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#430178
Tom S. Fox
I think it's more like both.
3/11/2008 5:11:29 PM
#430338
Caustic Gnostic
This one understands the dichotomy!
I can empathise with the struggle to successfully decipher the boundary events of life, etc. It is difficult to do so without any coherent guidance.
3/11/2008 7:24:09 PM
#430447
Brain_In_A_Jar
I assure you, I have no choice in the matter
You can't choose where logic will take you from the evidence, or it wouldn't be logic. Disregarding logic, however, constitutes a choice.
Even then, though, you can't somehow choose not to know what that logical answer is, or that it is logically valid. Your post suggests that, for all you try to hide it under mythology in your fear, you are ultimately an atheist. You have implicitly admitted that you know damn well there is no god, for all your superficial denial.
But a godless universe isn't quite as scary as you think - there are plenty of other atheists, and many of them are quite friendly as long as you don't irritate them with insane delusions. We'll help you form a little island of friendship in this uncaring void - we've all got each other, after ... aww, fuck it. I'm just too grumpy tonight, I can't stand writing any more of this happy-bunny stuff. There's no god. Deal with it.
3/11/2008 8:16:05 PM
#430449
Quantum Mechanic
The asylum is inevitable.
Give in.
3/11/2008 8:17:05 PM
#961883
naturally_deselected
5/27/2009 3:24:05 PM
#1286230
Quantum Mechanic
Looks like Tom nailed it right out of the box.
5/6/2011 8:31:07 AM
#1286319
rw23
> But as concerns beginnings and endings, logic and reason lead to a place where I do not want to go, so I dispense with them.
As long as you are simply happy wrapped in that fluffy-bunny blanket, then I don't mind: you're an adult and you make your own life. But if you believe you have to tell other people that they must be wrapped in a fluffy-bunny blanket rather than be free to take the opportunity to follow where logic leads, then I for one would sooner see you in a lunatic asylum.
5/6/2011 12:34:18 PM
#1286497
Justanotheratheist
It is faith, not lack thereof, which should lead to the lunatic asylum. But at least you can drive yourself there.
5/7/2011 12:48:06 AM
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