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Imwashingmypirate wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:23 pm

I thought of religions and knowledge like a broken vase.
That people try to put back together but some prices change shape because of perspective or pieces become lost and so you get kind of a vase but it's not right.

I love this analogy with respect to knowledge.

On the other hand I think most people hold very general ideas of God and respect the fact that there is a lot of unknown and mystery. It may be best to be cautious about filling in what you don't know with representations. But you and I don't know anything about any god, so we're left filling in ev...

Interesting post. I personally don't have a vision of what God looks like and I don't feel I have a general assignment of what God is like. I know we talk about God's love and all that. But deep down, I worry because I'm not entirely sure that God is anything like what Earthlings teach. When I pray...

I can't say I prefer long hair to short. I just watched Working Girl the other day, a movie from the late '80s, and at the beginning Melanie Griffith has one of those huge '80s hair styles where the blow dryer is the main feature (and it does not look good). Part way through the movie, in an effort ...

The old saying there are no atheists in foxholes suddenly strikes me as an argument for atheism. Essentially what that means is that extreme fear makes people, even rational ones, concoct something to comfort themselves. It's not commentary on the existence of a god; it's commentary on how fear obli...

It also holds true about listening to listening to a radio drama or hearing someone read a story vs watching a movie or video drama. It reminds me of an interview I once heard of a perceptive young child who loved listening to old time radio dramas who was asked why he preferred listening to these ...

Trump is now selling a Bible for 60 bucks that anyone could get for free. If you want to take a measurement for the stupidity level of his fans, you can base it on how much money he makes off this latest grift. I find it remarkable how little Trump thinks of his base. He is relying on their stupidit...

I've heard a few people allude to this idea, but it strikes me odd that it is not more apparent and more discussed. Any time you read a piece of fiction, you are doing at least half the work in the story's creation. You read the words on the page, and if you're an interested participant (i. e. you l...

I'm pretty sure Trump's diet will catch up with him before MAGA grows up.

I'm rooting for KFC. Go high saturated fat!

Religious people need to grow up. It's not just Trump fans. MAGA is just one idiotic cult among many. Nothing stunts growth and ensures immaturity like adhering to one religion or another. Blaming the devil or relying on a god is all about escaping personal responsibility. Religious adherents are da...