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5th July 2010, 02:42 AM
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Pie or cake?
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5th July 2010, 03:21 AM
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Pie
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TL; DR Keep it short. I wanted to read a post, not your dissertation.
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6th July 2010, 05:39 AM
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Pie, of course. The cake is a lie. eudaimonia,
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6th July 2010, 06:59 PM
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Reps: 851,845,658,044,315 (power: 851,845,658,051) | | Originally Posted by Pacioli Perhaps I have missed the symbolic significance of the question through not reading the entire thread, but as a wholly unrepresentative atheist I can answer that I prefer chocolate in the range 45%-70% cocoa.
Oh there's a lot of symbolism there. It's a very complicated and esoteric question meant to reveal the very nature of your soul...
You see, if you pick milk chocolate like the masses, then you have a bit of both light and darkness in you as most people do. If you pick dark chocolate, then I'm afraid your dark and unsaved soul is completely lost. If you are the rarity that likes white chocolate the best, then your soul is pure and brilliant.
Or I just like asking people what kind of chocolate they like. Any further important questions of atheists, I will be pleased to do my best. 
Well, if you want, you can stand in for the OP and answer my question about origins.
What do you think is most probable about all of existence? It came from nothing, or it has always existed in some form? Or something else? Or no idea?
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7th July 2010, 12:37 AM
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Reps: 18,446,744,073,709,648 (power: 18,446,744,073,712) | | Originally Posted by Penumbra Oh there's a lot of symbolism there. It's a very complicated and esoteric question meant to reveal the very nature of your soul...
My soul is now exposed in a range of 45-70%, but I can cope . Now, where did I put the chocolate?  Well, if you want, you can stand in for the OP and answer my question about origins.
What do you think is most probable about all of existence? It came from nothing, or it has always existed in some form? Or something else? Or no idea?
My present understanding of the literature is that our space-time had a singular start but that this does not imply there was nothing before that, nor for that matter in parallel. It is an error to somehow embed the universe inside more of the same, i.e. the universe is not an object in the universe. This does not mean it arose from nothing but at present we are unable to probe into a singularity except by theoretical approaches. Some of these may provide testable hypotheses which will enable us to say with reasonable confidence whether there is, for example, a multiverse.
Adding any god to this is neither parsimonious nor predictively useful.  | | |
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