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What would it take?

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Message 46 of 49 (675289)
10-09-2012 11:47 PM 		Reply to: Message 45 by Straggler
10-09-2012 2:27 PM

Motive
Straggler writes:
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This suggests that you are beyond all reasoned argument and all evidence no matter what that may conceivably be as long as you are alive.
I would ask what possible motive such an argument would have.
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My current belief is that a Creator is as likely as not. As I may have said before, 50/50. It is true that I favor a belief and a hope more-so than not. Thats why I would ask, again, what motive one would have at dissuading me.
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Message 47 of 49 (675294)
10-10-2012 2:28 AM 		Reply to: Message 46 by Phat
10-09-2012 11:47 PM

Re: Motive
Thats why I would ask, again, what motive one would have at dissuading me.
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I don't think anyone is trying to dissuade you, but the thread does ask the question "what would it take?"
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You're basically saying nothing could convince you otherwise if you're saying the only thing would be dying and finding nothing.
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Why even answer if that's your position?
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- Oni
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Message 48 of 49 (675308)
10-10-2012 9:52 AM 		Reply to: Message 46 by Phat
10-09-2012 11:47 PM

Re: Motive
Thats why I would ask, again, what motive one would have at dissuading me.
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Well you are the one that resurrected this thread form the dead(so are you this threads god?), so I guess the actual question is not what others motives are. What is you motive? is the pertinent question.
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
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"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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10-10-2012 11:28 AM 		Reply to: Message 48 by Theodoric
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Re: Motive
My motive? Honestly, I just like debating/discussing God and philosophical musings on spirituality.
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