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Navillus
United States1188 Posts
Also, "Don't worry, I have special taktiks" | ||
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Darclite
United States1021 Posts
On April 25 2011 06:42 arQ wrote: In the words of C. Hitchens: Don't keep the faith. Damn it, you beat me to it. I like this too though: Richard Dawkins: "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." | ||
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sixfour
England11062 Posts
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
On April 25 2011 06:31 aztrorisk wrote: "The Universe favors disorder" -Hehehe, thats the one thing I remember from AP Chemistry. Actually the universe favours order. That's atleast what I learned. Otherwise everything would be total chaos, and we wouldn't revolve around the sun in a peaceful manner, having a calm and rythmic solar system etc right? And back on topic. I'd say: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" Time to plant down some atheism in the future  | ||
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Gatsbi
United States1134 Posts
On April 25 2011 07:28 Darclite wrote: Damn it, you beat me to it. I like this too though: Richard Dawkins: "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." That Dawkins quote is one of my favorites of all time, so great. | ||
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Bagonad
Denmark173 Posts
On April 25 2011 07:30 Euronyme wrote: Actually the universe favours order. That's atleast what I learned. Otherwise everything would be total chaos, and we wouldn't revolve around the sun in a peaceful manner, having a calm and rythmic solar system etc right? And back on topic. I'd say: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" Time to plant down some atheism in the future I'd say that the fact that life exists as a whole, is just the universe favourting disorder. It would be much easier and much more logical if everything had just stayed as gas and raw material. | ||
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NuKedUFirst
Canada3139 Posts
"Rock out with your cock out" | ||
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FroZen(-_-)
United States183 Posts
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Kamais_Ookin
Canada4218 Posts
On April 24 2011 23:45 MoonfireSpam wrote: I loved this one! "Sorry guys, we used up all the natural resources. GLHF" | ||
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Discerpo
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ilj.psa
Peru3081 Posts
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blubbdavid
Switzerland2412 Posts
On April 25 2011 01:32 meiyo wrote: Tomorrow is Saturday And Sunday comes afterwards Seconded and signed. | ||
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Sahand
United Kingdom114 Posts
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XazXio
United States356 Posts
"Punch Em' Sheep" | ||
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Nasradime
France83 Posts
To start with, if it is a new born society, giving them a good hint about science should by itself prevent the very concept of religion to appear. However, as this is the main point of this thread, let's suppose they base their way of thinking/living/developing on this sentence which "was given by a "superior and unknown being" to guide them". How would it be any different from our actual religions ? Thus, nothing could be more confusing for their post-modern philosophers than a "Golden Rule" saying exactly not to believe in it. That being said, a pure scientific explanation could cause another problem : as explained above, an "out-of-nowhere golden rule" could be very much assimilated to, for example, our ten commandments (no, not the ones from TL !!). Therefore, an "atheist" (let's call it ascientist) movement is bound to appear someday, because people will forcefully doubt of that saying. And then what will happen ? The scientists, to defend The Sentence, would only be able to say "but it's true because it has always ruled us and can explain everything !", while the ascientists could wisely answer "No, it rules us because we decided to, and is "explanative" only for those who believe in, so it can't be proved and prevent us to find real explanation for everything". From then on, Science will collapse and loose its influence, a lot of different Pseudosciences will appear and gather all the lost minds in need of Understanding with their Pseudoexplanations, while Ascience will start with hipsters, become the new fad, and eventually be taught in high school. And at this point, they're soon to be fucked and will try to find a cool Sentence for the future society, which would logically be significantly worse than the one we gave them. To conclude, I'd like to start a poll, because I never did this and it looks fun. + Show Spoiler + Poll: What to think of this ? You should never create a poll again (3) We should still give them a moral but non-religious teaching (1) We should use inverted psychology and tell them to have Faith (1) We shouldn't say shit (0) The 10 Commandments were given by an ancient society which destroyed itself (0) Don't know don't care (or TLDR) (0) 5 total votes Your vote: What to think of this ? (Vote): We should still give them a moral but non-religious teaching | ||
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Lennon
United Kingdom2275 Posts
On April 25 2011 05:50 Barca wrote: "Lose yourself in the music, the moment, You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime," -Albert Einstein R.I.P. | ||
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DisneylandSC
Netherlands435 Posts
"So I guess aliens were real after all, l hope for you guys they aren't comming back." That's gonna freak out a whole lot of people. : D | ||
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Shana
Indonesia1814 Posts
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Erzz
Canada184 Posts
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Lorken
New Zealand804 Posts
On April 24 2011 23:51 Dankbeer wrote: "Pass to the left" Fucking legend. "Some guy might start talking about shit like 'god', kill him first." Also, poll guy, nobody will see it, I'm sorry. | ||
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