Too bad that. More free time makes more sense. But...if you think having life be easier and more pleasure for those who would prefer it...is something...
Read what I wrote above. Why are we so wedded to the idea that people must work...in order to have the stuff they need for a reasonable life? Me...I'm...
Why not just come to the realization that we have MORE THAN ENOUGH for everyone...and just find a more efficient system to distribute the bounty...one...
Thank you, CS. Actually, we have pretty much determined that one of us WILL die. (In fact, we are certain that we will BOTH die at some point.) Neithe...
Just a casual warning that advice from non-professionals, no matter how well-meaning or well-intended...is more likely to lead in a negative direction...
Yeah, like GMBA, I was VERY promiscuous as a young man. Had a ball. Loved the life style...and would not change any of the memories. But now I've been...
For me, "debate" (especially in an Internet forum) is just fun...a pleasant, engaging pastime that stimulates the brain much as a brisk walk stimulate...
Unfortunately, to those on the RIGHT from almost any country... ...reporting the truth is leaning to the left. Ya know what...it is, because the last ...
What really has to be known is... ...what people in this discussion mean by "atheist" when discussing the issue. If they simply mean "someone lacking ...
If you had specified, "This thing that we humans call 'the universe'...I might have agreed with part of your argument. But to suppose that what we hum...
I'm 83. The last thing in the world I want is to live forever. Perhaps that is a thing one loses when one ages...but the only time I remember wanting ...
Yeah, the 60's have some horrible memories for those who were around, Gill. Lots of truly bad stuff went down. But it was a transformative time...and ...
Your last thought first. Since I was serving in SAC during the 1950's, I WAS around during the 1960's. The 60's were a blast...and my personal opinion...
Yup, Tim, Earth as Utopia IS a long way off. In fact, Earth as a scorched Earth is probably more likely; Earth as a gigantic, intolerable chasm betwee...
I just wanted to agree with that last point...and add: I also don't see how "living forever" has the attraction it has for those who suppose it will h...
Apparently you are one of those people who cannot acknowledge being wrong...so instead you distort. No problem. It is one of the things I supposed abo...
Mine is...so obviously it is at least "possible." Perhaps you are defining "meaningful" too harshly. If one defines a "meaningful" life as a satisfyin...
As I see it, "The Good Life" mostly centers around self-contentment. That is obtained in many ways...some of which have been mentioned in the precedin...
Thank you, Christian. I agree that fighting during the Civil War (an oxymoron if ever there was one) must have been hell. Fighting in any war is. Too ...
He did NOT answer my question in the first line of his response... ...and my reading comprehension and writing skills are way above average. Obviously...
I am not "wrong", young man, that I am not an atheist...whether of the weak-headed type or the rock-headed variety. My guess about you apparently was ...
I've noticed your questions to others and I am curious. I am a vet...served in SAC during the 1950's. We were major league bad-asses...the most bad-as...
All those words in answer to my question...and with no answer. Here is my question again: Apparently you call yourself an atheist. My guess is that YO...
No problem, Wallows. I have the same disdain for the "America is the Greatest" crowd as you. As many have noted, the more "patriotism" is pushed...the...
You seem to be making the assumption that ALL Americans feel the way you are describing. Yes, there are Ugly Americans (we have one as our president r...
The question now being debated here is whether it makes more sense for the word "atheist" to be used the way some atheists want it to be used...or to ...
I appreciate your sentiments, Phorrest...and I understand why you feel that way. Mostly this is NOT a problem. But on the Internet it does become one....
Not sure what you are getting at. You seem to be positing axioms that have no basis. How do you arrive at "everything is true?" How do you arrive at "...
I have been offering good, compelling arguments right along. You apparently refuse to acknowledge that...for some reason. I am sure it is a good reaso...
I can defend everything I have written. And with intelligent people, there usually is no need to do so. They get what I am saying...and understand it ...
Yeah, David... ...why can't you realize that people like Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, and Stephen Hawking were just ignorant people who just did not u...
Thank you, David. It is easy for people like Dingo to suggest I am stupid because of my position on this issue. I suspect it is much more difficult to...
Very easy. All one has to do is to tell the truth...as I am doing...by just saying, "I am NOT an atheist." Yeah...just ignore the gratuitous usage bas...
Not completely sure why, but this thread reminds me of an old Catholic joke. Jesus intervenes with a crowd about to stone a woman found to have commit...
You'd have to as Thomas Huxley that. But for me...it allows a person who does not have a "belief" that any gods exist...to differentiate him/herself f...
Non-theist describes anyone who does not have a "belief" that any gods exist. Atheist, no matter how much people who use the term as a descriptor, are...
Absolutely correct, David. Here are two quotes from Albert Einstein: It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie whic...
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