Interesting, and probably controversial

Rich O Brien

I heard Pete talk to God at Basecamp. He met him in the toilet at Baker Street Pub.

All I heard was 'Oh God, oh God....not again........hhhuuuuuuurrrrrllll!!!!!!!'

solo

Really, me hurl? you sure it was me and not Liam?

solo

The question is, can there be a neutral position of belief or lack of?

If yes, it would be a dismissal of the question.

I don't think "I don't care" counts as neutral. If you are not a theist, does that automatically make you atheist, or is it possible to be neutral?

Agnosticism to me is the purgatory between a decision, I'm going by what I think, I don't believe everything I think.

boofredlay

And the Dyslexic Agnostic Insomniac sits up all night wondering if there really is a DOG.

Krisidious

@unknownuser said:

Kris,

Gravity, science or science fiction?

"Gravity"
although invisible it's effects are visible. and can be proven through experiments that conclude with the same answer repeatedly. Science

"something from nothing" (Big Bang)
unprovable, thus far... so Theory

can you, in a scientific experiment prove the "something" can come from "nothing"? I'm fairly sure that you'll get a Nobel in Physics if you can create a vacuum of nothingness and then make something, anything pop into existence within it.

p.s. I do not doubt that the big bang happened... I just see no proof it was the first big bang or that it came into being from nothing.

I don't hold religions to their ancestral misconceptions... these people wiped their bums with their hands, I cannot hold them to the errors they made in judgement so long ago with so little information. even if I were to be convinced of a God then I would not likely join any of the organized religions... for the main reason I see it as quite presumptuous that we would be so important to that god that he would be so involved in our lives to the point where any of the religious text would be real.

I mean no offense to anyone... I'm just an ignorant man, questioning his existence and that of the world around him.

Krisidious

we need a like button on these posts...

@unknownuser said:

And the Dyslexic Agnostic Insomniac sits up all night wondering if there really is a DOG.

solo

It's good to have these discussion IMO, as long as the ball and not the player is played.

I do respect everyones opinions and beliefs regardless if I agree with them or not.

Box

Now it is such a bizarrely improbably coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful as sketchucation could have evolved by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "sketchucation is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED"
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Humpmetwice

@solo said:

I do respect everyones opinions and beliefs regardless if I agree with them or not.

Thats the simple key that I wish the world could understand and is so we all would be better off!

Mike Lucey

..... I asked Jock about things! He just wagged his tail! A good 'answer'! From what I understand about dogs and tail wagging. Dogs do it when they anticipate something!

Rich O Brien

Whether religious or non-religious, most people have a sense of right/wrong or good/evil. If you see a terrible event, like Japan's earthquake, you're compelled to help. Maybe donate some cash, help fundraise or pray. Your natural instinct is to act in a moral manner.

This raises the question if through Darwinian evolution we've carried a 'selfish gene'. This gene automatically forces you to survive or prevent your species from disaster. If you were in a situation whereby you could prevent a terrible event from occuring you will do so unless you are immoral. Marc Hauser conducted a series of moral dilemma experiments to determine why we do what we do?

One such dilemma involved a child drowning in a pond with only you to save the child. 97% of the people chose to save the child the remaining 3% didn't want to soil their trousers/skirt?

Now, imagine that God (if he exists) suddenly vanished from earth or belief in God completely disappeared. What would happen? Would mankind automatically become callous/uncharitable/hedonistic? If we no longer lived (or had to live) our life according to the Bible's Ten Commandments would we simply become evil/wrong?

So whether you call yourself mono/poly/atheist/deist/agnostic take solace in the fact that you...

don't cause needless suffering
believe in free speech
don't condone or commit incest

...to mention a few.

As long as your life is moral you're a good person

Alan Fraser

Marcus Aurelius put it succinctly a loooong time ago.
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."

marvins_dad

Just now seeing this for the first time. Bravo Pete!
My opinion as well.

Krisidious

I like that Alan...

Stinkie

Me too.