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09 Oct 2008, 11:39 am

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I would have thought it is religion that is fearful of knowledge and keeps you enslaved.

That's the plan!



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10 Oct 2008, 1:12 pm

Happy 11 Fnord! :nerdy: :scratch: :salut: :sunny: :jester: :heart: :tongue: :lol: :wink:


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10 Oct 2008, 2:04 pm

I dont understand how it can be saturday in southern California when it is Friday where I am at and I am only a few degrees east of you... :idea: :?: :idea: I can see how this could be possible with some sort of temporal entanglement though.

Edit - Nm, I imagine that this site is hosted in a different time zone.


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11 Oct 2008, 1:11 am

Happy 11 Fnord :jester:

God sent you this video. :lol:


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWXJUNkkKj0&feature=related[/youtube]


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18 Oct 2008, 1:05 pm

The experiment is over.

Fnord, where did we come from?



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18 Oct 2008, 1:19 pm

Fnord, if you can't bring yourself to acknowledge that there is a God, this whole excercise is a waste of time. Just the mental act of acknowledging God would be enough to kickstart a relationship with Him.



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18 Oct 2008, 1:26 pm

DentArthurDent wrote:
I would have thought it is religion that is fearful of knowledge and keeps you enslaved.

The forbidden fruit account in Genesis, could be said to have been about fear of knowledge that could disrupt an established order.


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18 Oct 2008, 1:33 pm

I am certainly not fearful of knowledge. But there's some kinds of knowledge I neither need nor want.



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18 Oct 2008, 1:38 pm

slowmutant wrote:
Fnord, if you can't bring yourself to acknowledge that there is a God, this whole excercise is a waste of time.

Nonsense. Where's your faith?


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18 Oct 2008, 1:40 pm

MrMark wrote:
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Fnord, if you can't bring yourself to acknowledge that there is a God, this whole excercise is a waste of time.
Nonsense. Where's your faith?

:lol:
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18 Oct 2008, 1:40 pm

MrMark wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
Fnord, if you can't bring yourself to acknowledge that there is a God, this whole excercise is a waste of time.

Nonsense. Where's your faith?


It's not about me, is it?



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18 Oct 2008, 1:42 pm

The experiment never ends, some people just jump to... conclusions.


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18 Oct 2008, 1:46 pm

This experiment ... it seems to have no delineated boundaries. Is this because what we refer to here as "the experiment" is life itself?



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18 Oct 2008, 1:47 pm

slowmutant wrote:
Just the mental act of acknowledging God would be enough to kickstart a relationship with Him.

I would think that it would take an intense experience in life, in which God would be a necessity in order to acknowledge him, in that sense, it would be a psychological/emotional/subjective dilemma and need, in which, it would be likely the only way that a nonbeliever would change their view and start to believe, a part from the physical/empirical evidence he may ask.


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18 Oct 2008, 3:02 pm

greenblue wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
Just the mental act of acknowledging God would be enough to kickstart a relationship with Him.

I would think that it would take an intense experience in life, in which God would be a necessity in order to acknowledge him, in that sense, it would be a psychological/emotional/subjective dilemma and need, in which, it would be likely the only way that a nonbeliever would change their view and start to believe, a part from the physical/empirical evidence he may ask.


Exactly.