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Originally posted by badmedia
Originally posted by nj2day
reply to post by badmedia
Sorry BM,
I started to type up a lenghty response to your rantings, but decided against it...
You seem to not be able to get over the fact that there might be absolutely nothing to consciousness.
there might be absolutely nothing special about it... its just the individual who deems it important, and thinks that its critical to explain it...
I can't possibly stress enough about how consciousness is only chemicals and brainwaves... you refuse to even entertain that idea... apparently in your mind, there is a deep seated desire to find importance in this very primitive life function...
Until you get over the desire to paint yourself as "special", there can be no discussion.
You haven't even bothered to explain why its necessary to assign such importance on this... but oh well..
Chemicals and brains waves are what provides the conversion of what is "out there" to your consciousness. Your body is a machine, and so it works off logic, no randomness to the body. It is of the physical. You are basically saying that these things are presenting themselves to each other.
What is so important is because it's about what your true self is. If you can't understand your true self, then what I say isn't going to seem possible to you. Just as I think we have demonstrated here pretty clearly.
As this is within everyone, not just me there is nothing "special" about it in such terms, what is "special" about it is that this part of us is not a part of creation.
But whatever, I guess if you wanna think consciousness is just somekind of chemical reaction, go right ahead. I guess it's just an understanding you will eventually have to come to on your own. You keep saying things like how I'm just doing it to feel special or warm and fuzzy, but in reality I think the same could just as easily be explained of you. As you perhaps fear the idea of something being greater than and beyond you, making you not feel so special, when you don't have "superior" genetics or physical characteristics over others. Both are still assumptions though.
Originally posted by TheAbstract
We prove that God doesn't exist every single day....God wants peace, we make war.....God wants love, we give hate.....God says not to think about the WORLDLY things and focus on him....Guess what God...I LIVE IN THE WORLD SO I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE.....oh and supposedly you put me here so your sadistic a** is probably loving the fact that we're all suffering down here....thanks for looking out God
Originally posted by nj2day
Originally posted by Swampfox46_1999
Cant resist adding my two cents on this one....
I have seen far more people who have set out to prove God does not exist become Christians, than I have seen become atheists.
Thats because you cruise with people of similar beliefs most likely...
Any atheist who sets out to prove god doesn't exist is a moron... You can not disprove the existence of anything... this is a given...
now what we can do... as the OP has done... is prove that the description of the god in question cannot exist as presented...
Originally posted by lunarminer
The fallacy in your argument is the same as the OP. There is a difference between knowing that something is going to happen and being the cause of it.
For instance suppose you are a witness to a car accident? You are standing on the street corner and you see two cars coming towards each other and you realize that they will collide. Did you cause the accident? No, of course not.
Now you say, but God is omnipotent and therefore he caused the accident because he didn't stop it. Actually this is a second fallacy, because simply being able to stop the accident doesn't make you the cause either. The actual situation has not changed except that you are not powerless to stop the accident.
Originally posted by Gregor100
www.youtube.com...
If you cant be bothered going to youtube the video says this:
"The god of the bible is claimed to be omnipotent and omniscient.
If you can change the future you are not omniscient.
If you cannot you are not omnipotent.
Myth busted"
Pretty hard evidence right there....
Edit - Well spotted out i mis-quoted... wooops..
om⋅nis⋅cient
1. having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
2. an omniscient being.
3. the Omniscient, God.
om·nip·o·tent
1: often capitalized : almighty 1
2: having virtually unlimited authority or influence
3: obsolete : arrant
Originally posted by lunarminer
LOL!
So let me get this straight...you are saying that the Bible (a book that you don't believe in) gives proof that God does not exist? That is circular logic and it is one of the biggest fallacies traps for any argument.
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
Just seeing with your eyes, and hearing with your ears, is proof that GOD exists, because we live INSIDE of GOD.
We grew off of God's body. The entire universe is God's body.
If you don't believe in God, that means technically that you don't believe that YOU exist. Do you exist?
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
WOW, you are so lost, I can't help but laugh. You remind me of a mouse in a maze, however, you have a blindfold on. I can't help but laugh when mice run into walls.
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
TruthParadox, I bet you $100000000000000000000000000000 that you can not answer this following question, correctly. You will most probably think I am talking about a place on this Earth.
Where are you?
we live INSIDE of GOD.
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
I think the real problem is,
NONE OF YOU READ THE BIBLE.
Seriously, if you think you did, you are lying to yourself. The Bible is not a book that is only read once. You have to read the Bible, front to back, at LEAST 3 times to actually understand some of the things said in the Bible.
Even 3 times is not enough.
Have you ever watched a movie more than once, and noticed things you didn't notice the first time? Well the Bible is designed like that....
IMO, Even if you read the Bible 1 time, you didn't truly read the entire thing.
So, people only pick and choose passages that they feel contradicts the Bible.... They don't even understand that all the books in the Bible are written by different people, at different times, yet some reason they think the Bible is 1 book, written by 1 person. Makes me want the throw up.
Originally posted by Psygod
The only proof for the Christian god is the Bible because the Bible is supposed to be the word of God, yet it was written by men. Men are corrupt, we lie, we scheme... we do things to achieve our own ends. How do we know why the Bible was written, how do we think that it is anything special? Because "it is the word of God" Oh really? And who told us that? The men who wrote it? Yeah...
Originally posted by TruthParadox
Why is that?
Because I pointed out the obvious fact (while using humor) that your words meant so little and were so vague, that I could insert the name of any other god and be just as 'accurate'?
Originally posted by TruthParadox
Or are you laughing to cover up the insecurity in yourself which is telling you that I have a point while you instead choose to ignore it?
Originally posted by TruthParadox
Well, I have an idea that your super secret special answer begins with a "G" and ends with a "d".
Seeing as how you said, and I quote:
we live INSIDE of GOD.
Where's my $100000000000000000000000000000, or are you going to change your view of which deity we live in just to avoid being in debt to an online stranger?
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
I said God IS EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS.
You say Zeus IS EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS.
You can give GOD any name you want, as long as you know -insert name here- IS EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS.
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
All light, all dark, all electrons, protons, neutrons, all the 4 fundamental forces, Earth, the Moon, the Sun, the Stars, everthing that is, is my creator, and that will be true no matter what name you call all of those things combined.
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
I asked "Where are you?", I didn't ask "What are we in?".
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
When someone asks you a question, USUALY they give you their own answer. However, you decided to copy and paste a complete strangers words, and use it for the answer.
Originally posted by ALLis0NE
You just proved that you don't have a mind of your own. You can't think for yourself. And that you don't know where you are. That means you are lost.
Originally posted by Gregor100
www.youtube.com...
If you cant be bothered going to youtube the video says this:
"The god of the bible is claimed to be omnipotent and omniscient.
If you can change the future you are not omniscient.
If you cannot you are not omnipotent.
Myth busted"
Pretty hard evidence right there....
Edit - Well spotted out i mis-quoted... wooops..
[edit on 19/2/09 by Gregor100]