default wrote:
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> On Sat, 03 May 2008 22:16:22 -0400, monkfish <monkfish@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>default wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 3 May 2008 16:27:15 +0100, "Bill M" <wmech@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> wrote:
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>>>>Having difficulty answering the question eh!
>>>>
>>> Shuffle and jive while, ignorant trying to sound astute, that's our
>>> fish.
>>
>>
>>You missed it as well!
>>I guess I have to repeat myself a lot around here.
>>
>>Hundreds of painters are painting the same mountain.
>>And a child comes along and asks
>>which of the pictures is the real mountain.
>>
>>What would you say?
>
> I'd question the legitimacy of painting a mountain. Did the mountain
> need a face lift, was is to ugly it needed painting? Is it oil based
> or water based paint? What is the environmental impact? What will it
> cost? Who will pay for it?
>
> Unless you meant to say "hundreds of artists came along." Were they
> having a competition to paint a likeness of the mountain? Who was
> sponsoring the event? How would it be judged? Was the child
> unsupervised?
>
> Why would I say anything at all? The kid has eyes and a brain. I'm
> sure he can make the distinction between the paintings and actual
> mountains. He can be the judge of what he finds pleasing.
>
> As analogies go, this might be one of your worst to date. None of the
> paintings of mountains are the real one.
First, a word can have many meanings.
If you read the whole paragraph in context
which talks about pictures of the mountain,
you should have been able to pick the proper meaning.
Your failure releals your closed mind.
BTW "atrist" is the first meaning of 'painter'.
You should read more books about artists.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/painter
Second, sometimes it's not that easy to distinguish
the subject from the words that describe it
or from the things that symbolize or represent it.
If you think you know what God is
when you have no faith in God,
you are talking about an idol.
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prove
the existence of God is prohibited by their undebatable policy.
** Atheists have blind faith in their ability to know of all actual or
possible modes of existence. Such hubris cannot be good for science.
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