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An attributable catch-all for random chance? A belief that there are forces beyond your own control? Sounds like a God to me.
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No atheist god is Black Science Man.
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HJB posted:An attributable catch-all for random chance? A belief that there are forces beyond your own control? Sounds like a God to me. But random chance is the exact opposite of everything being preordained by God
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Jan 11, 2015 12:57
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"in my experience there's no such thing as luck" --han solo
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HJB posted:A belief that there are forces beyond your own control? Sounds like a God to me. Can you control wind? Does wind sound like a God to you?
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mookface posted:But random chance is the exact opposite of everything being preordained by God Okay, scratch random. how me a frog posted:Can you control wind? Does wind sound like a God to you? Wind is created under a series of very specific and observable circumstances.
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Jan 11, 2015 13:03
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I don't believe in "wind"
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I experience it most Sunday mornings.
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CHANCE AND PROBABILITY IS JUST AN AUTISM GOD!
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how me a frog posted:Can you control wind? Does wind sound like a God to you? wind comes out of my butt at regular intervals. does god live in my butt?
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Jan 11, 2015 13:13
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Jan 11, 2015 13:26
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HJB posted:Wind is created under a series of very specific and observable circumstances. Luck is the result of very specific observable circumstances. Also has nothing to do with what you wrote. You wrote "forces I cannot personally control = GOD". Heck according to your idiotic definition, I am god.
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Jan 11, 2015 13:29
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Dick Dawkins
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Jan 11, 2015 13:31
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how me a frog posted:Luck is the result of very specific observable circumstances. It's not luck if you can define a reason for it happening.
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Jan 11, 2015 13:35
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god must exist otherwise all those concussed sportsball players would look like idiots praying to him for help catching the sportsball while africa still needs to be saved/destroyed
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Jan 11, 2015 13:35
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christopher hitchens was the best atheist because he never tried to pretend that he wasn't an rear end in a top hat too bad god struck him down for his insolence
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Jan 11, 2015 13:35
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HJB posted:It's not luck if you can define a reason for it happening. Though it can be called luck when it is a humungous pile of data points that can only be accounted after the fact.
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Jan 11, 2015 13:39
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HJB posted:It's not luck if you can define a reason for it happening. Yes it is. I think the problem here is you don't know what words mean. Example: Calling 5 coin flips in a row is lucky, the reason is also easily defined unless physics is also a gods.
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Jan 11, 2015 13:40
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how me a frog posted:Yes it is. I think the problem here is you don't know what words mean. but money IS our god
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Jan 11, 2015 13:42
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Cnut the Great posted:christopher hitchens was the best atheist because he never tried to pretend that he wasn't an rear end in a top hat The lord smote him for lying with another man
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Jan 11, 2015 13:43
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Brains recognize patterns, since it's what they're for. They gave us an edge in the wilderness, where everything happens for a simple reason. Thus they are unprepared for the hellish tangled web of complex causality that lies at the heart of modern life. People who are really successful have developed new intuitions from drawing informed empirical judgements, enhancing their gut reaction with logical certainty. People who are really unsuccessful don't attempt to update caveman brain and believe that if they lost a fair coin flip fifty times the chance of them losing the next one can't possibly be a half.
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how me a frog posted:Yes it is. I think the problem here is you don't know what words mean. I thank The Lord every time it comes up heads.
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HJB posted:An attributable catch-all for random chance? A belief that there are forces beyond your own control? Sounds like a God to me. you don't worship luck though. a dog is similarly 'predictable' and beyond your control when it pisses on the floor instead of actually indicating it needs to go outside but it's not god to you for that alone
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chaosbreather posted:Brains recognize patterns, since it's what they're for. They gave us an edge in the wilderness, where everything happens for a simple reason. Thus they are unprepared for the hellish tangled web of complex causality that lies at the heart of modern life. People who are really successful have developed new intuitions from drawing informed empirical judgements, enhancing their gut reaction with logical certainty. People who are really unsuccessful don't attempt to update caveman brain and believe that if they lost a fair coin flip fifty times the chance of them losing the next one can't possibly be a half. i sense your pants are corduroy
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:you don't worship luck though. Ever been to a casino? Ignatius M. Meen posted:a dog is similarly 'predictable' and beyond your control when it pisses on the floor instead of actually indicating it needs to go outside but it's not god to you for that alone I accept that a dog cannot tell me when it needs a piss, but I can train it to piss somewhere more appropriate.
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i literally created myself. i am the source of my own existence, no loving joke, it's true.
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let's be real though: there's clearly some greater force in the universe with all the qualities traditionally attributed to "God" and if you deny this blindingly obvious fact you probably have an extremely low IQ and live a dull and unfulfilling life also you probably repost "Science is AWESOME" links on FB and secretly think of neil degrasse tyson as "one of the good ones"
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HJB posted:Ever been to a casino? do you go to a church of luck every sunday and sing luck hymnals and listen to luck sermons by your luck pastor? have you ever in your life? have you even just constructed your own personal shrine to luck where you bear offerings to luck in service to it? you better have if you want to convince me you're actually worshiping it the way you would a god. HJB posted:I accept that a dog cannot tell me when it needs a piss, but I can train it to piss somewhere more appropriate. you can't train all the rocks in the world to be somewhere more appropriate and they are referred to in the exact same way when you trip over them
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how me a frog posted:Luck is the result of very specific observable circumstances. Also has nothing to do with what you wrote. You wrote "forces I cannot personally control = GOD". Op you just owned. Luck is for hooker and fat people.
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Cnut the Great posted:let's be real though: there's clearly some greater force in the universe with all the qualities traditionally attributed to "God" and if you deny this blindingly obvious fact you probably have an extremely low IQ and live a dull and unfulfilling life The problem with believing in a higher power is due to the nature of life on Earth, any higher power must be hostile by default
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chaosbreather posted:People who are really unsuccessful don't attempt to update caveman brain and believe that if they lost a fair coin flip fifty times the chance of them losing the next one can't possibly be a half.
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Cnut the Great posted:let's be real though: there's clearly some greater force in the universe with all the qualities traditionally attributed to "God" and if you deny this blindingly obvious fact you probably have an extremely low IQ and live a dull and unfulfilling life Let's be clear though: Our brain wants to find a purpose because the possibility that we're just apes with imagination is too much to deal with, existentially speaking.
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Orkin Mang posted:i literally created myself. i am the source of my own existence, no loving joke, it's true.
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I do not believe that there is a higher power controlling anything in this universe. However that being said I spend very little time thinking about it. It is just something that I have accepted and don't really worry about it until I see threads on it here.
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Jan 11, 2015 15:25
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The fedora is large in this thread
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Jan 11, 2015 15:35
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im not a fedora
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Jan 11, 2015 15:37
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i pout out positive energy into the universe every day. i try and gfive so i can get back. the universe has been anthropomorphised and it will listen to you and knows your intentions, this is something a lot of people dont know about you might even say its cryptic or enigmatical
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Jan 11, 2015 15:50
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usually i jerk my dick unti l i orgasm and then i shout out "THE UNIVERS"E
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let there be uuuunngh
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I know everyone always says it, but I was unironically half-expecting goatse. I mean, why else make a thread like this?
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