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| HalfMoonerDingaling
 
  
Philippines15831 Posts
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|  Posted - 03/25/2010 :  22:45:49       
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| “Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.”  —HalfMooner
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| Dr. MabuseSeptic Fiend
 
  
Sweden9698 Posts
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| Posted - 03/26/2010 :  10:46:35   [Permalink]         
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| How can a Matrix-lover not like this? 
 There is no spoon.
 
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| Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
 Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
 
 "Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
 
 Support American Troops in Iraq:
 Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
 Collateralmurder.
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| astropinSFN Regular
 
  
USA970 Posts
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| Posted - 03/26/2010 :  11:33:40   [Permalink]       
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| Looks like he already ate the blue pill AND the red pill.......now what happens? |  
| I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
 
 You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
 
 Atheism:
 The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
 
 Infinitus est numerus stultorum
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| Edited by - astropin on 03/26/2010  11:33:59 |  
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| HalfMoonerDingaling
 
  
Philippines15831 Posts
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| Posted - 03/26/2010 :  18:36:00   [Permalink]       
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| D'oh!  I'm astounded that I'd not seen the Matrix connection.  Maybe it was in my thinking unconsciously, maybe not. 
 I actually started this with thoughts about Christianity's rather clever carrot-and-stick system of using promises of reward and punishment for coercion.  I was thinking of what a double-whammy the promise of paradise and the threat of eternal suffering impose on the minds of children and adults.  Simply losing belief in either one still leaves a Christian with a remaining motivation to drink the Jesus Juice.  Both idiotic concepts need to be rejected at the same time.
 
 This brings back memories of the time, when I was about 10 to 12 or so, and I was cautiously trying "experiments" to confirm or contradict my growing disbelief in a god.  (I'd become a God agnostic soon after becoming a Santa Claus atheist.)  Stepping outside, I tried a series of increasingly blasphemous prayers, half-expecting a literal thunderbolt.
 
 I now suspect that if weather conditions had been weird then, and lightning had struck nearby, I might today be a pious theist.  But the sky remained blue, and I grew increasingly confident that there was no God, no Heaven, no Hell.  It took some time, but I lost all those beliefs together.
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| “Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.”  —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 03/26/2010  18:38:47 |  
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