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Murder is worse than rape in all circumstances where the victim is not killed imho... even the most depressed rape victims still (I'm sure) get to spend time with their family, laugh at movies, go out with friends etc with what's left of their life. If someone takes away your life you lose...

I don't try actively try to go out and convince people that atheism is right... I don't go out and knock on people's doors, I don't invade people's schools, I don't go on TV to pronounce my atheism or anything like that... But when it's relevant (i.e. issues regarding religion/whether god...

... I can't wait for this one. Atheism is popular? Maybe in some parts of youth culture but it's really not that big... as for believing in ghosts, well I don't believe in anything normally called 'supernatural' so I guess maybe I'm not following the trend. From a very young age we are...

IMHO it's much better to be buying your food locally (i.e. If you're getting your meat from a local, small scale farm, you're doing better for the environment than someone who's getting their soy beans from south america). I'll explain futher my problem... you see to me the demand for meat...

Err.... That doesn't address the problem as the analogy is pretty weak. In one situation you have an omnipotent, omniscient God and in the other you have a teacher whom knows which students will probably perform better based on past experience.... Can you see the problem?

On everything other than metals I strongly disagree. Is this for your health or the environment? I mean it's good for your health to not eat so much meat... but are you trying to claim that livestock is producing a huge amount of carbon emitions? lol wtf? Where do people get this sort of...

Sorry to make you write all of that... but I'm more challenging the idea that Jesus (as the person) 'did not exist' at least in the form that modern christianity would claim, by looking at the oldest really 'historical' accounts of Jesus. The authors of the bible (whomever they may be) are not...

lol Well all I really did was 'agree' to questions such as "What's good for somebody isn't necessarily good for everyone else" and "sometimes government intervention is needed to protect worker's rights"... I believe those things, imho it's not that 'lefty' to say for instance that we need...

Economic Left/Right: -3.13 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.62 The politics forum one put me as "uncategorisable materialist" this time.

Actually I disagree, the historical recounts of jesus's life aren't all that crash hot at all and it's quite likely imo that the story we hear now is a far cry from what it once was.

That's fine, but why this sort of standard where you can come up with any 'absurd' conclusion for the question of God's existance but not apply the same standard to your everyday life? IMHO the problem is that you're being dishonest on at least one account. Either you've come to the conclusion...

If you're thinking of me here, I'd just like to point out that while I would consider Christian upbringing to perhaps be a small key as to why you may hold these beliefs you admit are absurd - I would argue against you even if you had no major religious backing. I don't think I have a 'love of...

I really do find it amazing the sort of positions people will put themselves into in order to create room for their God. Eraserdust adhere's to logic in his everyday life because well... it works for him, but it would seem (at least for him) there is little room for God within logic, however to...

I'd be willing to accept that some parts of my reality are a delusion, if proven so (as this could be done within the bounds of 'reality') however to prove that all reality is a delusion could not be done imho. Can you explain to me how you can come to the conclusion that logic is a delusion ...

Couldn't it be a delusion that logic is a delusion? :rolleyes: I mean, you're using a form of logic to come to that conclusion and to explain it to me. Anyway, I didn't actually even argue that logic isn't a delusion, my point was that it doesn't matter if it is for it is the best way we have to...

You know intuitively that he exists? I'd say it should be the first thing you need to eliminate before imagining that it's anything more than a figment of your mind. It seems a bad idea to rely on 'intuition' given how wrong our intuition can often be. It doesn't matter if it is a...

From wikipedia: I do think Solar is a possible option, but I also think nuclear is up there too. Another big step would be electric cars... I imagine if Australia was completely nuclear powered with electricly powerered vehicles we'd have very little emitions.

If there are less trees needed for paper do you think as a net we'll have less trees? When demand for paper goes down it'd make sense to me that less tree's are planted.

Why do you think recycling is a good idea? For example, let's say we look at the environmental impact of recycling/throwing away newspapers. First you have the extra trucks on the road which have to pick up the separate recycling bins, then you have the recycling process its-self (newspapers...

.....People have offered up what they think the best solutions are. Personally I'm sick of hearing about Solar power (It can be viable but this recent project is nothing but a grab for votes) and Recycling (Which is a waste).