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suminonA

Is that really enough in order to get the Giant flower?

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suminonA

The way you do it is with a GIANT venus flytrap. Like on that has a diameter of 20 miles... it will just eat the city.

Feasability question: How do you grow the GIANT venus flytrap?

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suminonA

I see no point in looking for a way as the parameters of the challenge have already been met.

So, you're not open to NEW challenges?

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suminonA

Yes, or to quote a Descartes guy: "Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum; sum ergo Deus est".

Which amounts to: "I doubt therefore God exists".

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suminonA

Weâ€™re big because our imagination can encompass the whole Universe. And there is still room for doubt!

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I agree, Taalcon. In order to avoid further confusion, I was about to propose the term â€œdubitheismâ€ (sticking a Latin prefix â€“ â€œdubito ergo cogitoâ€ - to the Greek radical :D) for those holding the â€œI donâ€™t knowâ€ position. As opposed to (strong) agnosticism, indecision is based on lac...

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Ok, fair enough.

Can you find a way to do it if the flower is not poisonous ?

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Do you take the â€œhistoryâ€ of Adam and Eve as literally true, Yes. or is it just a metaphorical interpretation of some other events? Yes. How do you manage to combine the two? Further more, what do you think about the connection between this history and the way women were treated in early histor...

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Adam and Eve were not created in Eden proper, they were brought there after being told of the conditions of staying there. While earth was created for man, Satan was allowed to run free. He deceived Eve into thinking that partaking of the Tree was the only way to achieve Wisdom, and to become like ...

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datura/aconite/pick your favourite My favorite is the rose. Who said it is a poisonous flower? And why would the death of the leader destroy the city? Are people without a leader worthless? I say as long as at least one of the habitants stand, the city is not lost. Listhen to the crowd chanting: â€...

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Well in that case all you can do is attend different classes and see which teaching style works for you. Trust yourself to determine which teacher is better. In fact, a lot of the times I think that the teachers are teaching the same content even if their students insist that the minor difference a...

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Then I'd say that Humanity is also a "natural disaster".

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God could have made uranium so that it wouldn't cause amazingly big explosions and so it WOULDN'T kill cities full of people. If he is all-loving, why didn't he? Did he love all the people who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki because he made the universe just so ? When a tool is misused, we can blame...

suminonA

Present them if you will. We can surely turn it into a moral debate, as in : "Do you think it is ok to destroy the city with a flower, that way?"

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The student who refuses to study or do the work won't graduate and leave school. It's not the teacher's choice, it's the student's. One of my profs always used to say, "I don't fail any students, they fail themselves." Like most professors/teachers, he genuinely wanted us all to pass and ...

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NOTE: Please take into account the full context of my last posts in this thread. Iâ€™m answering to a challenge and the â€œreasonsâ€ Iâ€™m using are not necessarily what I (really/truly) believe, but what I think would work to accomplish the task. So, overall irony is unavoidable. ;) Iâ€™ll treat y...

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whatever the definition may be. whether i'm atheist or agnostic or whatever... i think of it like this: if there is a god, then he hates me. i'd rather not have a diety dislike me, so i'd much rather believe that there is no diety. on the other hand, god does hate me. Incidentally, I understand ath...

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And you're assuming that the only evidence for God's existance is the faith/opinion/testimony of the vast majority of humanityâ€”including most of the greatest thinkers of history. But the evidence [noteâ€”I say "evidence", not "proof"] for God's existance is more varied than th...

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Empirical/weak/negative agnosticism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_agnosticism Ok, I see where the â€œconfusionâ€ comes from. [joke] With that, you can call me a â€œweak agnosticâ€, to which I would answer: â€œWhat, now Iâ€™m not only an agnostic, but a weak one too?â€ :x [/joke] I use the t...

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Oh, one more thing: The advantage of being an atheist is that life has meaning even if there is no deity.
The fact that IPU exists or not is irrelevant to me.

I've made my choice, and I stand for the consequences.

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suminonA

I am actually an agnostic because I have yet to be given cogent evidence that will persuade me into believing one way or another. So if a deity slaps me in the face, I will say, "hey, what the hell did you do that for? You could have just said hi, or perhaps taken me out for dinner. What the h...

suminonA

Isn't doubting also the first step towards thinking?

I never said it wasn't. But don't misinterpret correlation as causality.

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Atheism, as a philosophical position, is the positive affirmation of a negative. That isâ€”atheism doesn't say "God hasn't been proven", that's agnosticism. Atheism says "there is no God". I don't think that's philosophically tenable. Has it occurred to you that the definition y...

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My problem with agnosticism is this: Agnosticism is the position that we can never know with certainty whether there is a God or not . Which is fair. But we can also never know with certainty whether there is a spoon or not . We can never know for sure if our senses are trustworthy, we can never kn...

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Hmmm, this reminds me of something ... I donâ€™t only have limited intelligence, but also limited originality ;) So he can only see the holy writings if he first believes in them? Thatâ€™s a very blunt way of putting it, but it is correct. If he doesnâ€™t truly have the inner strength to believe it...

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Well, you first need to prove yourself worthy of that revelation. You know, the deity doesn't want you to feel forced into believing. And it won't be tricked by you either. It can sense true commitment, remember? If you don't choose to believe by your own free will , then you are not worthy of its g...

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I infiltrate the city and start a â€œrumorâ€, soon to become a â€œlegendâ€, soon to become a â€œfactâ€ that there is an all-powerful deity that watches all that is happening in the city. Well, that is certainly a solid start. ::covers eyes and refuses to read the rest of the post:: Oh, but the p...

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Iâ€™m still not convinced about that. Anything can be destructive, given enough intelligence. A. Destroy a city with a flower, I'd like to see you try. I take the challenge. This is what I come up, using my limited intelligence: You give me a flower, and a city. You ask for the flower to destroy th...

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Why did God create the sun? When it goes supernova, it will wipe us out. I suppose you say "us" as in "Humans", because none of the present living individuals would actually be a witness to the Sun going supernova. So, how do you know that Humans won't colonise other planets bef...

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Warning: Iâ€™m one of those persons that can be best described as being an atheist. Yet, my interest in this thread is not only on the â€œscientificâ€ side, but also on the â€œmoral philosophy/religionâ€ one. And I tend to take such subjects quite seriously, meaning that Iâ€™m interested in learni...

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Why did God create the sun? When it goes supernova, it will wipe us out. I suppose you say "us" as in "Humans", because none of the present living individuals would actually be a witness to the Sun going supernova. So, how do you know that Humans won't colonise other planets bef...

suminonA

Greetings, suminonA. Have some limeade, on behalf of the Canadian Alliance.

Thanks! *drinks* Wait, I was not supposed to consume alcoholic drinks! Doing thath makers mee loooose mye writtining abbabiliyeties.

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suminonA

Thank you for the third option. In the poll, that is.

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suminonA

I should think about some smart reply, instead I just write this and think about it later.

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Thank you, it's nice to be (welcomed) here.

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