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01 Jul 2010, 4:01 am

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No i do not beleive in God!


Remember: the exclamation mark adds extra validity and truth value to any statement.

No, the logical negation operator (!) reverses the truth value.


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01 Jul 2010, 5:03 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
mcg wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
melly-belly wrote:
No i do not beleive in God!


Remember: the exclamation mark adds extra validity and truth value to any statement.

No, the logical negation operator (!) reverses the truth value.


:P

Sorry i dont know what you mean?



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01 Jul 2010, 5:15 am

melly-belly wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
mcg wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
melly-belly wrote:
No i do not beleive in God!


Remember: the exclamation mark adds extra validity and truth value to any statement.

No, the logical negation operator (!) reverses the truth value.


:P

Sorry i dont know what you mean?


They're trying to imply there actually is a god based on the fact you used an exclamation mark. Typical stupid argument. In fact, I hesitate to even call it an argument, because it simply isn't one.



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01 Jul 2010, 8:19 am

Asp-Z wrote:
melly-belly wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
mcg wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
melly-belly wrote:
No i do not beleive in God!


Remember: the exclamation mark adds extra validity and truth value to any statement.

No, the logical negation operator (!) reverses the truth value.


:P

Sorry i dont know what you mean?


They're trying to imply there actually is a god based on the fact you used an exclamation mark. Typical stupid argument. In fact, I hesitate to even call it an argument, because it simply isn't one.


They're not trying to imply that, just that the usage of the exclamation mark seemed a bit funny, probably because I wasn't awake at the time and nor am I now.



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01 Jul 2010, 11:07 am

Asp-Z wrote:
melly-belly wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
mcg wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
melly-belly wrote:
No i do not beleive in God!


Remember: the exclamation mark adds extra validity and truth value to any statement.

No, the logical negation operator (!) reverses the truth value.


:P

Sorry i dont know what you mean?


They're trying to imply there actually is a god based on the fact you used an exclamation mark. Typical stupid argument. In fact, I hesitate to even call it an argument, because it simply isn't one.

No one's implying that, the logical negation of melly-belly's statement is not that there is a god, but merely that she DOES BELIEVE in god. There's a huge distinction to be made there!

But that aside, I was just making a programming/boolean logic joke. In retrospect I should have tacked an exclamation mark onto the end of my statement for added paradoxicality.



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01 Jul 2010, 7:08 pm

mcg wrote:
Asp-Z wrote:
melly-belly wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
mcg wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
melly-belly wrote:
No i do not beleive in God!


Remember: the exclamation mark adds extra validity and truth value to any statement.

No, the logical negation operator (!) reverses the truth value.


:P

Sorry i dont know what you mean?


They're trying to imply there actually is a god based on the fact you used an exclamation mark. Typical stupid argument. In fact, I hesitate to even call it an argument, because it simply isn't one.

No one's implying that, the logical negation of melly-belly's statement is not that there is a god, but merely that she DOES BELIEVE in god. There's a huge distinction to be made there!

But that aside, I was just making a programming/boolean logic joke. In retrospect I should have tacked an exclamation mark onto the end of my statement for added paradoxicality.

I clearly said that i DO NOT beleive in god so how you figure that an exclamation mark means i do beats me.



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01 Jul 2010, 8:08 pm

All of the Gods that people worship in organized religions are idols used by the illuminati to control the masses and to keep them from realizing their divinity. It could also be said that they carry along the dumb unevolved humans closer towards realization of the truth but that is me being polite.

There is a "creator" who rules over this galaxy and is a powerful form of energy. It lives at the center of the milkyway. The planets, stars and asteroids could also be considered true "Gods" and assist us/are in control of the ways things flow. There are many creator Gods that reside over specific galaxies but there is one Supreme Being that none of us are remotely close to here in this incarnation on earth.



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01 Jul 2010, 8:38 pm

melly-belly wrote:
mcg wrote:
Asp-Z wrote:
melly-belly wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
mcg wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
melly-belly wrote:
No i do not beleive in God!


Remember: the exclamation mark adds extra validity and truth value to any statement.

No, the logical negation operator (!) reverses the truth value.


:P

Sorry i dont know what you mean?


They're trying to imply there actually is a god based on the fact you used an exclamation mark. Typical stupid argument. In fact, I hesitate to even call it an argument, because it simply isn't one.

No one's implying that, the logical negation of melly-belly's statement is not that there is a god, but merely that she DOES BELIEVE in god. There's a huge distinction to be made there!

But that aside, I was just making a programming/boolean logic joke. In retrospect I should have tacked an exclamation mark onto the end of my statement for added paradoxicality.

I clearly said that i DO NOT beleive in god so how you figure that an exclamation mark means i do beats me.
I was making a joke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation#Programming

In many programming languages, ! is the logical negation operator, which reverses the truth of a statement. After iamnotaparakeet said that the ! adds extra truth value to every statement I thought that the opportunity to make this joke was just too good to pass up.



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01 Jul 2010, 9:11 pm

mcg wrote:
In many programming languages, ! is the logical negation operator, which reverses the truth of a statement. After iamnotaparakeet said that the ! adds extra truth value to every statement I thought that the opportunity to make this joke was just too good to pass up.

It was bad though, as the negation operator goes at the beginning of the statement not at the end.

!P, not P!

So
No i do not beleive in God!

differs from

!(No i do not beleive in God)

You can't make that mistake on a programming language, can you?


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01 Jul 2010, 9:33 pm

greenblue wrote:
mcg wrote:
In many programming languages, ! is the logical negation operator, which reverses the truth of a statement. After iamnotaparakeet said that the ! adds extra truth value to every statement I thought that the opportunity to make this joke was just too good to pass up.

It was bad though, as the negation operator goes at the beginning of the statement not at the end.

!P, not P!

So
No i do not beleive in God!

differs from

!(No i do not beleive in God)

You can't make that mistake on a programming language, can you?

"No i do not beleive in God" is not a legit expression to begin with so the fact that the bang has to come at the front of an expression only marginally reduces the effectiveness of my joke. Honestly I still think it was pretty funny. Tough crowd up in here.



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03 Jul 2010, 2:14 pm

I believe in God, because without him, I wouldn't have gotten my life, back on the right track. Just as I was about to get a lime green Mohawk, I prayed God to help me. Three days later, I was restored to my original 1996 self, as I was, at 21.


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03 Jul 2010, 4:31 pm

SaNcheNuSS wrote:
All of the Gods that people worship in organized religions are idols used by the illuminati to control the masses and to keep them from realizing their divinity. It could also be said that they carry along the dumb unevolved humans closer towards realization of the truth but that is me being polite.

There is a "creator" who rules over this galaxy and is a powerful form of energy. It lives at the center of the milkyway. The planets, stars and asteroids could also be considered true "Gods" and assist us/are in control of the ways things flow. There are many creator Gods that reside over specific galaxies but there is one Supreme Being that none of us are remotely close to here in this incarnation on earth.


On what empirical evidence do you make that assertion?

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03 Jul 2010, 4:46 pm

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SaNcheNuSS wrote:
All of the Gods that people worship in organized religions are idols used by the illuminati to control the masses and to keep them from realizing their divinity. It could also be said that they carry along the dumb unevolved humans closer towards realization of the truth but that is me being polite.

There is a "creator" who rules over this galaxy and is a powerful form of energy. It lives at the center of the milkyway. The planets, stars and asteroids could also be considered true "Gods" and assist us/are in control of the ways things flow. There are many creator Gods that reside over specific galaxies but there is one Supreme Being that none of us are remotely close to here in this incarnation on earth.


On what empirical evidence do you make that assertion?

No evidence but revelation.


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03 Jul 2010, 5:06 pm

ruveyn wrote:
SaNcheNuSS wrote:
All of the Gods that people worship in organized religions are idols used by the illuminati to control the masses and to keep them from realizing their divinity. It could also be said that they carry along the dumb unevolved humans closer towards realization of the truth but that is me being polite.

There is a "creator" who rules over this galaxy and is a powerful form of energy. It lives at the center of the milkyway. The planets, stars and asteroids could also be considered true "Gods" and assist us/are in control of the ways things flow. There are many creator Gods that reside over specific galaxies but there is one Supreme Being that none of us are remotely close to here in this incarnation on earth.


On what empirical evidence do you make that assertion?

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I think it might have something to do with the mighty lysergic acid. :D


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07 Jul 2010, 5:28 am

I am a serious atheist -- I believe in nothing at all of that nature. I find it absurd.



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07 Jul 2010, 9:55 am

greenblue wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
SaNcheNuSS wrote:
All of the Gods that people worship in organized religions are idols used by the illuminati to control the masses and to keep them from realizing their divinity. It could also be said that they carry along the dumb unevolved humans closer towards realization of the truth but that is me being polite.

There is a "creator" who rules over this galaxy and is a powerful form of energy. It lives at the center of the milkyway. The planets, stars and asteroids could also be considered true "Gods" and assist us/are in control of the ways things flow. There are many creator Gods that reside over specific galaxies but there is one Supreme Being that none of us are remotely close to here in this incarnation on earth.


On what empirical evidence do you make that assertion?

No evidence but revelation.



That borders on lunacy. Prophets and seers are insane people who are not harmful enough to be shut away in asylums.

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