Buffalo wrote: Atheism is just about not believing. Period.
Ironically, and interestingly, what a dogmatic way of putting it, Buffalo. To be clear, atheism, at least as the word ws created, is meant to suggest "no god" and says nothing about not believing period.
Buffalo wrote:Stem, consider: anyone who has never been taught about the concept of god is by default an atheist. This would've course include babies.
Interesting thought. So what if God showed Himself to a baby and thence the baby believes and is made a prophet? Move over Pres. Monson. Wait a second...what are we talking about here. I guess I don't see how this thought of yours is working. but to be clear I did agree with Jon that it was silly of me to say that atheism is the most dogmatic. I'm past that.
Love ya tons, Stem
I ain't nuttin'. don't get all worked up on account of me.
Buffalo wrote:Stem, consider: anyone who has never been taught about the concept of god is by default an atheist. This would've course include babies.
Interesting thought. So what if God showed Himself to a baby and thence the baby believes and is made a prophet? Move over Pres. Monson. Wait a second...what are we talking about here. I guess I don't see how this thought of yours is working. but to be clear I did agree with Jon that it was silly of me to say that atheism is the most dogmatic. I'm past that.
Coolness.
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
Buffalo wrote:Daniel, the question we all want to know is, do you want to believe?
Not particularly. I'm certainly open to the idea that certain participants on this board are space aliens, and that this is a photo of the craft on which they arrived, but I remain unconvinced, and I think other explanations for their behavior are intuitively more likely.
Whatever the explanation, it is always interesting to me how their behavior so much resembles schools of herring in the ocean, moving everywhere as one coordinated body. And whenever a new convert joins the ranks, he almost immediately becomes indistiguishable from all the others, reacting to the same stimuli in the same way, speaking the same common language, swimming blindly into the same net ...
... she said that she was ready to drive up to Salt Lake City and confront ... Church leaders ... while well armed. The idea was ... dropped ... [because] she didn't have a 12 gauge with her. -DrW about his friends (Link)
Nomad wrote:Whatever the explanation, it is always interesting to me how their behavior so much resembles schools of herring in the ocean, moving everywhere as one coordinated body. And whenever a new convert joins the ranks, he almost immediately becomes indistiguishable from all the others, reacting to the same stimuli in the same way, speaking the same common language, swimming blindly into the same net ...
Nomad accurately describes Mormonism...
'Church pictures are not always accurate' (The Nehor May 4th 2011)
Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.
Nomad wrote:Whatever the explanation, it is always interesting to me how their behavior so much resembles schools of herring in the ocean, moving everywhere as one coordinated body. And whenever a new convert joins the ranks, he almost immediately becomes indistiguishable from all the others, reacting to the same stimuli in the same way, speaking the same common language, swimming blindly into the same net ...
Nomad accurately describes Mormonism...
Right on cue.
... she said that she was ready to drive up to Salt Lake City and confront ... Church leaders ... while well armed. The idea was ... dropped ... [because] she didn't have a 12 gauge with her. -DrW about his friends (Link)
Nomad wrote:Whatever the explanation, it is always interesting to me how their behavior so much resembles schools of herring in the ocean, moving everywhere as one coordinated body. And whenever a new convert joins the ranks, he almost immediately becomes indistiguishable from all the others, reacting to the same stimuli in the same way, speaking the same common language, swimming blindly into the same net ...
Nomad accurately describes Mormonism...
Nearly three hundred statements from these allegedly indistinguishable Mormons -- mind-numbed, conformist, robotic automatons, all of them -- can be found here:
Nomad wrote:Whatever the explanation, it is always interesting to me how their behavior so much resembles schools of herring in the ocean, moving everywhere as one coordinated body. And whenever a new convert joins the ranks, he almost immediately becomes indistiguishable from all the others, reacting to the same stimuli in the same way, speaking the same common language, swimming blindly into the same net ...
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.
