LostInAnomie
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Fri Aug-19-05 11:53 PM
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Lets play a game: Suppose that tonight God was proven to not exist... |
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... What happens tomorrow?
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:13 AM
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1. The same exact thing that would've happened anyway. |
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:13 AM
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I would say that tomorrow a religious war would break out over the proof.
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:21 AM
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5. Let's just say that it is. |
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Edited on Sat Aug-20-05 12:21 AM by LostInAnomie
Whatever it would take to prove irrefutably to everyone in the world that there is no such thing as God.
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Sat Aug-20-05 01:42 AM
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27. it's pretty hard to prove that something doesn't exist |
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isn't it? I can prove that there is no beer in my refrigerator by performing a simple search, but how do you search the entire cosmos for God. It would be much harder than searching a high school for a janitor (which is difficult enough as the janitor can move to a room you have already searched). It might be more interesting to ask the opposite question - what if it was proven irrefutably that there is a God? Especially since it would take a God to transmit that information and proof to everyone.
So what would it take for God to prove to you that God exists? A dream? A message? A visit? An instant trip to Ganymede? Turning your baseball bat into a fish? What does it take to satisfy you?
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Sat Aug-20-05 03:49 AM
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32. If God WAS proven to exist tomorrow... |
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The religious right would all be on their knees asking for forgiveness for being such hateful jerks. After all, the only way I can explain the way that they behave and the claims that they make is that they must not really believe in God, but only know how to manipulate millions of people in God's name.
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Sat Aug-20-05 04:17 AM
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35. "how do you search the entire cosmos for God" |
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Well for the sake of this thread someone did, and there ain't one.
So there.
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:17 AM
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3. suppose something that isn't a logical impossibility occurred... n/t |
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:22 AM
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6. I guess I'd be unemployed. |
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Can I sleep on your sofa?
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:24 AM
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7. It would be a long drive, but sure. |
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You'll have to fight the dog off of it though.
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:26 AM
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8. Dog? But isn't dog supposedly nonexistent? I'm confused. |
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Edited on Sat Aug-20-05 12:26 AM by ForrestGump
EDIT: my mistake. Carry on.
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:26 AM
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9. Well, I'll be bringing the two cats, too. |
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:28 AM
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10. Then I hope my allergies don't exist either... |
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... or you'll run me out of my own home.
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:28 AM
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11. Considering you just ruined my career.... |
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don't you think that's fair? :)
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:37 AM
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13. I guess I have to load up on the Benedryl. |
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You will at least look for a job won't you?
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:40 AM
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15. After Packers season, sure... |
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but then there's Duke Basketball. Do you have full cable, or satellite?
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:42 AM
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It's just been proven that I don't have a couch either.
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:44 AM
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:rofl: Hey, the floor's not so bad.
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:31 AM
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12. I'd be an atheist instead of an agnostic. |
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:39 AM
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14. We'd end up forced to watch nothing but |
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Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson 27/7. Hardly any believers woud believe it and we'd have to hear King George constantly refusing to believe it saying it's unproven and therefore he ain't following it.
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:41 AM
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16. I phone a few Christians I don't like and rub it in their face |
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:43 AM
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18. I would not be surprised at all. |
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:51 AM
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20. people wouldn't have any reason |
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to say ...
god dammit god bless you god will get you for that god save the queen what in god's name did you do that for god is watching you
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:54 AM
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What the hell!? To hell with that! It's hotter than hell out here! etc.
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Sat Aug-20-05 01:07 AM
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for some it would be chaotic
for others ... it would be life as usual ... except for watching people go nuts ... but we're watching that all the time anyway, it would just get worse
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Sat Aug-20-05 01:30 AM
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26. you can have a hell without having a god |
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in fact, it's easier that way.
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Sat Aug-20-05 01:43 AM
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28. According to the last Pope... |
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... Hell is the absence of God. So I guess you are right.
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Sat Aug-20-05 12:54 AM
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22. Thank god for that. Those sayings are annoying |
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Sat Aug-20-05 01:22 AM
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25. thanks for adding another 1 to my list |
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :spray: :thumbsup:
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Sat Aug-20-05 01:22 AM
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24. Fundies would just ignore it |
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the same way they ignore the science about global warming.
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Sat Aug-20-05 01:45 AM
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29. A certain LiberalSailor I know would have a lot of explaining to do. |
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But, as I've always said before, it's so much easier to beg for forgiveness than it is to ask for persmission.
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Sat Aug-20-05 02:41 AM
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30. The Fundies would be out in full force |
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claiming it is a test of faith god put before us, that the evidence was created to test one's faith, and we must respond (see second paragraph). Or, dem darn liberals fixed it - we must fight them. (see second paragraph)
Either way, they'd open the phone lines up for $$ (some things never change) :eyes:
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Sat Aug-20-05 03:36 AM
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31. No Game to play, the supernatural is already nonexistant. |
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Sat Aug-20-05 03:52 AM
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33. Pat Robertson would be off the air |
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and I wouldn't have to hear him praying for USSC vacancies anymore.
On second thought, as delusional as his followers are he'd probably still be on there and just as popular. Dammit.
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Sat Aug-20-05 03:59 AM
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34. He doesn't. So what are you going to do tomorrow? |
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Sat Aug-20-05 07:45 AM
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36. I guess I wouldn't be going to church tomorrow. |
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Sat Aug-20-05 07:48 AM
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just like it has for the past 300 million years for most of us. There would be some plays for power, no doubt, and much of the hypocrites on the right will simply invent some new "god" to continue to hold on to their base.
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Sat Aug-20-05 08:39 AM
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38. I'd open up to the book of Pslams and finish where I left off |
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If it's a lie, then I will continue to believe it. At least it's a noble one.
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