the flying tea pot

Appeal to logic I think.

why woud you want to be sad?

U talking to me Matti?

Voice of Reason wrote:

U talking to me Matti?

no da commie

Knowing the truth makes me happy.

Voice of Reason wrote:

Doesn't sound very effective.

A rational person would believe in god because:

1) God exists --> good for the person
2) God doesn't exist --> no loss for the person

What god are you refering to? the christian god? Catholic god? Islamic god? What if the person chose wrong?

Also, if god doesn't exist, the loss is all of the things you could have been doing and enjoying. Instead, they're not doing them for the fear of going to teapot hell (or teapot purgatory, or whatever).

And by the way, this thread has some philosophically deep potential, if some would just take it seriously (or try to understand it better).

Liche- Kenzu was using teapot in the stead of 'god'.

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Knowing the truth makes me happy.

or thinking you know the truth, rather.

Voice of Reason wrote:

pannekoek wrote:

Appeal to emotion.

Appeal to logic I think

I think it's more of an appeal to fear.

Yeah, that. Why would I believe in god if I knew it was fake? That's supposed to be rational?

Bow down to the Flying Spaghetti Monster! You know global warming is caused by the lack of pirates, right? Fewer pirates - global warming.

You know about FSM? Sweet. And gravity is really intelligent falling. He pushes people down with his noodly appendages.

I thought hurricanes were caused by a lack of pirates. Global warming must be the result of FSM having caught some kind of fever. Disco Fever!

Actually, that's the official stance by followers of FSM. A lack of pirates causes global warming. And it's not the machine gun pirates. It's the real pirates with sailing ships. And don't listen to that propoganda given by the rest of the world about them being mean and stealing. No, they were happy, always breaking into sponteaneous and perfectly coreographed song and dance!

Captain Mosey was the pirate who got the ten I'd really rather you didnts (not commandments), but he lost two of them coming down the mountain so there's now only eight.

True. True.

Pannekoek wrote:

You know about FSM? Sweet. And gravity is really intelligent falling. He pushes people down with his noodly appendages.

FSM-flying spaggety monster.
you heathen how can you worshipp spagetty??

Because It, not He or She but It, is the one true God. That's how.

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is true because The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster says The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is true.

Beat that amazing logiks.

WHHHHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Do I detect a hint of envy?

I was supporting you.

gosh I was offline for like 3 months and now my cute little threat has become a real clusterfuck to read XD
heres another one... even more logic

25 Million Years ago there was an intergalactic Confederation ruled by the evil space emperor Xenu. There was a major problem of overpopulation at each planet of the confederation. Xenu decided to solve this problem in a violent way. He called all people for an tax inspection and ordered evil psychiatrists to stun those people via frozen alcohol/glycol injections. Then he took all the stunned people with spaceships who just look like DC-6 airplanes (but they have turbines instead of propellers) to earth (which was called Teegeack back then). He dropped all the stunned people at the foot of the hawaian volcanoes and then dropped hydrogen bombs into the craters. The volcanoes errupted and the people werent no longer stunned but death. Their spirits wanted to return back to their homes but evil xenu caught them via energy rays. Then he putted the souls in large cinemas where he brainwashed them with films about christianity and other religious stuff. Then he dismissed the spirits and they were confused and sticked together into clusters. They possessed todays mankind ancestors. and that is the reason for all sorrow and pain of humanity. (Btw... Xenu was catched and is held until today in a energy cell powered by an infinite baterry)

^^ Gotta love that scientology.

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(Btw... Xenu was catched and is held until today in a energy cell powered by an infinite baterry)

HA! Justice!

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Then he took all the stunned people with spaceships who just look like DC-6 airplanes

Is that what they actually believe? They looked just like DC-6 airplanes? Or is that just from south park?

copypasted from wikipedia... its fun cause its true

Watermelon wrote:

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is true because The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster says The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is true.

Beat that amazing logiks.

hmmm thats fun... in religious education (hey Im an atheist but I picked it because they re always saying "know your enemy well") we had cults and today's topic was mormons. Their argumentation patern is somewhat similar to yours.

It'S weird that pepole are willing to pay like 1000$ for one hour there, they must feed them drugs or something.

no they just pick them up when they re desperate... and they do not have to pay immediately at the beginning... first they get brainwashed