Posts by Doltologist

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Help with understanding

by Doltologist in

please take pity on me someone and help.. i was going to say that i suffer from aspergers syndrome but actually, i've come to rather enjoy it.. no, seriously, i really do have aspergers which is why my posts may seem a little odd to some of you.

ok, they may seem bloody odd to most of you.. my world exists in a binary frame.

things are or they are not.. i know that in the "real world" things might be or might not be as well as are and are not.

Doltologist

Xanthippe

The Christians were taught to fear death because they feared judgement.

My feeling is that christards were taught to fear death through the creation of heaven and hell because they could threaten people with hell and reward them with heaven and thus control them. From about the 13th. century onwards, the church allowed the rich to 'pre-pay' their way into heaven by donating money and land to the church. That's how the christards got to be the rich assholes they now are. What a horrible sect christinsanity is.

If you haven't been, you must visit the Parthenon. Oh, and make sure you sign the petition to give the Elgin marbles back to Greece.

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What are you gonna do when the existence of god is disproved?

by Doltologist in

in 1897, j.j. thomson discovered the electron.

this was the first constituent part of the atom which, for 2,000 years, was thought to be indivisible.

today, we know of 18 elemental particles following the recent discovery of the higgs boson, the so-called god particle.. back in 1897, most people believed in god because there weren't even any theories as to how the universe came into being.

Doltologist

HMTM

This is a proper post and is deserving of a proper response. I don't have the time now but there will be one waiting for you when you sign on in the morning.

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What are you gonna do when the existence of god is disproved?

by Doltologist in

in 1897, j.j. thomson discovered the electron.

this was the first constituent part of the atom which, for 2,000 years, was thought to be indivisible.

today, we know of 18 elemental particles following the recent discovery of the higgs boson, the so-called god particle.. back in 1897, most people believed in god because there weren't even any theories as to how the universe came into being.

Doltologist

GDA

what r u going to do when God shows you he's God?

Do the logical thing and believe.

However, the chances of that happening ain't looking good.

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What are you gonna do when the existence of god is disproved?

by Doltologist in

in 1897, j.j. thomson discovered the electron.

this was the first constituent part of the atom which, for 2,000 years, was thought to be indivisible.

today, we know of 18 elemental particles following the recent discovery of the higgs boson, the so-called god particle.. back in 1897, most people believed in god because there weren't even any theories as to how the universe came into being.

Doltologist

@Morpheus

@dolt, there are people who still question that earth is a sphere. If such basic and easily proven facts are discounted something as ephemeral as god will always be believed in.

Unfortunately for Man, methinks that you are correct.

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What are you gonna do when the existence of god is disproved?

by Doltologist in

in 1897, j.j. thomson discovered the electron.

this was the first constituent part of the atom which, for 2,000 years, was thought to be indivisible.

today, we know of 18 elemental particles following the recent discovery of the higgs boson, the so-called god particle.. back in 1897, most people believed in god because there weren't even any theories as to how the universe came into being.

Doltologist

Half Banana

You are right of course, science doesn't provide a comfie blankie. However, that's not its intention. Maybe, instead of wasting our time praying to some make-believe deity, our time would be better spent 'living' and making the best of the life we are guaranteed of as opposed to thinking about the non-existent next one.

As for Darwin's 1859 evolution bombshell, he was concerned about being shunned by his fellow scientists because of the stronghold that christards had over science and life in general. Even now, christards want creationism taught in schools alongside evolution theory. It beggars belief, ffs, it's 2015 not the middle-bleedin'-ages.

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What are you gonna do when the existence of god is disproved?

by Doltologist in

in 1897, j.j. thomson discovered the electron.

this was the first constituent part of the atom which, for 2,000 years, was thought to be indivisible.

today, we know of 18 elemental particles following the recent discovery of the higgs boson, the so-called god particle.. back in 1897, most people believed in god because there weren't even any theories as to how the universe came into being.

Doltologist

Cofty

It is already beyond all reasonable doubt that the god of christian theism does not exist.

You know that, I know that and so does anyone with a brain that's not infected with religious beliefs. The problem is, when the brain becomes infected with christardry and the like, it becomes an illogical entity, starts to misfire and begins to create spurious and random output that make no sense to anyone.

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What are you gonna do when the existence of god is disproved?

by Doltologist in

in 1897, j.j. thomson discovered the electron.

this was the first constituent part of the atom which, for 2,000 years, was thought to be indivisible.

today, we know of 18 elemental particles following the recent discovery of the higgs boson, the so-called god particle.. back in 1897, most people believed in god because there weren't even any theories as to how the universe came into being.

Doltologist

Sir82

30 seconds on Google tells me that Isaac Newton proposed a "static universe" (no beginning, hence no creator) in the 17th century. This was the common scientific view until disproved in the early 20th century. That seems a pretty "reasonable alternative", given the understanding at the time.

I would love to see a source which indicates that "nearly 100% of Europeans believed in God in the 19th century". I'm always happy to be proven wrong.

And 15 seconds on Google told me that Sir Isaac Newton was a deeply religious man and wrote far more about religious matters that matters scientific.

The fact that he proposed a 'static' universe does NOT preclude a creator. A universe can have a creator regardless of whether it is static or not.

I presume that you are now happy since you have now been proven wrong.

Oh, here's some stats from 1900:

http://www.gla.ac.uk/0t4/humanities/files/mindmapping/Religion1_files/docs/religionstatistics.pdf

It shows that the % of Europeans that were christards was 97.51% unless I have me maths wrong (probably).

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What are you gonna do when the existence of god is disproved?

by Doltologist in

in 1897, j.j. thomson discovered the electron.

this was the first constituent part of the atom which, for 2,000 years, was thought to be indivisible.

today, we know of 18 elemental particles following the recent discovery of the higgs boson, the so-called god particle.. back in 1897, most people believed in god because there weren't even any theories as to how the universe came into being.

Doltologist

Sir82

Even as late as 2013, 75% of Europeans still considered themselves christian according to the Pew Research Centre. In 1897, the percentage would have been much higher since there were no reasonable alternatives to the creation of the universe by god and christards still held sway over people's lives (more's the pity).

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What are you gonna do when the existence of god is disproved?

by Doltologist in

in 1897, j.j. thomson discovered the electron.

this was the first constituent part of the atom which, for 2,000 years, was thought to be indivisible.

today, we know of 18 elemental particles following the recent discovery of the higgs boson, the so-called god particle.. back in 1897, most people believed in god because there weren't even any theories as to how the universe came into being.

Doltologist

Sir82

Here's what I actually wrote:

... near as damn it, 100% of Europeans believed in god because there simply wasn't a reasonable alternative.

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What are you gonna do when the existence of god is disproved?

by Doltologist in

in 1897, j.j. thomson discovered the electron.

this was the first constituent part of the atom which, for 2,000 years, was thought to be indivisible.

today, we know of 18 elemental particles following the recent discovery of the higgs boson, the so-called god particle.. back in 1897, most people believed in god because there weren't even any theories as to how the universe came into being.

Doltologist

Pixel

What did the greeks or romans do when they realized there gods did not exist as they thought?

I thought that you were going to ask - 'What did the Romans ever do for us? apart from ...." for one minute there. (Old joke).

Some continued to believe in their old gods until they died (the people that is, not the gods) and some converted to christinsanity. However, a belief system, which involved a deity that the good folks of Rome and Greece could pray to, believe in and go to when they died, still existed. They probably though that their old gods still existed but their new god was bigger, better and shinier. The colour of their comfie blankie had changed but their comfie balnkie remained.

The difference now is that there's gonna be an awful lot of people upset with their church for lying to them for all these years, and, there's gonna be no deity to pray to and believe in and no one to go to when they die. Their comfie blankie isn't about to change again, it's about to disappear.