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December 20th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
freako,,,wow you are just full of logic today aren’t you?
Nah, I just like to perforate tinfoil.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
wg2c “and you knew some atheists that you think are moral.” so besides hate what else can you do some ateists who you THINK are moral? All atheists are moral excepth the mentally retarded, which by the way would include all so called believers, who for the the most part are moral with the exception of the mentally retarded.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
I hate to break it to you M.R. but if paper money ever becomes worthless you’ll be kicking yourself for investing in gold rather than in a fortress with lots of guns and ammunition.
December 20th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
freako,,,wow you are just full of logic today aren’t you?
When paper money is long gone gold will still be here. Every ounce of gold ever mined on this planet is still here somewhere. Most houses built a hundred years ago in Vancouver are dust and rust.
Ideally a homeowner would have his HOME paid for and 50% of that value hedged with precious metals.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Since you seem to have forgotten;
“especially if religious systems have collapsed (which they mostly already have) and there are accordingly no moral reasons to be non-violent, because morality has ceased to exist.”
Implying that without religion people are incapable of being moral or non violent. I merely pointed out that religion has been a cornerstone behind more violence in the history of Man than anything else (with the debatable exception of wealth). Atheism, secularism, ‘lack of religion’, has been responsible for (to the best of my knowledge) exactly zero violence.
I take offence when religious people adopt a (if you’ll pardon the pun) ‘holier than thou’ attitude because they don’t understand how someone can actually be moral without the wrath of God looming over their shoulder. To me this demonstrates that the failing is a lack of the ability to relate to people who are different from yourself that is typical of all religions, which in turn is a big factor in the amorality and violence in religious people.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:48 am
As for the rest of the thread, what is going on? Doesn’t Godwin’s Law apply anymore?
good point.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Wow you really don’t want to go down the philosophy road with me. I’ll go all Ayer on your ass.
i prefer russell’s popular philosophy to ayer at his best.
i particularly like russell’s essay “on being modern-minded”, but ’nuff said about that.
so how did this start? i think because you decided with your own free will to somehow be “offended” because i said something about small-r religion and you knew some atheists that you think are moral.
my mother liked to complain a lot. i used to get annoyed with her until i understood that it was one of the few remaining pleasures she had in life.
as for you, i wonder if you simply derive pleasure from being “offended” or from “not suffering fools gladly” or from “having a problem with” certain types of people, as you confessed in an earlier post.
oh-kee-do-key. i’ll keep that in mind for the next time!!