a quora questioner asks "we can’t see oxygen but we need oxygen, the same applies for God, we can’t see God but we need God. How do atheists feel about this?"
R. Lichtenstein answers "we can see oxygen when its frozen into a liquid and then a solid. So, if u succeed in freezing 'god' (as a liquid or a solid), we might start to believe she exists. What do theists think about that?"
this is a weak argument on Rosa's part for this simple reason; they froze Han Solo but we knew he existed before they froze him. Ergo, not all things need to be frozen before we can know they exist.
promethean75 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 7:39 pm
a quora questioner asks "we can’t see oxygen but we need oxygen, the same applies for God, we can’t see God but we need God. How do atheists feel about this?"
If the statement in red font is true, then let's hope God actually exists. What else can a person say to them? "Hey, don't worry. I know God exists, so just rest your wittle head on the pillow while daddy goes and prays that some "Christian" president's military drone doesn't fly off course and blow the house up in the name of 'national security'."
"What is ape to man? A laughing stock or painful embarrassment. And man shall be that to overman: a laughingstock or painful embarrassment. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape..." - FN
Aw man they took the video down becuz it wasn't graphically violent. It was an asian dude videoing himself tryna break a beer bottle over his head. It doesn't break and he goes 'oooooow' and then cut to a couple monkeys laughing but it's human laughter overdubbed. That shit was funny.
Question: Do atheists realise that God is everywhere like air even if you can’t see it and if they don’t start believing in him quick they are going to turn purple and die?
Answer: ‘God’ exists in dog sh*t, eh? Cool. Why don’t you worship animal droppings, then? Or at the very least protect, preserve and cherish every single turd?
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Now in this one Rosa lands a little too bluntly (crudely, perhaps) due to her inability to function comfortably in conversation, whether civil or not, on the level of dimwits aksing stupid questions and/or exchanging sensless banter about matters she personally takes very seriously.
On the other hand - and quite at odds with what we would expect of someone with Rosa's condition - she excels at displays of tasteful and sophisticated humor. Her critical and rather creative sarcasm is unmatched in intellectual circles. Woe to he whom dares to match wits, in other words.
I believe that there are periods of quora question browsing where Rosa experiences a succession of stupid questions so overwhelming that she just snaps and finds the nearest theist to attack in that awkward late middle aged highly educated extremely well mannered and composed female intellectual marxist who only becomes this way in the presence of truly asinine questions, way. Like che Guevara when they caught him. That picture where he's got pine combs and shit in his hair from running through the woods in a shoot-out with the POleece. That's what happens to Rosa when she finds eight or more dumb theist questions in a row. Full guerilla mode. The erudite doctorate becomes a rabid survival knife wielding savage.
“The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.”
- Daniel Dennett, that genial colossus of cogitation who sadly passed away in April, wrote something about meaning and happiness that is quoted at the start of his obituary in this issue..(RL)
That was my favorite part too. Two old useless washed up rich white men arguing over who can hit a golf ball farther. If that didn't capture the spirit of the joke this country's government is, I don't know what did.
