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God has trouble with infinity
Started this discussion. Last reply by Gary Connolly Sep 4, 2010. 9 Replies 0 Likes
God is usually referred to in infinite terms. God is all-powerful, which can be interpreted as infinately powerful as no matter how much power he has you could always just postulate a little more.…Continue
Tags: argument, time, Ontological, Anselm, God
Objective morality
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jim DePaulo Aug 1, 2010. 7 Replies 0 Likes
I am sure that any atheist who has even skirted the theism/atheism debate has encountered what I will term here the “objective morality” argument. The argument has a couple of versions but the common…Continue
Annoying question!
Started this discussion. Last reply by The Nerd Jul 10, 2010. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Theists and Atheists both pose the following question quite regularly; surprisingly regularly it seems to me. They ask “Why is there something rather than nothing?” “Why are there rules or laws which…Continue
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Gary Connolly replied to Scott Bidstrup's discussion Hawking: God Is Not Necessary To Explain The Big Bang in the group ORIGINS: UNIVERSE, LIFE, HUMANKIND, AND DARWIN
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
I gotta say, this doesn't make any sense to me at all. That is not to say that it therefore doesn't make sense but it seems a strange statement…"
Gary Connolly replied to Gary Connolly's discussion God has trouble with infinity
"Decodeq, I must confess, I too think this is gibberish. :)"
Gary Connolly replied to Gary Connolly's discussion God has trouble with infinity
"Actually Jennifer, my argument is a little more basic than that. I am talking about the perception rates of species here rather than our changing views of how fast time passes. Perhaps the word perception is confusing because it could have dual…"
Gary Connolly replied to Gary Connolly's discussion God has trouble with infinity
"Is it your usual habit to label anything you don't understand gibberish?
The idea that flies percieve things at a much faster rate than we do is well established. I am not going to do the leg work for you though. Try researching something…"
decodeq replied to Gary Connolly's discussion God has trouble with infinity
"Yeah, interesting post, however the topics "God has trouble with infinity" talks, actually, that being (as "godlike" for example) has trouble with infinity as infinity splitter implant, that sent him down through series of…"
Jennifer Nicole replied to Gary Connolly's discussion God has trouble with infinity
"I understand what you mean, but probably because I was recently introduced to the idea in a Cracked article about why immortality would suck.
The longer we live, the faster time seems to go. A year was forever to a child's mind because they…"
Stephen Moore replied to Gary Connolly's discussion God has trouble with infinity
"Gibberish in reply to gibberish. How appropriate."
Stephen Moore replied to Gary Connolly's discussion God has trouble with infinity
"I'm quite at a loss how to respond, but gibberish has that effect.
Upon what basis do you propose that a fly has a much faster perception speed of time? It seems to be based on nothing more than action-reaction. A fly reacts faster (generally…"
Jim DePaulo commented on Gary Connolly's blog post One less stupid idea
"it's foolish to believe that all self described Atheists are paragons of logic and critical thinking. Many of them suffer from the same delusions as any religious or conspiracy theorist does. Simply put, if they can't understand something…"
decodeq replied to Gary Connolly's discussion God has trouble with infinity
"Huh, fly is constrained by physical prison-implant-universe laws, as harmonic universe man does
But infinitizing is normal thing to do, it depends how and for what you practically use it
For example, infinitizing was used for splitter implant to…"
Gary Connolly replied to Dallas the Phallus's discussion Breatharian Institute of America in the group No Nonsense
"Well, there are exceptions of course!"
Gary Connolly replied to Dallas the Phallus's discussion Breatharian Institute of America in the group No Nonsense
""Frequncy" and "vibration" are two words almost as abused as "Quantum" by the wooful.
I do not necessarily exempt string theory here. :)"
Gavin Doyle commented on Gary Connolly's blog post One less stupid idea
"Mostly likely. You have the weekend to find something to entertain me Monday morning."
Gary Connolly commented on Gary Connolly's blog post One less stupid idea
"Gav,
I expect I will see many comments from you between the hours of 9 and 5 ( or maybe more like 11 and 6ish) :)"
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One less stupid idea
Posted on August 12, 2010 at 8:00am 11 Comments 0 Likes
There is a view that is widely held in the atheist community that atheists are critical thinkers, freethinkers, scientifically minded, sensible people who are both liberated from taboo and practical, down-to-earth pragmatists.
This is complete and utter horseshit. It can be true. In my experience though, many atheists are just
people with one less stupid idea than theists. I admit that when I came…
I'm feeling a bit left out :)
Posted on August 6, 2010 at 9:26am 6 Comments 0 Likes
Everywhere I have seen people talk about atheism there are stories about how they deconverted. I find myself a little envious of these stories. Most of them talk about how liberating and freeing it was to take off the religous shakles. It actually sounds like a pretty good experience (at the end anyway).
I have never believed (as far back as I can remember) anyway. I remeber being in church making my communion in primary school. I knelt in prayer like everyone else and remember… Continue
I have never believed (as far back as I can remember) anyway. I remeber being in church making my communion in primary school. I knelt in prayer like everyone else and remember… Continue
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- At 9:39am on August 13, 2010,
Loren Miller said… - Yeah, I know ... and you can't tell the players without a program, either!
Wanted to say I appreciated your comment on my post about Eratostenes. He and others like him were likely THE FIRST to use objective means to gain knowledge. Problem was, instead of the RC church on their case, they had the Romans! [sigh] and so it goes.
- At 6:49am on August 13, 2010,
Gavin Doyle said… - So this is where you spend your time.
- At 11:58pm on August 9, 2010,
sacha said… - oh, and thank you for joining my group, No Nonsense.
cheers
- At 11:56pm on August 9, 2010, sacha said…
- I quite agree with many of your comments:
"I wonder what you consider mysoginy. Sometimes it seems to me that when you point to a difference between men and women, people think it is sexism. The funny thing is, when you point to a difference that is derogatory of men, everyone (male and female) is ok with it...
While I do not agree at all with unequal treatment of anyone for any reason, I do also believe that part of being treated like an adult and an equal is that you are capable of taking a little bit of shit from douchebags from time to time...
Also, on an aside, I think when you moderate comments you are all-but automatically closing down the possibility of really finding out what people think. It is a position I just can't bring myself to respect. I don't mean any insult to you personally, just presenting my position on it. "
I was hoping this discussion would get more traffic. There are two separate but extremely important aspects to the discussion which I feel should not be marginalized. One is comment moderation (you can read what I have to say about that here) and the other is posting a discussion about misogyny in the atheist community. Let me make it clear that I am referring to posting a discussion about perceived misogyny perpetuated by men in the atheist community, not misogyny itself. I don't think many people see how insidious and damaging both of those things are. I will be posting more there soon. I would be pleased if you were willing to join the conversation.
Cheers,
sacha
- At 1:34pm on August 7, 2010, Loren Miller said…
- TS at your service!
- At 5:20pm on July 4, 2010,
Dr. Terence Meaden said… - Hello Gary Connolly, and welcome to this friendly meeting place with freethinkers who recognise that religion is a huge deception aimed at controlling vulnerable superstitious people, including defenceless children; and
how tragic and inexcusable it is that women and minorities have been oppressed these last two thousand years and even longer.
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