16 Jun
2011
16 Jun
'11
6:55 a.m.
On Jun 16, 2011, at 7:42 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 15 June 2011 19:39, Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav
at lunar-tokyo.net> wrote:
Yes, seriously. Try to yell that out loud after you've smacked your fingers with a
hammer, burned yourself with a soldering iron,
or driven a pair of RM03s halfway across the continent without setting the head locks and
then attempted to mount a pack.
It's really long and unwieldy. "God Dammit!" is short and easy to say. I
think the winner here is clear.
For the sentence to make sense, God must exist. Therefore, God exists so that I can swear
out loud after I've done something dumb.
It makes me feel better than just sitting there thinking about what a dumbass I am, so it
serves a purpose.
It also seems to be just as good a reason as most of the other ones people have come up
with.
On Jun 15, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
I believe in God because saying "Nobody Dammit!" sounds dumb.
It does? Why? And do you seriously think "a magic sky-fairy did it and
ran away" is /less/ dumb? Most of the time I spend time trying to
understand why an otherwise intelligent person could come to such unsupported conclusions
about some things. It's as if their logical thinking breaks down, and is no longer
around when faith steps into the room.
That's exactly how I feel about "God". I cannot grasp why otherwise
intelligent, rational people -- especially techies -- suspend their common sense to
believe in an invisible man in the sky.
I welcome a debate with anyone here who claims that believing in god(s) is somehow
"different".