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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2010 : 22:45:49
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2010 : 10:46:35 [Permalink]
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How can a Matrix-lover not like this?
There is no spoon.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..." Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq: Send them unarmed civilians for target practice.. Collateralmurder. |
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2010 : 11:33:40 [Permalink]
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Looks like he already ate the blue pill AND the red pill.......now what happens? |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism: The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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Edited by - astropin on 03/26/2010 11:33:59 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2010 : 18:36:00 [Permalink]
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D'oh! I'm astounded that I'd not seen the Matrix connection. Maybe it was in my thinking unconsciously, maybe not.
I actually started this with thoughts about Christianity's rather clever carrot-and-stick system of using promises of reward and punishment for coercion. I was thinking of what a double-whammy the promise of paradise and the threat of eternal suffering impose on the minds of children and adults. Simply losing belief in either one still leaves a Christian with a remaining motivation to drink the Jesus Juice. Both idiotic concepts need to be rejected at the same time.
This brings back memories of the time, when I was about 10 to 12 or so, and I was cautiously trying "experiments" to confirm or contradict my growing disbelief in a god. (I'd become a God agnostic soon after becoming a Santa Claus atheist.) Stepping outside, I tried a series of increasingly blasphemous prayers, half-expecting a literal thunderbolt.
I now suspect that if weather conditions had been weird then, and lightning had struck nearby, I might today be a pious theist. But the sky remained blue, and I grew increasingly confident that there was no God, no Heaven, no Hell. It took some time, but I lost all those beliefs together. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
Edited by - HalfMooner on 03/26/2010 18:38:47 |
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