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Author Topic:   Poll; theist, atheist or agnostic
Parasomnium
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Message 138 of 295 (339917)
08-14-2006 2:38 AM
Reply to: Message 131 by Hyroglyphx
08-13-2006 5:26 PM


Re: Mark me down, please
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
How would we know if someone died. To us it would like they just stopped posting, but it could be that some of those members died and we just don't know about.
I have arranged it so that if I don't post for more than two months, an automated procedure will take over that starts posting random text. You won't know the difference.
But anyway, you've given us a great new metaphor for dying. For example, did you know that today it's exactly fifty years ago that German dramatist Bertolt Brecht stopped posting in East Berlin at age 58?
Please mark me down as an atheist.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
Did you know that most of the time your computer is doing nothing? What if you could make it do something really useful? Like helping scientists understand diseases? Your computer could even be instrumental in finding a cure for HIV/AIDS. Wouldn't that be something? If you agree, then join World Community Grid now and download a simple, free tool that lets you and your computer do your share in helping humanity. After all, you are part of it, so why not take part in it?

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Parasomnium
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Message 207 of 295 (340751)
08-17-2006 8:00 AM
Reply to: Message 206 by Archer Opteryx
08-17-2006 7:48 AM


Atheist AND theist?
Archer_Opterix writes:
I can accurately be listed under Agnostic, Atheist, and Theist simultaneously.
You'd have to explain how, because although it's obvious to me how one can be an agnostic and an atheist at the same time, or an agnostic and a theist (one can at the same time believe something without knowing it for certain, or not believe something without being certain it is not so), I fail to see how one can be an atheist and a theist all at once.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.
Did you know that most of the time your computer is doing nothing? What if you could make it do something really useful? Like helping scientists understand diseases? Your computer could even be instrumental in finding a cure for HIV/AIDS. Wouldn't that be something? If you agree, then join World Community Grid now and download a simple, free tool that lets you and your computer do your share in helping humanity. After all, you are part of it, so why not take part in it?

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