shouting hurts kittens and stuff..
chill pill young Flange
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awallafashagba Da da da da da Dah dah, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 13:42,
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'pologies, i just don't wanna work and the bad blood that gets bandied about these days over what to believe really makes me sad.
keep your own beliefs, and don't feel inadequate if other people don't believe you, they're your beliefs and that enough justification.
if only humans were born with mutual respect, sadly it seems like something that needs to be taught.
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Just Flange, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 14:31,
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^^this^^
if people won't be tolerant of others beliefs, i'll beat them untill they will.
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Just Flange, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 15:10,
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Both may sound far-fetched...
...but one is based on empirical evidence. That's the difference.
They sound far-fethed to an uneducated mind, not an unbiased one.
Your argument is like saying "I could say that my car functions because it's filled with a magical liquid...or because it's powered by pixie dust". Both sound far-fetched...but it doesn't change the fact that one is provable and the other isn't. Even if you really really like the idea of pixies so much that your "gut instinct" tells you they exist.
Same goes for the beginning of the universe - an atheist, dealing with empirical evidence, would say they didn't know how it happened. A religious person would say that God did it, thus forming an opinion which is not based on evidence.
To me (at least), the latter sounds less sensible.
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