Violent thugs and hooligans brutally attack police officers in D.C.

Ironic, from a Trump cultist. Are we just casting aside the definition of words now?

No, govt itself is not “a religion”, by definition it cannot be as we are missing the “deity”. Although i hope we’d agree we should all probably have more reverence to the constitution, it is not a deity, it was crafted by men and our government is still run by (much lesser) men and women.

 

Y'all worship government. It IS your deity.

C'est la vie.

 

You believe everything came about accidentally, with no intelligence guiding it. Lol! Why would anything mean anything, if we're all the result of incredibly fortuitous accidents? Lottery winners, trillions of times over and over again, every day! Yeehaw!

 

Btw, Trump cultust?

His only appeal was as resitence to the neo prog cancer yall champion.

He's entirely replaceable.

 

Life came about naturally. It has meaning if we give it meaning. And accidents happen every day. I have the intelligence to give these accidents meaning. Or not. No grand designer needed.

And if there was an intelligent designer, why do our knees bend the way they do? If they bent more like birds' knees, there would be a lot less ACL and MCL injuries, and I probably wouldn't be dealing with daily, arthritic knee pain.

 

Lol!

...and there you have it.

The earth farted, and oopps.. life just happened.

...and then kept on happening, over and over again, accidentally, ad nauseum, ad infinitum...

 

Life is likely abundant in our universe. It's estimated to be around 11 billion in habitable planets. To believe we're unique, or intelligently designed for a specific purpose? That's what I find funny.

 

I worship nothing, government to me is nothing but a necessary part of civil society. What a government does exactly is up for debate. But for our form of government to work it requires good faith actors to hold back the corrupt and the vile.

 

Not this shit again!

I believe that “randomness” occurring over billions of years is far more likely than an all knowing sky god. When you die you cease to exist, there is no afterlife. No heaven. No hell. A human corpse becomes worm food. What you perceive as “existence” simply stops when the neurons in your brain stop firing, just as it does when every other lesser animal dies. That’s my belief. Deal with it.

I don’t really care what other religions or cults believe. In this country people can believe whatever they want as long as they don’t commit crimes or try to impose their religious fanaticism upon others or limit minority religions from practicing freely.

 

Billions of years might explain the first miracle, that found all these perfect ingredients on the same place, at the same time...

The trillions of *accidents* that followed...to accidentally reproduce itself....and to continue to do so over and over again....accidentally...and to accidentally develop into more sophisticated forms...

Yeah, no intelligence required at all..

"That shit again?" Should be my line.

 

Everything I've seen from mkt economies to top chess playing is that the intelligence of induction >>> intelligence of deduction. You sound like a Marxist.

 

Your math is missing a key variable: it is billions of years across billions of independent events (planets). That would mean that you would have somewhere in the range of quintillions of planet years even if you exclude planets not capable of sustaining carbon-based life. Given this, the likelihood of life developing many times at random given this is very, very close to 1.

 

Marxists categorically deny the existence of God. If you employrd a modicum of deductive reasoning, youd have no choice but to rule me out as such. But i guess that wouldn't be clever.

How's this for clever: y'all are so brilliant, youve dun come full circle to plumb stupid, and managed to use your God given intelligence, to conclude that no intelligence was ever required, to yield all intelligence.

...pass the bong, bra!

 

nothing to do with belief in god. everything to do with thinking centralization is more intelligent than decentralization & the hubris behind that thinking. you seem to think there is only 1 kind of intelligence & it is the one that is most unnatural & that pretty much only exists as a theoretic construct.

 

How pray tell do you make this baseless leap to me favoring centralization over decentralization, and in what flippn context???

 

posts #3566 & #3570. You see a complex outcome like humans & insta-think, centralization. I see complex outcomes & insta-think decentralized adaptive processes.

 

Nah. I conclude through the most elementary of deductove reasoning and basic logic, that life is the fruit of super genius, while the contrary view, that intelligence could come about accidentally by dumb luck, is so patently prosperous, as to essentially rule itself out (and therefore dare I say, insulting to my intelligence).

To then suggest that the source of intelligence be 'decentralized ', i take you to mean that not only did the extraordinary miracle of intelligence come about accidentally, but did so repeatedly...at the same time...

That's like laughing at some one for the foolishness of the notion of winning the lottery a million times in a row bc... "...given enough time, why anything could happen ", then countering with "why you could win a million different lotteties, at the same time, a million times on a row...on shear luck...given enough time."

 

But god just happened. Congrats mr. logic.

 

A mystery beyond comprehension.

But life being the fruit of intelligence, rather than intelligence, the fruit of life, is much more probable by an immeasurable factor.

From whence the inteeligence that yielded life, is subject to debate...pretending that intelligence just accidentally came into being in order to shut that down any debate, is just silly.

 

I never used the word accident. I never addressed the origin of life or intelligence. I don't know & I don't care. I was addressing the weirdness of favoring one type of intelligence over what IMO, is a far more powerful/far more observed type of intelligence.

wrt the bolded: pass the bong, indeed!