Indistinguishable from Vlad #fundie

Indistinguishable from Vlad #fundie religionethics.co.uk

You almost undo a scientifically unverifiable ''privilege'' by suggesting a scientifically unverifiable ''bigger scheme of things''.

The question why something and not nothing of course takes all this in it's stride.

the claim that we are not special is just the reverse of thinking we are special. Again Shakespeare has it with his iteration of ''why something and not nothing''
''To be or not to be''

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old comment by emau99

A couple of points:

1-As others have pointed out, Shakespeare was discussing suicide

2-Taking a dive down the philosophical rabbit hole--it's not clear what "nothing" means. If you're talking about a metaphysical, absolute nothingness, there's no reason to think that such a thing exists. Nobody--especially YOU, Vlad--has demonstrated that "nothing" exists. Even that were the case, there's a paradox--"nothing" itself is still _something_, so if you did demonstrate that "nothing" exists, you'd still have *something* (a void, a concept, etc). It's not really clear if it's possible to have a meaningful discussion about "nothing" because as soon as you introduce the concept, you have something.

[Taking off my philosopher's hat, putting on my internet troll hat]

Then again, I can demonstrate that an absolute void exists--it's between Vlad's ears!!!

[Rimshot]

Frogflayer: "A sea of gerbils?!!!" WTF HAHAHA Oh man, that would make for an absolutely insane band name!

“the claim that we are not special is just the reverse of thinking we are special."
No. You think you’re special (or we’re special) because a book you hold as an authority describes your creation at the end of the universe’s production, the entire point of the choice to make all this. That a really, really special being hold syou in special regard.

If you don’t take the books as a history, then what is that that makes us ‘special’? Special in whose eyes? Our own? That’s arrogant. We’re not substantially different from many other creatures, same biochemistry, connected origins, shared fates.
And while the Bible describes Earth as an inside–out snowglobe, science just keeps finding more and more and more stars in a bigger and bigger univers, which we’re not the center of. It’s not the reverse, it’s the product of a completely different way of thinking.

“Again Shakespeare has it with his iteration of ''why something and not nothing''
''To be or not to be''”
Your English Teach must have hit you a lot for sleeping in class. Hamlet was weighing a choice he could make. It’s a lot close to the M*A*S*H theme of ‘Suicide Is Painless’ than wondering about beginnings.

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Indistinguishable from Vlad #fundie religionethics.co.uk

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