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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: rbwinn
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:18
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On Jul 15, 7:15 pm, DanielSan <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> rbwinn wrote:
> > On Jul 15, 1:00 am, "Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)"
> > <alwh...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >> On Jul 15, 4:03 pm, rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote:
>
> >>> On Jul 14, 8:43�pm, "Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)"
> >>> <alwh...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >>>> On Jul 15, 1:40 am, ben_dolan_...@reet.com (Ben Dolan) wrote:
> >>>>> Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al) <alwh...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >>>>>> On Jul 14, 2:54 pm, ben_dolan_...@reet.com (Ben Dolan) wrote:
> >>>>>>> rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Thank you for your analysis, Peter. �I was merely expanding on a
> >>>>>>>> statement from an atheist to show where it was leading: �Atheists do
> >>>>>>>> not believe anything.
> >>>>>>> That's not true, we believe you're a fuckin' moron... We even have
> >>>>>>> evidence!
> >>>>>> I'm going to take that as an article of faith. �The evidence isn't
> >>>>>> compelling. �We do have evidence that he's a liar. �So he could be
> >>>>>> acting incredibly stupid, or more likely be stupid, it's impossible to
> >>>>>> tell. �But the evidence for lies is overwhelming.
> >>>>>> So, we believe he's as stupid as dog shit. �But we have evidence, and
> >>>>>> thus no need of faith, that he's a liar.
> >>>>> I understand your point, but I believe we have overwhelming evidence of
> >>>>> both. Bobby is a classic newsgroup troll who desparately craves
> >>>>> attention. Lying is an excellent way to get attention, although it
> >>>>> normally means suffering considerable ridicule and insult in the
> >>>>> process.
> >>>>> But I also believe he's rather unintelligent (as most newsgroup trolls
> >>>>> tend to be). He has shown a remarkable inability to absorb and integrate
> >>>>> new information presented to him. There's no indication he reads
> >>>>> anything outside of the few newsgroups he spends countless hours posting
> >>>>> in. And he has shown a breathtaking lack of self awareness and maturity,
> >>>>> whether about his ridiculous physics kookiness or his puerile religious
> >>>>> nonsense. Taken together these point to someone suffering from mental
> >>>>> illness combined with a serious cognitive impairment, or as I prefer to
> >>>>> think of it, he's a fuckin' moron...
> >>>> OK, I'll agree it's a good summary.
> >>>> Al- Hide quoted text -
> >>>> - Show quoted text -
> >>> Profanity is the attempt of a weak mind to make a strong statement,
> >>> Al.  You are agreeing with someone who has a weak mind.
> >>> Robert B. Winn
> >> I agree or disagree with propositions.  Not people.
> >> And your statements are wrong.  Profanity can be used by weak minds to
> >> attempt to make a strong statement.  Just because someone uses profane
> >> language, does not mean they have a "weak mind".  And what do you mean
> >> by "weak mind"?
>
> >> Al- Hide quoted text -
>
> > A weak mind is one that cannot deal with reality.
>
> ...like thinking that a humanlike spirit created billions of galaxies
> with billions of stars so that one star can have a rock where, after
> billions of years, humans can eventually begin to populate it and,
> thousands of years after that, only then begin to realize the humanlike
> spirit's presence?  When the humans begin to do things that the
> humanlike spirit doesn't like, the spirit comes down as a human, gets
> himself killed, returns to life, eventually goes back home, all to
> protect his creation from himself?
>
> Who's the one that cannot deal with reality?
>
You.
Robert B. Winn
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From: rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com>
Newsgroups: sci.physics,cam.misc,alt.sci.physics,alt.atheism
Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:18:14 -0700 (PDT)
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