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Kai:
It's a lot easier to discuss something that billions of people have experience and feelings about. It is hard to find people who remember being conscious as a fetus. Not saying that it proves or negates either. Just that it's definitely easier.
Edible:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 28 Jan 2008, 15:42 ---Yes, I did that on purpose. I was using Godwin for good, not evil.
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I think this is arguably grounds for Quirk's exception...
And can we all agree that the golden rule is overall a good idea and should be followed, but like all rules is not entirely infalliable please?
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 28 Jan 2008, 15:30 ---"Oh, you think murder is bad? Well what about murdering Hitler before he started World War 2, huh?"
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We get c&c Red Alert : )
supersheep:
This thread is basically what happens at a party when you get drunken philosophy students together - I am pretty sure that I had this exact conversation last night, with the addition of talking about the IRA and slightly more atheism involved.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Edible on 28 Jan 2008, 20:45 ---And can we all agree that the golden rule is overall a good idea and should be followed, but like all rules is not entirely infalliable please?
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We're not saying it's infallible, we're arguing that it's difficult to logically refute.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 28 Jan 2008, 15:30 ---"We" have no "evidence" that "God" exists? I'm sorry, I'll tell the billions of people on the planet who have had personal spiritual and/or religious experiences that they don't count since they didn't have them under a microscope.
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We have no evidence that werewolves, vampires, dragons, elves, fairies, unicorns or griffins exist either, but I could find you a fair number of people who think they ARE one.
Their spiritual experiences count to them, of course, but they can hardly be used to establish empirical truth. For a start, if you were to collate them, then you would get such a contradictory picture of the divine that you'd make high gnosticism look like a crossword puzzle. We're not just talking koan shit here either.
Who was it who said something along the lines of "Isn't it funny how God always tells people exactly what they believe?"
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