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by Feck » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:02 pm
MrFungus420 wrote:Feck wrote:
this thread needed more pretty and less idiot .
I love Liz Viscious!

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by orpheus » Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:44 pm
More popcorn for all!

I think that language has a lot to do with interfering in our relationship to direct experience. A simple thing like metaphor will allows you to go to a place and say 'this is like that'. Well, this isn't like that. This is like this.
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by JimC » Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:52 pm
My problem is, I can't resist any thread where the word "distillers" occurs...

Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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by Valden » Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:40 am
JimC wrote:My problem is, I can't resist any thread where the word "distillers" occurs...

It's like that annoying piece of plastic that sticks to your fingers and just wont let go no matter how many times you try flicking it off.

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by Randydeluxe » Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:57 am
The subject of this thread is a strange question. I think if you rigorously define the word "trust", you reach a telling conclusion.
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by JimC » Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:34 am
Randydeluxe wrote:The subject of this thread is a strange question. I think if you rigorously define the word "trust", you reach a telling conclusion.
It certainly hinges on that word, usually applied to subjective interactions between people, a bit wooly for the purpose it was attempting to carry in the OP...
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by Bolero » Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:53 am
virphen wrote:
It does seem a lot safer to live assuming that the laws of physics will be able to hang in there for another day or two.
It would be quite a fucker if you were worried about gravity reversing itself and kicking you off into space.
Virphen, I hope you wouldn't think it inappropriate if I say I fucken love you.
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by Clinton Huxley » Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:26 am
Phew! We're all still here. I couldn't sleep last night for wondering whether the parameters of the weak nuclear force might change, with disastrous consequences.
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by Rum » Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:36 am
One thing that has not so far been said is that the question is irrelevant to atheism. Just because there isn't any evidence for the existence of a god, doesn't mean one automatically trusts science. Most here probably do, but the two issues are not connected.
Incidentally wasn't it god who turned walking sticks into snakes, parted the Red Sea, turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, fed the five thousand with a handful of fish? Hardly predictable! What next/ Angels on flaming chariots coming to found god's earthly kingdom?
Get a life.
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by Tigger » Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:40 am
Rum wrote:One thing that has not so far been said is that the question is irrelevant to atheism. Just because there isn't any evidence for the existence of a god, doesn't mean one automatically trusts science. Most here probably do, but the two issues are not connected.
Incidentally wasn't it god who turned walking sticks into snakes, parted the Red Sea, turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, fed the five thousand with a handful of fish? Hardly predictable! What next/ Angels on flaming chariots coming to found god's earthly kingdom?
Get a life.
The trouble is that "they", the theists already have a life, it's the only one they get, and they waste the fucker musing over fairy tales and associated shit. One thing that will be a constant source of disappointment to me is that when "they" die, they won't know they're wrong. They'll just be dead. And still wrong.
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by CookieJon » Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:49 am
I'd have thought the reasons why atheists trust science are exactly the same as the reasons why theists trust science.
I expect
thedistillers trusted the internet to get his question across, otherwise why bother posting it?
It's a no-brainer.

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by CJ » Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:57 am
Valden wrote:JimC wrote:My problem is, I can't resist any thread where the word "distillers" occurs...

It's like that annoying piece of plastic that sticks to your fingers and just wont let go no matter how many times you try flicking it off.

What a perfectly wonderful description.
It's like having a really painful hangnail that hurts every time you touch it but you just keep squeezing because you have to see the pus!
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by CJ » Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:58 am
CookieJon wrote:I'd have thought the reasons why atheists trust science are exactly the same as the reasons why theists trust science.
I expect
thedistillers trusted the internet to get his question across, otherwise why bother posting it?
It's a no-brainer.

It is a no-brainer, so the implication is?
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by Clinton Huxley » Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:59 am
Concur with Rum. The Universe is as it is. In the absence of a celestial software engineer, there is no reason to suppose that it will start behaving differently. It's only if you posit an omnipotent force governing the galaxy and able to change parameters on a whim that prediction becomes impossible. Thedistillers argument is 180 degrees wrong.
Are we done now?
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by CJ » Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:00 am
Clinton Huxley wrote:Concur with Rum. The Universe is as it is. In the absence of a celestial software engineer, there is no reason to suppose that it will start behaving differently. It's only if you posit an omnipotent force governing the galaxy and able to change parameters on a whim that prediction becomes impossible. Thedistillers argument is 180 degrees wrong.
Are we done now?
We are, unfortunately delusion knows no bounds.
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