Don't let my name change stop you from saying so many wonderful things about me and my poehms. >_>

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get on msn dude

well yes

DUDE. DUDE. We have to record a cover of Flint

lol nvm. I thought I clicked last page but it was page 1.

Please spoiler this post: http://www.fiveeightforums.com/showp...8&postcount=27

You have no idea how long it took me to load that page with my 1mb broadband.

Victory is mine.

"Isn't it a little presumptuous to assume that anyone with half a brain should instantly realize this and agree with you completely?"

I'm not sure where you think I've said this. Otherwise intelligent people believe stupid things. Travis believes all women are inherently evil/stupid. This is untrue, but Travis is an intelligent person. I didn't say, which is the mistake of Richard Dawkins, that if people are reasoned with, they will become atheists, or even question their own religion. I just said that it's stupid for them to believe.

The other accusation was that I was calling these people idiots. I'm not sure what you mean by writing people off who believe in God, because I obviously don't. I just don't agree with them on that particular issue. As I said earlier, I was calling their deism stupid, but not them. It's not the same thing. You could argue that insulting a person's worldview, being an extension of them, is also insulting them, but I don't think that's the case. You know I have much less than three for my deistic homies, and I don't think of them any less for it. Particularly my friends who, like yourself, are open about it if it's being discussed, but you aren't destructive. I'm sorry if I came off as arrogant. I thought you'd be used to the fact that I DO think it's stupid to believe in a god as we've described the idea so far. I'm not calling into question, when I say this, a person's overall intelligence, but their judgment on this particular issue. I don't think that I'm insulting a judge if I say that his decision was idiotic, if I like the rest of his verdicts, although I am saying his choice in that particular instance was a bad one.

However, you are right. I don't need to say it's stupid to be a deist. I can simply say, "No, there isn't a god." But as I've said, I've come to the point where I think it's just as preposterous to believe people float when you pick them up and let go of them as it is to believe in a god. I do not need to believe in something if there isn't sufficient evidence for it, and so I don't. God is an obsolete conclusion given the other explanations we have for phenomena in nature and in ourselves.

I apologize for the lack of organization in those paragraphs, but it is 3 am, and scattered amongst them are the things I meant to say.