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LadyJuliette
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21 Apr 2009, 1:58 pm

I am a goddess. I create my own reality within the parameters of my human design. Religions have their place in supporting the people that choose to believe in it, but it is not for me. I take personal responsibility for my life and my creations.



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21 Apr 2009, 2:11 pm

LadyJuliette wrote:
I am a goddess. I create my own reality within the parameters of my human design. Religions have their place in supporting the people that choose to believe in it, but it is not for me. I take personal responsibility for my life and my creations.


Whether we realize it or not we each create our own realities. The terms, god and godess are inventions and can mean what we want them to as the have little presence in effective life except as we attribute occurrences to them.



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22 Apr 2009, 2:24 am

Sand wrote:
LadyJuliette wrote:
I am a goddess. I create my own reality within the parameters of my human design. Religions have their place in supporting the people that choose to believe in it, but it is not for me. I take personal responsibility for my life and my creations.


Whether we realize it or not we each create our own realities. The terms, god and godess are inventions and can mean what we want them to as the have little presence in effective life except as we attribute occurrences to them.



I agree, the terms are puerly a stand-in for a personal concept. In my case I use it to descibe the creative aspect in all of us.



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22 Apr 2009, 2:12 pm

I'm an atheist.

strangeworld15 wrote:
Religon is a very light subject


Not in my experience...

strangeworld15 wrote:
every religon has a god


Jains, Raelians, Buddhists, Taoists. -- None of these religions have gods (although buddhism and taoism don't prevent you from believing in gods)



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01 May 2009, 8:09 am

Unwilling atheist here.

Born into a very fundy family,

Bart Erhman's book, "God's Problem" sums it up.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=19096131



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01 May 2009, 8:28 am

Sand wrote:

Whether we realize it or not we each create our own realities. The terms, god and godess are inventions and can mean what we want them to as the have little presence in effective life except as we attribute occurrences to them.


These our place-holders for our ignorance.

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02 Jun 2011, 3:59 pm

I'm an atheist, always have been, and I expect I always will be.



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02 Jun 2011, 4:09 pm

An apostrophe at the end of a word followed by the letter s either denotes a possessive case noun or it is being used as a contraction for "is", "has", or "was", the plural of most nouns is simply "s", such as for the word atheists. In answer to the topic of the thread, it would only take a cursory glance at almost any thread to answer such a question. The answer being, yes there certainly are a lot of atheists here. But, if it matters I'm not one of them though. This is atheist land and I'm a gringo.



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02 Jun 2011, 4:20 pm

I'm an atheist too, I was raised christian, however I was always being chastised for pointing out biblical contradictions and questioning the logical and scientific failures of the bible. I really can't see why people would willingly fill their heads with rubbish.



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02 Jun 2011, 5:22 pm

Benbob wrote:
I'm an atheist too, I was raised christian, however I was always being chastised for pointing out biblical contradictions and questioning the logical and scientific failures of the bible. I really can't see why people would willingly fill their heads with rubbish.


Amen to that! :)

God would like atheists. Apart from the fact we get on with things ourselves and don't bug him every five minutes, he's an atheist himself. Not convinced? He's hardly going to believe in a higher power, is he...?



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02 Jun 2011, 6:30 pm

Thom_Fuleri wrote:
Benbob wrote:
I'm an atheist too, I was raised christian, however I was always being chastised for pointing out biblical contradictions and questioning the logical and scientific failures of the bible. I really can't see why people would willingly fill their heads with rubbish.


Amen to that! :)

God would like atheists. Apart from the fact we get on with things ourselves and don't bug him every five minutes, he's an atheist himself. Not convinced? He's hardly going to believe in a higher power, is he...?


If God is omniscient, then God would know that there is none greater than himself, but he'd also know that he exists.



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02 Jun 2011, 6:58 pm

If God was omnipotent would he be able to summon an army of skeleton warriors that throw fire?


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02 Jun 2011, 7:00 pm

Vexcalibur wrote:
If God was omnipotent would he be able to summon an army of skeleton warriors that throw fire?

Better question:
If God is omnipotent, why HASN'T HE summoned an army of skeleton warriors that throw fire?



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02 Jun 2011, 7:00 pm

I am an atheist's.


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02 Jun 2011, 7:34 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
Vexcalibur wrote:
If God was omnipotent would he be able to summon an army of skeleton warriors that throw fire?

Better question:
If God is omnipotent, why HASN'T HE summoned an army of skeleton warriors that throw fire?


Why would God want to? Granted omnipotence axiomatically, God could very well do such, but even so it is also a question of not only capability but also volition. Also, whether any action is best for God's purposes should be a consideration as well. Could, would, should, you know? Being capable of doing something does not automatically require that something will be done or must be done.



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02 Jun 2011, 7:49 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Awesomelyglorious wrote:
Vexcalibur wrote:
If God was omnipotent would he be able to summon an army of skeleton warriors that throw fire?

Better question:
If God is omnipotent, why HASN'T HE summoned an army of skeleton warriors that throw fire?


Why would God want to? Granted omnipotence axiomatically, God could very well do such, but even so it is also a question of not only capability but also volition. Also, whether any action is best for God's purposes should be a consideration as well. Could, would, should, you know? Being capable of doing something does not automatically require that something will be done or must be done.

.... BECAUSE IT'S FRIGGIN' AWESOME!! !! !

Gee whiz, don't you understand what "Greatest possible being" means? I see either you don't or you aren't an Anselmian ontological argument kind of guy.