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Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science.

From niunian <niunian@ymail.com>
Newsgroups alt.atheism
Subject Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science.
Date 2015-08-19 21:24 +0800
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On 2015-08-19 09:10 AM, nature bats last wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 5:17:10 PM UTC-7, niunian wrote:
>> On 2015-08-18 11:25 PM, nature bats last wrote:
>>> On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 11:30:16 PM UTC-7, niunian wrote:
>>>> On 2015-08-18 02:02 AM, nature bats last wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 10:49:44 AM UTC-7, niunian wrote:
>>>>>> On 2015-08-17 11:56 PM, nature bats last wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 8:11:51 PM UTC-7, niunian wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2015-08-16 11:55 PM, John Ritson wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In article <mqpvas$r80$1@dont-email.me>, niunian <niunian@ymail.com>
>>>>>>>>> writes
>>>>>>>>>> On 2015-08-16 01:33 PM, William December Starr wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> In article <mqke7b$vf2$10@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>>>>>> niunian <niunian@ymail.com> said:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> William December Starr wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> niunian <niunian@ymail.com> said:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Living itself is a purpose. And it is a great purpose. It is to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> worship the God of living.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Well I guess if you're going to anthropomorphize -- excuse me,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> deus-morphize -- _any_ concept, then yes, any concept is a God of
>>>>>>>>>>>>> something.  That gets us rather deep into "so what?" territory though.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Well, if we can agree on the fact of life which shows everybody
>>>>>>>>>>>> including the atheists has a god of their own on a personal level,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> We can't.  You use the words 'god' and 'God' in ways that are so
>>>>>>>>>>> non-standard that I doubt you make sense to anyone but yourself.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That only because you have never thought of God/god on a personal level.
>>>>>>>>>> God is not out there in the sky. God is within you who is the center of
>>>>>>>>>> your life. You actually live your life for God even when you call
>>>>>>>>>> yourself an atheist.
>>>>>>>>> So (according to you) everybody lives their life for God.
>>>>>>>>>> When you don't live your life for the God within
>>>>>>>>>> you, you always suffer in life.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ..> > But since (according to you) everybody lives their life for God, nobody
>>>>>>> ..> > 'always suffers'.
>>>>>>> ..> > You are just talking rubbish.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ..> No. If we can always live our lives for God, we would never suffer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> .> > Try that one out on someone with reflex sympathetic dystrophy
>>>>> .> > or paroxysmal extreme pain disorder or complex regional pain syndrome.
>>>>>
>>>>> .> For people who have to live a difficult life, when they live their life
>>>>> .> for God, they may still have to endure the physical pain in their body,
>>>>> .> but they don't have to endure any mental suffering in their mind. There
>>>>> .> isn't any to begin with. In fact, they may be given the extra strength
>>>>> .> to help them to endure the extra physical pain so that they can overcome
>>>>> .> their difficulty. To them, failure will never discourage them, each time
>>>>> .> they fail, it will only make them coming back to start a more fierce
>>>>> .> struggle. It's all because they live their lives for God, they have
>>>>> ,> nothing to worry about.
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> .> > Are you speaking from personal experience with extreme
>>> .> > and omnipresent pain?
>>>
>>> .> Not really.
>>>
>>> And yet you feel qualified to tell us what the
>>> inner lives of  those afflicted with intractable
>>> pain is like.
>>>
>>>
>>> You might want to reflect on that.
>>
>> I'm not speaking for everybody. It's just my own opinion based on my own
>> experience which isn't qualified to be any kind of examples. Everybody
>> in their life has to deal with pain and suffering sometimes.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Nothing even close to your imaginations.
>>>
>>> Thankfully, I cannot begin to imagine what it
>>> must be like for those with the very real
>>> syndromes I listed.
>>
>
>
> .> It may not be easy to remove the pain in their body, but it is possible
> .> to remove the suffering in their mind if they are willing.
>
> A false duality.

No. A real challenge.

>
> Seth
>

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Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-16 01:33 -0400
  Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-16 20:24 +0800
    Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-16 10:55 -0400
      Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-17 11:01 +0800
    Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. John Ritson <j.ritson@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-08-16 16:55 +0100
      Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-17 11:11 +0800
        Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-17 13:39 +0100
          Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-08-17 12:34 -0400
            Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-18 11:55 +0100
          Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-18 01:10 +0800
            Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-08-17 14:38 -0400
        Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. nature bats last <seqklogw@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 08:56 -0700
          Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-18 01:49 +0800
            Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. nature bats last <seqklogw@gmail.com> - 2015-08-17 11:02 -0700
              Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2015-08-17 16:12 -0700
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-18 14:11 +0800
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. nature bats last <seqklogw@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 08:34 -0700
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-19 08:04 +0800
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. nature bats last <seqklogw@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 18:13 -0700
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-19 21:11 +0800
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. nature bats last <seqklogw@gmail.com> - 2015-08-19 12:26 -0700
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-20 07:08 +0800
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. nature bats last <seqklogw@gmail.com> - 2015-08-20 09:31 -0700
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-21 09:59 +0100
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-21 21:05 +0800
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. talishi <talishi@example.net> - 2015-08-21 18:44 -0700
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-22 08:50 +0100
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. talishi <talishi@example.net> - 2015-08-22 07:03 -0700
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-22 16:37 +0800
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-19 10:07 +0100
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-19 21:21 +0800
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. Dreamer In Colore <dreamerincolore@hotmail.com> - 2015-08-19 16:57 -0400
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-20 14:51 +0100
              Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-18 14:14 +0800
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. nature bats last <seqklogw@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 08:25 -0700
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-19 08:16 +0800
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. nature bats last <seqklogw@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 18:10 -0700
                Re: Atheism is based on beliefs, not science. niunian <niunian@ymail.com> - 2015-08-19 21:24 +0800

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