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Glenn On January 10, 2013
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#31New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 04:15:38
@chaski Said

What is a comment?



A post like this one.
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#32New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 04:18:44
@Glenn Said

No ... you are trying to say that rational people DO NOT believe in God. Sorry I just don't agree.

At least this is what I think you meant...since you won't tell me what YOU THINK RATIONAL MEANS ... it means I have to guess.



Rational, from my understanding, means being able to discern what is real from what is delusional.

But you actually made a good point with the question "What is rational?" because as it stands no one actually has a set standard or solid definition for reality.
Glenn On January 10, 2013
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#33New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 04:23:55
@Electric_Banana Said

Rational, from my understanding, means being able to discern what is real from what is delusional.

But you actually made a good point with the question "What is rational?" because as it stands no one actually has a set standard or solid definition for reality.



So if God exists and I believe he exists then I am actually the more rational one.

Bottom line is the closed my belief system matches reality the more rational I am.
Eaglebauer On July 23, 2019
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#34New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 04:27:50
@Glenn Said

No ... you are trying to say that rational people DO NOT believe in God.


I won't speak for her, but personally I don't understand how you got that out of her post:

Quote:

I don't see how your comments are rational. But one thing we agree on is that God loves everybody. God does not kill people because he doesn't like them. People do that.
You ARE existing on Earth for your benefit. You just don't appreciate the gift. There are people who are dying everyday who wish they could have one more day. Look for the positives in your life.


She openly acknowledges her belief in the existence of God by saying "God loves everybody" and does not kill people because he doesn't like them.
futilevoice On October 07, 2016

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#35New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 04:29:15
RATIONAL
adjective
1.
agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.

2.
having or exercising reason, sound judgment, or good sense: a calm and rational negotiator.

3.
being in or characterized by full possession of one's reason; sane; lucid: The patient appeared perfectly rational.

4.
endowed with the faculty of reason: rational beings.

5.
of, pertaining to, or constituting reasoning powers: the rational faculty.


REASON
verb (used without object)
8.
to think or argue in a logical manner.

9.
to form conclusions, judgments, or inferences from facts or premises.

10.
to urge reasons which should determine belief or action.
chaski On about 21 hours ago
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#36New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 04:41:03
@Glenn Said

A post like this one.


How do you know?

What is your basis to compare a post with a comment?
chaski On about 21 hours ago
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Tree at Floydgirrl's Window,
#37New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 04:42:59
@Glenn Said

So if God exists and I believe he exists then I am actually the more rational one.

Bottom line is the closed my belief system matches reality the more rational I am.



What is "god"?

And how do you know that?
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#38New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 05:47:39
Ok, so here's a summary so far.

I claim doubt that there actually is a concious god because there is a lot of surreal and useless things in our existence, such as myself.

Chaski may or may not have dropped a virus in the thread

and

Glenn holds firm there is a god

So coming in between all of the extremes we can summarize that something has made all of this but a lot of what was made really serves no practical purpose or use and it's all just a random conglomerate placing of strange useless things.

Like Katamari Damacy


Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#39New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 06:04:27
Chaski, the Kudos....was that agreeing that everything is "Katamari Damacy" or agreeing that you planted a virus in this thread?

Ladies and Gentlemen, I've had a new dawning of understanding. Nothing is intentional - s*** happens as it can happen but is not blue printed or premeditated.
chaski On about 21 hours ago
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Tree at Floydgirrl's Window,
#40New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 06:08:37
@Electric_Banana Said

Ok, so here's a summary so far.

I claim doubt that there actually is a concious god because there is a lot of surreal and useless things in our existence, such as myself.

Chaski may or may not have dropped a virus in the thread

and

Glenn holds firm there is a god

So coming in between all of the extremes we can summarize that something has made all of this but a lot of what was made really serves no practical purpose or use and it's all just a random conglomerate placing of strange useless things.

Like Katamari Damacy




BUT, what... or who... is god?

Some old guy with a beard sitting on a throne in heaven? Kind of sounds like Zeus.
Some mystical all knowing being without form?

Creator... NO. That is a function not a description.

And as Glen always asks, "how do you know?" Be specific. Based on a book?
A divinely inspired book? How do you know that (especially if "you" have not read it or studied its history)? Who (be specific) decided it was holy and divinely inspired? Who exactly? Your minister/preacher/priest? How do you know "he" is right? What has "he" done that proves his version?

A book... which one? the protestant, catholic, eastern othodox, gnostic gospels... which version...? How do you know that YOUR version is the right one? Who told you? And what is/was "his" authority? Did you study it? Read it? Study its history? Why are you right and others are wrong? Did you get a message from your god? "He" talks to you? How do you know?

Many religions claim, or have claimed, inspiration, perfection, etc.

What is YOUR basis for being right?
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#41New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 06:09:32
@chaski Said

What is YOUR basis for being right?


And so, as the philosopher who long before me realized that he 'is' because he thinks,

I have concluded that not everything serves a purpose or a reason. Most of it just happens and oh well.

Like the "I think there for I am" guy, I am a living example of something with no practical use or purpose so there for there is not a purpose to all and everything.

Thank you, thank you

Takes bow.
MadCornishBiker On January 14, 2014

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St Columb Road, United Kingdom
#42New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 08:06:42
@Electric_Banana Said

Or else you would be dead.

I'm definitely not still existing on "Earth" for MY benefit, I can promise you that.

Goes back to what a really smart girl told me at an old job that I had: "Banana, quit acting so desperate. This job needs YOU WAY more than you need IT."

As Erimitus would say:

What say you?


Well we are not here for God's benefit, so why else would we be here. We can do nothing to benefit God.
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#43New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 08:14:59
@MadCornishBiker Said

Well we are not here for God's benefit, so why else would we be here. We can do nothing to benefit God.



Of that I'm not yet certain.

MadCornishBiker On January 14, 2014

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St Columb Road, United Kingdom
#44New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 08:28:29
@Electric_Banana Said

Of that I'm not yet certain.




If I were to think in those terms at all I guess I could see us as pets, that God wants to live in peace with each other. I can't see us as lab rats because God has no need to learn anything, it is us who need to do the learning.

After all, if you had your own menagerie wuld you nt prefer they lived in peace with each other? All will one day.
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#45New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 08:48:24
@MadCornishBiker Said

If I were to think in those terms at all I guess I could see us as pets, that God wants to live in peace with each other. I can't see us as lab rats because God has no need to learn anything, it is us who need to do the learning.

After all, if you had your own menagerie wuld you nt prefer they lived in peace with each other? All will one day.



Maybe but my life has been a series of estrangement, alienation, rejection, and ridicule met with companionship at the last instances which then led to emotionally damaging scenarios proceeded again by rejection to carry on to rinse and repeat.

Thus far I have learned to disengage myself from others around me on sincere emotional, sentimental and sensitive levels.
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