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(NEWSER) – A community in British Columbia is feeling warm and fuzzy after a homeless man's generosity inspired residents not once but twice over the past two weeks. First, the unidentified man with little to his name found a suitcase with $2,000 in it on a street in Victoria, but turned over the c...

In what is perhaps my own romanticism I sort of imagine him giving up on society as if to say to us all that we're all nothing more than fools. Is he perhaps a modern day Diogenes? :?: I think u'r conclusion is waaaayyyy off, if had given up on society he wouldn't donate to it, as in donating to a ...

The benefits of free-market capitalism have been proven over and over again. That's why Hong Kong economics today is more like the United States than China. You mean the same Hong Kong where roughly 50% of the population lives in public housing provided by their government because they couldn't aff...

HexHammer wrote:

Gary Childress wrote:I would be very surprised if the genesis story in the bible is a factual account of what it purports to be a factual account of. But I also don't necessarily believe that if the Bible isn't factual that therefore there is no god.

Joan of Arc was a reasonable proof of God.

Why do you say that?

Sounds like good advice.

And what does god do? Admittedly, I guess when I think of a god I sort of think of a divine moral "accountant" who keeps tabs on us all and somehow holds us accountable for things we do or don't do, sort of like an omnipresent "witness". Otherwise maybe god really doesn't need t...

bobevenson wrote:

Gary Childress wrote:Most of those billions of dollars are donated to offset the ravages of capitalism.

Is that your socialist fantasy? It has nothing to do with reality.

Maybe it is my "socialist fantasy". Sort of like your "capitalist fantasy".

I chose not to be, because god made me such that I am too skeptical to believe. No choice is free, from gods perspective. If go is all powerful then he has know from the beginning of time that he created me to die a sinner. That's the problem with free will. Whatever you think it might be. Free wil...

And what does god do? Admittedly, I guess when I think of a god I sort of think of a divine moral "accountant" who keeps tabs on us all and somehow holds us accountable for things we do or don't do, sort of like an omnipresent "witness". Otherwise maybe god really doesn't need t...

Experience has to be personal, and we experience things that have no external reality; pain, hunger - but also dreams, hallucinations and illusions. I agree 100%. If a supreme being wanted to communicate with people and be taken seriously by more people, such a being could surely do so in ways whic...

Maybe I just need to write a book about my struggle communicating with fools. The AEP has an ideology, a modus operandi, a goal, a logo and a flag. I guess the only thing missing is a book. Someone already beat you to it, Bob. The title is "Mein Kampf". It was written by a person who thou...

Gary, Define God and the theory of its existence. What work does this theory do? Since there have been so many different conceptions throughout history of particular characteristics of god, the best I can do to "define" a god would be as some sort of supreme being that is somehow essentia...

Maybe I just need to write a book about my struggle communicating with fools. The AEP has an ideology, a modus operandi, a goal, a logo and a flag. I guess the only thing missing is a book. Someone already beat you to it, Bob. The title is "Mein Kampf". It was written by a person who thou...

Experience has to be personal, and we experience things that have no external reality; pain, hunger - but also dreams, hallucinations and illusions. I agree 100%. If a supreme being wanted to communicate with people and be taken seriously by more people, such a being could surely do so in ways whic...

I'm saying it "could" be evidence of some sort of supreme being. Yep. Could be the tooth fairy. What is your argument for ruling out all such testimonies? If it sounds like bullshit it is. Obviously I just don't have the same ability to spot "bullshit" when I see it. Perhaps I'm...