Holy cow! What did they say?

yikes - go girl!

You sure look romantic, oh wait.. I mean sexy...

You misunderstand the premise's Epicurus raises they are the premises put forward by the religious.

It is the religious who give god his characteristics.

You say:


If god is everything how can anything be separate from it.

All these contradictions do not do your argument justice.


If evil exist and god is everything, then god is evil.

There was a thread a few days ago basically saying something along the lines of "There is no God because if there was a God, he wouldn't let puppies suffer."

While I agree with the conclusion, I think the road taken to get to it is way off.

It's just another way of saying "I can only believe in a God whose values are the same as MINE."

If there IS a god, where does it say he has to behave in a manner we find acceptable?

Who are we to impose standards of behavior on God?

If anything, this is human egotism at its finest.

In the O.T. God issues a commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." Meanwhile, at various points in the narrative, he's busily wiping out towns and cities and nations and, at one point, pretty much the whole world (the flood), despite his ordinance to the contrary.

I'm not saying that this, per se, invalidates the concept of God. We have plenty of other, better, stuff for that.

I'm just saying that when people talk about "There is no God because he wouldn't permit __________ (fill in the blank)," it's an absurdity because we have no idea what an actual God might or might not value.

We have some words in a book, written by men, many years ago, for the purposes of fulfilling an agenda -- so all we really know is what those men wanted people to believe.

Far easier just to scrap the whole God concept and take some repsonsibility for ourselves.

How does one prove a negative?

How could you "prove" Odin doesn't exist, or Anubis, or the 900-foot-long invisible vibrating mosquito that's always 12 feet above me?

"Proof" is the realm of the ones who advocate that something exists.

Example: If you said "I have never been in a McDonald's in my whole life." how would you prove that? In the absence of someone recording your every movement since birth, there would be no real way to do so.

But if you said "I HAVE been in McDonald's," there are any number of ways to verify this. Not all of them would constitute absolute, unequivocal proof, per se, but would, at the very least, serve as strong indicators.

Proving a negative is virtually impossible.

For me, my philosophical default setting is that God doesn't exist. I have yet to see any indication otherwise. I am always willing to be enlightened by him, should he choose to do so.

Wow!'

I always went for the smell
Yes
Every man really does have his own smell

Thanks for the kind words and being nice.
How can i show her that I care about her, I need to fix this. I really like her. :(

Brain surgery and rocket science

I had a woman call me up last night to ask me what o-d-o-m-e-t-e-r meant, I said isn't it the meter that tracks your mileage? She said that she was paying a traffic ticket and needed to know what to put there. So I gave her Lex's home phone number.

That is funny!