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I used the search function for New Scientist but that article does not appear.

Our minds work outside causal reality? WTF? I would like to know what makes you think so. Even it were so and i in know way concede it is so, it does not follow or establish that there are gods, irrespective of whether those imagined entities operate causally. Btw…[Read more]

Yeah, i have read about that council, other councils and about precursors. That is not what i am asking you. Step outside your comfort zone and answer me…CONCEPTUALLY, why is there any validity to any of it? Again a text can not authenticate itself. Is there any rational reason to believe that what has been handed down whether in its original…[Read more]

Michael, are you sure you are not dogmatic in this opinion and more importantly in your approach to reality? You take great care to differentiate your views from those of mainstream Christianity. How do those differ? Both mainstream and Michael-think spring from authority and doctrine and are held/cherished as cocksure.

Once a person has fully…[Read more]

What a shitty way to live Michael.

I gather that putative evidence that contradicts your understanding is rejected. The evidence is either specious or intended to deceive. Isn’t that a bit myopic though to assume that we are IT. Is there anything deceptive or contradictory about life in other parts of the universe? It may be imagined that life…[Read more]

So aliens are nonexistent because they would be supernatural?

Michael, if we were visited by super-intelligent aliens and compelled to answer yes or no as to whether history attests to the accuracy of the prophecy of the book of revelation on pain of execution for an incorrect answer how would you answer?

Jody, your blandishments and breezy way will scarcely ingratiate yourselves into our good graces. Your absence is unexcused. God is listening and watching so ya better watch out.

Maybe god’s brain is in his ass. Certainly the believers have shit for brains.

Adults who can’t see it is make-believe…what a mind fuck!

Perhaps Michael and Doc Bob are one and same.

okay then Michael…what may have been apparent to others is finally clear to me…you are not well…sorry for that.

Michael, let me come at this a different way. I have zero interest in comic books unless the comic book has independent indicia of reliability. A comic book can not authenticate itself.

Get it? Splain your foundations por favor.

Doc B, rumors of your demise…

A lack of imagination and inability to think independent of authority is characteristic of godbots. Gods are created by those with limited imagination. They know what they see…other humans. Thus gods are conceived with human characteristics (petty, unjust control freak, vindictive, homophobic racist,…[Read more]

Come on man!

Lets learn something. EVANGELIZE!

Give your world view. You have as yet done nothing (from my perspective) to separate yourself from the theistic pack. You say you have high iq…you say you have devoted a significant portion of your life to this endeavor. Convince us. Give anything at all that is probative or makes us reconsider or wonder.

Michael, which version of the bible are you relying on? Why should anyone think it is reliable/word of god? Since old and new testament have been changed so many times by scribes what makes you think you have access to the bible?

Is your belief faith-based only or is there some rational basis for you being a Christian? If it is rational then how…[Read more]

Yeah Michael, mainstream christian eschatological ideas are preposterous. The rest of the stuff makes perfect sense..talking snakes, virgin birth, transubstantiation, original sin… Lucky for us you have the perspicacity to divine and decipher the actual eschatology.

What would it take to make you realize that your ideas about prophecy are…[Read more]

It all has to be reconciled within the delusion. The delusion itself is sacrosanct and bedrock belief. There may be reasoning from within but there is zero reasoning outside of the delusion.

Michael, that was illuminating.

My ass writes its own essay. It is good like that. In fact my essay will write an essay for payforanessay. I am good like that. Pay me. Today!

Okay Simon i missed what you wrote. GOD MANIFESTS IN BEHAVIOR.

Same reaction here. We evolved as a highly social animal. If what you say is true you could make the same comment for predator and prey animals who help each other. Of course, it is not true. It is evolved behavior.

Simon, that makes zero sense to me.

The universe as it is when people come together shit gets done cuz people are doing it. If shit got done when it is beyond our capability then you could say holy porcupine. Magical quills saved the day.

I just read a story about a 16 year old who came to the aid of a kid who was about to be beaten by a…[Read more]