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Originally posted by Gluk Schmuck
But do you actually belive in God or not?
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Like I said, I don't really care. Do you believe that a traffic cone could, if properly motivated, run for and win a seat in parliament? Never thought about that one, did you? That's because you never had a good reason to. I think that it's sort of a silly way to spend your time, trying to form an opinion on a matter for which there is absolutely no evidence one way or the other, especially when there's really nothing to gain for it. The argument of whether or not there is a God is alot like Heidegger's cat experiment: he put a cat in a box, and said that, as long as you don't check in any way to see if it's in there, it isn't. Whether or not it's true is impossible to prove, because testing it by it's own rules voids your results. The standard Christian etc. definition of god has gotten so abstract that you can't prove he exists because he is, by definition, beyond human comprehension, and you can't disprove his existance by the same token. We've painted ourselves into a corner on the issue by re-defining God every time an argument comes around against the old image of him- we flew, so he didn't live in the clouds anymore. We got to the moon, so he wasn't there anymore. We've looked all over the universe, and now he's supposedly unseeable. The idea of God constantly evolves away from arguments for it, making it impossible to either prove or disprove by any effort, until we get to a standstill and there's nothing but opinions left on either side. And, like everything this pointless and confusing, I tend to lose interest very quickly and eat Cheetos. Mm, Cheetos...