnecessary-new-book-and-video/
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Quote Originally Posted by ClubDirt: rostos, i don't even know how to respond to that but being the nice guy that i am, i'll just give it one of these ![]() LOL. Sorry had to do it for you. I'm too stubborn not to. I truly believe Rostos does understand us, but consciously chooses to disregard facts. Hence, why he constantly changes our arguments to suit his.
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Quote Originally Posted by Rostos: Dirt logic 1. Whatever happens in the past will repeat itself in the future 2. Plane A has never crashed. 3. Therefore Plane A will never crash Seriously bud, if this is the depths of logic you have to plunge to back up your atheism, then its no wonder only a very very small portion of the world are Atheists. I have never in my life such stupid logic. Yes you have. You just said it. Plus, once again, you change people's words. Because you know you are incapable of responding to what people actually say. 1. Whatever happens in the past is likely to repeat itself. Not WILL. Not a fact. The sun has risen every day that I have been alive. Therefore, it is extremely likely it will rise tomorrow. Not 100%. But if I were a betting man, I'd put my money on the sun rising tomorrow. 2. Plane A has never crashed. 3. Therefore, it is highly likely that Plane A will not crash tomorrow. 4. Therefore, I am willing to fly on Plane A. That seems like pretty sound logic to me.
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And, Clubdirt, that is exactly why the word "faith" cannot be used and applied to any decision we make the way Rostos would want us to use it. If we did so, then we would not be able to distinguish between decisions based on the actual definition of faith and decisions based on evidence. The reason the word "faith" exists is to distinguish between decisions based on evidence and decisions not based on evidence.
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Quote Originally Posted by SirJohnDrake: Quote Posted by ktrain: One example of this would be the Argument from Evil, an atheological argument which proposes to prove that an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent god cannot exist alongside a world like ours which has so much evil in it. If successful, such an argument would not disprove the existence of some other god; it would instead merely disprove the existence of any gods with a particular set of characteristics. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry, there is no argument that can prove or disprove the existence of God. We can argue all we want with premises, conclusions etc but at the end of the day nothing is really proven. Your argument of evil goes nowhere when the theists argues back that the reason for evil is because God has given all of us free will to choose to do what is right or wrong. Sadly some of us choose to do what is wrong. We see that happened just yesterday in the Boston bombings...so sad indeed! No but we can PROVE that your god, as described in the bible, with the characteristics given to him by the writers of the bible, cannot possibly exist.
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Continuing with the original purpose of this thread.
https://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130415/westboro-baptist-church-threatens-to-picket-boston-marathon-funerals What a great god you guys have.
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Let's assume, based on Rostos' fallacy of black and white thinking, that something supernatural created the universe. There was something transcending reality that caused the big bang. Ok. Now what Rostos?
We know NOTHING about this character. Absolutely nothing. Does this character intervene in every day life? Has he created other big bangs before? Is he a selfish, conceited, arrogant prick that created the universe just so people could worship him? Why did he only give intelligent life to humans? Why did he allow humans to conjure up hundreds of thousands of different gods? Maybe all those gods actually existed? Did he put life on other planets? Intelligent life? If he is a supreme being why create the universe in the method he did? Why not just poof everything into place? I can go on and on. The point, Rostos, is that even if we were to accept that something supernatural created the universe, it helps your argument ZERO. So this "something vs nothing" argument you always like to fall back on, which obviously is fundamentally flawed, even if acknowledged and accepted, establishes nothing. We still have absolutely no reason to do anything associated with belief in a god.
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Quote Originally Posted by Ktrain: Your definition of faith is extremely diluted then and has no significant meaning at that point. I think if anything it reinforces the idea that everything is random and nothing is planned i.e. life, living day to day, crossing the street etc. I don't know Rostos, your print factory analogy and life forming by random chance is pretty bad imo. The odds of winning the Powerball lottery are absurd too but that seems to happen every few months. Of course it's terrible. If you buy ONE powerball ticket, your odds of winning are astronomically low. But, what if you bought 100 trillion powerball tickets. I'd say you have about a 100% chance of winning. Wouldn't you agree?
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Rostos, we really do take it easy on you. I can go ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON about examples of why there is absolutely a 0% chance your god with the characteristics you assign to him can possibly exist. But I don't. Yet you keep presenting fallacious arguments and ignoring definitions of words and facts and logic. Why even bother?
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I don't see how I can have faith that god does not exist.
1. My belief that god does not exist does is not unquestioned and does require proof or evidence. 2. N/A 3. N/A 4. This is way too general and makes the word meaningless with reference to religion and god. 5. This is referring to a more colloquial definition. Like if a friend says to you "take this road instead...have faith in me, i know where we are." That is, by definition, "faith," but it is certainly not on the same level as faith in a supreme being. 6. This definition does not apply to us. It refers more to faith in a cause, an ideal, like a political revolution; something like that.
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Very good point. Faith is supposed to something special that you have in your god. If "faith" can be applied to my decision to get on the bus and go to school today, then faith in god becomes meaningless. The entire purpose of faith as we define it is to acknowledge that there is no proof, but you still trust and have faith in your god. If I can trust and have faith in a bus driver the same way you trust and have faith in your god, what does that make your god?
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You can call a chicken a duck...but it's still a chicken.
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