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usartist · 06-14-2004, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Newton Joseph

For the past few years I have regulated my commitments. The past couple of years I have eliminated essentially all commitments. I have no job. I have no property that requires personal attention. I have no personal relationship with anyone.

I would suggest you seek professional help

Joseph, you are the one who needs professional help. Your postings are incoherent, and usually tangent of thediscussion group.

And, don't tell me how to live my life.

Get off the religion kick, if you say you don't have a religion.

Starboy · 06-14-2004, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by usartist

My ulterior motive is really quite clear, I want to expedite the dismantle of theist organizations.

Then why in the world is it so important to convince atheists that atheist organizations are religions? Shouldn't be be concentraiting on theists and their organizations?

Starboy

Ab_Normal · 06-14-2004, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Yangja Isuko

if atheism is a religion, bald is a haircolor.

Those darn folks in Montana have just broken a lovely saying: In Montana, bald is a hair-color option

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Bald is a hair color in Montana.

Montana's Web site lists "bald" as an option when applying online for a fishing license.

"It's always been there, but before when you applied for a license at a sporting goods store, the person filling out the license just checked the appropriate box," said Rich Olsen, general manager of the state's site, Discovering Montana.

You also can choose to declare your shiny pate on your driver's license.

usartist · 06-15-2004, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Starboy

Then why in the world is it so important to convince atheists that atheist organizations are religions? Shouldn't be be concentraiting on theists and their organizations?

Starboy

It is important to concentrate on the atheist end of religion, because atheists are tasked with having to introduce/educate the public as to how atheists base a morality, maintain community, and perhaps a meaning for life.

Thus far I have recognized some consistant answers to these questions, but the are not by any means institutionalized for anthropologic(?) evaluation. Meaning we cannot evaluate those morality systems until we establish them for practice, otherwise they are just b.s. theories.

We have to establish religions, because the Constitution does not offer a morality.

usartist · 06-15-2004, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by breathilizer

Horse shit. Plenty of organizations exist without deeming themselves "religions."

They are religions, they are just further qualified and defined, such as career, atheletics, hobby, indulgences, and etc.

Hyndis · 06-15-2004, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by usartist

They are religions, they are just further qualified and defined, such as career, atheletics, hobby, indulgences, and etc.

If I go around pointing at things, shouting "SPOON!" at every object I point at, does the world have any meaning whatsoever?

If a single word describes absolutely anything and everything, not only does it lose its meaning, but you end up looking like a raving loon by insisting that you can call everything a spoon.

If a word can mean anything, then it means nothing as its because so vauge as to be meaningless. This is also why the "goddidit" explainations fail, as they encompass absolutely everything yet fail to explain anything.

And for a moment of levity...

"Mah spoon is too big."

Starboy · 06-15-2004, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by usartist

It is important to concentrate on the atheist end of religion, because atheists are tasked with having to introduce/educate the public as to how atheists base a morality, maintain community, and perhaps a meaning for life.

What atheist end of religion? Where is it? Where do you get that atheists are tasked to do anything? And if for one moment they did accept such a task what morality and meaning for life would they teach? Usartist you are living in a dream world.

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Originally Posted by usartist

Thus far I have recognized some consistant answers to these questions, but the are not by any means institutionalized for anthropologic(?) evaluation. Meaning we cannot evaluate those morality systems until we establish them for practice, otherwise they are just b.s. theories.

Keep this up and you will have to be "institutionalized for anthropologic(?) evaluation."

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Originally Posted by usartist

We have to establish religions, because the Constitution does not offer a morality.

The constitution doesn't offer an aesthetic either, do we have to establish an art because of this? Were do you get this stuff? Did no-god command you to say this?

Starboy

usartist · 06-17-2004, 10:57 AM

What are you afraid of?

King Rat · 06-17-2004, 10:59 AM

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What are you afraid of?

Tyranny.

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