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Religion In A Clubby Hole

Parthasarathy B November 21, 2005

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#49 Posted by parthaab on November 22, 2005 9:43:40 am
Re: # 3

The point is, if God really does exist, it would be easy to prove, as there would be tangible evidence. What we have instead is standard mass delusion.

Religion exists solely because people don`t understand stuff and look for meaning, even though all that does is move the problem elsewhere. (I.e. where did God come from)

The actual religions and the sources they`re based on are totally irrational, not least because each one claims to be right. That shows just how hard it is to understand `God`s will`.

Once you alight on the reasonable assertion that religion is *just* organised mass delusion, everything fits neatly into place.

God won`t save the poor from devastation because there is no God.

Rama, Mohamed and Jesus didn`t save the human race, because there`s no saving to be done. Hell and Heaven don`t exist.

We`re just the same as we`ve always been; a load of atoms flying around. Each year, we learn more and more, and there are fewer places for the religious and their ignorance to hide.
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#50 Posted by parthaab on November 22, 2005 10:09:35 am
Bush now wants religious freedom in China.

Guess which religion?
(Hint : Mr Bush says the spirit of the Lord is strong inside the church.)

If Bush has his way, is it dead-end for atheism as we know it?
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#51 Posted by Romair on November 22, 2005 10:24:31 am
hamidm mian #35: ``.......why can`t we cure this disease ??????``

Because people keep voting and supporting individuals like George Bush and various religious evangelicals (in various countries), when he (they) offer them the right deals. People are only anti-religion up to a point. They can, easily, be bought off if the price is right. Ask any Pakistani Jamaat-i-Islami maulvi, if he wants a visa to the USA, he will say yes. And ask any anti-religious person in USA, if he wants a tax cut, or an invasion, or something else attractive, and he will say yes also.........

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#52 Posted by khamkhwa. on November 22, 2005 10:35:48 am
Re: # 42
netizen, kalihawa, hamidm and others...

... this is a classic example of a psychopath... dr.Cleckley`s original list of symptoms covers most of his behaviour...but the symptom # 10 seems to be written with him as the perfect model...which is...``

10. POOR BEHAVIORAL CONTROLS -- expressions of irritability, annoyance, impatience, threats, aggression, and verbal abuse; inadequate control of anger and temper; acting hastily.


...and here is some more of his wit and profound behaviour culled from Unplugged...;))

#6 by Salim_Chauhan on November 22, 2005 7:18am PT

khamkhwa
anyone seen your mother bitch? your mother bitch is lost??
I think your mother the biggest bitch is licking canadians shit. You are motherphuddichud. You are harrammi kii aulad who eats canadians shit daily basis and then shit on the chowk.

khamkhwa(bharvay, hijraiy)
You are son of the biggest bharva. You are zaleel creature, who licks
canadians shit and then shit on chowk. I wish I could smash your bharva face and then flush your infected stinky body in the toilet. You are the biggest bitch , who licks and eat human shit..............harammi kii aulad.....

khamkhwa(harrammi kii aulad)
Your father is bharva, that is the main reason you are bharva. You lick canadian shit daily and then shit on chowk. Your mother bitch is lost????
Where is she??? I know, she must be licking , too...............kutaiy kii aulad , you are gandoo bitch........

khamkhwa(harramii ki aulad)
Your father`s official name is khwajasera................
Your official name is gandoo. Your licking canadians shit daily, then you shit on chowk. your father is kutaa. your father is also maha gandoo, who gave you gandoo genes, that is why you`re gandoo on chowk, eating shit.

#7 by Salim_Chauhan on November 22, 2005 7:19am PT

That fixed the goddamnedmotherfuckingcocksuckingassholesonofabitch.



#17 by Salim_Chauhan on November 22, 2005 7:28am PT

Khamkhwa,
Ulley ke paThay, haraami ki aulad,

I am upset because Queenie had to leave after John Ghattiya obtained insider information.
As for you, I will be glad to come up to Toronto next week and give you a big lund from your filthy mouth into your belly, you motha fucka.



#21 by Salim_Chauhan on November 22, 2005 7:32am PT

You bastards, Khamkhwa, John Ghattiya, and the bitches with the big cunts ganged up on Queenie.




#24 by Salim_Chauhan on November 22, 2005 7:43am PT

Khamkwha,
I am going to stick your head up so far into Scout`s anus that you will taste the nihari she had last year.

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#23 by Salim_Chauhan on November 22, 2005 7:42am PT

Khammy,
Teri maan ki gaanD meN kaale ka lund. Saaley,
Abhi banaata hun tujhe ek impotent person on Chowk. Suwar ki aulaad.



... hope you saw through the ``finer`` qualities of the ``gentleman``and learned to avoid him like a plague ...BTW you need to know to push the right button to get an impromptu performance from the maestro...;)












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#53 Posted by soysauce on November 22, 2005 10:41:03 am
#25
Alephnull, religion is something we need because we terribly need to make sense of the world around us and religion provides a short-cut ``answer``. So long as we have the itch to know while being uncurious at the same time, religion will have to do.
I think a blanket attack on religion is unwarranted. Much of the music I listen to (this morning it was Veena Sahasrabuddhe`s Meera Bhajan) to relieve the tedium of my long bicycle commute would not be there if a Veena or a Nusrat or benedictine monks were not moved by religious emotion. Though an atheist (or an indifferentist?) I`m grateful for what religion has done for music and the arts.
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#54 Posted by Kulharee on November 22, 2005 10:44:31 am
Re: # 52

Oh boy..this is really something. I should be on Salim_Chauhan Sahib’s good side before finding out things about my mother.
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#55 Posted by Raw_Dust on November 22, 2005 10:45:08 am
soysauce:
man, an atheist cant be an artist? what do you call shostakovich or tchaikovsky or marquez .. and so on...



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#56 Posted by parthaab on November 22, 2005 10:45:25 am
Re: # 53

`` So long as we have the itch .... religion will have to do.... Though an atheist (or an indifferentist?)........... ``

Neither. You are not an atheist, but an agnostic.
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#57 Posted by Raw_Dust on November 22, 2005 10:48:15 am
soysauce:
ok that was a little too fast for my mouse to get to the post button. i got your point about historically how religions have played their part in arts and crafts...

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#58 Posted by Romair on November 22, 2005 10:50:18 am
Relgions, and the concept of God, are around, and will remain around, until the following two questions can be answered:

- What happens after death
- What is the meaning of life

These two questions are Catch-22 anomolies, i.e. to find out what happens, after death, one has to die. But once one is dead, one cannot report what is happening. Similarly, to find out the meaning of life, and why we were created, one has to exist in a pre-creation state. However, in such a state, where one has not been created yet, one cannot report the results either...........

From a scientific point of view, religion will be around until science can answer the following question:

- How can (and was) organic life be created from inorganic life

This is also turning into a paradox. The more science is advancing, the more it is starting to prove that organic life cannot be created, scientifically, from inorganic life. In this sense, science, is itself, through scientific research, marking the boundaries of its own limitations..........

If people want to get rid of organized (or even disorganized) religion, they would be better off, spending their energies, answering the above questions. If they can find scientific answers to them, religion will disappear on its own. If they cannot, then they are asking human beings to move from one state, where all the answers are not available, to another state where all the answers are not available.............
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#59 Posted by hamidm2 on November 22, 2005 10:51:20 am
Re: # 52

.................. whoa ! .......... where is dr shankar when you really need him .......
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#60 Posted by parthaab on November 22, 2005 10:51:35 am
Re: # 58

The point is, if God really does exist, it would be easy to prove, as there would be tangible evidence. What we have instead is standard mass delusion.

Religion exists solely because people don`t understand stuff and look for meaning, even though all that does is move the problem elsewhere. (I.e. where did God come from)

The actual religions and the sources they`re based on are totally irrational, not least because each one claims to be right. That shows just how hard it is to understand `God`s will`.

Once you alight on the reasonable assertion that religion is *just* organised mass delusion, everything fits neatly into place.

God won`t save the poor from devastation because there is no God.

Rama, Mohamed and Jesus didn`t save the human race, because there`s no saving to be done. Hell and Heaven don`t exist.

We`re just the same as we`ve always been; a load of atoms flying around. Each year, we learn more and more, and there are fewer places for the religious and their ignorance to hide.
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#61 Posted by soysauce on November 22, 2005 11:02:27 am
#56 parthab
Thanks for the diagnosis.
I wasn`t talking about me but the people around me.
An indifferentist one who doesn`t care if there`s a god (what a silly hypothesis!) which is what I am.

Joke: What does a dyslexic, insomniac, agnostic do? Stay up at night wondering if there really is a dog..
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#62 Posted by soysauce on November 22, 2005 11:03:43 am
Raw-dust, what would Nusrat have done without his belief in allah?
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#63 Posted by Raw_Dust on November 22, 2005 11:14:24 am
soysauce:
``An indifferentist one who doesn`t care if there`s a god (what a silly hypothesis!) which is what I am. ``

that imo, is atheist of the highest order, you even negate the question about existence of God as meaningless :-)
i actually follow the same line of thinking....


you are right about Nusrat, just like historically there are countlessly many artists and maestros who were nurtured by the Church or temples...

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#64 Posted by hassansiddiqi on November 22, 2005 11:30:03 am
I really don`t understand what you are getting at. Are you saying religion is irrelevant because it`s subjective? I disagree because religions play a very positive role all over the world. A lot of churches in the US have reformed and rehabilitated people who had no hope, people like drug addicts and compulsive shoplifters etc. Islamic madrassas historically have been used as homeless shelters and adoption homes.

I really don`t see any coherence in your arguments. All you seem to be saying is: Religion = bad, science = good.
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