Thread: I don't believe in God, gods, or a god named God...

Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan

So you believe the universe just randomly/magicly poofed into existance on that fatefull day 14 billion years agot at point X in an infinite void?

What makes you think that the universe is 14 billion years old?

Originally Posted by Bow To The Robots

I have always considered myself a rationalist. As such I don't believe in deities. Nor do I believe in ghosts, angels, demons, horoscopes, UFOs, other dimensions, vortices, auras, tree spirits, buffalo mothers, transcendent beings, cryptids, esp, astral projection, parapsychology, telepathy, clairvoyance, fortune-telling, reincarnation, channeling, witchcraft, majick, or any other "unexplainable' phenomena. I believe there is a rational explanation for all of it -- even if we haven't quite come upon it yet. Is there something wrong with me?

Without using words or actions, show us your thoughts.

Originally Posted by Anobsitar

No - I did not read Nietzsche. I always had the feeling Nietzschsheans are empty masks without the ability to be happy. A prejudice maybe because the [¿misunderstood?] Nietzsche was the main philosopher of the "god-is-dead"="god-is-death" Nazis. But perhaps Nietsche was only a poor guy.

What's the reason you ask about Nietzsche now?

http://youtu.be/J7z_bZ2D98o

Just because you were talking about German society and German people. The piece is actually one of the final works he did before his madness took over "Twilight of the Idols" along with "The Anti-Christ". Naturally I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate The Anti-Christ, but Twilight of the Idols is a good read and there is only a little criticism with regards to organised religion. He gives his usual implacable but pertinent commentary on the educational system which truly resonates with me. Esp. this: And everywhere an indecent haste prevails, as if something would be lost if the young man of twenty-three were not yet "finished," or if he did not yet know the answer to the "main question": which calling? A higher kind of human being, if I may say so, does not like "callings," precisely because he knows himself to be called. He has time, he takes time, he does not even think of "finishing": at thirty one is, in the sense of high culture, a beginner, a child.

Originally Posted by JohnConstantine

Just because you were talking about German society and German people. The piece is actually one of the final works he did before his madness took over "Twilight of the Idols" along with "The Anti-Christ".

The Anti-Christ - seen as an entity what is able to undo what Jesus Christ had done - is not existing. I don't believe in any form of Anti-God.

Naturally I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate The Anti-Christ,

I would not be able to be a warrior of the light without darkness. But the darkness is full of light.

but Twilight of the Idols is a good read

Twilight of what? Ah: "Götzendämmerung" - an interesting title. Remembers to the "Götterdämmerung" (twilight of the gods) of Wagner. Lot of insane pathos in such themes.

and there is only a little criticism with regards to organised religion.

¿?

He gives his usual implacable but pertinent commentary on the educational system which truly resonates with me. Esp. this: And everywhere an indecent haste prevails, as if something would be lost if the young man of twenty-three were not yet "finished," or if he did not yet know the answer to the "main question": which calling? A higher kind of human being, if I may say so, does not like "callings," precisely because he knows himself to be called. He has time, he takes time, he does not even think of "finishing": at thirty one is, in the sense of high culture, a beginner, a child.

I guess he had some problems in school.

http://youtu.be/ny7NZPfl0l4

I believe in dinosaurs.

I believe in carbon dating.

I believe in fusion... nuclear, not jazz.

Originally Posted by Bow To The Robots

I believe in fusion... nuclear, not jazz.

what no such thing as a jazz star?

Originally Posted by Bow To The Robots

I believe in carbon dating.

Carbon dating uses a lot of assumptions. You might as well pull a number out of a hat.

Originally Posted by The Wyrd of Gawd

Carbon dating uses a lot of assumptions. You might as well pull a number out of a hat.

Are you unfamiliar with isotope decay?

You are of carbon 12, just like everyone else here posting and reading.

6-6-6- electrons, protons, neutrons: C-12

Is that branding upon the head or what? (knowledge learned)