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echo: r_catholic
to: Ray Fischer
from: stumper
date: 2007-03-25 18:40:52
subject: Re: Does the universe prefer life?

From: stumper 

Ray Fischer wrote:
> stumper   wrote:
>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>> stumper   wrote:
>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>> stumper   wrote:
>>>>>> Attila < wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:04:09 -0400, stumper
 in
>>>>>>> alt.abortion with message-id
>>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ray Fischer wrote:
>>>>>>>>> stumper   wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Not all things in the world are physical.
>>>>>>>>> Wrong.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Many things are way beyond our
comprehension.
>>>>>>>>> Obviously true.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> God might be be one of them.
>>>>>>>>> But probably not.  Especially since
you don't even know what
>>>>>>>>> you mean by the term "God".
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> God might not be not something
>>>>>>>>>> to be proved or even understood.
>>>>>>>>> The race is not always to the swift
nor the battle to the strong
>>>>>>>>> but that's the way to bet.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What if God is the universe and some more?
>>>>>>>> How do we prove that the universe exists?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What if God is everything there ever was,
>>>>>>>> ever is, and ever will be?
>>>>>>>> How do we prove that such God exists?
>>>>>>> What if none of that is true?
>>>>>> It's just a hypothesis.
>>>>>> So, such God exists by definition.
>>>>> Logical fallacy: Assuming the conclusion.
>>>> What makes you think you exist?
>>> 1st Meditations.
>> What makes you think the universe exists?
>
> I don't care if it exists, wanker.  It's a useful working hypothesis
> to assume that it does.
>

Exactly!

What makes you think your self exists?

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~Stumper

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