Ronin

...and no apple on the table is really one non-apple on the table.

It is all so clear to me now.

Hey, there's just another box out here...this sucks!!

Tabula_rasa

So... I see you are trained in the art of Monkey Kombat, id.s.

I open with --- Drunken Monkey.

Tabula_rasa

Majestyk

Possibly the most lucid statement offered in this thread.

Majestyk

Well, maybe this one is the most lucid statement offered in this thread.

MollyMac

This is getting rather tiresome id.s. What is there to think about? The word atheism is a direct translation from the Greek, it means "without belief in gods" and that's all there is to it. Granted, atheists may subscribe to a belief system but being an atheist doesn't imply subscribing to one rather than another or indeed to any. In your latest PM you suggest mine is 'probably the god of materialism'. Would you care to present your evidence for this? In other words - to remind you of your OP - why do YOU believe? And who is the 'he' you refer to in the quote above. Are you out of YOUR box?

WWSD

Oops, I knew that. Duh!

The point is, photons do stuff.


Edited to add:

Kohler knows why.

hezekiah jones

Originally posted by id.s
As for the sixties well they were ... dreams of peace and love ... the draft dodgers ... wars that have no purpose ... flesh ... industrialists are fucking your wives ... atheistic foxhole... quest for drugs ... strange space time ... paranoia ...

'Nam changed us all, man.

id.s

all wars are wrong and only our leaders seem to profit.mortician doesn't do too bad either.You'd think the social contract would appreciate the physical and psychological sacrifices the fighting man has done in shaping their "creation".Instead we get a tin cup, a crutch and a place to die.I'm talking about both sides and all eras.We have made enemies of each other for thousands of years and we still can't identify our true enemy.Looks like the answer comes from within. Per se-Why do we believe=what we think we believe=a common herd glue=an elitist nightmare.Who do you think is your worst friend.I'll give you a hint--What's the ugliest part of the body.

hezekiah jones

Originally posted by id.s
What's the ugliest part of the body.

The mind?

Tabula_rasa

<puts on his tie-dyed shirt, takes a few puffs on his bong and speaks in the best Dead Head voice he can muster>

It's the establishment, maaan. It's the maaan, maaan. I believe everything I believe because of the estaaaaablishment. The estaaablishment is one huge fucking machine, maaaaan. Fuck that, maaan. Down with the maaaan, maaaan. Down with the power system machine, maaaan. Down with the estaaaablishment, maaaan. Here ya' go, maaan, wanna toke?

</puts on his tie-dyed shirt, takes a few puffs on his bong and speaks in the best Dead Head voice he can muster>

Tabula_rasa