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to: stumper
from: Syd
date: 2007-03-28 13:02:34
subject: Re: a society of Christian faiths

From: "Syd" 

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

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