Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Yes, you could end up in another fine mess!

If I am walking down a street and I find myself “forced” into deciding if should I avert my course so as to walk around a ladder or to continue as I am and walk under it, I choose the latter. I would consider myself “superstition free” (like most Capricorns). I go through a mental routine of wondering why these same thoughts enter my head any tim…[Read more]

@ Michael – They arrive instantly to judgement day.

Instantly? Do they not remain dead until the Day of Judgement? If it is instantly then you Michael are already one of the Immortals. How does it feel to know you will still exist in 300,000,000,000 years time?

If it ever comes to it will you ask Jesus or St. Peter or whomever is in charge of…[Read more]

Hi Michae17. You put me in mind of H.L. Mencken.

By Jupiter, where is the graveyard of the dead gods? What lingering mourner waters their mounds? The business of interpreting their whims occupied thousands of priests, bishops, archbishops. To doubt them was to die, usually at the stake. Armies took to the field to defend them against us infidels;…[Read more]

Anyone watched “Altered Carbon” on Netflix? The rich have their consciousness uploaded every day and if they die it can be downloaded into their new clone. Worth the popcorn.

The following is from “The End of Faith”, Chapter 6, by Sam Harris.

The connection between ethics and the scientific understanding of consciousness, while rarely made, is ineluctable, for other creatures become the objects of our ethical concern only insofar as we attribute consciousness (or perhaps potential consciousness) to them. That most of…[Read more]

Hi Kenneth and welcome to the site. Feel free to post any questions you would like more info or opinions on.

Theologians will claim that (their) God works in mysterious ways. We, as mere mortals, cannot comprehend the “mind of God”. God is not of this world because “He” is a supernatural entity. Yet they invent their own jargon to such an extent that it becomes a language of its own gibberish. They fill libraries with tomes of their own opinions on how…[Read more]

@Unseen – I think it was yourself that mentioned an interesting conundrum about Christian forgiveness in a similar post a few years ago on TA.

Consider the following scenario: A depraved Catholic priest spends most of his life physically and sexually abusing hundreds of young boys. Many of the victims become alcoholics and drug users and some e…[Read more]

“catholic refugee” . I am going to borrow the term as I address the concerns of an almost ex-Catholic later today. “Almost” in the sense that he still thinks “But there has to be a god or how else….“? Just one more step to take to become a citizen in the Land of Reason and to leave the superstitions of the Dark Ages dominionists behind.

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune…….

Well, he did suffer the arrows for allowing his outrageous delusion trespass where it was not wanted. I am sure he will become a martyr to those persecuted Christians back home. And now he is not to be anymore..…[Read more]