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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:34 PM
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Solomon Says: Both of You Are Right.
Solomon says this:

Both of you are right so stop bashing each other to death. People who believe in God are right, and people who believe there is no God are right.

Since we know that there is anti-matter, black holes, i.e., what we would think of as negative, then that means there's a God and an anti-God. In fact, there can't be a God, without an anti-God.

Religious people need to lighten up on the stupid dogma, after all, we are all in this thing together and you just can't go around damning people to hell and trying to convert them because of some irrelevant trivial issue. Stop trying to convert people who have already heard the Gospel.

Atheists need to stop sneering at religious people as though they are stupid and superstitious. It's true that it is a rite of passage, and a symbol of maturity, to understand that religion has a lot of bull in it, but the bull comes from corrupt influences along the way. Doesn't mean that belief in God is bullshit. Stop with the sneering and condescending attitude toward religious folk. None of us would be here without religious folk.

To religious people I say, you can't have a God without an anti-God. And to atheists I say, you can't have an anti-God without a God.

So there, get off each other's case and lighten up and come together.


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morgan2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:41 PM
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1. but religion is all corrupt influences
if you can't argue your point, it just means you don't hold them that deeply, which is ok.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:52 PM
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5. No. Religion comes from a pure source. As pure a source as there
can be. Don't disrespect it because it has been corrupted. The priest class has used it to gain power. But the ultimate source is prescious. Pure reverent innocence. Holy reverence. Wonder and awe.
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:42 PM
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2. True, there can't be good without evil
Or else there would be nothing to compare it to.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:46 PM
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3. No hot without cold, no light without dark,
and no white without black.
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Northwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:51 PM
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4. Sorry to burst your bubble
But Ultimate Truth does not hinge on a good line from a (admittedly excellent) Ridley Scott film.

Evil does not exist except as a value judgment from one person to another, and as such is entirely subjective and effectively meaningless on a cosmic level.

White and black are simply words for quantities of light, and light and dark are just slightly more subjective labels for the same thing.

Cold and hot are actually not opposites, they are the same thing (the excited level of electrons in an atom) in varying amounts.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 06:54 PM
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6. And you are agreeing yet saying you
are disagreeing. Hah! :smoke:
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Northwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:03 PM
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7. I apologize if I gave that impression
Since the above post is too subtle:

Stupid and tired platitudes might make good Hallmark cards, but they are not good for much of anything else. Say something meaningful, or at least original, or shut the hell up.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:08 PM
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10. Oh, now you trying to brag on yourself.
"too subtle". I see. You think I'm stupid. Why don't you explain why anti-matter doesn't matter?
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Northwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:12 PM
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12. In all honesty
I do not think you are stupid.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 08:07 PM
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14. Oh. Please don't let me interrupt you from bursting all the
bubbles. Carry on.
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PapaClay Donating Member (297 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:06 PM
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8. I'm pretty live and let live
but at the end of the day, I don't care if they lighten up on their dogma or not.

I still won't do what they tell me.
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thinkahead Donating Member (247 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:07 PM
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9. Physics brings us all together
literally
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Nobody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:11 PM
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11. The absence of matter is not anti-matter
And the absence of god is not anti-god. But I do see your point. People on both sides of the fence have been flaming away and we all deserve respect. Even if we don't agree.
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-03 07:17 PM
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13. You put too fine a point on it, but of course you are technically right.
But you still can't get to a no-God, without an anti-God pulling you that way.
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