Marquis vs. Luminon on the subject of Spirituality PEANUT GALLERY
Posted on: January 5, 2010 - 1:18pm
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Marquis vs. Luminon on the subject of Spirituality PEANUT GALLERY
Want to say something about Marquis and Luminon discussing Spirituality? This is the thread for it.
Here is their discussion: http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/19363
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I'm sure they'll make a cute couple.
this is for luminon:
i have a bottle of borovicka in my hand as i sing:
JUPI JO JO JUPI JUPI JO! JUPI JO JO JUPI JUPI JO!
if he looks at this, he'll know what i mean.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Spirituality - The narcissistic belief that one's own hallucinations and delusions make you special and superior to others.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. --Mark Skousen
a definition of spirituality I'll be surprised. Lum has an intensely personal view of reality that has sedimentary layers of curiousness while Marquis is a non-spritual atheist of more than usual directness of phrase and less than usual patience. Given Lum is never going to admit he is wrong if he can conceive another level to the rabbit hole, things simply must spark up at some point...
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
luminon really frustrates the shit out of me. it seems like it's always either speculation or "i have observed this stuff, i'm capable of sensing it, etc., etc." if it's observable even to a fraction of people, why not subject it to the scientific method?
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
because
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
But even more seriously, I wrote an e-mail to university in Brno where they have Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, I offered them my head for scanning as one of volunteers they needed. They didn't respond. I wonder how many such e-mails they get every week.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.
if you do, offer us a study, offer us data, offer something observable or at least falsifiable. otherwise there is no scientific methodology to it. the reason i assume that you don't apply the scientific method to the phenomena you experience is that you never offer any data, and on a website like this one would think that that would be the first thing you'd do. instead, you typically argue from vague allusions to personal experiences or search for connections between current scientific theory and occult teachings, seemingly in an attempt to demonstrate that the occult has beaten mainstream science to the punch and/or is ahead of mainstream science. the only problem is these connections are not demonstrable.
besides, shouldn't you be using your time for marquis right now? you two are the movie and we are the obnoxious theater patrons discussing you. let's keep it that way.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Because if you had, and a tenth of the shit you believe in was true, you'd have already won a Nobel Prize.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
Books about atheism
I'd be interested to see the results
Here's my comment:
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
http://hambydammit.wordpress.com/
Books about atheism
Currently, the #1 funniest line of 2010.
I laughed so hard I got a headache. Or maybe that was just focused mental energy. lol.
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I'm waiting for Marquis to acknowledge that M-theory is in the realm of metaphysics.
Dude, metaphysics has been the name of the game ever since the first appearance of the Copenhagen model.
Here's a lecture I find particularely (hah! pun!) funny:
"The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind." (Alphonse Donatien De Sade)
http://www.kinkspace.com