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 Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 10:30 am Subject: What is proof of God? |
| Well, I have taken a skeptic's view on ESP, and although both the Russians and the Americans (and undoubtedly many others) have done research on such phenomena, I have seen nothing that convinces me. ... |
| Topic: Does anyone else have problems practicing music? |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 9:57 am Subject: Does anyone else have problems practicing music? |
I really dislike practicing things slowly. That feels so much like cheating, and distorts and fragments the *music* too much.
The problem is of course that if you practice at the correct tempo and ke ... |
| Topic: Faith and Real Lives |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 9:47 am Subject: Faith and Real Lives |
OK.
I will let that stand for itself.
You are the only expert on your personal experience.
Generalisations and extrapolations from personal experience are frowned upon in scientific research, fo ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 7:31 am Subject: Faith and Real Lives |
| Do you think that your experience of the good effects of faith are the same ones that Hindus get from theirs? |
| Topic: What is proof of God? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 7:16 am Subject: What is proof of God? |
Grebel, are you saying that you are *receiving* this supernatural "signal" that science can't detect, or are you saying that you *think* it is there?
For eternity minus a little over 100 years, nob ... |
| Topic: What is proof of God? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 5:46 am Subject: What is proof of God? |
| Spacebrain. Good name. |
| Topic: What is proof of God? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 4:11 pm Subject: What is proof of God? |
Grebel, thank you.
I watched a debate about the afterlife yesterday, and one of the Rabbis (Bradley Artson Shavit) said very much the same thing (in a very annoying voice, but hey - I'm not holding ... |
| Topic: What is proof of God? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:30 pm Subject: What is proof of God? |
If a very ancient adult human bone fossil with no growth rings was discovered, what might one make of that?
Hehe - nice. That would be a good one. Check for evidence of navel.  |
| Topic: True, false, both, or none? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 10:54 pm Subject: True, false, both, or none? |
| Pondering Gödel doesn't make visagrunt's post less valid. What do you mean, ponder? |
| Topic: A religion for each race, that's the best. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:21 pm Subject: A religion for each race, that's the best. |
| I have traveled a lot in Western Africa, and have seen the aggressive methods of Western missionaries there: Huge billboards saying "If you don't go to [whichever church put up the poster] you will go ... |
| Topic: What is proof of God? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:29 am Subject: What is proof of God? |
Yes. Well.
I can put "God" and "proof" together in a sentence: "I have not seen convincing proof of the existence of a God". Saying the two words don't belong in the same sentence proves my point t ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:24 am Subject: science |
| Gravity is a theory. |
| Topic: What is proof of God? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:22 am Subject: What is proof of God? |
Smigiloo, what you are saying IS exactly what the skeptics have been saying all along:
There is no proof for the existence of any gods, and the believers have to decide to believe *despite* this.
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| Topic: This statement is false. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 11:03 am Subject: This statement is false. |
Anyone interested in this thread will enjoy "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter.
edit: my two favourite self-referencing words: Pentasyllabic and Awkwardnessful. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 10:08 am Subject: What is proof of God? |
The moment that God is proven to exist is the moment that the universe collapses.
God and proof do not belong in the same sentence.
That is, in fact, as you know, simply an unsupported opinion ... |
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