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The Orange County Register ^
| 11 June 2002
| Richard Cheek
Posted on 06/11/2002 10:12:35 AM PDT by thinktwice
Edited on 04/14/2004 10:05:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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In your June 7 editorial on the moving of the Ayn Rand Institute to Irvine ["Ayn Rand in O.C.''], you stated that you took issue with some of Ayn Rand's positions, including her ardent atheism. In today's world of terrorism and conflicts fueled by ardent religious beliefs, it would seem appropriate that you would take issue with ardent religious people, not with any atheists.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: atheism; aynrand; catholiclist; religion
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To: f.Christian
The concept/belief/reality of God requires a soul/life(mind)
That's an interesting assertion. I believe that I have "life" and that I have a "mind" -- at least by currently accepted definitions -- but I'm not aware of whether or not I have a "soul". Could you perhaps provide a definition for a "soul" and explain how I determine whether or not I have one and, if I don't have one, how I could go about obtaining one?
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To: Dimensio
Simple...free-will/thinking---liberated/enlightened(wise=sapien) vs dumb-will/thinking!
To: Dimensio
Yeah...FREE will/thinking---LIVING too!
To: Dimensio
...how I could go about obtaining one? I can sell you mine ;)
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06/13/2002 4:21:26 PM PDT
by
BMCDA
To: f.Christian
Simple...free-will/thinking---liberated/enlightened(wise=sapien) vs dumb-will/thinking!
That really does not give me any useful information regarding the definition of "soul" nor in the methods employed in obtaining one. Could you perhaps relate what you have stated above with "soul"?
To: lexcorp
D'oh! You found out.
987
posted on
06/13/2002 4:22:22 PM PDT
by
BMCDA
To: Dimensio
As/usual there is a tradeoff if you want sincereity(soul)...w/o the pride-ego/bias is a prerequisite---
hypocrisy/psychosis you can be everything(nothing)...absent of soul!
Truth(soul) does't tolerate insincereity!
To: f.Christian
Hrmm...I'm having trouble understanding your posts. Is English not your first language?
To: f.Christian
D'oh! Holy crap! Who invited the babbler?
To: Dimensio
r-e-p-e-n-t!
To: Dimensio
Is English not your [f.christian's] first language? You don't understand creationism-speak?
To: Dimensio
Is English not your first language? I doubt that this is the problem.
993
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06/13/2002 4:37:06 PM PDT
by
BMCDA
To: Dimensio
Assuming that some intelligent entity of some kind that exists beyond the universe is an assumption based not on evidence for its truth but ignorance of any alternative methods. No, it is based on evidence, it's just that the evidence is not empiracally testable.
To: lexcorp
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; the New Testament writers; It's a good thing some of them knew how to write; otherwise how would we know that God was with them? Hello!
My (so far unrecognized) point was that I'd expect the same God that carved out the ten commandments for Moses would at least send us personal human representatives -- Sons of God, or whatever -- that could write.
To: Tribune7
No, it is based on evidence, it's just that the evidence is not empiracally testable.
What kind of useful evidence cannot be empirically tested?
To: PatrickHenry
This notion is like the Terminator. It just won't die, no matter how many times you shoot it, blow it up, crush it, burn it, etc., it just keeps on coming ... You are shooting at the notion but you can't stop it because you are firing blanks.
Harold Morowitz estimates the probability of all necessary conditions existing simultaneously for a single "simple" cell to be at 1 in 10100,000,000,000, or similar to the odds of winning 10,000 lotteries in a row.
Sir Frederick Hoyle (an avowed atheist) calculates the odds of only the proteins of an amoebae arising by chance as 1 in 1040,000!
Francis Crick has rejected spontaneous generation on Earth.
You'd be better off waiting for a miracle.
To: Tribune7
10,000 lotteries in a row...wow!
To: Tribune7
10,000 lotteries in a row...wow!
To: Tribune7
10,000 lotteries in a row...wow!
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