On Fri, 02 May 2008 22:42:32 GMT, Antares 531
<gordonlrDELETE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Fri, 02 May 2008 07:55:27 -0700, Ben Goren <ben@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>wrote:
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>>Antares 531 wrote:
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>> > Bill M wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have asked numerous times for someone to provide any
>> >> objective verifiable evidence that any gods actually exist.
>> >>
>> >> No one has ever supplied it. Not even any god.
>> >>
>> >> the logical conclusion is that no real gods exist except in
>> >> peoples over active imaginations.
>> >
>> > And, just how would you cope with it if someone did provide
>> > you with such empirical proof? You would no longer have any
>> > sovereign choice as to believing in or not believing in God. You
>> > would be overwhelmed and thus compelled to do God's will. You
>> > would no longer be anything more than a mere puppet of
>> > God's. And, being a puppet isn't what God wants you or any of us
>> > to develop into.
>>
>>Let's turn that around for a moment. How would *you* cope if
>>somebody provided you with irrefutable proof that none of your
>>gods could possibly exist?
>>
>I don't really know how I would cope if it were possible for someone
>to "prove" to me that God does not exist.
>>
>>If you'd like to find out, then all you have to do is tell me
>>what, exactly, your gods are. Define them, if you will.
>>
>>``My god, <insert name here>, is nothing if she / he / it isn't
>><insert essential property here>.''
>>
>>Common answers for the first include, ``YHWH,'' ``Jesus,''
>>``Allah,'' and the like; for the second, it's usually
>>``omnipotent,'' ``omnibenevolent,'' ``the creator of Life, the
>>Universe, and Everything,'' and so on.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>b&
>>
>I don't think it would be possible for me or for anyone else, for that
>matter, to explain this to you as long as your mind-set is totally
>against it.
A liar as well as an idiot.
>You remind me of the allegory involving a group of sentient
>computers...
What a ****ing moron.
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