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to: Syd
from: stumper
date: 2007-03-28 17:48:44
subject: Re: a society of Christian faiths

From: stumper 

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

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