Why 43% of you are stupid

[Purple Haze]

zipman, your avatar is driving me nuts.

I fixed it for you.

You're welcome...

 

[weed]

Heaven? There is no heaven.

Dogs go to the great hunting ground in the sky.

Cat's go to Friskie's Buffet.

Fish go hell for being so coldblooded.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Well, I personally have to wonder about the intelligence of someone who actually used the adjective "stupider"

Dramatic license. Transfer of slang for literary effect. Need me to explain "sarcasm"?

 

[RawHumor]

Need me to explain "sarcasm"?

I think that you should have a definition of sarcasm as your sig line.

Just for the sarcastically challenged.




Yes, I DO realize that that last thought was not a complete sentence.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Wouldn't help. They're irony-free, too.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Hey, Dix, the moment that you can provide concrete proof that God doesn't exist, then you can call people who do "stupid."


You can start with the Big Bang and the Law of Conservation of Matter.

 

[sunstruck]

Wouldn't help. They're irony-free, too.

Feed them more spinach.

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

I'd like to see that Canadian show, it sound hilarious.

 

[LordLucan74]

Mine usually go into the ground.


Or the toilet.


Why exactly do we flush fish down the toilet anyway?

Divine Liturgy of Neptune page 363

 

[LordLucan74]

Heaven? There is no heaven.

Dogs go to the great hunting ground in the sky.

Cat's go to Friskie's Buffet.

Fish go hell for being so coldblooded.

Imagine where Mark David Chapman will go then??

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Hey, Dix, the moment that you can provide concrete proof that God doesn't exist, then you can call people who do "stupid."


You can start with the Big Bang and the Law of Conservation of Matter.

LOL


But, for those irony-free, sarcastically challenged who don't know she's kidding...

1) This thread is not about the existance of God
2) The burden of proof is not on the atheists, but the theists
3) The Big Bang was orignally called "The Big Noise", which was even an even sillier name.
4) Orthodox Jews make love through a hole in their sheets, so don't go trick-or-treating dressed as a ghost.

 

[Saytur]

4) Orthodox Jews make love through a hole in their sheets, so don't go trick-or-treating dressed as a ghost.

Damnit DCL ... I just sprayed my desk!

 

[Lancecastor]

I'd like to see that Canadian show, it sound hilarious.

It is hilarious. "Talking to Americans" started as a segment on "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" then spun into an hour long special that's run three or four times here in the past 18 months or so.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Damnit DCL ... I just sprayed my desk!

Sorry.

 

[estevie]

Cats and dogs don't really talk to each other in their secret language.

Oh, they told me its not really a secret, they just don't like to share it with everybody.

 

[Angel]

Divine Liturgy of Neptune page 363

Thanks

 

[KillerMuffin]

You didn't start this to prove the existence of God. You started this to call people who have faith stupid because they believe something that's the exact opposite of what you believe. A standpoint, I add, that neither side can prove to be true.

You can rationalize that the burden of proof relies on the God'ers. It's almost convincing, I bet it fools a lot of people. All it really, does, however, is give you the means to keep from examining your own beliefs in ways that you don't find comfortable.

Karl Popper was a genius. Science doesn't go about proving that things exist. Science goes about proving that they don't. It's easier to disprove a hypothesis than to prove it. It's easier to find one black swan to disprove that all swans are white than it is to see all the swans.

If you believe in science, then the burden of proof lies on the skeptics. That would be you.

 

[RawHumor]

You didn't start this to prove the existence of God. You started this to call people who have faith stupid because they believe something that's the exact opposite of what you believe.

Actually, only those who believe that their pets go to Heaven.

 

[CoolidgEffect]

LOL


But, for those irony-free, sarcastically challenged who don't know she's kidding...

1) This thread is not about the existance of God
2) The burden of proof is not on the atheists, but the theists
3) The Big Bang was orignally called "The Big Noise", which was even an even sillier name.
4) Orthodox Jews make love through a hole in their sheets, so don't go trick-or-treating dressed as a ghost.

Is this another thread where we are supposed to guess which one is correct and which are incorrect?

 

[Saytur]

Sorry.

You're not sorry

 

[glorfindale39]

I think to be an atheist means you must have as much faith as any religious fanatic. You can’t prove that god doesn’t exist anymore than you can prove he does. This is due to the nature of a supposed god. To be an atheist you take it on faith that there is no god.

Now an agnostic, is a person devoid of faith. As an agnostic you assume nothing without proof. You take the scientific view that things are unknown until proven.

So my point is it is a waste of energy to argue either for or against the existence of god. Currently it is an unknown. It is a philosophical debate that by it’s nature currently defies concrete resolution. Those people who chose to believe or not to believe in god are simply choosing to believe on faith something that comforts their human fears.

You know as an agnostic myself religious people often ask me, “But what if your wrong and there is a god, and your damned?” All I can do is ask them back, “What if your wrong?” I live my life to the best of my ability every day with the assumption that when this life is over, that is the end for me. I work very hard to make this life count then! If I am wrong and this god figure is everything he is supposed to be, he will see me as a good person who used my brain to the best of my ability and forgive me anyway. I can’t imagine any god that would supposedly make me in his image, and then expect man kind to kneel in ignorance to him. But if the religious folks are wrong, they lived their entire life, the only one they have, for some supposed reward that does not exist. Now that is tragic.

G.

athe·ist
Pronunciation: 'A-thE-ist
Function: noun
Date: 1571
: one who denies the existence of God


ag·nos·tic
Pronunciation: ag-'näs-tik, &g-
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek agnOstos unknown, unknowable, from a- + gnOstos known, from gignOskein to know -- more at KNOW
Date: 1869
: a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and prob. unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

The burden of proof of God's existence is not on the athesits, because you cannot prove a negative. I also can't prove that pigs don't surf. I don't need faith to know that pigs don't surf. I don't need to prove pigs don't surf. It's up to the acolytes of pig-surfery to provide proof.

Is too much. Let me sum up.

1) Atheism is not faith-based
2) The burden of proof is not on the skeptics, only the burden of skepticism.
3) This thread is not about the existance of God, but people who think animals, who were not created in the image of God, share in a piece of heaven.
4) I'm not sorry I made Saytur laugh.

 

[brokenbrainwave]

4) Orthodox Jews make love through a hole in their sheets, so don't go trick-or-treating dressed as a ghost.

cant ya see some toe headed kid saying thanks mister, but all I wanted was a milky way???

 

[sch00lteacher]

Maybe I have doubts about the Christian heaven and hell. I am not a Christian. But I do have my beliefs in an afterlife. I believe as Einstein did that energy can not be created, can not be destroyed. Humans are energy. So are all living things. EKGs do not measure mass.

If I want to believe that I will somehow see my loved ones, pets included, again. I will. I surely don't give a fuck what anyone else says.

I believe in what gives me comfort. For you to try and take that away from me, makes me think about your motive. You wish me harm? That ain't a good idea.

Why would you want to question anyones belief in what gives them comfort?

Death is a huge scary monster. I have seen the monster. It is real. Religion in any form is a way for humans to stave off that monster.

What kind of a fucking monster are you?

 

[sunstruck]

Oh goodie! Another joke that turned into a discussion on the existance of God! Let me get my bible and my copy of Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, I'll be right back.

*Heads to Joe's for a latte*