7 years ago :: Mar 30, 2011 - 1:59AM #21 | |
"Love is a battlefield." -- Pat Benatar Well ... it makes sense, since God appears to be a battlefield. I actually don't think love is a battlefield, but I've apparently been more fortunate than others. Left and right, friends, colleagues, former colleagues ... divorced. But somehow I've walked through the valley of ... of ... whatever ... oblivious to the harsh "reality" of love. It is actually a rather pleasant stroll. Perhaps it depends on how one wants to view or experience it. Love, painful or pleasant, depends on what we want from life. And God? That's all it is. Dear theists ... let go of the term "God" and focus on what it is you really want. The end result will at least be the similar, and likely be much better. "All you need is love." -- John Lennon, one of my favorite atheists
"Some people claim that there's a woman to blame. But I know it's my own damn fault."
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7 years ago :: Mar 31, 2011 - 11:47AM #22 | |
The word G-d is meaning less. But I don't like to call G-d, by a human name like Jesus, George, or Mary Ann. I prefer the word Creator...something that made all this something....that is not a something...not a creation...not a human, not a machine...not an element...not a power...not anything? It is complicated. What is G-d? My theory is G-d is called G-d because no one knows what a G-d is. A G-d isn't...and is and that is why it is so confusing. |
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7 years ago :: Apr 01, 2011 - 12:25AM #23 | |
"God is a concept by which we measure our pain," says John Lennon. Says I, "God is a reflection of its creators: Us." Excerpt from YahooAnswers below: Q) Is there anything more audacious than an Atheist psychoanalyzing "God?"? A) Yes: a religious individual believing he knows what God thinks and does.
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7 years ago :: Apr 01, 2011 - 11:03AM #24 | |
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov |
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7 years ago :: Apr 02, 2011 - 10:33AM #25 | |
I still don't get the hyphen instead of the "o". The intent is obvious ... if someone is going to be offended, the hyphen certainly doesn't matter. And if there were I god, I'm confident it would see through the ruse.
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7 years ago :: Apr 02, 2011 - 12:01PM #26 | |
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov |
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7 years ago :: Apr 03, 2011 - 6:55PM #27 | |
While 'God' means a great deal to millions of people, that is no guarantee that the entity that the word represents actually exists. It might, but I see no compelling evidence for it, which is why I am an atheist. Funny, I don't see the issue of God as very confusing at all. |
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7 years ago :: Apr 03, 2011 - 7:00PM #28 | |
Dave - Just a Man in the Mountains.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. Isaac Asimov |
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7 years ago :: Apr 03, 2011 - 7:21PM #29 | |
While, probably like you, I have never felt superior to those who believe in gods, it seems to me that people do so only in order to avoid looking reality in the face, especially the reality of their own eventual extinction. It seems man's refusal to see the obvious, his longing for a better deal even if it is based on pure fiction has no limits. |
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7 years ago :: Apr 03, 2011 - 8:20PM #30 | |
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