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jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:16 am

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:12 am the hypocrisy and double standards have always been a huge turn-off for me

that, and the fact that every religion was created by man, but believers somehow are convinced that theirs is the only real one

Dawkins said it best (paraphrasing)...with all the religions in the world, there are really only three scenarios: 1) one is true and all others are wrong, 2) they’re all true, or 3) non of them are true

My personal belief is that there is something bigger/different/more powerful/whatever that humans are simply incapable of fully (or perhaps even mostly or even partially) understanding.

aliens?

or, some sort of entity/power/force?

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:22 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:16 am

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:12 am the hypocrisy and double standards have always been a huge turn-off for me

that, and the fact that every religion was created by man, but believers somehow are convinced that theirs is the only real one

Dawkins said it best (paraphrasing)...with all the religions in the world, there are really only three scenarios: 1) one is true and all others are wrong, 2) they’re all true, or 3) non of them are true

My personal belief is that there is something bigger/different/more powerful/whatever that humans are simply incapable of fully (or perhaps even mostly or even partially) understanding.

aliens?

or, some sort of entity/power/force?

Yes?

yeah, any attempt by mortal men to define god is just silly - and, arguably, quite arrogant of the mortals to even suggest.

I like how Chris Rock puts it in Kevin Smith's classic, "Dogma"

"His only real beef with mankind is the shit that gets carried out His name. Wars. Bigotry. Televangelism. The big one though, is the factioning of the religions. He said, "Mankind got it all wrong by takin' a good idea and building a belief structure out of it...

I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should be malleable and progressive, working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth. New ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.”

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:23 am

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:22 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:16 am

My personal belief is that there is something bigger/different/more powerful/whatever that humans are simply incapable of fully (or perhaps even mostly or even partially) understanding.

aliens?

or, some sort of entity/power/force?

Yes?

i think the odds are highly unlikely that there aren’t life forms outside of earth

that said, i’m of the opinion that “god” in the sense of any of our religions is nothing more than a mythology that has evolved from humans’ inability to explain natural phenomena

yeah, religion strikes me as an attempt to explain the world around us before we had any better explanations.

at the end of the day, it's just Bronze Age superstitions.

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:25 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:23 am

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:22 am
aliens?

or, some sort of entity/power/force?

Yes?

i think the odds are highly unlikely that there aren’t life forms outside of earth

that said, i’m of the opinion that “god” in the sense of any of our religions is nothing more than a mythology that has evolved from humans’ inability to explain natural phenomena

I would say "overwhelmingly, incomprehensibly unlikely."

It's just math.

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:25 am

jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:23 am

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:22 am
aliens?

or, some sort of entity/power/force?

Yes?

i think the odds are highly unlikely that there aren’t life forms outside of earth

that said, i’m of the opinion that “god” in the sense of any of our religions is nothing more than a mythology that has evolved from humans’ inability to explain natural phenomena

THIS. It is a man-made concept used by small groups of people with power to gain/retain their power over the larger volume of the masses.

Come to find out, God is master of the space time continuum and enters, leaves and reenters events at will. What is scary, we have been posting this shit forever. And Lobster hangs with Shirley sometimes and seems reasonable.

Again, not even original. Been said of the Impotus since 2017

Openly self-destructive.

Yeah. Trump as Chauncey Gardner was the original connotation and he took it and attacked seniors again. He forgets his own age often.

Sparko wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:53 am Yeah. Trump as Chauncey Gardner was the original connotation and he took it and attacked seniors again. He forgets his own age often.

It's just a different manifestation of the usual projection.

Biden's old and infirm of body and mind. His children are corrupt. His policies are extreme. He cannot match wits with other world leaders. His term would be plagued by violence and unrest. He cannot manage a pandemic.

And so on.

it’s projection at its finest

Every accusation is a confession.

Sparko wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:53 am Yeah. Trump as Chauncey Gardner was the original connotation and he took it and attacked seniors again. He forgets his own age often.

Not to mention who he desperately need to vote for him.

He blasts Harris as a horrible monster while needing suburban women votes and then blasts Biden as a incompetent, senile fool while needing seniors votes.

let’s not forget all the mexican murderers and rapists

just the latest assault on our armed forces

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/1 ... 28?cid=apn

how anyone, even tangentially connected to the military can continue to support trump is beyond me

Trad: there was a poll from a few years ago which showed that Congress had a lower approval rate than cockroaches. This means that there are people who approve of cockroaches.

Thus it doesn’t surprise me that there are still some people who approve of/support DJT