I feel like crap today. The nose, the head, the chest — it’s all bad. Yes, we can use illness (or natural disasters, etc) to show that an all-powerful deity isn’t up there, but today my stuffy head turned to Ontology, probably due to all the cold medicine.The ontological argument basically states that if one can imagine a most perfect entity, that such an entity either exists or does not exist. Since existence is more perfect than nonexistence, then the most perfect being must therefore exist. A poisonous little gem of confusion. Many have offered their counter arguments, but my runny nose makes the point.You see, if disease exists, and a perfect god exists, then that god bears responsibility for the disease. BUT, if a deity does not exist, then he cannot (obviously) be responsible. It is this responsibility, indeed for all things bad, which makes an extant god LESS perfect than a fictional one, for a deity which created all this crap in my head would have some explaining to do (a murderer is less perfect than a non-murderer).So beyond all the arguments of Dawkins and Descartes, this damn cold which has infested my family proves the point in the simplest of ways — a fictional deity is more perfect than a real one, given the real problems we have.
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Forget about Dawkins and Descartes, even the invisible friends:
A good Matze-Ball chicken soup should do the trick. You will feel relief.
Hope you guys will feel better Dave.
Stop right there. I can’t. Unfortunately others can. And they kill each over the differences in their imagined perfection. Just perfect!
each over -> each other over
This situation was not so perfect. Poor W, He has no friends…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Y_ncOVlDw
Basically you’re asking the age old question…Why do bad things happen to good people if there is an all loving God…
Sorry you’re ill Dave…it’s that time of the year. The only way to avoid it, is to place a sick individual into quarantine and practice good sanitary practices…
Now…please explain to me how Moses came to this knowledge 3500 years before modern science…?
You cannot deny that the Torah provided superior health practices…
Wow Charlie…what a perfect post. Maybe, just maybe Bush had what Dave has, and he was merely practicing good health hygene…
But then again, one who gets all of their news from CNN produces these types of voters…watch the video to the end and you’ll where these voters get their information…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl0WwC9OcOI
Stupidity Ruled on November 4th…
Hope you’re better Dave, I left work early yesterday too with flu like ickiness. All better today
November 4th, 2000 and 2004
OT…
So it begins…
The “messiah” has just thrown his gay supporters under the bus…
http://tinyurl.com/64v82o
No Phreedm….I often listen to Fox tell me how to think about half the story…..
BTW…CCN this morning told the other half of that story about Bush at the G20, stating that Bush had already greeted all heads previously to that point with hand shakes….
I do still feel sorry for Bush….I have to believe that he thought he was doing the right thing for the country….and maybe if he had operated from the idea that he had no moral authority from a supernatural being; that we would not be just a few short steps away from a greater depression….
“The existence of sterile castes of ants tormented Charles Darwin as he was formulating his Theory of Natural Selection, and he described them as the “one special difficulty, which at first appeared to me insuperable, and actually fatal to my theory.” If adaptive evolution unfolds by differential survival of individuals, how can individuals incapable of passing on their genes possibly evolve and persist?
Darwin proposed that in the case of ant societies natural selection applies not only to the individual, because the individual would never benefit by cutting its own reproduction, but also to the family or group. This study supports Darwin’s prescient ideas, and provides a molecular measure of how an entire colony can be viewed as a single or “superorganism”
Can you explain how Darwin knew this 100 years ago but Moses did not?
Comment from: Charlie
Find the source of this story and then get back to me…
And then tell me how well informed CNN viewers are…
ga4…
Wow…at the risk of sounding like Biden…
Are you serious? Is that a serious question?
Talk about comparing apples to oranges…
Take your vitamin C and wash your hands. God didn?t give you the cold nor will she take it way.
But I suppose the religious think the flu is just another punishment for the original sin. So if they use mind over matter prayer, then they might feel better at least psychologically.
I hope your family feels better soon.
Actually Obama is just delaying the repeal of “Dont ask, dont tell” not abandoning it. This is so that he can deal with other more important issues first and give his advisers time to decide the best way to do away with this stupid and bigoted policy. 104 retired admirals and generals recently called for an end to this policy. Gay equality will be had within the near future. Go Obama!
http://www.newser.com/story/42939/retired-brass-aim-to-undo-dont-ask-dont-tell.html
I cant respond to your post anymore phreedm….your post are on par with that of a Palin interview….
Speaking of Palin interviews:
The palin Turkey Massacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92I6-M2vAbQ
Why wont this hillbilly bitch just go away? seriously, why? I HATE her. You betcha!
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What is this”permalink” that is suddenly appearing under blockquotes?
Comment from: godless sodomite
Alex, Alex, Alex…are you really that naive?
Deal with more important issues? Oh…like the wholesale destruction of wealth taking place?
Oh wait, he hasn’t uttered a word…but he can find time to let you know he’s backing out of a campaign promise to you, but he’s been silent on the economy…yeah…more important issues…
For the first time in his life, he’s actually going to be responsible for something….
Alex…give me one solid reason why he’d have to wait? It would be the simplest thing in the world to do…
The truth is, he doesn’t want to get the 70% of blacks angry at him who voted for Prop 8…
So much for leadership…
Comment from: Charlie
Fine with me Charlie…
You merely prove my point…
Charlie
Great! Now you can join the ranks that simply enjoy taunting Phreeky and his inane posts rather than arguing with him.
Grasshopper, when one argues with a fool there are two.
“Oh wait, he hasn’t uttered a word…but he can find time to let you know he’s backing out of a campaign promise to you, but he’s been silent on the economy…yeah…more important issues…”
This is common place among the lesser intelligent folks of this country. Blaming Obama and already proclaiming him to fail before he even gets into office. So they of course must be false prophets, and we all know what the bible’s stance is on that.
And then in the same breath whine about how liberals were too critical of bush.
massah phreedm belched:
1. Please provide evidence that Moses ever existed.
Then:
2. Please provide evidence that Moses was the author of the Torah.
Next:
3. Please provide evidence that what we know today as the Torah has been accurately copied over the centuries intact.
Finally:
4. Please provide evidence that the only way the author(s) of the Torah could have written sound health practices was through divine inspiration and not more mundane explanations like trial-and-error and simple observation.
If and when you can do that, you might have the beginnings of a rational case.
Until then, phuck off… … …
I’m sorry, that was really, really rude of me.
That should be please phuck off.
I don’t think exiling people who are different from you was necessarily invented by Moses or anyone else in particular. As for good sanitary practices, I think that usually gets credited to a man named Semmelweis.
Comment from: Asemodeus
Ase…perhaps your nose is to high in the air for you to have read the press release FROM your “messiah”…
Even your side is beginning to have doubts…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-cuban/president-elect-obamas-fi_b_143645.html
Tell me…where’s the “Change we can believe in” when all he’s doing regurgitating the Clinton administration…
Kind of reminds me of prime time tv…
Stupidity Ruled on November 4th…