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Talking Rain · 08-10-2002, 09:25 PM

Koy:

Quote:

"Thanks, but I am simply equating .99999 repeating with 1 for the sake of my calculations"

Not to interrupt all the important and interesting ideas being discussed within this thread, but it just so happens that a decimal point followed by an infinite string of nines is exactly equal to 1. Isn't that mah-velous?

-TR

08-11-2002, 12:40 PM

Hu? Jesus is calling me a fool?

The bastard.

hinduwoman · 08-11-2002, 04:14 PM

"anti-religious bias in Western academia" ---

Well, the complaint of many Indians is that in USA there is too much pro-christian bias in academia. Apparently you cannot speak too critically of it, in many colleges. Another frequent complaint is that Indian philosophy and logic is not taught in philosophy classes but slotted in comparative religion classes.

Theli · 08-11-2002, 11:34 PM

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Koyaanisqatsi · 08-13-2002, 11:50 AM

Wow, I haven't been back here for a while.

I too am a "hard" atheist (how kinky).

I have perfect knowledge that fictional creatures do not factually exist.

It's not just "perfect," but "pretty" and "sexy" and "enticing" and....

Koyaanisqatsi · 08-13-2002, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Talking Rain:
Koy:

Not to interrupt all the important and interesting ideas being discussed within this thread, but it just so happens that a decimal point followed by an infinite string of nines is exactly equal to 1. Isn't that mah-velous?

-TR

No, actually, it is not. We simply say that the difference is so miniscule as to be irrelevant for the purposes of mathematical calculations, but it is not "exactly" equal to 1. In order for it to be "exactly" equal to 1, it would have to be 1.0 not .99999999999999999999999999999999

St. Robert · 08-13-2002, 05:38 PM

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Devilnaut · 08-13-2002, 05:47 PM

So disbelief in something makes it true!

LOL

The lengths some theists go...

PS: my left foot has five toes, therefore no God exists.

[ August 13, 2002: Message edited by: Devilnaut ]

bluefugue · 08-13-2002, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by St. Robert:
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

So, extending your logic, there are no people who disbelieve in fairies? There are no people who disbelieve in elves? There are no people who disbelieve in Santa Claus? Or do you hold that these entities do exist, and the presence of disbelievers somehow bolsters a case for their existence?...

[ August 13, 2002: Message edited by: IesusDomini ]

08-13-2002, 07:43 PM

St. Robert,

Quote:

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Are you suggesting that if there really was no God, atheists would take for granted that there was no God? Yet this idea is tacitly related to the idea that if there was no God, people wouldn�t believe in him as seriously as you do.

Whether there is a God or not, I suspect that theism and illusion are both likely. In once case theism is not illusion, in the other case it is. In both cases we expect atheists. In the former because people can be wrong about nature, in the latter because people can be right. In either case, the presence of atheists cannot be used to infer God.

Regards,
Synaesthesia

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