what age did you stop beleaving in the religion you where raised with?

[Cretaceous Bob]

Mathmatically impossible? Get the fuck out of town, dude.

[HumbleNarrator]

I had a brief moment of extra-christy-ness during my senior year of high school, freshman year of college. I'm glad my girlfriend at the time didn't dump me when I gave her a book about angels for our first christmas. Now we're married, I claim to be atheist, and we have wonderful discussions where she tries to disprove my assertion based on my level of compassion and respect for the religion and people. Usually intense, but in the end, it helps to distill the random angry and despairing thoughts in my head into a clearer sense of non-belief.

I love these rhetorical debates in which the construct is technically an agnostic Jew trying to talk an atheist ex-reorganized Mormon into being born again.

Have I mentioned that I think my wife is pretty awesome and I'm glad my retarded super-human-jesus-freak stage didn't scare her off???

[HumbleNarrator]

Originally Posted by Eightball

It is mathematically impossible for there not to be a god in the universe. Granted it is most likely not a lovey kissy, I forgive you, kind of god. It's probably the kind of "I will have absolutley nothing to do with you what-so-ever" kind of god.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a skeptic (first class), but there must be something bigger and mind-blowingly better than us, and or this life.

You were born, you eat, you shit, you laugh. You will die... that's probably the end of it. So try not to be an asshole while you're here.

congrats on your belief in a Star-Trek type of super being in an infinite universe where there are hypothetically infinite possibilities. And thank you for the Vonnegut/Palahniuk fortune cookie ending. Please post again when you move onto Hesse. At least you're out of the Celestine Prophesy phase

[stormin-norman]

thats what i believe

[Eightball]

Originally Posted by HumbleNarrator

congrats on your belief in a Star-Trek type of super being in an infinite universe where there are hypothetically infinite possibilities. And thank you for the Vonnegut/Palahniuk fortune cookie ending. Please post again when you move onto Hesse. At least you're out of the Celestine Prophesy phase

Kowalski, Smith, Lipner... Hey I can write last names too...

Please post again when you can add to a posting without the smug observationist categorization. Or not... free will and all.

[Eightball]

Originally Posted by Cretaceous Bob

Mathmatically impossible? Get the fuck out of town, dude.

I will not get out of town sir.

[dzagama]

Originally Posted by Eightball

It is mathematically impossible for there not to be a god in the universe. Granted it is most likely not a lovey kissy, I forgive you, kind of god. It's probably the kind of "I will have absolutley nothing to do with you what-so-ever" kind of god.

While I don't necessarily disagree with you, I'd really enjoy perusing that mathematical proof.

Originally Posted by Eightball

Don't get me wrong, I'm a skeptic (first class), but there must be something bigger and mind-blowingly better than us, and or this life.

Agreed. I enjoy having consciousness and the ability to explore the wonder around me, through reason.

Originally Posted by Eightball

You were born, you eat, you shit, you laugh. You will die... that's probably the end of it. So try not to be an asshole while you're here.

True. We can take it one step further. In your one chance as a conscious being, try to accumulate and contribute as much truth as you can. Knowledge is timeless, especially with the electronic media.

[Cretaceous Bob]

Originally Posted by Eightball

I will not get out of town sir.

Then at least move a couple of blocks away so I don't have to pass your house every time I go to work. I'm tired of having to heave bricks through your windows with notes tied to them that say "YOUR WINDOWS ARE MATHMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!"

[HumbleNarrator]

Originally Posted by Eightball

Kowalski, Smith, Lipner... Hey I can write last names too...

Please post again when you can add to a posting without the smug observationist categorization. Or not... free will and all.

Congratulations on your last name list. I observe only what I can see, and fortunately I'm looking in the mirror.

/puts self into category of "coolest ever to be observed by the observer"

[Leixes]

Originally Posted by Eightball

It is mathematically impossible for there not to be a god in the universe. Granted it is most likely not a lovey kissy, I forgive you, kind of god. It's probably the kind of "I will have absolutley nothing to do with you what-so-ever" kind of god.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a skeptic (first class), but there must be something bigger and mind-blowingly better than us, and or this life.

You were born, you eat, you shit, you laugh. You will die... that's probably the end of it. So try not to be an asshole while you're here.

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