So that's it for the election.

[Ferok]

Originally Posted by Daldolma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm claiming that people way the fuck smarter than anyone posting on this board believe in a god, so trivializing the matter is ignorant. You don't believe in a god? Cool. A lot of people don't. It's not because you're more rational than the Director of the fucking National Institutes of Health.

Nobody knows. Nobody is even close to knowing. We live for 100 years if we're lucky; as far as we can tell, the universe is over 13 billion years old. We still haven't even discovered every species on our shitty little planet -- not even close. Moving at the fastest speed we can even theorize about, it would take us 25,000 years to reach the next closest galaxy. We're fucking clueless.

That being the case, believe whatever you want regarding the origins of the universe. The only irrational people are the ones that think they have a thorough grasp on the possibilities.

True story.

[Alarti0001]

Originally Posted by Daldolma [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm claiming that people way the fuck smarter than anyone posting on this board believe in a god, so trivializing the matter is ignorant. You don't believe in a god? Cool. A lot of people don't. It's not because you're more rational than the Director of the fucking National Institutes of Health.

Nobody knows. Nobody is even close to knowing. We live for 100 years if we're lucky; as far as we can tell, the universe is over 13 billion years old. We still haven't even discovered every species on our shitty little planet -- not even close. Moving at the fastest speed we can even theorize about, it would take us 25,000 years to reach the next closest galaxy. We're fucking clueless.

That being the case, believe whatever you want regarding the origins of the universe. The only irrational people are the ones that think they have a thorough grasp on the possibilities.

Nobody knows, so believe? Dumb

Also the speed of light has long been surpassed in theory. Maybe you should get out of the faith and into the Quantum entanglement

[Lucky]

Einstein and Benjamin Franklin were deists.

The fuk have u done 2 top them

[Reiker000]

What does God have to do with anything? I was mentioning the Mormon belief that Jesus visited the Jaredites, a clan of Israelites living in America 2000 years ago. There's been no scientific proof that the Jaredites even existed in the first place. You would think there would be artifacts, fossils, something...

And yes, of course Romney was "joking" about the airplane window thing. It's either the lamest and least funny joke of all time or his attempt at saving face for publicly looking like an idiot. You decide.

[Humerox]

I thought Einstein believed in Baruch Spinoza?


just sayin~

[Lexical]

Originally Posted by Lucky [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Einstein and Benjamin Franklin were deists.

Well, no.... Einstein was definitely spiritual, but not in anyway a deist. Here are some of his quotes about religion and spirituality.

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

I find that those without spirituality tend to lose sight of the larger goal though which is why I have a hard time siding with with either side in this flame war.

[Dagner]

I think the most important issue for this election is decreasing the deficit as this will (in time) affect the economy, unemployment, etc., and honestly, I don't think either candidate will be able to do it without pissing off a ton of people- thus not getting elected or re-elected. And let's face it, that's their goal.

[Ferok]

Originally Posted by Reiker000 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What does God have to do with anything? I was mentioning the Mormon belief that Jesus visited the Jaredites, a clan of Israelites living in America 2000 years ago. There's been no scientific proof that the Jaredites even existed in the first place. You would think there would be artifacts, fossils, something...

And yes, of course Romney was "joking" about the airplane window thing. It's either the lamest and least funny joke of all time or his attempt at saving face for publicly looking like an idiot. You decide.

If Moses can part the Red Sea, Mormon Jesus can teleport.

Seriously, all religions have some stuff that, without context, seems pretty wacky. Focusing on that is missing the point in an attempt to belittle one's faith.

[Ferok]

Originally Posted by Dagner [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think the most important issue for this election is decreasing the deficit as this will (in time) affect the economy, unemployment, etc.

Nope, it's Mormons and abortions and gay marriage and guns and who has the silliest out of context quotes. Get your priorities straight.

[Humerox]

Well it's not necessarily decreasing the defecit in the way that some people think. You have to have money to make money, and I think the same principle applies to an investment in real economic strength.

Personally I think the entire economic system will collapse no matter what, and we'll all be learning Chinese as a second language. But that's just me.