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"TV Girlie" |
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13 Dec 2004 03:21:54 PM |
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Re: Is there a God? |
wrote:
Atheism does not answer the questions that i have regarding the
purpose
of life and the things in it.
Funny that. Because religion doesn't answer my questions regarding the
purpose of life and the things in it.
The purpose of life is to reproduce and perpetuate life. Ever notice
how ALLLL the other living species on earth go about their daily lives
and reproduce (as a whole, not as individuals) and never stop and ask
"why am I here?"
Humans aren't supposed to know everything. Religion, and let's just
use Christianity as an example, is (IM*H*O) totally forumalated by
humans to explain these questions our brains have asked. Just because
some men decided to make some rules saying some other "man" who lives
(conveniently) up in the sky made the earth and then knocked some woman
up without benefit of boinking her first to produce a child does not
mean I have to believe that crap. There are plenty of other people on
earth (in countries that probably never enter your mind) who don't
believe that and go on to live great lives.
The answer is this:
just live. be a good person (don't pull a Scott Peterson or Charles
Manson on the world), reproduce, love, eat, drink, be merry. And then
die.
Well, that's my take on it.
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| User: "Neil Kelsey" |
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| Title: Re: Is there a God? |
13 Dec 2004 07:57:59 PM |
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"TV Girlie" <gotta_watch_tv@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1102972914.743173.226770@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
smoley2@earthlink.net wrote:
Atheism does not answer the questions that i have regarding the
purpose
of life and the things in it.
Funny that. Because religion doesn't answer my questions regarding the
purpose of life and the things in it.
The purpose of life is to reproduce and perpetuate life. Ever notice
how ALLLL the other living species on earth go about their daily lives
and reproduce (as a whole, not as individuals) and never stop and ask
"why am I here?"
Humans aren't supposed to know everything. Religion, and let's just
use Christianity as an example, is (IM*H*O) totally forumalated by
humans to explain these questions our brains have asked.
I completely agree with you. And further to your point, religion was just
the FIRST set of answers to those eternal questions, dreamed up by groups of
really intelligent but painfully uninformed peasants, who would have
worshipped a toaster had one somehow been available to them. People have
improved upon the anwer set since religion was invented (see science and
philosophy for example).
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| User: "bob young" |
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| Title: Re: Is there a God? |
18 Dec 2004 11:56:52 PM |
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Neil Kelsey wrote:
"TV Girlie" <gotta_watch_tv@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1102972914.743173.226770@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
smoley2@earthlink.net wrote:
Atheism does not answer the questions that i have regarding the
purpose
of life and the things in it.
Funny that. Because religion doesn't answer my questions regarding the
purpose of life and the things in it.
The purpose of life is to reproduce and perpetuate life. Ever notice
how ALLLL the other living species on earth go about their daily lives
and reproduce (as a whole, not as individuals) and never stop and ask
"why am I here?"
Humans aren't supposed to know everything. Religion, and let's just
use Christianity as an example, is (IM*H*O) totally forumalated by
humans to explain these questions our brains have asked.
I completely agree with you. And further to your point, religion was just
the FIRST set of answers to those eternal questions, dreamed up by groups of
really intelligent but painfully uninformed peasants, who would have
worshipped a toaster had one somehow been available to them. People have
improved upon the anwer set since religion was invented (see science and
philosophy for example).
I believe in The Lord our Toaster
ruler of heaven and earth
The maker of toasted men and women
The forgiver of roasted sins
He was conceived of the Egg Whisk,
born of the Deep Freeze,
suffered under Bill O'Reilly,
was crucified, died, and forgotten.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Is there a God? |
13 Dec 2004 05:55:10 PM |
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On 13 Dec 2004 13:21:54 -0800, "TV Girlie"
<gotta_watch_tv@hotmail.com> said in alt.atheism:
The purpose of life is to reproduce and perpetuate life.
Cite?
IOW, why do you assume that there IS a purpose?
---
CellPhonesEtc at optonline dot net
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Is there a God? |
16 Dec 2004 08:05:02 AM |
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On 13 Dec 2004 13:21:54 -0800, "TV Girlie"
<gotta_watch_tv@hotmail.com> said in alt.atheism:
The purpose of life is to reproduce and perpetuate life.
That's not a purpose. That's simply what life
tends to do by its very nature.
--Joe
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| User: "TV Girlie" |
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13 Dec 2004 07:03:59 PM |
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Al Klein wrote:
On 13 Dec 2004 13:21:54 -0800, "TV Girlie"
<gotta_watch_tv@hotmail.com> said in alt.atheism:
The purpose of life is to reproduce and perpetuate life.
Cite?
Cite?
I majored in Zoology in college. The study of animals. That purpose
was said over and over throughout four years of classes.
I happen to believe it.
IOW, why do you assume that there IS a purpose?
I guess I assume it b/c I see all other life forms doing just that:
reproducing. Perpetuating. Being born, and then dying.
But I can see your point. Maybe there doesn't have to be a purpose.
I'm not the one extolling that the purpose of life is to live by God's
will.
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| User: "Lars Eighner" |
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| Title: Re: Is there a God? |
13 Dec 2004 10:06:25 PM |
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In our last episode,
<1102986239.415172.122050@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, the
lovely and talented TV Girlie broadcast on alt.atheism:
I guess I assume it b/c I see all other life forms doing just that:
reproducing. Perpetuating. Being born, and then dying.
If you saw them playing in the interstate, I suppose you'd want
to do that too.
--
Rev. Lars Eighner, ULC, Atheist #1965 http://www.io.com/~eighner
"I hope I never get so old I get religious." --Ingmar Bergman
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Is there a God? |
13 Dec 2004 10:38:02 PM |
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If we were meant to know all the answers that you seek then we would be
BORN with that KNOWLEDGE, thus, defeating the purpose of the questions.
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| User: "TV Girlie" |
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| Title: Re: Is there a God? |
14 Dec 2004 08:27:54 AM |
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Lars Eighner wrote:
In our last episode,
<1102986239.415172.122050@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, the
lovely and talented TV Girlie broadcast on alt.atheism:
I guess I assume it b/c I see all other life forms doing just that:
reproducing. Perpetuating. Being born, and then dying.
If you saw them playing in the interstate, I suppose you'd want
to do that too.
Yeah, I knew someone would come up with something lame like "well if
they jumped off a bridge, I guess you'd have to do so too".
As I was playing with my cats last night, the thought occurred to me
that the reason why they're even with me is because some
stranger-in-the-night (and let's face it: all cat's daddy's are
strangers-in-the-night) got together with their mommy and did what came
naturally to them: copulated. Then he went on his merry way, the
mother went on to deliver my cat(s) and all is fine.
It's just natural instinct.
Playing in the interstate isn't. Well, maybe it is to you. But I know
better.
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