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Listen, I am the Mighty Queen of grinding my teeth over spelling and grammar, but Arach's been open about having dyslexia. Give him a break.
I haven't seen Arach post anything of the sort, although I don't come on here daily or peruse hundreds of threads either. However, unless I am mistaken, and I could be, dyslexia doesn't keep you from capitalizing letters or making a coherent sentence. My husband is mildly dyslexic, and managed to write a novel on his own, and even when making errors, you can usually tell what he meant.
One of the reasons I post here is because I'm always hoping to better understand death. Around age 5, I realized everyone else seemed to be okay with it except me.
Why not?
There's nothing special about you. You're just one of many, many Millions of Carbon-based organisms that exist now and have existed in the past.
And, like every organism that has ever existed on this Earth, you will die in the exact same way.
Namely, that one or more of your organs will cease to function.
That's how everything dies.
Why? Doesn't matter. It could be a viral infection that impedes the organs, or bacteria, and it typically isn't the bacteria, rather it's the chemicals they produce, which may be toxic, or parasites, or trauma to one or more organs, which can be caused by a fall, or an auto accident, or a gun-shot or stabbing.
Organs can also fail to function due to lack of Oxygen, or water, or nutrients, or metals, or non-metallic minerals or certain chemical compounds (vitamins, if you will).
It's not the gun-shot that actually kills you, rather it's the damage to the organs, or when no organs are damaged, the loss of blood, which results in organs not receiving Oxygen, water or nutrients to function.
Even when death is "natural," it's still the result of organ failure. Bad DNA replication, or failure of cells to replicate, or failure to replicate at a rate sufficient to replace dead cells and allow the organ to continue functioning normally.
As for all organisms, death is final.
There's nothing more.
I can see why people would want to believe, but believing doesn't make it so, and there's no evidence to support any claims there is something beyond death.
It does raise some interesting questions.
For whom does this special place called "Heaven" exist?
All hominids?
No? If not, why not?
And, where is the line drawn, and why?
We are Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Before us came Homo Sapiens, and still others before that.
So, Homo Sapiens Sapiens get to go to Heaven, but not Homo Sapiens?
What about Neanderthals and Denisovans?
Homo Erectus and Homo Habilis?
What about mammals?
Is it because they don't have the ability to comprehend the concept of god?
Because, if that's the case, that should raise red flags.
Thanks mighty. but it doesn't bother me. I know what i know, and more importantly i know what i don't know.
I don't buy into anti-god stuff. Its just not centered on liberty and justice for all. .
If I open a menu, I will immediately spot any misspelled words without looking for them, and I can read off words from the little screen inside my forehead, but I never got a degree because my brain cannot grasp basic Algebra.
I got As in English Literature. Psychology, Business Law and Accounting I, II, and III when I went to the university at night in my 20s while working, but when I failed the remedial math course I needed to proceed, I gave up because I knew I'd never be able to meet the requirements. I did ok without the degree. After a while, people just assumed I had one. When I retired, my successor was a guy with a J.D.
Sometimes a part of our brain just doesn't function.
absolutely don't care about grammar. and infarct, I leave mistakes in. when people focus on them it clues me in on the brain state.
Yes, it lets you know that people have a hard time reading your posts when they make no sense, and also let's THEM know that you lack basic education or consideration of others. But anyways...
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not at all true about all foreigners. In fact, I think most are exactly like me. . I said. there has to be a reason they (specifically them) have to be holding to so tightly to clearly less valid claims.
anti-religious socialism is clearly a less valid position. Their can't be many reasons to why some people hold them dear. so dear in fact, they let that dogma run their lives.
and please be clear who I am insulting. I am a liberal atheist. Yes, I am proud that I will stand against anti-religious socialism. yeah, i am begging to think country of orgin should be put in. although I am sure if I did an IP check, they wouldn't quite match up, would they comrade.
If you are a liberal atheist, I am the Pope, which would be pretty difficult considering I am an atheist American woman who swings both ways...
I have seen you bring up someone's country of origin more than once, in threads that have no bearing on a certain country mind you, so you obviously do have an issue with it.
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Thanks mighty. but it doesn't bother me. I know what i know, and more importantly i know what i don't know.
I don't buy into anti-god stuff. Its just not centered on liberty and justice for all. .
Is that like a vegan that doesn't buy into the "anti-meat stuff"?
Mircea, You have done an excellent job of questioning the extant concepts of God with all the implied premises therein, but there is no need for those implied premises to be true. What you have demonstrated is the fallacious thinking and reasoning of fallible humans in attempting to explain the existence of God. If you wish to eradicate the concept of God as the Source of all existence, you have failed even to touch the surface of the issues involved.
You have it backwards.
Humans invented gods, and lots of them, to explain a world they couldn't understand.
It took a long time for human thought to shift from polytheism to henotheism, and then from henotheism to monolatry, and finally from monolatry to monotheism.
That's because humans invented gods, and all the concepts associated with gods.
I haven't seen Arach post anything of the sort, although I don't come on here daily or peruse hundreds of threads either. However, unless I am mistaken, and I could be, dyslexia doesn't keep you from capitalizing letters or making a coherent sentence. My husband is mildly dyslexic, and managed to write a novel on his own, and even when making errors, you can usually tell what he meant.
I took my post from this site to English people when people said they couldn't understand them. they told me they weren't that terrible but they did say that blocks of information are missing.
I told them, well, the people complaining really need to back off if i am missing blocks of info for them.
Since then, I just don't don't care what you think. put me on ignore. In fact, let every anti-god socialist put me on ignore. But I will still be responding to them.
Fair enough...although when I type here words that are incorrect are often highlighted.
But if you were super lazy, you would just leave them alone and let people try to figure out your incoherent sentences I guess... I'm sorry, but even having dyslexia doesn't keep you from proofreading and making simple corrections to make a post readable.
Yes, it lets you know that people have a hard time reading your posts when they make no sense, and also let's THEM know that you lack basic education or consideration of others. But anyways...
If you are a liberal atheist, I am the Pope, which would be pretty difficult considering I am an atheist American woman who swings both ways...
I have seen you bring up someone's country of origin more than once, in threads that have no bearing on a certain country mind you, so you obviously do have an issue with it.
Is that like a vegan that doesn't buy into the "anti-meat stuff"?
hey Imisthe90's I ge itt. when the facts don't go your way attack the person.
you go girl
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