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Richard MacCutchan14-Dec-23 22:16

Richard MacCutchan

14-Dec-23 22:16

Your coat's on the hook. Laugh | :laugh:

PIEBALDconsult15-Dec-23 4:00

PIEBALDconsult

15-Dec-23 4:00

Beside my shroud.

charlieg14-Dec-23 23:25

charlieg

14-Dec-23 23:25

Okay, that made me chuckle and not groan. Smile | :)

Charlie Gilley

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

Has never been more appropriate.

Jeremy Falcon15-Dec-23 3:36

15-Dec-23 3:36

Q: What's the difference between an atheist and a theist?
A: One thinks they're smarter with no proof the other thinks God is smarter and sees signs of it everywhere.

I guarantee all y'all gonna be singing a different tune when you come near the end of your life.

Jeremy Falcon

BernardIE531715-Dec-23 3:57

BernardIE5317

15-Dec-23 3:57

i encountred this video earlier today . i found it amusing . you might enjoy it also . as for me i have always beeen agnostic . i believe science in particular Physics will sooner or later settle the matter one way or the other . hower i now favor the method of Dr. Sheldon Cooper who states as best as i recall "God if you do in fact exist thank you for my wonderful life . if you do not exist never mind ."
Funniest Ronald Reagan Moments - Atheist 🤣😁 #shorts #funny - YouTube[^]

Jeremy Falcon15-Dec-23 4:11

15-Dec-23 4:11

BernardIE5317 wrote:
as for me i have always beeen agnostic

To me, there's more intelligence behind that than atheism - which is also a religion. I think most atheists confuse God with the flawed personification of God. Which is 100% flawed. But that speaks more to the flaws of man than God. I'll just say this, there are things I've seen that cannot be explained by coincidence. Some may call it the law of attraction or whatever, but it's the same thing.

Funny video btw.

Jeremy Falcon

DerekT-P15-Dec-23 4:50

DerekT-P

15-Dec-23 4:50

Um, not sure 'co-incidence' can cause anything. Maybe you need to revisit your understanding of co-incidence... Smile | :)

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fgs196315-Dec-23 4:57

fgs1963

15-Dec-23 4:57

"Explained" != "caused". Maybe you need to revisit your understanding of "explained". Smile | :)

Jeremy Falcon15-Dec-23 7:12

15-Dec-23 7:12

Jeremy Falcon

BernardIE531715-Dec-23 5:07

BernardIE5317

15-Dec-23 5:07

the only coincidence i've seen is while watching "Dr. Strangelove" i picked up my copy of the book opened it to a random page glanced at a random line on the page and at that precise moment heard on the film precisely the same dialog written upon which my glance fell .

as for the "law of attraction" i recall learning something of it a few years ago . i found it intriguing . it would be nice if it were in fact true . it is difficult for example to believe however the low odds of winning the lottery can be overcome by mere positive thoughts . if in fact that is the correct understanding of the "law" . though i recall reading amazing results the details of which i now do not recall .

going back to coincidence i have a little story .
i purchase the LP of the soundtrack to "Blade Runner" . with the LP in the distinctive bright orange bag of Rose Records w/ logo i then visited another store an art supply store to view their writing instruments . upon approaching the counter w/ said pens the lady behind the counter spoke to me "Is that the new Vangelis album ?" i did not know what a "Vangelis" was . upon returning home i examined the liner notes and discovered the composer was none other ! i attributed this to womanly wisdom . namely she sized me up . perhaps we would have been sympatico . but being the social cripple i never would know .

another similar story .
at lunch several other fellow workers began discussing electronic music . one of the fellows was attempting to recall the name of a particular such . he could not . he asked me to remember for him . i replied "Tomita" as i happened to have an album of his . he affirmed that is who he was attempting to recall . i do not know how he knew i knew . perhaps he sized me up . we were not particularly sympatico .

trønderen15-Dec-23 8:35

15-Dec-23 8:35

Jeremy Falcon wrote:
To me, there's more intelligence behind that than atheism - which is also a religion

Just like my favorite hobby is not to collect stamps.

Jeremy Falcon16-Dec-23 3:01

16-Dec-23 3:01

You're not intelligent. You're sick. Go away.

Jeremy Falcon

trønderen16-Dec-23 5:08

16-Dec-23 5:08

Yeah, you have to collect stamps to be healthy. I guess you do.

Btw: I respect UDHR Article 19, for your entries. I wish you would do the same for mine, but it doesn't look that way!

Jeremy Falcon17-Dec-23 2:50

17-Dec-23 2:50

I AM NOT READING YOUR REPLY. TAKE A HINT! I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO YOU. GO AWAY!

Jeremy Falcon

trønderen17-Dec-23 7:23

17-Dec-23 7:23

Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I AM NOT READING YOUR REPLY

Good. Then you can not say that you are being harassed, it you don't know what I am writing.

You are talking to me all the time. If you don't want to, why don't you just stop it?

"GO AWAY!" is your attempt to censor my posts. Please read UDHR-19 and see if it gives you the right to.

Jeremy Falcon17-Dec-23 2:51

17-Dec-23 2:51

IF YOU DO NOT STOP THE HARRASING, I'LL REPORT YOU. CP DOESN'T LET ME BLOCK YOU, BUT I CAN REPORT YOU.

Jeremy Falcon

trønderen17-Dec-23 7:25

17-Dec-23 7:25

Sure, do. Tell them that you want to run your private censorship regime on CP, ask then if they will condone it.

Maybe CP knows what UDHR-19 is all about. It seems like you don't.

PIEBALDconsult15-Dec-23 4:18

PIEBALDconsult

15-Dec-23 4:18

BernardIE5317 wrote:
agnostic . i believe science in particular Physics will sooner or later settle the matter one way or the other

That's not what agnostic means.
ag·nos·tic : a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God

In my opinion, one can be both theistic and agnostic, they are not mutually exclusive.

modified 15-Dec-23 12:06pm.

jschell15-Dec-23 5:48

jschell

15-Dec-23 5:48

PIEBALDconsult wrote:
In my opinion, one can be theist and agnostic, they are not mutually exclusive.

Humanity is full of contradictions.

That is actually a standard trop in science fiction where they drive the computer (android, whatever) mad by presenting it with a logical contradiction.

Myself I am not sure that any sane human can exist without contradictions.

BernardIE531715-Dec-23 5:50

BernardIE5317

15-Dec-23 5:50

thanks for the clarification . it seems i do not know the proper term for my situation . perhaps it is "idonotknowanddonotcareonewayortheother" .

jschell18-Dec-23 5:16

jschell

18-Dec-23 5:16

And yet perfectly valid for a human to have that view. Yet at least some would claim it is not possible.

trønderen18-Dec-23 5:54

18-Dec-23 5:54

Imagine that I am presented for some religion that I have never heard of before, and might never hear about again. "There is this group of a few thousand people down in Brazil (or somewhere) who has this idea that if they lay out colored stones in a specific pattern and show their palms to the sky, the gods will make it rain."

If I was presented for some person of this jungle tribe religion, I would of course try to react in a polite manner. But my true reaction would be a shrug, 'You can believe in that if you like to. But I don't care at all; it affects me in no way.'

Even when the religion is a big and powerful one, with lots of churches and clergy, my response is the same, a shrug and 'You can believe in that if you like to. But I don't care at all; it affects me in no way.' Any religion has the same value to me, whether a small tribal one or a mighty world religion - zero. As long as it doesn't insist on bothering me, controlling my life.

If I were a psychologist, I might want to study religions and beliefs as a mental phenomenon, to try to understand how the human brain works. But the 'religious' content of the religion would be more or less irrelevant; the fascinating part is how a religion, regardless of which one, works on humans.