The Existence of God (Myspace Edition)

[Modman]

I've spoken with Kalev. He's joining a fraternity, so he had to double up on homework last week to cover the homework from last week and this week, as this week he'll be busy doing fraternity joining tasks. Once he's finished with that, he plans to return to the debate.

[Lazy Bastard]

Cool. In the meantime, we should dig up some arguments for either side, and fuel the debate in his absence. Perhaps I'll "pen" something after work sometime.

[Lazy Bastard]

For those who still have MySpace accounts, I replied a little more to the MySpace remnant of this debate here: http://forum.myspace.com/index.cfm?f...astpagesent=0&

[Mike The Metalhead]

I have no proof that god exists, and I have no proof that he doesn't, so fuck off.

And if he does exist, he's an asshole anyway.

[Lazy Bastard]

The point is, especially when considering one religion over another, that there's no specific reason to believe "he" does exist. It's just as arbitrary to believe in a magical teapot orbiting the sun, as Bertrand Russell noted.

[Mike The Metalhead]

I'm not an Atheist, and I don't believe in god either. I'm more of a fuckoffist.

And wouldn't you agree that if people were all like that, it would so much simpler? Then we could leave alone that pointless subject and talk about interesting stuff.

[Lazy Bastard]

That would be a lot better than the current state of things, but it still leaves room for irrationality. There's no reason to believe in a god, and plenty of reasons not to. While we don't necessarily know there isn't one, we don't necessarily know there isn't a magical teapot orbiting the sun. We shouldn't worship either of them, much less live our lives according to our myths about them.

[Mike The Metalhead]

We'll never know about that, so why should we even care to find an answer to something we know we'll never find an answer to? That's how I see it. It's useless, so let's not waste time on it.

But if I actually lived by that, I'd have to kill myself.

Oh wow, did that sound emo? Saying I'm useless in a subtle way? Well it was NOT emo. It was realistic. Isn't there only one specie you could take away from earth without having any other die? That would be humans. So we're all useless. So what? Am I supposed to care? We're still the ones who fuck with earth the most. And thanks to us, dogs and cats have fucking easy lives.

What's funny though is people like BEN over at GSC who keep coming up with their fucking religion like it matters. I don't fucking care what whoever said 2000 years ago, even if he did say it! Seriously, he quotes the bible in topics. That's just fucking retarded! All Jesus gave you is the chance to still be made fun of 2000 years later. Stop worshipping that bastard! Worship me instead! At least you know I'm real!