You too may be touched by his noodly appendage - bow before him!
AK - Jeff
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Not a Pastafarian yet? Do not delay!
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After the supper, he said 'Ramen'!
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He also walked on water - don't believe in miracles? Just look:
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Astounded Newbie Here...*Waves Hello*
by mummatron inall i can say is "wow!
" in the 10 years i've been out i had no idea that forums like this existed.
a tad naive-sounding for someone with a background in it, i know, but it's taken me this long just to feel comfortable enough to type 'jw' into google.
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Welcome. Aren't open eyes wonderful, no matter how long it takes to get them open?
Namaste
Jeff
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Paperless society?
by AK - Jeff inwith the advances in digital communication, when will society move to paperless?.
nooks/kindles are making books obsolete.
computer/internet is making newsprint obsolete.
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I agree about the feel/look/smell of real books. Still, there is an entire generation now that have not experienced a lifetime of that sort of nostalgia, and I think prob never will. This generation is all about fast/compact/easy to file digitally.
Same with paper and offices. The geek generation will find more and creative ways to eliminate it, both physically and legally, given time.
Papyrus, vellum, scrolls all went away with new tech approaches. Same will happen with books/papers/files over time. I just wonder how soon it will happen. 100 years ago it could not imagined the technologies that have enacted nearly an entire world that would be fully alien to our great-grandparents. Technology is moving at a rate multiple to anything experienced on the planet, and I doubt there are any 'sacred cows' that will survive because of nostalgia.
Jeff
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Paperless society?
by AK - Jeff inwith the advances in digital communication, when will society move to paperless?.
nooks/kindles are making books obsolete.
computer/internet is making newsprint obsolete.
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With the advances in digital communication, when will society move to paperless?
Nooks/Kindles are making books obsolete. Computer/Internet is making newsprint obsolete. Email/etc is making postal letters a thing of the past.
Not gone yet. Perhaps never gone. But looks like paper forms of communication are going the way of the Edsel before long.
Thoughts?
Jeff
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Of Teapots and the Tooth Fairy
by AK - Jeff in"a friend, an intelligent lapsed jew who observes the sabbath for reasons of cultural solidarity, describes himself as a tooth fairy agnostic.
he will not call himself an atheist because it is in principle impossible to prove a negative.
but "agnostic" on its own might suggest that he though god's existence or non-existence equally likely.
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"A friend, an intelligent lapsed Jew who observes the Sabbath for reasons of cultural solidarity, describes himself as a Tooth Fairy Agnostic. He will not call himself an atheist because it is in principle impossible to prove a negative. But "agnostic" on its own might suggest that he though God's existence or non-existence equally likely. In fact, though strictly agnostic about God, he considers God's existence no more probable than the Tooth Fairy's.
Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.
The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them -- teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh -- the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so." -- Richard Dawkins, following a list of excerpts from hate mail sent to the editor of Freethought Today, after she won a separationist court battle, in "A Challenge To Atheists: Come Out of the Closet" (Free Inquiry, Summer, 2002) paragraph division added -
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Atheist reasoning
by d inhere is a athiest video on god.god is a diease of the mind.. http://youtu.be/zcun4l35yqg.
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James Woods - you make an excellent point.
If the people on this board that currently argue feverishly to produce a 'God of love' from the Bible - if those same people had been born in Athens 2500 years ago, they would be making the same specious arguments in favor of the Greek pantheon of gods. They would dismiss all reasonable information about contradictions, serious flaws. They would ignore all rational thought regarding the atrocities committed by those gods, and embrace any tidbit that could show their particular 'god of the day' to be loving, kind, compassionate, concerned, and just - including selective argumentation favoring 'figurative renderings' of particular writings/oral stories.
I find it intellectually repugnant to see people defend the Christian god, while at the same time dismissing wholesale the larger part of their own Holy Writ and Record of his acts in order to accomplish these theological gymnastics.
Just as the ancient Greek mythology was eventually replaced by more 'modern' theologies, so too, over time, this Christian foolishness will become just a thing of historical record. In the meantime, billions of lives are wasted in believing these fantasies.
Jeff
