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Have you ever spoken with someone who you thought was so profoundly smart that you assumed that he was becsue he was talking about htings you don't undertsand. Lets say in computer science dealing with c pointers and how they can directly affect vital system proceses and acces areas on a PCI card by interfacing with the MB through memory location. This will not mean much to about 90% of you... you don't know how your OS works... you don't know why your printer works... or how power comes in to your house or even from where it comes from.... does god do all that? It's silly to think so... This is all I am saying, and I show no respect to people, and you all know this by now, who ignore everything logical and say it's gods doing. If we left it at that.... there would be nothing at all... we would be living in the caves convinced that gods made everything... That is why I am an agnostic, or rather even better thing that there are life energies... and that these have come from the earth... they did not create the earth.
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I understand what you are talking about when it comes to the internals of computer systems and I understand what you are talking about when it comes to the internals of magical thinkers. People who have to beg for respect for their ideas must resort to such tactics because their ideas are so outrageous that they could not get respect any other way. In fact for the vast majority of theists if they were asked to believe what they ask others to believe but presented in a more prosaic way they would refuse to believe it. And yet they ask for the respect that they are incapable of themselves.
Starboy