"Atheist Life Vs. Religious Life" [video]

sorry, can't resist it anymore.

Didn't mean for it to.
This topic has a lot to do with religion, asking your opinion on something that is entirely on-topic isn't all that outrageous.
But anywhoo, I didn't assume that you were defending religion specifically, I just wanted to know your position on what we were talking about rather than chatting about you giving me a refresher on definitions that I already know, as I didn't mention anything about being selfish in that one post or being selfless.
:D

Amen brother

If you care about what people think about you when you donate then you shuld not donate at all. It's not about what you look like to others it's about how you feel inside when you help others. If you are offended by people judging you then thats your problem.

irishlass misses the point as per usual.
i'll give you a real reply in a bit, i'm a bit busy atm.

Oh ok, it's mostly ignorance on your part then (I don't mean that as an insult, but I know you'll take it that way).

By ignorance on your party I mean:

We actually have a pretty damned good idea (based on evidence, observation, mathematical models, and reproducible peer reviewed experiments) on pretty much everything you stated:

We understand how stars form from hydrogen (and how hydrogen forms from bosons/leptons/etc).

We understand how stars create heavy elements in their core during fusion.

We understand how those heavy elements get sent into outer areas of each solar system once a start supernovas and reforms, causing the development of orbiting heavy elemental rings, and eventually planets.

We understand how heavy element planets in the right distance on the orbital paths provide breeding grounds for complex molecular development.

We understand how base chemicals form into amino acids. How amino acids form into proteins, how proteins form into complex life.

We understand how complex life forms into more complex life over time.

Basically, everything you've mentioned we have a pretty damn good understanding of (not to say we can't get a better understanding). It's FAR FAR FAR from as ambiguous and unknown as you're attempting to broadcast.

Furthermore, while we may still be guessing about what happened in the .003 seconds we can't yet reconcile with our current knowledge, I can point you to about half a dozen PLAUSIBLE theories that are based on math, reason, observation, and evidence. At no point in any of these observations (due to the way relativity works, we can actually *** SEE into the past and see all of this stuff happening, we're not *** guessing here) do we ever find a need for a god, or even a suggestion.

I repeat: There is NOTHING in our universe that requires a god. Volcanoes do not errupt because some being is farting really hard under the surface. The sun doesn't provide heat because Xeno the 4th is using his microwave. It isn't raining because Zeus is crying. It's ludicrous.

The only place god comes into any of this is humanity's imagination, when describing phenomena they didn't understand, back when they were ignorant sand people. "God" has been sustained as a belief simply because it's a social virus, and nothing more.

Your point is creepy to me I cant help that you do not understand my view.

@Neo - you know you never answered the question about who the chick is in your profile pic. I'm rather curious!

You're creepy.

My wife and I's 3some partner. (One of the good things about being an atheist.. we get to have all the kinky sex we want).

Who said I care about what people think about "when" I donate.
If you don't think about how the world see's you when you do something I'd say you're more self-absorbed than I would ever be donating and being aware that people are thinking that I have ulterior motives.
I.E. lack-of-self-awareness.
Regardless of the thoughts of ulterior motives.
If I help someone it's going to be to help them first and foremost, everything else is secondary.
If you can't understand that and insist that my practices MUST be black and white because the human mind is SOOOOO simple, we aren't really going to go anywhere else with this type of talk.
God forbid I have insecurities and try to help people I'd be such a bad person if I do it!
I was honestly offended with what Daeumun said without elaboration. But you see the difference between getting offended and getting pissy and getting offended and taking the problem head on like I did as you see I'm not offended.
It's not like getting offended when someone treats you disrespectfully removes the ability to help others lol.
I think you shouldn't donate to charity if you encourage others not to just because they care about what people think.

I'm half tempted to do it myself.

/devious grin

Who blocks Flion? I can only assume dullards with no sense of humor.

I would, we never really say anything of worth to each other.
:D
Flion and Humor?
definite antonyms.

Wtf you guys jumped ahead a few pages while I was asleep @.@

Magical time dilation!

More like "forget to set alarm and sleep till noon!"

Like what?

Citation needed.

Etc, etc.

BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

And again, LMFAO

Okay, I think at this point I should start ignoring your posts.

Bill Gates is probably the biggest humanitarian in the world and ultimately basically all his damn money ends up helping the world. When he dies, it becomes a self sustaining charity fund.

But no, he must be doing it for the tax breaks.

I swear, you're hysterical.

Do you think a wrathful, omnipotent deity would care?

Holy ***that's a lot of posts...

I have a great deal of respect for my best friend who happens to be religious, and understands my stance on religion. But what really separates him from others (from what I've seen from majorities), is that he takes it to a personal level, and a personal level only.
For example, because he is Jewish, he is forbidden from eating pork; yet he absolutely loves bacon and takes no hesitation to eat it. His reason? Because his decision to eat pork is between him and God, and if he is going to be judged over the type of food he eats, then so be it; nobody else has to be involved or even question it.

I'm only giving a small example, but to keep something like that only within your personal life and not based on doing what others say or human judgement is incredible.

Inuyushi, I'm genuinely curious about what I asked before, if you have some time to answer it.

He might be trying to kill me right now in a different dimension...
/tin foil hat

Santa Claus is real.

I'll explain in a little bit. I just lol'd at my own joke and gave myself away that I am not actually working.

@Xueye - Im responding because you asked ever so nicely and spelled my name right lol. I take it offensive because in Christianity 'Magic' is seen as evil and should be avoided at all costs. These are of course the Dark Arts that it is in reference to. I guess you could say that you calling it magic in the form that has been defined by Neo (i think) is fine as it is your opinion. Now don't castrate me for linking to reference in the bible. If you don't want to read it dont go there. I'm not forcing anyone.

Revelations 21:8

That's my reasoning, whenever I hear magic I think of the Dark Arts, witchcraft, etc. When Neo says magic he's refering to that and more. So yea I kinda take offense to it. I, by no means, dont think you are not allowed to say anything negative about religion.

...Heck alot has been said negative about religion in these forums and atheism, just more of the prior than the latter imho. Just look at all that Neo has said.

So do yo believe in Magic Inuyushi?