Droopy wrote:Odd. The last poll didn't work either. Seems to be something wrong since the board was given a work over.
Maybe it's just that the new software recognizes pointless polls.
Why is having fun pointless (but the third answer is the key, and is perfectly serious)?
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Stuff has to exist so that conservatives can hog as much of it as they can (and look like assholes in the process, natch). That's what god put it here for, after all.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
zeezrom wrote:Are you demanding that all conservatives be specific or are you suggesting that they generally tend to be specific in their answers to questions like this?
Since they are usually intellectually substantive and have a clear, coherent worldview, specificity and clarity comes much more easily.
Then why didn't you say, "Conservatives tend to be specific" or maybe "Conservatives are specific"?
Just curious.
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)
2) Because there is only one way for there to be nothing and an infinite number of ways for there to be something. This makes nothingness have probability zero. Put another way, the knife edge of nothingness is unstable--- something had to give.
3) (Variation of 2) If there were truely nothing, then there would be nothing to stop there from being something. (Think about it)
By the way, Nozick discusses this in his award winning book: Philosophical Investigations.
He discusses some possible answers. They are all weird answers but as he quipped: “Someone who proposes a non-strange answer shows he didn’t understand the question.”
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
The anthropic principle. It might be that trillions upon trillions of separate universes are created and destroyed over vast spans of time, and it's only this one fleeting aberration of a universe which just so happened to have all the right knobs twisted to all the right settings that allows you to look and wonder and stand amazed that all the knobs were twisted to just the right settings.
eschew obfuscation
"I'll let you believers in on a little secret: not only is the LDS church not really true, it's obviously not true." -Sethbag
