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to: Syd
from: stumper
date: 2007-03-29 17:12:50
subject: Re: a society of Christian faiths

From: stumper 

Syd wrote:
> On Mar 28, 5:48 pm, stumper  wrote:
>> Syd wrote:
>>> On Mar 28, 1:33 pm, stumper  wrote:
>>>> Syd wrote:
>>>>> On Mar 28, 10:11 am, stumper
 wrote:
>>>>>> Syd wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mar 27, 4:05 pm, stumper
 wrote:
>>>>>>>> Syd wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Mar 26, 4:20 pm, stumper
 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Syd wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mar 25, 6:00 pm, stumper
 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Syd wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2:21 pm,
stumper  wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Attila < wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 25 Mar
2007 10:07:55 -0400, stumper
 in
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> alt.abortion
with message-id
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
stumper   wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
God does not have to have any physical characteristics.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
That's probably what it means when they say "God is a
spirit."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am
always entertained when people make assertions about the
nature
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> of a
supposedly infinite being that they've never seen.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> God is
everything there ever was, is, and will be.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Prove any god
is anything.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Or even exists.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Does such God exist?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Is it even
meaningful to ask
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> whether
such God exists or not?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It is always
meaningful to ask if anything exists.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> God exists by definition
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> just like the universe.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ~Stumper
>>>>>>>>>>>>> No.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> PDW
>>>>>>>>>>>> You exist by definition.
>>>>>>>>>>>> How about me?
>>>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>>>> ~Stumper
>>>>>>>>>>> What about you?
>>>>>>>>>>> PDW
>>>>>>>>>> You need to do a paradigm shift
first to understand.
>>>>>>>>> I other words, I need to believe to believe..
>>>>>>>>> No thank you.
>>>>>>>>>> God is better handled by social science
>>>>>>>>>> than by natural science.
>>>>>>>>>> My working hypothesis for this week is this:
>>>>>>>>>> God is a world government in exile.
>>>>>>>>> My working hypothesis for this week is:
>>>>>>>>> Your a nut case.
>>>>>>>>> PDW
>>>>>>>> Good for you.
>>>>>>>> Let's make the paradigm shift a little easier.
>>>>>>>> If you think God does not exist
>>>>>>>> and there are many people who insist that
God exists,
>>>>>>>> you might not be talking about the same thing.
>>>>>>>> So you just say God as understood by you
does not exist.
>>>>>>>> But you cannot say that God as understood
by them does not exist.
>>>>>>>> To do that, you need to agree with them.
>>>>>>>> Got it?
>>>>>>>> You need to agree with Christians about what God is.
>>>>>>>> Sure, they say God is this, God is that,
>>>>>>>> and even insist that they mean it literally.
>>>>>>>> But they clearly are not talking about God
>>>>>>>> as understood by you, do they?
>>>>>>>> So we need to talk about what God is
>>>>>>>> before we argue about whether God exists or not.
>>>>>>>> What is God?
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> ~Stumper
>>>>>>> A character from someone else's book.
>>>>>>> PDW
>>>>>> A new working hypothesis:
>>>>>>   God is a society of Christian faiths.
>>>>>> It does have a nice recursive ring to it, doesn't it?
>>>>> I guess.
>>>>> My working hypothesis continues to be:
>>>>> Your a nutcase.
>>>>> PDW, at work..
>>>> Is the Christian faith a meme?
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
>>>> --
>>>> ~Stumper
>>> I'd say yes. Definatly.
>>> PDW
>> Do memes even exist?
>>
>> --
>> ~Stumper
>
> Do you have a clue what your talking about?
>
> PDW
>

Guess.

--
~Stumper

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