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Jeff...Relf wrote:
> Hi  Fools_Rush_In,  Fuck your mysteries, these are the facts:
>   1. You didn't chose to be born.
>
>   2. You will eventually die.

True.

>
>   3. All any ever did was burn bright,
>      like a match, dissipating into the night.

This is a pseudo-poetic statement with shades of teenage-angst
syndrome, and not a fact.

>   4. Control is the goal, not maximal consumption.

This statement is inane and meaningless.

>   4. The word God denotes a position:

God denotes the missionary position. Geddit?

Learn to count. Also, this a glib generalization.


>        You're God's slave, and God to your slaves.
>
>   5. Randomness comes only from a failure to measure some true causality;
>      hence, today's technologies and theories are not the last word.

Bullshit. You have zero understanding of quantum mechanics.

> Oh, and by the way, the above hard facts, not trivial tautologies.
>
> You told me:  I see atheism as reactive.
>
> Only theists give a damn about atheists.
> It's Physicalism, not atheism, that says:
>
>   Physical processes determine absolutely everything.

That last statement is a fact. It doesn't really matter what belief
system "says" it.

>   Randomness comes only from a failure to measure some true causality;
>   hence, today's technologies and theories are not the last word.

No, and repeating this statement doesn't make it any more accurate.

> Re:  Religion,
>
> It's a way to get high without drugs.  Churches are bars... plain and simple.

Yes, but Karl Marx phrased it better, a long long time ago.

> The word God denotes a position:  You're God's slave, and God to your slaves.

Repeating yourself again, in the same post.