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Letter to an Atheist

Letter to an Atheist

Postby Adam » November 25th, 2006, 10:52 pm

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Re: Letter to an Atheist

Postby Kolbitar » November 26th, 2006, 1:51 pm

Adam, thanks for sharing that. This was particularly well put:

"But I cannot understand the malice one needs to delight in such a fate and the pride one needs to celebrate their own certainty of it, as though one were happy and proud to have witnessed first-hand a murder."

If we grant the Atheist's reality, it is his reality which has caused the love which we cannot help but express through our pursuit -- he then faults us for doing so...

He is, essentially, condemning his own reality isn't he?
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Re: Letter to an Atheist

Postby Adam » November 26th, 2006, 11:46 pm

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Postby Robert » November 27th, 2006, 12:25 pm

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Postby Jinksy » November 27th, 2006, 9:40 pm

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Postby Karen » November 27th, 2006, 10:54 pm

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Postby Pastafarian » November 27th, 2006, 11:14 pm

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. -Woody Allen
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Postby Karen » November 27th, 2006, 11:33 pm

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Re: Letter to anyone who likes to receive mail

Postby Adam » November 28th, 2006, 2:16 am

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Postby Pastafarian » November 28th, 2006, 3:02 am

I'm saury, Karen. When I treat you so roughy, I really hake myself.
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Postby Pastafarian » November 28th, 2006, 3:35 am

Adam, Jinksy's post makes no sense to me. I take it as a comment on your OP. I don't understand your posts any more than I understand Jinksy's. All three posts come across to me as word salad. Maybe word cole slaw is more apt.

Religion is a language? God is a language? The Church may be "Dr. Seus"? You suggest Jinksy should use "simple reasoning"? And what does his post have to do with figuralism?

Call me a clueless noob, too, but you certainly lost me.
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Postby nomad » November 28th, 2006, 4:00 am

I think I have to agree with Pasta on this one. I didn't get that post either. I didn't even try past the first three paragraphs the first time. I thought I was with you in the first sentence, because I understand needing another language with that of logic and reason (wrote a lot on that in the tread about Truth), but then you lost me. However, on a fourth, more careful reading, I think there is something there. I may not get it, but that doesn't mean that what you are trying to express is lame. Indeed, the difficulty of expressing it clearly may be a testament to it's depth. Or, it could just be word salad, as Pasta said.

For what it's worth, I don't think all atheists delight in the demise of faith.
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Postby Adam » November 28th, 2006, 5:42 am

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Postby Adam » November 28th, 2006, 6:28 am

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