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19 Mar 2009, 11:05 pm

Ruveyn, i doubt you'll die in peace with all the angst contained in you. =.=

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20 Mar 2009, 1:20 pm

pandabear wrote:

Talking snakes, and virgins who have babies.

With current medical technology plus the magic of Hollywood, all of it is possible.

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20 Mar 2009, 2:08 pm

greenblue wrote:

pandabear wrote:

Talking snakes, and virgins who have babies.

With current medical technology plus the magic of Hollywood, all of it is possible.

Do you know the difference between reality and the verisimilitude of reality?

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20 Mar 2009, 3:54 pm

You've heard of robocop, well now there's robogod! Atheists everywhere beware!

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20 Mar 2009, 8:33 pm

I want one.

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20 Mar 2009, 9:50 pm

oh my beep....

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20 Mar 2009, 10:00 pm

But to plunder a bit our western tradition - The story that Athena was born out of Zeus's head in full amour has its qualities for its very own too:

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20 Mar 2009, 10:09 pm

Dussel wrote:

But to plunder a bit our western tradition - The story that Athena was born out of Zeus's head in full amour has its qualities for its very own too:

Surely the Greeks had no technology to compare with ours but the symbolic creation of Athena from the mind of Zeus is equivalent to the posts about the creation of a robogod which is treated humorously here. If artificial intelligence ever really gets going and creates intellect vastly superior to current human intelligence a real Robogod may result.

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20 Mar 2009, 10:16 pm

TallyMan wrote:

You've heard of robocop, well now there's robogod! Atheists everywhere beware!

Ah. There's that deeper sense of beauty the Japanese have...

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20 Mar 2009, 11:08 pm

Sand wrote:

But to defend those myths they have also quite reasonable aspects: Athena is said to abolish revenge and replaced it through law, court and justice. Later this has be set into the Oresteia of Aeschylus - a play which is ,with good reason, still performed and read:

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03 Jun 2010, 8:27 pm

Dent, you better making anti-religious statements much more STRIDENTLY if you ever hope to make a dent in the ATHEISTIC STRIDENCY poll!

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03 Jun 2010, 8:41 pm

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Dent, you better making anti-religious statements much more STRIDENTLY if you ever hope to make a dent in the ATHEISTIC STRIDENCY poll!

This is over a year old.

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03 Jun 2010, 8:42 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

Master_Pedant wrote:

Dent, you better making anti-religious statements much more STRIDENTLY if you ever hope to make a dent in the ATHEISTIC STRIDENCY poll!

This is over a year old.

Time is relative!

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03 Jun 2010, 9:13 pm

Master_Pedant wrote:

Time is relative!

So is sanity? :roll:

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03 Jun 2010, 9:22 pm

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04 Jun 2010, 3:39 am

ARRRRRGH which one of you necrophiliacs has awoken me from the dead.

But is is a good point, search AG's record back a year and you will find no unambiguously atheistic statements

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