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Help Nick Gisburne

Support Nick gisburne banned from youtube.com for speaking his mind about religion, http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/bring-nickgisburne-back-to-youtube.html what he said was based on facts people, facts!
Take a look for yourselves
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JQ2MZI3ksag
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'Supernatural' (and 'immaterial') are broken concepts

Terms like "supernatural" or "immaterial" are broken concepts: They are attempts at reference that cannot actually refer to anything. They are broken terms because they are defined solely in the negative (according to what they are not) without any universe of discourse (anything left over for them to be). As Deludedgod states (see link to his page at bottom) these terms are eliminative negative terms, which can only denote an empty set, meaning that any further talk using these terms is incoherent.

So we have words that tell us what something ISN'T, without anything left over for them to be.

Immateriality - defined as neither matter nor energy. So, what's left over for it to be?

Supernatural - defined as 'not nature' or 'above nature' or 'beyond nature'. So again, what's left over for it to be?

Now some might respond at this point: but we use negative definitions all the time in coherent attempts to make reference. And we can, provided that there remains something left over for them to refer to, indirectly. Negative definitions can provide information through their universe of discourse - what is not ruled out, is identified.

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god is awesome

god is awesome

berlandk's picture

Where to start with this one?

This was too funny, I had to share. I'd posted my "Blasphemy Challenge" video on MySpace (go check out my profile: http://www.myspace.com/kathi_law), and I got a comment from a girl that said, "I really like your personality but hun you have to know what to follow and what to not the bible says many things but the most important out of the whole bible is beiliving in jesus and that he died on the cross and you accept him its that simple!!!!"

I couldn't pass that up. I sent her a message asking her to please tell me why she's the authority on what to follow and what not to follow in the Bible. Here's her wonderfully articulate response:

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Questions to invoke...

Questions to invoke...

1. If pretty much all myths, fables and legends are initially founded from some amount of truth at some time, is it so reasonable to believe that there is no God when practically every known ancient culture believed in One? Normally only details become exaggerated, so why does each have a common spine of a deity?

2. If one's world view mandate that no God exist, how could you clearly see the truth of a potentially existent God if it were starring you in the eyes? Wouldn't you simply dismiss the very thing you wish to know without ponder?

3.Where does man's innate sense of wrong come from that he knows he shouldn't bring harm on another person?

Thomas Quinn

Thomas Quinn

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Copy and paste

Well, it seems I must pwn you know Quan.

Quan wrote:It is not garbage. You are just upset that scholars don't agree with your nonsense.

I'd rather look into the majority view of modern scholars. What would these books establish? Your insane point?

This is a rather ironic statement; would you agree then that I am right in believing the majority of scientists who hold evolution as being true?

Quan wrote:I am not kidding. These evidence absolutely hold weight, and you haven't shown how they don't. The date doesn't have anything to do with the validity of the paper. And so what if they were Christians?! You sound insane right now. Am I justified in NOT listening to Richard Dawkins because he's an atheist? C'mon, get real.

Fine then, I will show how they don't. (WARNING - the fallowing statements contain facts, if you are not partial to them look away)

Ten Rules of Prophecy You Can Try at Home

Ten Rules of Prophecy You Can Try at Home
(Excerpt from upcoming book)

Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow

Prophecy—the age-old business of forecasting doom and getting to say “I told you so!” when nobody listens. True believers and skeptics both enjoy this material because they both think it makes their case. Believers use it to prove their faith in the Bible’s divine origins and skeptics deploy it to demonstrate that it’s all twaddle. Only one can be right. Let’s see which.

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Thomas Quinn

Thomas Quinn

Husband (Loren) and Tara

Husband (Loren) and Tara

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