Tanny

Again, the comment about “your parents” was a comment about the generation of parents around the 60s and 70s and into the 80s. It was an accurate description of the common practice of non-believing or low-believing people sending their kids to church.

For those with a reading disability, here’s the quote again.

You’re parents weren’t thinking…

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Wow, that’s good.

That was some of the soundest far reaching first time posts I’ve seen around here.

Someone once posted the following…

You’re parents weren’t thinking about ethics really are or what Xian “morality” is. They were totally confused and feel bad that you were forced to endure such brainwashing. Your parents didn’t set a very good example either. If they didn’t go, what makes them think you were going to buy into it? Except you…

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Seems to me the drive to make logical sense out of the world is what’s driven human thinking from the gitgo.  Heck ,it’s why in the old days we created our gods to begin with, to help us make sense of an incomprehensible world.

Sure.  But the fact that we want reality to make sense to us by some method or another does not in itself prove that…[Read more]

At this point, I have to assume the intelligent design theme was the primary reason for coming here and the rest just dressed that up to get our attention. We’ll see.

Or, if you keep on like this, maybe you won’t.

Either there will be a lot of repetition, or who knows, another direction?

I have lots of directions.  You haven’t yet seen the tip of…[Read more]

You’re parents weren’t thinking about ethics really are or what Xian “morality” is.

Ah, I see.  You know my parents better than I do.  Sorry, I didn’t know that.

To imply that science is a belief system comparable to religion’s explicit rejection of physical facts, rational evidence, and constructive, honest, education driven debates, is disingenuous in the extreme.

Religion is HUGE.  It’s not a single thing.  Any attempt to claim “religion is this” or “religion is that” is destined for fai…[Read more]

Nor any interest in actually exploring it.

If I recall correctly, I was the one who started the thread on this subject.  So I really have no idea what you’re referring to here.

Oh my, any chance we could not take ourselves so very seriously?  So I made a joke, and it fell flat.  So I guess I’m not going to be on Saturday Night Live after all.  Let’s all try to get over that if we can.  🙂

If time travel is permitted within the laws of physics, then sooner or later future humans  will learn how, and the last century of human history would likely be of interest, given the emergence of the technological era.  It seems more likely future humans would be interested in us than aliens from across the galaxy or beyond.

All I can say w…[Read more]

An Atheist Christian religion.

Um, sorry, but such a thing does exist.  There are people involved with Christianity for reasons other than the God concept.  As example, my parents took us to church when we were kids, and neither of them had any interest in the God stuff.  They just thought the exposure to the moral teachings were helpful for ch…[Read more]

I’m not sure what the smiley faces mean around this comment. It would be nice if you address it. You’re welcome to post whatever you want, but I know when I’m being played.

I’m just goofing around, and making fun of myself.  I knew that saying certain things would annoy the audience, so I just had to say them.  So I called myself a troll in ackn…[Read more]

I’m persuaded that there are unknown craft of some type navigating our atmosphere.  Too many sightings by too many credible people to dismiss this, imho.

However, I see no reason to declare these alien craft from another star system etc.   The evidence for this theory seems pretty slim, best I can tell.

As example, maybe these craft are pi…[Read more]

Sorry, sloppy typing on my part.  By “highest ranking authority” I didn’t mean some person, but rather a methodology one can look to for answers.

Theists look to their holy books.  Atheists look to human reason.  Neither have been proven qualified for addressing the very largest of questions, but we want the sense that answers are available so…[Read more]

You were searching something that was not an entity, something like the laws that create space that things move around in.

Yes to this part.

Something that has no purpose, no reason to choose one option over another, but moves in the direction of survival, and then the more complex emotions and reasoning we experience grow out of that.

Maybe to…[Read more]

This is an interesting one, and usually shy away from it because it has an air of assuming people are stupid. I don’t think that’s what you are doing.

Yes, I’m just stating the obvious, that most of us are not sages.   If there are sages, and if they do have some deep insight in to the nature of things, then if they wish to share those insig…[Read more]

I lost you at this point.

Yes, pointing out the similarities between theist culture and atheist culture tends to be rather unpopular in both of those cultures.  🙂 Which could be why we of Troll Culture say such things…  🙂

No atheist has called reason “god” nor do they consider it “god”.

I’m agreeable to “highest ranking authority” or something like that.

I really think we have to agree to a common term in order to avoid any kind of misunderstanding.

We run in to more fundamental issues here.  Nouns are used to define particular things.  If the phenomena being discussed is not a particular thing, then nouns may  prove useless.

Nouns are used to create conceptual divisions.  If the phenomena bei…[Read more]

Keep in mind that the main premise of the laws we have is to be the same everywhere.

I once heard an astrophysicist interviewed on NPR claim that rare events at the quantum level could create an expanding bubble governed by a different law of physics.  This bubble would eat everything in it’s path, as our reality can’t function outside of our…[Read more]