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Davis replied to the topic Why We Can't Resolve Ethical Arguments in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 9 months ago
What the hell are you talking about? Simon stated that it is a fact that a fertilised egg is alive. I countered that it depends on the definition of alive. Instead of defining “alive” he gave a bad analogy. I countered with an equally silly analogy to show how silly his analogy was. He replied by throwing in a new term “dormant” that also totally…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Why We Can't Resolve Ethical Arguments in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 9 months ago
If an acorn is separated from a tree, it is in a dormant state. If you drop it into a fire, it goes from dormant to dead.
Davis rolls his eyes.
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Davis replied to the topic Why We Can't Resolve Ethical Arguments in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 9 months ago
Yes Simon and if you drop an acorn into a fire it “dies”. So what. Was the acorn “alive”?
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Davis replied to the topic Why We Can't Resolve Ethical Arguments in the forum Small Talk 5 years, 9 months ago
No it isn’t a fact that a foetus is “alive”. It is a functioning organism but whether it is alive depends on your definition of what is “alive”. Is the foetus in an unhatched egg “alive”? Is a one hour zygote made up of 32 cells “alive”? Are a sperm and an egg just about to be fertilised “alive”? The only fact at all in this case is that it is a…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School September 13th 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 5 years, 9 months agoThanks, Reg!
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 9 months ago
Johan I agree with Jake. I think a psychologist would be the best course of action. Unfortunately.
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 9 months ago
Simon, you don’t need religion to answer those question. You don’t need religion to fulfill emotional and “world view” needs. Nobody here is saying that living like empty robots is the way forward. It’s obvious that we need to fill our lives with meaning. Religion simply offers a toxic route to that meaning and comes with terrible unnecessary…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 9 months ago
Johann, do you need any help uploading that video or image evidnece?
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 9 months ago
You don’t need an alternative to religion. Religion is the problem. Get rid of the religion and you’ve removed a serious problem. If you need a false crutch to get through life then you have serious issues you need to deal with. Millions of people around the world live totally fine without it. If you live in a western developed country and have an…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 9 months ago
How can belief in an entirely fictional entity be a way of “getting” to an authentic life. That’s like saying sincere belief in Elvis still being alive is part of a process of getting to an authentic life. If you can arrive there without believing in fictional nonsense then belief in that fictional nonsense just delays the process and makes…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 9 months ago
Jake you can choose life without God. In fact you only start living when it is most authentic and there is nothing authentic about a made-up Divine being in the sky.
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 9 months ago
They said the same about Jesus
You are Jesus?
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 9 months ago
Johan the fact that you exist is not evidence that you were born to a God (or created by one). The universe can easily exist without a God having anything to do with it, I would say that if anything, things are a whole lot less needlessly complicated without the God. I am not going anywhere to see you prove the existence of God. You can upload…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School September 6th 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 5 years, 9 months agoThanks, Reg!
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 9 months ago
Sure. I have my Life to show you. I am a Living God. And more specifically a Living Mother.
No. That is not proof. Saying you are God doesn’t make you God. You have to prove you are a God. The only proof you have given is simply saying something like: A God created me therefore I am a God.
There are two MAJOR problems with this claim first of…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 9 months ago
I know. But I am here to show you the difference between your intellectual understanding of religion that is also a mind game and the Reality of God.
How can there be a reality of God? It’s a fictional character made up by uneducated nomads in the dessert where a “plow” was an extreme marvel of technology and where people believed mental illness…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School August 30th 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 5 years, 10 months agoThanks, Reg!
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Davis replied to the topic Sunday School August 23rd 2020 in the forum
Sunday School 5 years, 10 months agoBeliefs have a social purpose. Does this explain delusions?
Social purposes doesn’t mean that they are necessarily good. Racism has a social purpose. Mob violence has a social purpose. Believing that an Albino is a witch that will curse your children…has a social purpose. Some of these social purposes are purposes that don’t serve humanity and…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 10 months ago
Johan, we’ve heard this kind of religious poetry before. It bores me to tears. I am entirely uninterested in a repeat of yet another Christian subjective inward experience where your brain convinces you that some fiction being someone created a few thousand years ago (God) has somehow magically filled up your heart with some sense of security that…[Read more]
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Davis replied to the topic Godly Being in the forum Theism 5 years, 10 months ago
Johan, quoting the bible doesn’t prove anything…any more than quoting the little mermaid. The particular book was written by a guy travelling around the Mediterranean writing letters trying to convert people to a religion that had just been invented. Nothing in the book is corroborated by any other independent evidence. The only thing that…[Read more]
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