Religious people can not tell the difference between fantasy and reality. If they could, they would no longer be religious, and would discard their archaic, fantasy-based beliefs.
Lol, as if an ignorant conservative can win a national election when we can so easily see their complete insanity on display via the Internet. We're not all terrified conservatives living in a Fox-News-constructed false-reality designed to make us froth and hate civilization.
Right-wing media has put some effort into misleading the easily-misled Conservatives on this topic.
It's not really their fault that they lack critical thinking skills; They're frothing because their masters tell them to froth.
Living in constant fear of imagined enemies is a terrible way to spend your life, but a quarter of the country chooses to be terrified by lying far-right-wing media that plays them like a fiddle, and the rest of us just stand by and let it happen.
This has been a great demonstration as to how easily the ignorant Republican masses are controlled by right-wing media designed to keep them frothing at the mouth so they never stop, think, and realize that the conservative movement is a scam. They'll come out against individual rights, and in favor of corporate masters whenever Fox, wingnut blogs, and hate radio tell them to.
It's also not unique to humans. Many animals are obviously conscious, and anyone with a cat or dog knows. It seems to be pretty common for complex brains to be conscious.
Your post is about what some minority of religious people believe, and has nothing to do with the real world.
Nothing is the domain of "God" because gods are imaginary. You have some seriously out of date, totally discredited beliefs. Why are you still caught up in superstition in 2015? In 1015 I'd understand, but smart people have understood that religion is BS for hundreds of years now, and with the DNA evidence in, there can be no doubt that we evolved, rather than having been created by a magical fairy as primitive man believed.
>how the hell would you save something with no persistence beyond death? it'd be like trying to baptize a dog, or a tree.
Or a person, or any life-form really, since an afterlife is just fantasy about escaping death.
Christianity isn't about doing things that make sense, so trying to indoctrinate a silicon machine to save an imaginary soul would be pretty much like what they currently do with us meat-machines.
Of course not. Souls would have to be defined, and actually exist for a test to be possible. A machine has exactly as much as a soul as a human or animal do. (excluding James Brown)
That's known in some circles as the magical-balance-fairy. Also, most Leftists aren't fond of the center-right Democrats, so why did you lump them together?
You might want to check and make sure you haven't internalized far-right propaganda from the fantasy-prone wingnuts, because you seem confused.
Yes there are insane people on the left, and the far-left is as bonkers as a Republican, but Democrats are not extremists like the current degenerate, religion-and-propaganda-crazed, incarnation of the Republican party.
Souls are imaginary. Maybe we should wrap up this whole Christianity thing since there aren't actually any souls to save. The whole exercise is pointless if taken at face-value. It only starts to make sense as a means of control and parting fools and their money.
There's a big difference in confidence in scientists with proven track records, and faith in something that goes contrary to evidence, like the Christian's imagined god. Religious people try to blur this distinction so as to pretend to have some sort of support for their delusions, rather than growing out of their foolish beliefs. It's sad.
That kind of talk from people who were actually serious helped me cure myself of Christian superstitions by my 10th birthday. the idea of a needy sky-fairy that's selecting for mindless credulity caused me some stress before I realized that none of the people promoting this archaic belief could provide any supporting evidence at all, and were lying to themselves and others because they lacked the critical thinking skills to free themselves of their foolish childhood beliefs.
This is something that religious people pretend, not something that's actually congruent with our knowledge of the world. Why are you talking about fantasy as if it were reality? Are you still caught up in religion?
They don't have as high a percentage of foolish reactionaries as we do. It would be a mistake to blame the people who are telling the truth about AGW, rather than the idiot population that listens to hate-radio gasbags, and fills their heads with derp from Fox "News" and wingnut blogs. Do you also blame scientists for the creationist delusion that's so popular with the religious reactionary crowd, which happens to overlap with the AGW deniers?
They're investigating the corrupt funding sources that lead to lying about climate change. We can't ignore the total corruption of Republicans forever, and just continue to let them keep lying us over a cliff. They need to be exposed.
Exposing frauds is the inquisition now? You sound like one of the people who's been crazed by the far-right-wing propaganda that turned too many American Conservatives into clueless, angry, totally deranged extremists who will support any corruption that is supported by wingnut media.
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>Also, what are Asimov's laws but a religion?
A thought experiment. No one with an IQ over room temperature thinks they're something that can actually be implemented.
Religious people can not tell the difference between fantasy and reality. If they could, they would no longer be religious, and would discard their archaic, fantasy-based beliefs.
>OK, cats have nine lives. You win.
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Too many Conservatives only care about things that directly impact them. They seem to be a more limited, primitive form of man.
Lol, as if an ignorant conservative can win a national election when we can so easily see their complete insanity on display via the Internet. We're not all terrified conservatives living in a Fox-News-constructed false-reality designed to make us froth and hate civilization.
Right-wing media has put some effort into misleading the easily-misled Conservatives on this topic.
It's not really their fault that they lack critical thinking skills; They're frothing because their masters tell them to froth.
Living in constant fear of imagined enemies is a terrible way to spend your life, but a quarter of the country chooses to be terrified by lying far-right-wing media that plays them like a fiddle, and the rest of us just stand by and let it happen.
So you're a crazed wingnut. Big deal, you fools are a dime a dozen in the less educated parts of the country.
This has been a great demonstration as to how easily the ignorant Republican masses are controlled by right-wing media designed to keep them frothing at the mouth so they never stop, think, and realize that the conservative movement is a scam. They'll come out against individual rights, and in favor of corporate masters whenever Fox, wingnut blogs, and hate radio tell them to.
Time to get some professional help for your emotional problems AC.
That would help rein in the crazies, but it's not going to happen outside the fevered imaginations of said crazies.
It's also not unique to humans. Many animals are obviously conscious, and anyone with a cat or dog knows. It seems to be pretty common for complex brains to be conscious.
Your post is about what some minority of religious people believe, and has nothing to do with the real world.
Nothing is the domain of "God" because gods are imaginary. You have some seriously out of date, totally discredited beliefs. Why are you still caught up in superstition in 2015? In 1015 I'd understand, but smart people have understood that religion is BS for hundreds of years now, and with the DNA evidence in, there can be no doubt that we evolved, rather than having been created by a magical fairy as primitive man believed.
>how the hell would you save something with no persistence beyond death? it'd be like trying to baptize a dog, or a tree.
Or a person, or any life-form really, since an afterlife is just fantasy about escaping death.
Christianity isn't about doing things that make sense, so trying to indoctrinate a silicon machine to save an imaginary soul would be pretty much like what they currently do with us meat-machines.
Of course not. Souls would have to be defined, and actually exist for a test to be possible. A machine has exactly as much as a soul as a human or animal do. (excluding James Brown)
That's known in some circles as the magical-balance-fairy. Also, most Leftists aren't fond of the center-right Democrats, so why did you lump them together?
You might want to check and make sure you haven't internalized far-right propaganda from the fantasy-prone wingnuts, because you seem confused.
Yes there are insane people on the left, and the far-left is as bonkers as a Republican, but Democrats are not extremists like the current degenerate, religion-and-propaganda-crazed, incarnation of the Republican party.
Souls are imaginary. Maybe we should wrap up this whole Christianity thing since there aren't actually any souls to save. The whole exercise is pointless if taken at face-value. It only starts to make sense as a means of control and parting fools and their money.
There's a big difference in confidence in scientists with proven track records, and faith in something that goes contrary to evidence, like the Christian's imagined god. Religious people try to blur this distinction so as to pretend to have some sort of support for their delusions, rather than growing out of their foolish beliefs. It's sad.
That kind of talk from people who were actually serious helped me cure myself of Christian superstitions by my 10th birthday. the idea of a needy sky-fairy that's selecting for mindless credulity caused me some stress before I realized that none of the people promoting this archaic belief could provide any supporting evidence at all, and were lying to themselves and others because they lacked the critical thinking skills to free themselves of their foolish childhood beliefs.
"Not buying" that words have meanings is a very bad sign as to your mental state.
>God designed humans
This is something that religious people pretend, not something that's actually congruent with our knowledge of the world. Why are you talking about fantasy as if it were reality? Are you still caught up in religion?
Of course gods are imaginary, so only other fantasy characters are created in this fantasy character's image.
They don't have as high a percentage of foolish reactionaries as we do. It would be a mistake to blame the people who are telling the truth about AGW, rather than the idiot population that listens to hate-radio gasbags, and fills their heads with derp from Fox "News" and wingnut blogs. Do you also blame scientists for the creationist delusion that's so popular with the religious reactionary crowd, which happens to overlap with the AGW deniers?
Buying scientists? You seem like one of the denier lunatics. It's sad that you've been modded up by like-minded consipiracy nuts.
They're investigating the corrupt funding sources that lead to lying about climate change. We can't ignore the total corruption of Republicans forever, and just continue to let them keep lying us over a cliff. They need to be exposed.
Exposing frauds is the inquisition now? You sound like one of the people who's been crazed by the far-right-wing propaganda that turned too many American Conservatives into clueless, angry, totally deranged extremists who will support any corruption that is supported by wingnut media.