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« Reply #15 on: July 16, 2003, 04:50:37 PM »
This whole thread makes me want to

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« Reply #16 on: July 16, 2003, 05:29:25 PM »
That quote deserves its rightful place among the worst analogies ever written.  What else can you say about it beyond simply restating it?

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« Reply #17 on: July 16, 2003, 06:23:45 PM »
As an atheist, I'd like to score the original post.

7 for tone, 1 for applicability, and a 10 for originality.
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« Reply #18 on: July 16, 2003, 06:48:26 PM »
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Originally posted by Erlkonig
That quote deserves its rightful place among the worst analogies ever written.  What else can you say about it beyond simply restating it?


Let me splain it to ya:  
Atheists - Have no documentation.  When faced with a novel situation, must make up rules arbitrarily and on the spot.
Religious Folks - Have documentation.  When faced with a novel situation, can use documentation to quickly find applicable rules.

Now chug a beer as penalty.

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« Reply #19 on: July 16, 2003, 06:59:17 PM »
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Let me splain it to ya:  
Atheists - Have no documentation.  When faced with a novel situation, must make up rules arbitrarily and on the spot.
Religious Folks - Have documentation.  When faced with a novel situation, can use documentation to quickly find applicable rules.

Now chug a beer as penalty.



You know... and you may find this difficult to believe, but it's true...

It is possible to develop good values and a moral compass in the absence of church.
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« Reply #20 on: July 16, 2003, 07:00:49 PM »
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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
You know... and you may find this difficult to believe, but it's true...

It is possible to develop good values and a moral compass in the absence of church.


Holy straw man, Batman.  :)

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« Reply #21 on: July 16, 2003, 07:08:21 PM »
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He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

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« Reply #22 on: July 16, 2003, 07:15:10 PM »
LOL

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« Reply #23 on: July 16, 2003, 07:22:43 PM »
Bah... religious people are windoze users, they just have faith it will boot, faith it will work, the error messages are f***n parables and you have to perform all sorts of voodoo mojo around it when it fails.
A proper UNIX admin doesn't need a god... c'mon...
he is god on his machine, all powerful, omniscient, no process can run whitout him knowing, no file, device, cron job or driver can escape his scrutiny...
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« Reply #24 on: July 16, 2003, 07:28:59 PM »
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BOW BEFORE ME, FOR I AM ROOT
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« Reply #25 on: July 16, 2003, 08:03:38 PM »
Sandman sayeth:

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It is possible to develop good values and a moral compass in the absence of church.


He didn't say good or bad... just that they're made up.  Didn't say religious rules were good or bad, just that they exist and are applied.

Must you apply a moral judgement to everything?  I mean, come on!  You sound like some religious nut!

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« Reply #26 on: July 16, 2003, 08:07:20 PM »
My morals are my own. I try not to judge the morals of anyone else. :)
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« Reply #27 on: July 16, 2003, 09:23:12 PM »
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Let me splain it to ya:  
Atheists - Have no documentation.  When faced with a novel situation, must make up rules arbitrarily and on the spot.
Religious Folks - Have documentation.  When faced with a novel situation, can use documentation to quickly find applicable rules.

Now chug a beer as penalty.


No, that's not it either.  The dude was talking about Puritans and rigor mortis and church-going sys admins and some ****...wtf that has to do with atheists running civilization I don't know?

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« Reply #28 on: July 16, 2003, 10:12:38 PM »
Ok, you want to turn this into 'Atheists by their very nature can't are morally handicapped'?

Riddle me this:  You have two people working on the side of the freeway collecting garbage.  One of them is someone assigned to do it by a judge, and the other is a volunteer who wants a cleaner freeway.

Which one do you admire more?  The person who HAS to do it (at the risk of facing consequences if he doesn't) or the person who CHOOSES to do it because they just think it's the right thing to do?

Once you've answered that, tell me why a religious type who does good (because they'll go to hell if they don't) is better then an atheist who does good (who has no hell to or anything to worry about)?
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« Reply #29 on: July 16, 2003, 10:25:29 PM »
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Originally posted by Erlkonig
No, that's not it either.  The dude was talking about Puritans and rigor mortis and church-going sys admins and some ****...wtf that has to do with atheists running civilization I don't know?


No, that IS it.  Ya gotta read the book.  Cryptonomicon, available anywhere fine books are sold.  :)