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Novea
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Out of curiosity, what are your beliefs on the existence of God?

Please be precise, and try to conform to the following:
1.  Does one exist?
2.  If so, who/what is it?
3.  Said God's moral standards?
4.  Why do you believe in said deity?

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5. No, Chuck Norris is not a God.
May 2 2009 12:42AM
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Ben.
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ok, how can i hate someone i dont believe exists.....
May 3 2009 10:39PM
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Novea
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You didn't?

Then who taught you?  How do you know what is good and what is evil?
Is there good?  Is there evil?

Society is based on ideologies, right?  Where did Society (a group of people) find out what they thought was right?

One guy could think taking from others is good, another not.  How can a society with mixed feelings about a subject determined what gets written in the books in the end?

Fine, you don't think God defines your life.  I accept that.  But just answer my questions cause I'm curious.
May 3 2009 10:40PM
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Novea
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Fringe theories?

Both that I mentioned have been around since I was a kid.

To this day, I have no evidence that God DOES NOT exist.
Like you have no evidence that he DOES.

Chill.  We're both too stubborn to budge.
May 3 2009 10:41PM
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Mr.Panda
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i learned it from experience and my parents.  there is no such thing as good and evil, there is only right and wrong.  and society found out what was right and wrong based on experience...  some all knowing being didnt tell them
May 3 2009 10:44PM
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Novea
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Okay.

I tried to explain that the Big Bang could be explained by a God who set it into action.

As to why God can be unexplainable, same idea.

I tried to state that IF a GOD were to exist, he must be so powerful that we could never understand him.
God, by definition is a primordial being that brings all into existence.  How can a God be God if he had a beginning?

In short, I can explain what happens until you ask where God came from, since I believe it's a given that he came from...himself?
May 3 2009 10:45PM
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Ben.
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the lack of proof that something doesnt exist, does not by any means mean it does.
May 3 2009 10:45PM
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Novea
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But it's just as safe to say:

I believe it till i'm proved wrong

as

I believe it till I'm proved false

but in one case, I save my ass later if God DOES turn out to be real, and if he doesn't, I don't lose anything.
May 3 2009 10:47PM
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Novea
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And where did your parents learn it?

Where did their ancestors learn it?

How long does it take to learn it?

Why don't animals have ethics then?  They've been around as long as us, if not longer according to evolution.
May 3 2009 10:47PM
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RudyGarmisch
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And bring on the flying spaghetti monster.

Look, all of the stuff in my world I can say with some certainty exist. If I want to see proof of something, say, gravity, I can make an experiment, predict an outcome, do some tests and arrive at a conclusion.

The stuff you seem to believe exists because of 'a feeling', and at best, it must be because you can neither prove it, nor disprove it. Doesnt one of these philosophies sound maybe a little fucked up?
May 3 2009 10:48PM
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Mr.Panda
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so are you telling me, Ben, and Rowen that since we dont believe we are going to burn?
May 3 2009 10:49PM
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Ben.
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ok. so your coming up for what is YOUR explanation for the big bang. but you say OUR explanation (or lack thereof) for the big bang is unacceptable because we dont know.


yet then it IS acceptable for you to say god is unexplainable.
THAT is hypocritical
May 3 2009 10:54PM
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Mr.Panda
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the other questions get too much into my belief system and i think i would piss people off....

but, PACK animals DO have ethics and morals.
May 3 2009 10:54PM
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Novea
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I was kidding about the spaghetti monster, but you knew that.

All the stuff in my world I can use science to prove just as you can.  But, I just take it one step further to say "WOW, and I have an amazing God to thank for it all."

I cannot prove to you God's existence.  You cannot disprove it.  Let's leave it at that, and stop clawing at each other.
May 3 2009 10:55PM
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selkirks
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Isn't the essence of faith, faith?
May 3 2009 10:56PM
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Mr.Panda
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people say they can though, and when someone "nails them to the fucking cross" they revert to the; "well, fuck you, God exists and i dont give a shit"
May 3 2009 10:57PM
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Chickendodo
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Is it wrong that I noticed the Blink-182 lyrics you threw in there?
May 3 2009 10:57PM
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Ben.
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i dont lose anything either. i lived life and i had fun. if i was wrong, oh well, i was wrong, shit happens.

imo its pathetic to need a guy upstairs to have an incentive to live life. its like you never grew up and moved past santa
May 3 2009 10:57PM
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jca
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I don't believe in good and evil.

I don't neccesarily believe in right and wrong either, I just have an opinion based on experiences and observation that I have accumulated.

Morals and right and wrong have existed much longer than the 10 commandments and Christianity.  How did the Egyptians know right and wrong so many years before Christianity?

May 3 2009 10:58PM
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Novea
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According to the Bible, you hate him by denying him.

Denial is the worst, and only, unforgivable sin, according to the Bible.
May 3 2009 10:58PM
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selkirks
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The fact that God is unexplainable is one of the crucial elements of all three major connected faiths (Christianity, Islam, and Judiasm). Thus how is it hypocritical if that's one of the important elements of faith?
May 3 2009 10:59PM
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Novea
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Naah.

I'm saying I hope you don't... besides...I don't even know if I'm right yet
 I'm not dead enough to tell you.

May 3 2009 10:59PM
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Mr.Panda
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according to South Park everyone is going to burn except the Mormons....  poor Jews get screwed in the afterlife too.
May 3 2009 11:00PM
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Novea
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Your explanation leaves greater holes than mine.

Mine has only one.  Where did God come from?

Yours has a few more.

Anyway, it's not UNACCEPTABLE, I just don't agree with it.
May 3 2009 11:00PM
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k-rob
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it's just to bad he won't show himself. kinda hard to believe in something just because someone else told you that you should, at least for me anyways.
May 3 2009 11:00PM
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Ben.
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because it contradicts your argument against something else. it cant be valid in one case and not in another....
May 3 2009 11:01PM
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Ben.
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precisely. dont you all find it odd that he wants you to believe in him so badly hell eternally damn you if you dont, yet he wont just say HIIII HERE I AM to nonbelievers.
May 3 2009 11:04PM
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selkirks
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The miracles not enough for you?

Also (modern day): Our Lady of Guadalupe, etc.
May 3 2009 11:04PM
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Novea
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It would be nice, wouldn't it?

But that also defeats the purpose of the New Testament.  That true believers would believe on faith, and faith alone.  If God just poked his head down here every once in a while, it'd be kinda obvious, and He states in the Bible he'd rather us come to him by CHOICE, not by FORCE.

And then there is the Book of Revelation, with all it's nasty, confusing details I have NO IDEA how to explain or even start discussing.  But generally, it says the in the end, God DOES come back, and everyone is like "Ooooooh shiiiiit."
May 3 2009 11:04PM
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Mr.Panda
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PICS OR HE DOESNT EXIST!!!!!!!!!
May 3 2009 11:06PM
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Ben.
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THERE ARE NO MIRACLES.

not to mention. god will do these little miracles saving one or two people, but wont say intervene with hitler and save a few million lives. god need some serious mental help then
May 3 2009 11:06PM
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Mr.Panda
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his chosen people no less
May 3 2009 11:06PM
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Novea
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You honestly think that bleeding stone eyes is gonna get anyone to say "OMG, HE IS REAL!!!"?

that's just naive.  We just trashed possessions, and you bring in statues.
May 3 2009 11:06PM
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RudyGarmisch
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I was serious about the flying spaghetti monster. If you're going to leave it at "Well you cant disprove He doesnt exist" then why, oh why, do you not accept the fact that humanity has been touched by His Noodly Appendage?
May 3 2009 11:08PM
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jca
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I could say that yours is ignorant because it relies on a supernatural being to do everything.

The fact is that we can't comprehend the universe or how it was made, sooo we have made a story to make it seem like we understand everything, which is pretty ignorant.  That can go for the Big Band theory as well as God.

May 3 2009 11:08PM
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Ben.
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bahahahhaha im really tired, so that was way funnier than it should have been. but i loled hard
May 3 2009 11:09PM
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k-rob
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god must not really want me to believe he exists if he can't be bothered to spare a few seconds of time with me. i have more faith in Dr. Pepper changing the world than i do in God running it.
May 3 2009 11:09PM
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Mr.Panda
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how about the Family Guy version.....  God ripped a fart and *POW!!!!* the universe appears.
May 3 2009 11:09PM
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Novea
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Maybe he did?

In the Old Testament, there are accounts where God smacked his Chosen People around for forgetting who he was and what he had done for them.  What if the Jews, because they refuse to believe the New Testament, or some other mishap, got Hitler for their idiocity?

In that case, it's more like punishment for being bad.  But everytime in the Bible, he saves them at the last second.  WWII, he "did it again."
May 3 2009 11:10PM
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k-rob
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i don't believe in miracles, having never witnessed one myself.
May 3 2009 11:11PM
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Ben.
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if god thinks its ok to kill 6 million jews, than i dont want any part in him anyway.
May 3 2009 11:11PM
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Mr.Panda
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no....  Soviet and American industry and military power raped Hitler in his stupidity to try and invade Russia in the winter....
May 3 2009 11:11PM
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Novea
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As funny as that sounds, and I agree with Ben here...

Didn't humanity invent spaghetti?  And if not, and we're just giving props to the noodle god, why are we eating effigies of him?
May 3 2009 11:13PM
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k-rob
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haha wow dude, dick move there, and this is coming from someone with jewish enemies.
May 3 2009 11:14PM
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jca
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Are you fucking serious.

that is one of the worst things i have heard in my life.

May 3 2009 11:16PM
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Mr.Panda
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because he is wholesome and good....  technically arent you drinking jesus's blood when you have wine?  which means he must have been tanked 24/7 too.
May 3 2009 11:17PM
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Chickendodo
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I hope this thread gets to 666 posts, just for the lulz.
May 3 2009 11:19PM
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Novea
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IT WAS HYPOTHETICAL!
May 3 2009 11:25PM
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jca
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yeah, i dont see what this has to do with god?
May 3 2009 11:27PM
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Novea
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IT WAS HYPOTHETICAL!
May 3 2009 11:28PM
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jca
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Why would you even say that man, it just made you sound like a complete idiot.
May 3 2009 11:29PM
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