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Post by ulyssessarcher on Jan 6, 2017 7:43:23 GMT
"Why do today, what you can put off until tomorrow." Me. The Big Hurt
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 7:45:22 GMT
I miss Christopher Hitchens. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.I met him after a debate at university where he debated with a religious scholar and a senior lecturer on the marriage between faith and politics. He was completely remarkable that night, as he always was. What I observed most was that he was much more interested in those that disagreed with him than those on his side of the debate. He knew preaching to the choir (pardon the pun regarding his, and my, atheism) was redundant. His major theory was to have someone name a good deed or action that could be committed by a believer that could not be committed by a non-believer. He was a sad loss to the world.
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Jan 6, 2017 7:51:56 GMT
I miss Christopher Hitchens. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. His major theory was to have someone name a good deed or action that could be committed by a believer that could not be committed by a non-believer. I can think of one fairly quickly...Earnestly pray...now back to your regularly scheduled thread...
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Post by icecreamdf on Jan 6, 2017 8:10:11 GMT
His major theory was to have someone name a good deed or action that could be committed by a believer that could not be committed by a non-believer. I can think of one fairly quickly...Earnestly pray...now back to your regularly scheduled thread... We non-believers pray all the time. For example, Please god, don't let this thread be hijacked by a religious debate. We just don't believe it will accomplish anything.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 8:17:39 GMT
Your earnest prayer is the non-believer's well wishes - and ultimately neither is an actual substitute for then giving charity, kindness, aid or showing selflessness for those you're praying/well wishing for. None of those acts are exclusive traits to the religious or the secular. Your prayer or my best wishes don't give a hungry neighbour a meal or cure a pandemic-like illness so I don't think it answers Hitch's question even remotely as to what good, what change, however large or small can be impacted by a believer that couldn't by a non-believer. That goodness is not the remit of the faithful alone.
But, as you say...not the thread for it, and certainly not before work on a Friday!
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 6, 2017 18:57:24 GMT
I miss Christopher Hitchens. What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.I met him after a debate at university where he debated with a religious scholar and a senior lecturer on the marriage between faith and politics. He was completely remarkable that night, as he always was. What I observed most was that he was much more interested in those that disagreed with him than those on his side of the debate. He knew preaching to the choir (pardon the pun regarding his, and my, atheism) was redundant. His major theory was to have someone name a good deed or action that could be committed by a believer that could not be committed by a non-believer. He was a sad loss to the world. Agree. He passing was a total loss to the world. Here is another one of his that I love: Christopher Hitchens I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 6, 2017 19:08:35 GMT
One from Steve Martin that I still use on a regular basis, I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Jan 6, 2017 20:36:40 GMT
"It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much." Yogi-ism.
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Jan 6, 2017 20:38:43 GMT
"I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads." Yogi-ism.
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Jan 6, 2017 20:40:33 GMT
"Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical." Great yogi-ism...
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Post by Ela on Jan 6, 2017 21:14:28 GMT
Yogi-isms are great.
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Post by icecreamdf on Jan 6, 2017 21:18:10 GMT
I know some Yogi-isms
"Hey Boo-Boo, lets go steal some picanic baskets"
"I'm smarter than the average bear!"
I think I might have done that wrong.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 7, 2017 4:33:14 GMT
After a very long & draining day spent on this forum I offer this: Woody Allen on nature- Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats.
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Post by icecreamdf on Jan 7, 2017 4:35:46 GMT
One famous one from Ghandi that I love
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 7, 2017 4:53:20 GMT
How about Thomas Hardy and Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 16, 2017 0:43:17 GMT
Douglas Adams The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 16, 2017 20:57:46 GMT
Martin Luther King Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 23, 2017 23:09:58 GMT
Gloria Steinem The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Post by topper on Jan 26, 2017 21:51:36 GMT
"That boy is about as sharp as a bowling ball."----Foghorn Leghorn
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jan 26, 2017 22:39:06 GMT
Albert Einstein Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
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