AlecRob
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I was editing my posted when i accidentally saved my changes when it wasn't finished.AlecRob is having serious problems just committing to a comment in this thread.
I was editing my posted when i accidentally saved my changes when it wasn't finished.AlecRob is having serious problems just committing to a comment in this thread.
have you thought about writing your posts in MS word first, and then pasting them here?
You kind of have to love him because your sister does. At least you get along with him. I would ask my sister not to marry that kind of person. I don't think she would anyways. Inlaws you can love are a luxury.
I find myself agreeing with Trey Parker's views on religion. In essence: religions are silly, but the idea we're here for no reason is sillier.
Looks like everybody completely ignored my wall of text on the last page...
I guess what interests me most is what people believe and how they came to believe what they do. If I had the money and time, I would take a bunch of theology and philosophy courses.
the idea we're here for no reason is sillier.
Not as narcissistic as making the leap that just because no purpose is discernible to YOU, it is somehow proof-positive that none exists anywhere in the universe.I think that is the root, the grand narcissistic flaw of humans. To fool ourselves that we are not just the most evolved meat sacks walking this space pebble. That there has to be some higher purpose, you know because...
Not as narcissistic as making the leap that just because no purpose is discernible to YOU, it is somehow proof-positive that none exists anywhere in the universe.
That is as narcissistic and dumb a leap as a man 150 years ago saying absolutely that there are no such things as the UV spectrum, subatomic particles, and radio waves, just because he couldn't see them. You want to talk about narcissism, take a look at humankind's unstated belief that we won't find a ton more things that are completely invisible and undetectable to us now in the next 150 years.
This has always bugged me, why do humans think there is a purpose behind everything?
Because of synchronicity.
STK nailed it two posts up.
Dogmatic insistence of evolved, purposeless, cosmic pebble walking meatsacks is every bit as short sighted and, dare I say - condescending, as someone like AlecRob's belief system.
My only objection to AlecRob and you Terry is that you both have absolutely jack shit for proof to back up your very authoritative claims.
Not as narcissistic as making the leap that just because no purpose is discernible to YOU, it is somehow proof-positive that none exists anywhere in the universe.
That is as narcissistic and dumb a leap as a man 150 years ago saying absolutely that there are no such things as the UV spectrum, subatomic particles, and radio waves, just because he couldn't see them. You want to talk about narcissism, take a look at humankind's unstated belief that we won't find a ton more things that are completely invisible and undetectable to us now in the next 150 years.
No, the world does not need saving. It's self regulating. Eventually it will probably kill off the humans, and everything else, because fuck all of you.
Absolutely. Although you'd then need to ask where the aliens came from.Aliens putting us here until we reach a certain level of evolution just so they can monitor us and harness our organs is equally plausible as god creating us in his image or whatever.
Aliens putting us here until we reach a certain level of evolution just so they can monitor us and harness our organs is equally plausible as god creating us in his image or whatever.
Spoiler: the bible (and all the other religious books) was written by humans and we all know that humans like to make bullshit stories up (see AF3), it proves nothing.
The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that the human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God. The Word of God exists in something else.
-Thomas Paine