Regarding the Existence or Absence of God

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praise the lord! we need prayer back in our schools! jesus is our savior! (what a joke)
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nice fuck!ng outfit..what does that thing do? let me get my magic wand.. lol
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now here is one truly confused individual. all that work and even HE isn't going to heaven! i actually feel bad for him.
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a baptism.. looks pretty satanic to me. all they need is a dead animal and some blood.
 
Originally posted by darkhorse

Uh, no. More like he expounded on the theory over countless hours of thought and study and theorizing and it took a significant amount of time for the scientific community to UNDERSTAND the theory of relativity and why it should be held true, let alone digest its broader implications. And there was no doubt significant opposition at first, and those who were really interested studied it carefully, along with all its implications, and did not try to 'wing it' in terms of understanding.

In other words, if a skeptical physicist on a Princeton bulletin board would have said yo Steinie baby where's the beef on this relativity thing prove it to me sweetcheeks, he would have said IT'S TOO BIG FOR A COUPLE POSTS ON A BOARD.

So thank you, once again, for cementing my point, albeit against your will, in a post of stunning depth all round.

outie for realz

Gekko, don't provide these easy escapes for darkhorse. look at the glee with which he seizes upon any chance to blur the issue..

dark, you are so wrong in this post it's not funny...
yeah, it might have taken scientists a while to come to grips with relativity...but guess what..they did. The initial scrutiny is only part of the scientific process. It is NATURAL, it is the RIGHT THING to try and falsify a scientific theory...
Einstein didn't turn around and say to scientists opposed to his views "look it's all multivariate complexity ...you just don't get it..it's too complex to explain to you", he provided them with rational evidence...which successfully defended his position, to the point where relativity became widely accepted..

religion has had hundreds of years to prove itself...IT HAS NOT EVEN SOUGHT TO DO SO! it's only recently, since atheists could freely cut down religious garbage that theists have scrambled to invent ever more outrageous theories to prove god's existance...
but they keep gettting cut down..

dude, keep living in dream world..you have nothing
 
Originally posted by daniel_m

no, no, no, no. It doesn't work like that. You have evidence? Then present it, so that we can discuss whether it is legitimate or not - we can decide whether or not your evidence constitutes proof. Proof is either proof for all, or it's not proof at all.


oh wait, one last thing i forgot to ask:

Dan if proof is always 'for all' or 'not at all', please explain how this situation can exist:

Two hedge fund managers of roughly equal skill, with the same basic methodogies, access to the same information sources and the same data sets, come to directly opposite conclusions regarding variable XYZ of the macroeconomic outlook.

This happens all the time.

If proof for one is proof for all as you say, how is that possible?

Why should truth be dependent on consensus? Is not truth wholly INdependent of consensus? Hmmm.

You like smart economic guys like Sowell, what say you of Sowell's mentor Milton Friedman's take:

"One man and the truth is a majority."
-Milton Friedman

p.s. lovely pictures Gekko, maybe you could get a draw program going and put a mustache and glasses on the pope, that would take your line of reasoning to the next level brudda
 
Originally posted by daniel_m



dude, keep living in dream world..you have nothing



LOL sure thing pal

how can you rip my world when you can't even understand it?
 
Originally posted by Gordon Gekko
lmao this thread is a riot



true dat

it reminds me of the beastie boys fight for your right video with all the pie throwing...and faster is up on the table with a punchbowl on his head

u gotta fight....for your right....to...ummm..uhhh...philosophize about the existence or non-existence of God....

nana na na, nana na na......
 
Bravo. EXACTLY Dan!

Dark isnt even attempting to be like Einstein and
present his theory, then defend it until
it is accepted.

Instead, we get excuses about how you cant do
this on a message board.

If email and message boards were around, I bet
Einstein WOULD have published findings/theories and
defended them in this new medium.


I have no problems with defending my position
on a message board. In fact, its better than
a verbal conversation since you have time
to organize your thoughts and to analyze your
opponents postings.

But Dark is a special case or something.
He apparently lacks the ability to present
his views on a message board.


peace

axeman


Originally posted by daniel_m



yeah, it might have taken scientists a while to come to grips with relativity...but guess what..they did. The initial scrutiny is only part of the scientific process. It is NATURAL, it is the RIGHT THING to try and falsify a scientific theory...
Einstein didn't turn around and say to scientists opposed to his views "look it's all multivariate complexity ...you just don't get it..it's too complex to explain to you", he provided them with rational evidence...which successfully defended his position, to the point where relativity became widely accepted..
 
Originally posted by rs7


Hey Nitro, I will trade you my hair for some of your youth:)
Happy Birthday!
Heh,

Thanks - I am getting a "surprise" birthday party today (I am not supposed to know, but my five year old simply cannot keep a secret.)

nitro :cool:
 
Originally posted by axeman

But Dark is a special case or something.
He apparently lacks the ability to present
his views on a message board.



man please, i'm just tired of arguin' with hacks

I gots a serious case of the giggles if that's what u mean

faster u crack me up....guitar solo...u gotta fight....

yer pops caught you skippin' church he said no way...

that hypocrite skips every sun-day.....

LOL
 
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