Real World Philospohy - Page 2

Loser · #11 November 6th, 2003, 05:22 AM

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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
ah, but if God tells you something, it isn't an assumption.

I always take what the little voices say with a grain of salt. If it's really God, why does it sound like Gilbert Gottfried.

narf poit chez BOOM · #12 November 6th, 2003, 05:29 AM

God doesn't sound like whoever Gilbert whatever does. i can garentee that.

Fyron · #13 November 6th, 2003, 05:39 AM

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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
ah, but if God tells you something, it isn't an assumption.

Of course, God existing is a pretty big assumption to begin with.

narf poit chez BOOM · #14 November 6th, 2003, 05:46 AM

unless God tells you he does.

Taz-in-Space · #15 November 6th, 2003, 05:54 AM

I try to go with the motto:
Everything in Moderation.

Maybe that's why my alter-ego is TAZ; who's motto seems to be the exact opposite:

Take Everything to the Extreme!

Fyron · #16 November 6th, 2003, 05:55 AM

narf:
That is extremely circular...

[ November 06, 2003, 03:56: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

narf poit chez BOOM · #17 November 6th, 2003, 06:08 AM

that is why science will never solve the mysteries of the universe. but how circular is it?

suppose you think there's a river on the other sider of a mountain. now, suppose that your crippled and could never make it to the other side of the mountain. now, suppose i had been there and could tell you about the river. now, suppose i had a perfect memory,(hard) and that i never lied,(not so hard) and that you knew both those things. so, you can know about things you've never seen and can't prove. of course, the analogy's not exact. none are.

Taz-in-Space · #18 November 6th, 2003, 06:14 AM

Posted by Narf:

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suppose you think there's a river on the other sider of a mountain. now, suppose that your crippled and could never make it to the other side of the mountain. now, suppose i had been there and could tell you about the river. now, suppose i had a perfect memory,(hard) and that i never lied,(not so hard) and that you knew both those things. so, you can know about things you've never seen and can't prove. of course, the analogy's not exact. none are.

...Well you could be an evil twin (clone?) that has NO memory and so always lies!

narf poit chez BOOM · #19 November 6th, 2003, 06:19 AM

*whacks Taz with the analogy*

Fyron · #20 November 6th, 2003, 06:27 AM

And who is this alleged person with a perfect memory and that never lied? Keep in mind that "religion" started with primitive man as a means to explain everything he could not understand (which was pretty much everything around him). The concept of "God" did not come along until 100,000s of years later. Before some people in ancient Babylon began claiming that there was only one God (the Jews), everyone believed in either multiple gods or some other belief in which everything (people, animals, rocks, etc.) was spiritual (with the occasional "other"). Of course, there were probably some minor pockets of monotheism before Judaism came along, but that is the one that got the whole notion of one God going strong (after quite some time, mind you).