godfatherbrak

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You don't think it is amazing how for some darn reason when the molecules, carbohydrates, lipids, DNA, protein formed my now 26 year old body, as it has formed in billions and billions of other bodies, that this body was to house my consciousness? I mean why exactly am I me and not you??? I don't think it's amazing at all. You are the result of the DNA and life experiences that you had. Maybe it's because I don't smoke pot, but

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I really really really don't understand why you think it's so amazing you're you and not me. You didn't magically happen. Your parents had sex, you were the result. If you weren't you, you'd be someone else who might be thinking the exact same thing. If my father hadn't left the Military when he did, I can't imagine how different my life would be. I wouldn't be the same person at all. However, if he had stayed in, I wouldn't ever know who I could have been if he'd left. It's the

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Are we really just mindless robots (hyper advanced robots, but robots notheless)??? Robots who are slaves to our DNA ultimately? Yes. We are, in effect, enormously complicated robots. If you suffer brain damage, your personality can change. If you take the right drugs, your personality will change (anti-psychotic or anti-depression drugs, for example). It's a very complicated process, but if your internal makeup is altered sufficently, there

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First, I'm not an athiest, I'm a pagan and have my own beliefs as far as that goes. Second, I don't find any comfort in your concept of a god or afterlife. Third, I don't need gods to find meaning or purpose in my life. Finally--false comfort is just that. I'd rather have the truth.

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There aren't just two answers there and besides, what you might or might not want to tell a dying boy doesn't make anything true. Stories like these, usually false, are fine when preaching to the converted but come off as silly and fumbling if you're not already in their court. Part of the reason we've held onto religion is that it gives comfort against the fears of death. We don't know what happens after and an answer, any answer, can be comforting in a frightening time.

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If someone wants to say I am not actually in control of my body, then why I am the only one who can raise my arm??? I'm pretty sure that if someone were to muck about in your brain and hit the right spots, they could raise your arm.

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There was a study that was done that people that were prayed for, fared better in an illness. I would like to see that proven, because in all the Scientific magazines and Books i have read quoting similar tests, all the tests gave results which showed that the prayed for actually got worse and had more complications. The test group was split up into three : known to be Prayed For; Bein prayed for but not knowing, and

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You just stumbled upon the great fallacy that many athiests (though not all) make. You said "I know." I know that there is a God, and I know what He wants me to do. How can I say that I know this? Because I believe in revalation,.... You just made the same fallacy with using the word "know" for "believe". I can accept that the world is flat, doesn't mean I know it is. You accept the things wr

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one more thing before i stop posting: "If you spend your life believing in God, and when you die it turns out he doesnt exist, then you've lost nothing, but if you spend your life not believing in him, and he does exist......then you've lost everything" This assumes there are only two choices: No god and your god. What if the Muslims are right? What if it's the Nordic gods? What if you spend

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Deeply flawed logic here. If you were a maggot, you would not be posting on this board. The reason you are exactly the person you are is because if you weren't, you'd be someone else asking the same question. If I shoot an arrow into the air, the fact that it landed exactly HERE instead of somewhere else isn't proof of god. It's the consequences of the actions that lead to the arrow being in the ground. This is the same idea used in many time travel stories. If you go back