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901  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [SERIOUS] How do we fix the College Admissions Process? A short list on: December 03, 2019, 02:27:22 AM
1. Administer entrance exams to each school and each program.  Accept only the top 100 students per program. Offer full scholarships to the top 10 students in each program.  

2. Eliminate non-academic scholarships.

3. Eliminate all other bullshit/noise: recommendation letters, volunteer work letters, high-school averages, essays, participation in sports and other hobbies, racial and social profiles, etc.

Good ideas.  All leaning towards what American Post-Grad school is like today.

Eh -- I do think there is immense value in a school seeing your essay (just in a different way then it is done now) and participating in sports / other hobbies as it does show what kinds of interests you have. Volunteering would fit into the same sort of thing.


It would also make sense for colleges to have the school verify that all of these are actually being done -- you wouldn't want someone saying on their application that they're the president of all these different clubs without actually doing such and only being admitted to a college because he got the leg up from these.

Add an essay section on the entrance exam if you want to test one's writing skills.

Asking applicants for an essay just adds one more expense for the parents.  Most undergrad applicants have prepping companies preparing their applications.  So if you ask for an essay, parents will just spend more money to get a professional essay prepared for their precious ones.

Real-time, in-person testing is the only way to go.  Include an oral exam to test speaking skills if your program requires it.

Properly designed entrance exams (that very few applicants can complete in time) will allow you to select the best of the best.  

That way the university resources will be used for their intended purpose.

PS. SATs are a joke.  It is like checking if someone has a pulse.
902  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Health and Religion on: December 02, 2019, 09:27:46 PM

What has religion accomplished in the last 100 years?  Diddly-squat.


And we have destroyed 90% of our ecosystem and lost social cohesion, with two world war and a cold war, plus Hiroshima and all,but at least we have xannax and know how many rings there is on saturn and how many forces there is in the universe.

If you don't like progress, go live in Afganistan.  You will get all the social cohesion you so desperately desire.

The ecosystems are being destroyed because we reproduce like rabbits.  That is the root cause of our environmental issues.

To stop the destruction, we need to have a negative population growth rate or at least a near-zero growth rate.

But religious lunatics reproduce like there is no tomorrow.  You know, because that is what God (aka them) wants, LOL.

903  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Health and Religion on: December 02, 2019, 07:17:37 PM

Religion is a two-edged sword.  On one hand, it can stop people from committing heinous crimes and on the other, it facilitates, makes it easy to justify other heinous crimes.


Religion advocate forgiving and redemption no ?



Corruption and structural abuse in all of the major religions is just one aspect that I could not bear.


Religion is not about sticking to corrupt structures. All religions warn about the wolf in sheep clothe and corrupt structures.




Supernatural claims, scientific nonsense, outright contradictions, rejection of any progressive thought, the subjective, cultural context in the "holy" scriptures is something I could not accept as divine.

Science cannot explain everything either, but religion is not really about being dogmatic or against progress, on the contrary most religion have their own eschatology and hope for better future.



The universe was started most likely out of nothing via quantum fluctuations, the initial inflation was a result of non-symmetry in the matter-antimatter formation and destruction, and we are the result of it.

This doesnt explain much either.



Scientific ignorance of religious people is appalling.  Their schizophrenic, hypocritic rejection of science and acceptance of technology is
all the proof you need to know that people running this con job are ruthless, evil psychopaths who will do anything and say anything to separate fools from their money.


Lot of great scientist if not all were religious.



Any company that would offer a non-existing product, charge you in advance and would promise that the product works after you die would end up in court for fraud.

Its not a company, you know what jesus said about marchants in the temples etc.


The main function of religion is to instill fear, establish control and provide answers to ignorant people and stray them from killing each other.

Fear is a powerfull tool to influence people, but religion is not about fear normally its more about faith and hope.

Apparently it is not only about faith and hope. LOL.

https://metro.co.uk/video/this-bishop-thinks-make-penises-bigger-1370991/?ito=vjs-link

Meanwhile, scientists might have discovered a fifth, yet unknown force:
https://www.businessinsider.com/physicists-discovered-new-fifth-force-of-nature-dark-matter-problem-2019-11

Independent, experimental evidence is needed to confirm this discovery.

What has religion accomplished in the last 100 years?  Diddly-squat.
904  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Health and Religion on: December 02, 2019, 02:55:58 PM

I guess old af-newbie will never understand things like this, even if he is not a woman.

Cool

Interesting choice of scripture there.

af-newbie has stated he was deeply influenced by the overt and gross corruption he witnessed peddled by a nominally religious leader in his youth. Witnessing corruption and abuse he rejects religion prima facie.

This is understandable and an example of the tremendous harm that can results from violating the commandment of taking the name of God in vain aka committing evil in the name of God. Hypocrisy is incredibly destructive.

I once wandered away from Christianity but I never had anything like that kind of hurdle to overcome while finding my way back. The religious people I interacted with in my youth were to the best of my knowledge genuine and acting with goodwill.

My path back started with the realization of the practical necessity of Christianity. That sparked a later deeper introspection into the fundamentals.

The decline of Christianity is seriously damaging society, atheists acknowledge
https://thebl.com/us-news/the-decline-of-christianity-is-seriously-damaging-society-atheists-acknowledge.html

How the West was won – by Christianity
https://www.mercatornet.com/features/view/how-the-west-was-won-by-christianity/23109


Religion is a two-edged sword.  On one hand, it can stop people from committing heinous crimes and on the other, it facilitates, makes it easy to justify other heinous crimes.

Corruption and structural abuse in all of the major religions is just one aspect that I could not bear.

Supernatural claims, scientific nonsense, outright contradictions, rejection of any progressive thought, the subjective, cultural context in the "holy" scriptures is something I could not accept as divine.

Cell death is a non-reversible process.  When your DNA and RNA fragments, there is nothing that would reassemble them and rebuild each and every cell in your body to make you alive again.

A cracker and wine during your Sunday's mass cannot possibly turn into human flesh and blood. That is not chemically possible.

The universe was started most likely out of nothing via quantum fluctuations, the initial inflation was a result of non-symmetry in the matter-antimatter formation and destruction, and we are the result of it.

Scientific ignorance of religious people is appalling.  Their schizophrenic, hypocritic rejection of science and acceptance of technology is
all the proof you need to know that people running this con job are ruthless, evil psychopaths who will do anything and say anything to separate fools from their money.

Any company that would offer a non-existing product, charge you in advance and would promise that the product works after you die would end up in court for fraud.

The vast majority of the human population remains ignorant so I am afraid religions will be a necessary evil for few more generations to come.

The main function of religion is to instill fear, establish control and provide answers to ignorant people and stray them from killing each other.
905  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Health and Religion on: December 02, 2019, 12:34:32 AM
...
Can you suggest a reliable test for IQ?  Grin

I am not sure about being reliable, but you could try

http://test.mensa.no/

It should reliably measure IQ between 85-115.

If you score outside of this range, you will get a message saying that your IQ cannot be reliably measured by this test.

Join your local mensa society.  Mensa offers reliable tests to prospective members.
906  Other / Politics & Society / Re: [SERIOUS] How do we fix the College Admissions Process? A short list on: December 01, 2019, 03:07:52 AM
1. Administer entrance exams to each school and each program.  Accept only the top 100 students per program. Offer full scholarships to the top 10 students in each program.  

2. Eliminate non-academic scholarships.

3. Eliminate all other bullshit/noise: recommendation letters, volunteer work letters, high-school averages, essays, participation in sports and other hobbies, racial and social profiles, etc.
907  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 30, 2019, 09:59:39 AM
Doubt is very essential to faith, if you don't have doubt, you don't have faith because if you have faith and zero doubt, then you are not carrying "faith" but "facts". To have a "belief" in God, you must have doubts about his existence. If there's no doubt, you just "know" that he exists and the "belief" doesn't exist.

But all these only when you can prove existence.

Heck, us, I can't even prove that beside myself, anyone else exists and is not my imagination. That's called solipsism and I am a solipsist.

Basically, you can't prove that others exist and you can never know, they all can just be your imaginations!

So in the world, where you can't even prove the existence of others as equal to you, how can you even go on to have a belief on a creator who even if he exists, you won't be able to prove that he's nothing beside your mere imagination. Wink Also with hell and heaven Cheesy

It is also possible that God also is unaware that he is being simulated.

Why do small kids think that things do not exist when they don't see them?

Why we cannot tell whether the Schrodinger's cat is dead or alive unless we open the box?

Same goes for anything at the quantum level, why do we need observers to pinpoint the position of things?

Our brain and our reality work in mysterious ways lol.

PS. As for solipsism, our reality does exist because many brains share it. You want to see if your friend exists without seeing him, send him a text message about things you did together that only you two know about, see what he responds.  It will be your friend's brain that will respond, so things exist outside of your and his brain.  If you extrapolate, you'll get our non-simulated reality.

908  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 30, 2019, 09:46:37 AM

If you think knowledge comes from praying you are dumb as a rock.

A self-deluding psychological trick, that what it is.  You gain absolutely zero knowledge from it.

People who don't care about the truth pray to invisible sky daddies.

It does not matter what you believe if you pray, you are a psychological weakling who knowingly or not, is fooling himself.

You don't believe me? Pray for me (or BADecker) to become a Muslim, see what happens.


If you think that somebody thinks that knowledge comes from praying, you are dumber than a rock.

Didn't you even read what he was saying? Faith in prayer works, even if it is only placebo effect. Science and medicine bear this out. Google "placebo effect."

How much more when people pray for God to be real, and He acknowledges them because He is real.

Why to you continually attempt to set yourself up as god over God, especially since you absolutely know that there is no way that you can determine that He doesn't exist?

Cool

Prayer does not work.  If I pray for you to shut the fuck up about your Jesus, do you think it will work?  Of course not.

If you chant some prayer sentences ad nauseam (or hum as part of your meditation), you might come yourself down,
reduce stress, relax, etc.  This, of course, will have some positive health benefits.  So does exercise and relaxing reading a book.

Prayer is a false proposition because the whole premise is set up on a falsehood.  Prayers cannot work because mythological figures cannot
act and impact the physical world in any way.  

That is why if you pray to God for something you cannot do or obtain yourself, the prayer will fail.  

If on the other hand, you pray to God for something that you can do or obtain yourself, the prayer will work because you can personally act to fulfill the prayer.  You can skip the praying exercise, and do stuff by yourself, save yourself some time.

That is why prayers are a waste of time.

Meditation has positive health benefits, that is not the point.

Superstitions do not work.  You subjectively might think they do work, but objectively they don't work.

If you don't believe me, subject praying to the scientific method, see what happens.

All that you are saying is that you choose to be an atheist, and that it is your choice to remain ignorant about placebo effect.

Cool

Placebo effect will only happen
if you are unaware that the prayer
works as a placebo.

In cases when placebo is experienced it is not
the prayer that does the work, but it is the subject's
body that does the work.

Placebo will only work on the subject's
body, not outside of it.

That is why prayers for things outside of
your body fail miserably.

It is equivalent to taking a homeopathic "medicine" and wanting your wife or kids to get better.
909  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 29, 2019, 02:23:51 PM

If you think knowledge comes from praying you are dumb as a rock.

A self-deluding psychological trick, that what it is.  You gain absolutely zero knowledge from it.

People who don't care about the truth pray to invisible sky daddies.

It does not matter what you believe if you pray, you are a psychological weakling who knowingly or not, is fooling himself.

You don't believe me? Pray for me (or BADecker) to become a Muslim, see what happens.


If you think that somebody thinks that knowledge comes from praying, you are dumber than a rock.

Didn't you even read what he was saying? Faith in prayer works, even if it is only placebo effect. Science and medicine bear this out. Google "placebo effect."

How much more when people pray for God to be real, and He acknowledges them because He is real.

Why to you continually attempt to set yourself up as god over God, especially since you absolutely know that there is no way that you can determine that He doesn't exist?

Cool

Prayer does not work.  If I pray for you to shut the fuck up about your Jesus, do you think it will work?  Of course not.

If you chant some prayer sentences ad nauseam (or hum as part of your meditation), you might come yourself down,
reduce stress, relax, etc.  This, of course, will have some positive health benefits.  So does exercise and relaxing reading a book.

Prayer is a false proposition because the whole premise is set up on a falsehood.  Prayers cannot work because mythological figures cannot
act and impact the physical world in any way. 

That is why if you pray to God for something you cannot do or obtain yourself, the prayer will fail. 

If on the other hand, you pray to God for something that you can do or obtain yourself, the prayer will work because you can personally act to fulfill the prayer.  You can skip the praying exercise, and do stuff by yourself, save yourself some time.

That is why prayers are a waste of time.

Meditation has positive health benefits, that is not the point.

Superstitions do not work.  You subjectively might think they do work, but objectively they don't work.

If you don't believe me, subject praying to the scientific method, see what happens.
910  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 29, 2019, 12:57:28 PM

Ask your God to post here.

Or there are some things your Almighty Supreme Intelligence cannot do?  So much for Almighty, and so much for Intelligence, never mind the Supreme Intelligence, LOL.

I dare you and your God.  Do shit in this world, don't just sit in the ozone layer on your wooden trone, or wherever your devotees think you are hiding today.
  
Eliminate cancer, AIDS, birth defects, then we'll talk.

God, you little piece of shit, come out and post my PIN number, or strike BADecker so that he cannot write nonsense anymore.

Strike me for all I care. LOL.  Let's go, motherfucker.

See, nothing happens.

Pooor sensitive, loving, sweet God. He sooo wants to give you the desires of your heart, and all you do is ask him to do contradictions for you. I almost can't believe how patient He is with you because of this. If I were in His place, I might have simply squashed you out-of-hand.

You ask God to be absent from your life by not accepting the loads of evidence and proof that He exists, and then you ask for Him to be in your life by contacting you through this forum. Make up your mind. Do you want Him or not? How in the world ridiculous can you get? (Please don't show me.)

I need to pray to Him and tell Him how much He is loved. I mean, you have hurt His feelings so greatly, that He needs to be consoled... so He doesn't destroy you out-of-hand.

Don't pray.  It is a waste of time.

Do something useful, go to the museum and examine the fossils.  Take Physics, Chemistry and Biology courses, learn everything there is about the history of nature.  Then move on to study Astrophysics.

Come back in a few years and we can have a meaningful conversation on evolution, carbon dating, entropy, chaos, complexity, emergence or any other topics you fail so miserably to understand.


It's not a waste of time

Praying boost self confidence and optimism which will impact a person's mindset which will impact how they act which will impact the others which will impact a group of another which will impact the world.

Praying only produces overconfident, ignorant, indoctrinated imbeciles.  You will not become more knowledgeable or wise by praying.

Study science, history, economics, foreign languages to become confident, not recite some superstitious phrases.

Read books on various subjects.


Okay if you think so. But imo it's not about the prayers it's about the individu. Praying or not if you're an ignorant person then you are.

also if you study science, etc etc - just like believers - or not- you can be overconfident too, feels like you know much, smarter than the others.

So i think you can't judge a person by amount of books they have read, or whether they go to chruch or not it's none to do with it.

Wisdom and knowledges can be everywhere not just books. Experiences i think is the most common. And experiences means everything you have been through consciously or unconsciously. Spiritual or scientific.  

Prove it that praying increases your knowledge and wisdom.

Praying does squat.  It will not help us develop new vaccines or find a cure for cancer.

If you think praying works, you are a gullible idiot.

If praying worked we would not have hospitals, hi-tech firms, NASA or research universities.  People would just pray to get stuff done.

You don't get what i said then Smiley

It's mindset honey. It's alone will not help anything. But it gave people hope that change how they think and the more they work on it- it will help a lot. You can pray and still go to museums, reading tons of book etc. To pray it just take less than a minute, a simple "i hope today will be a good day" is a prayer.

You know about placebo effects? How our mindset can help us heal. It does not work alone, also like badbecker said- meditation. I live in an area where almost all people here meditate. People come all over the world to gain spiritual experiences, meeting the what so called as healer. I myself does not believe that but i've been here for long enough, hearing more enough to know they are almost all said they feel better, inside and outside. again, i don't buy that but man i think it's probably doctrines or brainwash system but then i think so what? They found their inner peace, they "feel" happier, they become friendlier- and some of people i know went to a lot of social project to help people.

"If praying worked we would not have hospitals, hi-tech firms, NASA or research universities." So you are a 100% sure all of those people who create or work inside hospitals, hi-tech, etc don't pray? lol they probably more religius than any of us here

Now i have a question for you, are you wise? do you think you have more knowledges than me who are a prayer?

I vote praying for my own self not for god. I'm a skeptic agnostic theist

If you think knowledge comes from praying you are dumb as a rock.

A self-deluding psychological trick, that what it is.  You gain absolutely zero knowledge from it.

People who don't care about the truth pray to invisible sky daddies.

It does not matter what you believe if you pray, you are a psychological weakling who knowingly or not, is fooling himself.

You don't believe me? Pray for me (or BADecker) to become a Muslim, see what happens.
911  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 28, 2019, 12:20:01 PM

Ask your God to post here.

Or there are some things your Almighty Supreme Intelligence cannot do?  So much for Almighty, and so much for Intelligence, never mind the Supreme Intelligence, LOL.

I dare you and your God.  Do shit in this world, don't just sit in the ozone layer on your wooden trone, or wherever your devotees think you are hiding today.
  
Eliminate cancer, AIDS, birth defects, then we'll talk.

God, you little piece of shit, come out and post my PIN number, or strike BADecker so that he cannot write nonsense anymore.

Strike me for all I care. LOL.  Let's go, motherfucker.

See, nothing happens.

Pooor sensitive, loving, sweet God. He sooo wants to give you the desires of your heart, and all you do is ask him to do contradictions for you. I almost can't believe how patient He is with you because of this. If I were in His place, I might have simply squashed you out-of-hand.

You ask God to be absent from your life by not accepting the loads of evidence and proof that He exists, and then you ask for Him to be in your life by contacting you through this forum. Make up your mind. Do you want Him or not? How in the world ridiculous can you get? (Please don't show me.)

I need to pray to Him and tell Him how much He is loved. I mean, you have hurt His feelings so greatly, that He needs to be consoled... so He doesn't destroy you out-of-hand.

Don't pray.  It is a waste of time.

Do something useful, go to the museum and examine the fossils.  Take Physics, Chemistry and Biology courses, learn everything there is about the history of nature.  Then move on to study Astrophysics.

Come back in a few years and we can have a meaningful conversation on evolution, carbon dating, entropy, chaos, complexity, emergence or any other topics you fail so miserably to understand.


It's not a waste of time

Praying boost self confidence and optimism which will impact a person's mindset which will impact how they act which will impact the others which will impact a group of another which will impact the world.

Praying only produces overconfident, ignorant, indoctrinated imbeciles.  You will not become more knowledgeable or wise by praying.

Study science, history, economics, foreign languages to become confident, not recite some superstitious phrases.

Read books on various subjects.


Okay if you think so. But imo it's not about the prayers it's about the individu. Praying or not if you're an ignorant person then you are.

also if you study science, etc etc - just like believers - or not- you can be overconfident too, feels like you know much, smarter than the others.

So i think you can't judge a person by amount of books they have read, or whether they go to chruch or not it's none to do with it.

Wisdom and knowledges can be everywhere not just books. Experiences i think is the most common. And experiences means everything you have been through consciously or unconsciously. Spiritual or scientific.  

Prove it that praying increases your knowledge and wisdom.

Praying does squat.  It will not help us develop new vaccines or find a cure for cancer.

If you think praying works, you are a gullible idiot.

If praying worked we would not have hospitals, hi-tech firms, NASA or research universities.  People would just pray to get stuff done.
912  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 28, 2019, 04:22:46 AM

Ask your God to post here.

Or there are some things your Almighty Supreme Intelligence cannot do?  So much for Almighty, and so much for Intelligence, never mind the Supreme Intelligence, LOL.

I dare you and your God.  Do shit in this world, don't just sit in the ozone layer on your wooden trone, or wherever your devotees think you are hiding today.
  
Eliminate cancer, AIDS, birth defects, then we'll talk.

God, you little piece of shit, come out and post my PIN number, or strike BADecker so that he cannot write nonsense anymore.

Strike me for all I care. LOL.  Let's go, motherfucker.

See, nothing happens.

Pooor sensitive, loving, sweet God. He sooo wants to give you the desires of your heart, and all you do is ask him to do contradictions for you. I almost can't believe how patient He is with you because of this. If I were in His place, I might have simply squashed you out-of-hand.

You ask God to be absent from your life by not accepting the loads of evidence and proof that He exists, and then you ask for Him to be in your life by contacting you through this forum. Make up your mind. Do you want Him or not? How in the world ridiculous can you get? (Please don't show me.)

I need to pray to Him and tell Him how much He is loved. I mean, you have hurt His feelings so greatly, that He needs to be consoled... so He doesn't destroy you out-of-hand.

Don't pray.  It is a waste of time.

Do something useful, go to the museum and examine the fossils.  Take Physics, Chemistry and Biology courses, learn everything there is about the history of nature.  Then move on to study Astrophysics.

Come back in a few years and we can have a meaningful conversation on evolution, carbon dating, entropy, chaos, complexity, emergence or any other topics you fail so miserably to understand.


It's not a waste of time

Praying boost self confidence and optimism which will impact a person's mindset which will impact how they act which will impact the others which will impact a group of another which will impact the world.

Praying only produces overconfident, ignorant, indoctrinated imbeciles.  You will not become more knowledgeable or wise by praying.

Study science, history, economics, foreign languages to become confident, not recite some superstitious phrases.

Read books on various subjects.
913  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 27, 2019, 07:19:06 PM

Ask your God to post here.

Or there are some things your Almighty Supreme Intelligence cannot do?  So much for Almighty, and so much for Intelligence, never mind the Supreme Intelligence, LOL.

I dare you and your God.  Do shit in this world, don't just sit in the ozone layer on your wooden trone, or wherever your devotees think you are hiding today.
  
Eliminate cancer, AIDS, birth defects, then we'll talk.

God, you little piece of shit, come out and post my PIN number, or strike BADecker so that he cannot write nonsense anymore.

Strike me for all I care. LOL.  Let's go, motherfucker.

See, nothing happens.

Pooor sensitive, loving, sweet God. He sooo wants to give you the desires of your heart, and all you do is ask him to do contradictions for you. I almost can't believe how patient He is with you because of this. If I were in His place, I might have simply squashed you out-of-hand.

You ask God to be absent from your life by not accepting the loads of evidence and proof that He exists, and then you ask for Him to be in your life by contacting you through this forum. Make up your mind. Do you want Him or not? How in the world ridiculous can you get? (Please don't show me.)

I need to pray to Him and tell Him how much He is loved. I mean, you have hurt His feelings so greatly, that He needs to be consoled... so He doesn't destroy you out-of-hand.

Don't pray.  It is a waste of time.

Do something useful, go to the museum and examine the fossils.  Take Physics, Chemistry and Biology courses, learn everything there is about the history of nature.  Then move on to study Astrophysics.

Come back in a few years and we can have a meaningful conversation on evolution, carbon dating, entropy, chaos, complexity, emergence or any other topics you fail so miserably to understand.
914  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 27, 2019, 06:39:35 PM

There you go, calling what is considered to be a string of success, failures. The failure is considering them to be successes.

However, the fact that you know that you don't know that God doesn't exist, shows that you are a hypocrite... and being a hypocrite shows that yo only wish that you were god over God.

Cool

I have no idea what are you talking about.  

Do you know that Zeus does not exist?  Can you prove it?

BTW, you are ignoring the evidence for evolution, and when I pointed it out you change the subject.  

What does proof of God's non-existence have to do with evolution?  Completely different fields of study.

Mythologies and Biology do not overlap.  I am not sure why you think they are.

Of course you have no idea what I am talking about. You have to learn something to have an idea of what I am talking about.

What is God? God is a Supreme Intelligence with Almighty Power. When you look at the great and wonderful way the universe works, there is no other way for it to exist than by God.

One of the greatest things about God is, He allows you to have what you ask for... outer ignorance of His existence. Yet, He maintains Himself in your inner mind so that you can't say that He just dropped you (after you come to understand that He exists, that is).

Stuff in the universe simply doesn't happen by accident. We have absolutely no example of such. In fact, our example is just the opposite. Machines have makers. The universe is a fantastic machine full of machines that follow the laws of physics precisely. The Maker of the universe is God.

Cool
ROFL.

Ask your God to post here.

Or there are some things your Almighty Supreme Intelligence cannot do?  So much for Almighty, and so much for Intelligence, never mind the Supreme Intelligence, LOL.

I dare you and your God.  Do shit in this world, don't just sit in the ozone layer on your wooden trone, or wherever your devotees think you are hiding today.
  
Eliminate cancer, AIDS, birth defects, then we'll talk.

God, you little piece of shit, come out and post my PIN number, or strike BADecker so that he cannot write nonsense anymore.

Strike me for all I care. LOL.  Let's go, motherfucker.

See, nothing happens.
915  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 27, 2019, 04:22:14 PM

I'm pretty certain being extinct is a fucking failure.
And all other subtypes of humans went extinct except for the homo sapiens, the neanderthals are the most popularized ones.

Again, there aren't the many types of subhuman-failure fossils that would have to exist in the fossil record, if there was any evolution.

...

There are, you just ignore them all.

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species?sort_by=field_age_timeline_maximum_value


There you go, calling what is considered to be a string of success, failures. The failure is considering them to be successes.

However, the fact that you know that you don't know that God doesn't exist, shows that you are a hypocrite... and being a hypocrite shows that yo only wish that you were god over God.

Cool

I have no idea what are you talking about. 

Do you know that Zeus does not exist?  Can you prove it?

BTW, you are ignoring the evidence for evolution, and when I pointed it out you change the subject. 

What does proof of God's non-existence have to do with evolution?  Completely different fields of study.

Mythologies and Biology do not overlap.  I am not sure why you think they are.
916  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 27, 2019, 02:37:27 PM

I'm pretty certain being extinct is a fucking failure.
And all other subtypes of humans went extinct except for the homo sapiens, the neanderthals are the most popularized ones.

Again, there aren't the many types of subhuman-failure fossils that would have to exist in the fossil record, if there was any evolution.

...

There are, you just ignore them all.

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species?sort_by=field_age_timeline_maximum_value
917  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 26, 2019, 02:54:33 PM
Cool, but the common mistakes the atheists always make are:
1. Essentially confusing belief with religion
2. Believing they know everything

And the mistake Christians make that they don't read the Bible and think of what they are reading:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/who-wrote-the-bible

Putting aside the vengeful and primitive nature of God and his non-scientific nonsense, he picked a really hard way to "write" the Bible.

Took him thousands of years and he used countless writers, editors, and translators.

Not too smart for the creator of everything. LOL.

Today, any English major would do a better job in a month or two.

918  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Evolution is a hoax on: November 23, 2019, 01:06:37 AM

Changing your mind based on reliable evidence is a sign of intelligence, IMHO.

In the case of Popes, they are CEOs and they need to react to the changing market conditions or risk further erosion of their revenues.


Still nor proof for evolution, or are you saying that you are changing your mind.

Evolution is a hoax.

Cool

Of course.  All the time, that is why I am a humanist, atheist and freethinker.


Free thinking doesn't produce any orderly results. Freedom to walk on a railroad track when the train is coming, isn't really freedom at all. Step out of your self-induced ignorance into full realization and knowledge.


9 Scientific Facts Prove the "Theory of Evolution" is False



Many different types of dogs can be developed this way, but they can never develop a cat by selectively breeding dogs. Natural selection can never extend outside of the DNA limit. DNA cannot be changed into a new species by natural selection. The same process of selective breeding is done with flowers, fruits, and vegetables.


Sadly Darwin's great effort was based on MEMEs of the nineteenth century drawn upon a small fraction of the data available to us now.   Needless to say, specific examples are now available that show just how crude the Theory itself happens to be.

Let me make all this a lot clearer.  We are third tier matter entities fabricated and progressively improved upon by second tier matter spirit bodies that in fact provide the life of our third tier matter bodies.  Real creation and evolution actually happens in this matrix like world that floods our Galaxy and is still specific to local need.   That really means that a life form can be transitioned to a new life form  by choice from the second Tier using constructs having orders of magnitude greater information density.

All such transition is directed by choices made by your own spirit body and surely in consensus with the whole biome of spirit bodies.  This is obviously gradual because those changes have to be bred out through a sufficient population to become self sustaining.

T[h]row away the old propaganda as it keeps you in ignorance and confuses spirit and science both.


This article will prove that the Theory of Evolution fails many challenges, not simply one..

The Theory of Evolution will never become a law of science because it is wrought with errors. This is why it is still called a theory, instead of a law. The process of natural selection is not an evolutionary process.


Cool

These are not proofs, these are claims made by someone who does not understand how life on Earth evolved.
919  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 23, 2019, 01:03:00 AM
God is the one who produces proof. The universe is the proof of His existence. If you won't believe the universe proof, you wouldn't believe a selfie or ATM card and PIN.

Cool

It works only if you believe that the universe was made by your god.
It all depends on the definition of a god.

Some facts to consider, even if we assume the universe was made by a god.

It was a 13 billion years ago and that being ceased to exist.
The universe was made by this being , but then evolved by itself, which doesn't make you his intentional creation. He created matter and billions of years later some part of this matter made your neanderthal ancestor. In such case should you really be praying to a god that probably doesn't even know he made you and doesn't care. Just like you don't care what bacteria will grow on the shit you flushed yesterday.

The strongest a person can do against believing that the universe was made by God, is to believe that he doesn't know how it was made.

Machine universe proves a maker. Combining complexity, cause-and-effect, and entropy, proves the maker was intelligent like a God would have to be. The order in the universe, and the great size of it proves that the maker was at least acting as ONE.

There is no proof for a multi-billion year old universe. Fun story, though.

There is no proof for evolution in any way we can design it. Fun story, though.

Check this out for the proof that there is no evolution - https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2019/11/9-scientific-facts-prove-theory-of.html.

Check this out for the proof that there is no Big Bang - http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/sci-ev/sci_vs_ev_2.htm.

I know. These articles are a bit extensive, and might be difficult for a false religion believer like you to absorb in one sitting. But you should be able to see from them, that there is at least a great big chunk of doubt about the fact of evolution and BB. What this means is that you have a evolution/BB religion going for yourself until you factually answer the points presented by the articles.

Cool

Not really:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1207

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/a-mathematical-proof-that-the-universe-could-have-formed-spontaneously-from-nothing-ed7ed0f304a3
920  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: November 23, 2019, 12:42:45 AM

I have told you many times, I would accept any proof you can provide.

A selfie with God and a card that says: "BADecker" would do.

A post from God in this thread would be acceptable as well  (please include my ATM card PIN number)

God is the one who produces proof. The universe is the proof of His existence. If you won't believe the universe proof, you wouldn't believe a selfie or ATM card and PIN.

Cool

Oh, I would.

BTW, the universe is not proof of God's existence unless you equate God with the universe.

But, if you do, you can safely lose the extra verbiage and call it by its proper name: the universe.

C'mon, it is just a number.  Provide my PIN number and we can settle this right now. LOL.

Anyway, kidding aside, you should probably read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Revisited/dp/0060776099/

It will put things into perspective for you.  Maybe it will make you think for once.
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