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GoatOnFire
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20 Oct 2007, 12:34 am

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Any other way that you can possibly be motivated to do something.

So anyone who does something for a reason other than pleasure isn't very smart in your eyes?

Man, you and Ragtime must be pretty lonely at the top. I'm guessing they're very separate mountains, one of you would have thrown the other off by now.

You also could have saved a lot of space there by not repeatedly quoting yourself. What was your motivation? Pleasure? :lol:


Anyone who is human isn't very smart in my eyes. That includes me.

I quoted myself to keep things in context, and primarily to annoy you all.

And geek, you just put more words in my mouth, blatantly, this time, otherwise I wouldn't have felt compelled to respond. I think you're getting my game, although you just made some gargantuan assumptions by not paying attention to semantics. I never claimed to know what said deity likes and I don't have a list. I never said an afterlife has to involve a deity even, they are not mutually exclusive. I never said any of you must do anything. I've just been suggesting what you should do, you're doing it to by suggesting that I shouldn't tell you what you should do. And I was talking from the hypothetical perspective of an atheist, who does not believe in any deitys or afterlife when I said there is no reason for us to do anything. And I just said that humans are not capable of understanding the infinite.

Or are you just attempting to get my goat? If not, that was a very poor post.

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Life keeps going on even after your own life ends, unless you can't stand the thought of that and try to end all life.


Maybe that's my purpose. :P


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20 Oct 2007, 12:35 am

I thought you were bored with this thread and leaving. :lol:



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20 Oct 2007, 12:38 am

Every time I post there is something new to respond to. Maybe this time there won't be.


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20 Oct 2007, 12:45 am

Or maybe there will. Oh noes, better respond!



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20 Oct 2007, 1:07 am

GoatOnFire wrote:
And I was talking from the hypothetical perspective of an atheist, who does not believe in any deitys or afterlife when I said there is no reason for us to do anything. And I just said that humans are not capable of understanding the infinite.


Sorry, I forgot that you were a theist arguing from the perspective of what you suppose would be that of an atheist.

I find atheism to be as illogical as theism, so I don't have any further comment, except to note that atheist philosophers like Diderot and Hume (and many others since) have come up with logically consistent systems of ethics which required neither a deity or an afterlife. If you want a refutation, hit the library.



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20 Oct 2007, 5:38 am

The site is broken and I can't split off-topic discussions. Thank you all for helping to make WrongPlanet the site is today.


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