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Proof there is no God?
Topic Started: Oct 31 2005, 05:15 AM (1,555 Views)
ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
God only "allows" it happen in front of his kids because we have free will, which even includes being careless. If somehow God were to have intervened so that his kids did not see it, he'd be a micromanager.

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In his Proslogion, St. Anselm claims to derive the existence of God from the concept of a being than which no greater can be conceived. St. Anselm reasoned that, if such a being fails to exist, then a greater being — namely, a being than which no greater can be conceived, and which exists — can be conceived. But this would be absurd: nothing can be greater than a being than which no greater can be conceived. So a being than which no greater can be conceived — i.e., God — exists.


Since I can conceive of a being that is greater than a micromanager, that micromanager would not be God.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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Since I can conceive of a being that is greater than a micromanager, that micromanager would not be God.


You should meet my boss. He is a micro-manager, and he thinks he is God. :(
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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ivorythumper
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:lol:

I've met MANY of those!
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The 89th Key
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This is just another reason why you should get baptized as an adult in a river! :woot:
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ivorythumper
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I loved the river baptismal scene in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou".
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Well, yeah...sorta.

It was cool...sorta.
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***musical princess***
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ivorythumper
Nov 1 2005, 05:56 PM
I loved the river baptismal scene in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou".

That was the single poorest film i've ever seen in my life. I went to see it with a few friends a few years back for someone's brithday and it got so boring we ended up having a natcho fight with the people sitting near the front (it was a faairl empty cinema and everyone found us more amusing than the film :P )

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ivorythumper
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Clearly MP and 89th have never read Homer.
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***musical princess***
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No but i've seen him on the Simpsons and he's hilarious.

:P

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Aqua Letifer
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I'm back and forth on what some of the characters are supposed to represent, Ivory. Like, what's with the three women by the river? Were they Calypso or Circe? Know any online junk that would explain them all?
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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kenny
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Nov 1 2005, 10:00 AM

That was the single poorest film i've ever seen in my life. I went to see it with a few friends a few years back for someone's brithday and it got so boring we ended up having a natcho fight with the people sitting near the front (it was a faairl empty cinema and everyone found us more amusing than the film

Did this nachos fight involve Cheese Whiz, jalapenos and salsa?
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***musical princess***
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Oh, there was a fair amount of salsa - most of which ended down the front of my trousers.

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ivorythumper
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The women were the sirens, who enchanted by their song.

Here's a web site though I haven't studied it too carefully.
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OBWAT is a great movie - and the soundtrack is pretty good, too.
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

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Dwain Lee
Nov 1 2005, 06:22 PM
OBWAT is a great movie

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Are we living on the same planet????

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I agree, it was phenomenal!
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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:no:

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***musical princess***
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Though, George Clooney - YUMMMMMMMMY!!!!!

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OBWAT is an AWESOME movie. Period.

MP...I think you're dead wrong! :eek:

Ivory, I have read Homer, and I also knew the scene with the 3 women represented the sirens! Not sure why you included me in your comment...

Dwain, it has a GREAT soundtrack, I agree!
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Ah well - i didn't think it was - i was 12 when i watched it though so perhaps i couldn't fully appreciate it.

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Nov 1 2005, 11:55 AM

Ivory, I have read Homer, and I also knew the scene with the 3 women represented the sirens! Not sure why you included me in your comment...


Because of your tepid "sorta" statements. I must have misinterpreted them.
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Sorry, I responding to comments that I took too literally.
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Hey Andy! They must be talkin' about old Homer Ledbetter down on Elm Street. He used to write all kinds of stuff, remember? He was funny too. He was always makin' up them poems down at Floyd's Barber Shop, remember? He don't come around much anymore though, ever since he wrote that poem to the widow Jenkins and got in trouble.
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I don't think that's the Homer these folks are talking about, Goob.
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Goob, get back to the garage where you belong! You don't know nothing about what these educated folks are talking about!

*sniff*.... Now I am an educated man, and I am right there with them. I know they're talkin' about the Homer from Homer and Jethro. True classic artists! They don't make talent like that anymore, right Ange?
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