Particularly if you want money out of them :-)

[quote=Uncensored2008;394714]I'm surprised you hadn't heard it. It's an arcane term for pedophile.

As for my Mexican heritage; I've heard of Carlos O'Brian, but never Pedro Mueller....[/QUOte

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pen·de·jo slang adj. 1. (cobarde) - cowardly 2. (tonto) - stupid m., f. 1. (cobarde) coward 2. AMERICA: (tonto) - jerk m. (pelo) - pubic hair INFLECTED FORMS: pendeja - adj. pendej...
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Archimedes
Because they can't wait use Rescue 8
self closing flotation rescue device.

I agree with you actually. Many of the Gods and Goddesses are personifications of nature. But I think this was stage 2 of our theological development. Stage 1 would have been the ancestor storytelling that set the precedent for the idea of humans that were more powerful than normal and only later became cosmically powerful.

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Yeah, of course the word I used was "Pederist," which means pedophile.

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Q:
How many liberals does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

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Liberals have outlawed lightbulbs!

Posted this somewhere else but I'll drop it here and see what we get.

Believing in God, in the classic biblical sense anyway, requires me to suspend a considerable amount of common sense and logic. The bible was written by men (supposedly dictated by God, you have to take their word for it(there's a lot of that in religion)) thousands of years ago (when people still believed the world was flat). We don't believe in witches and fairies anymore. (well most of we don't). It suggests that God is insecure/narcissistic (you must prey to me, prove your devotion), intolerant/dictatorial (if you don't do what I say you will be damned to hell etc.) and arrogant/insensitive/stupid (you should have faith, I don't need to prove myself). The very ideals of religion defy logic, why would anyone want to worship such a being? We wouldn't like a person who's like that, why is OK with a being that is supposed to be eternally wise and inherently good?

Logical answers for belief in faith, an inability to except a life that is pure chance and/or meaningless in the grand scheme of things. A need for something to look forward to/overcome the fear of our own mortality and of those we love. Something that can conveniently explain the unexplainable “how did the universe come to be”. A sense of belonging/community. Conditioning passed down the generations.

Atheism is certainly more logical and therefor more likely, the day everything can be explained by science/logic is the day I become an atheist. Atheism loses me for 2 reasons, one is that it's a belief based on science, and science needs to be proved, until it is proved, it is merely speculation/hypothesis. The other is personal conditioning, the first 13 years of my life being browbeaten with religious doctrine, is somewhat difficult to shake off completely without said proof.

Not knowing the answer to something isn't necessarily a bad thing (certainly something that can not be proved), and for agnostics it's more important to acknowledge not knowing and be open to new ideas, than to think they have the right answer, and close the blinds on expanding their understanding of the world around them.

That's why agnostics are smarter, they know when they don't know lol

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Religion: "How I would arrange things if I was God" - or, by their God's fruits, so shall ye know them.

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“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw

Being an atheist in no way what so ever makes you a scientist or anything else. To be an atheist can consist of any interpretation of the world that does not involve a God or any theistic principles. It does not mean you believe in evolution, the big bang, or anything else.

I didn't say that, did I?

I don't think you actually read what I put (or you forgot, ignored it or heard what you wanted to hear), I think about these things very carefully before I type them.

Can you say with 100% certainty, there is no God?

Define what kind of atheist you are.

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I have defined what kind of atheist I am already. But here goes again, i am called an ironist. we assert there is no ultimate essence or truth to existence, but instead that life is only comprised of idiosyncratic personal truths. I can't say with certainty there is no god because there is no such thing as certainty when it comes to metaphysics. Regardless, it is one of the more foolish interpretations of our existence.
I did read what you wrote, you said "Atheism loses me for 2 reasons, one is that it's a belief based on science"
Did I really miss your point? It isn't a belief based on science, it doesn't have to be based on any sound principles at all. one can be an atheist based on finding it sexually arousing. It doesn't matter.

Isn't an ironist someone who's constantly ironic? lol

athiest

"a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings."

We are beings. If it's in our heads does it exist?

You actually sound like a pretty smart guy/girl, but you're not an atheist. No one is when you get down to questioning. Atheists can disbelieve in the existence of a supreme being or beings to an extent.

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