I love it how my posts get selectively deleted.What a manly display of moral and ethical fortitude.If you can't handle the message, shoot the messenger.Cowards take the easy way out.
Your posts weren't deleted. They were moved to the Entropy Pool where they rightly belong. Troll there instead of this helpless topic that has done nothing wrong to deserve such treatment.Regards,
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."- Hanlon et al.
What you posted earlier is a kind of fallacy in argumentation called an amphiboly:http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/logic.html#amphibolySo if your intent is to communicate rather than just post non-arguments for your own amusement, it would be helpful if you could state your position rationally.glupek2
Saying god doesn't exist is a fallacy.
The evidence is only there for those who wish to see it.
God is a useful idea
The people at the insane asylum aren't using religion to guide them through life, they're insane. God is a useful idea that people believe to be the truth, which I wouldn't expect anyone to see if they didn't believe. The lord does work through mysterious ways.
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-persistent-vegetative-state-terri-schiavo-20110820,0,316820.storyPatients like Terri Schiavo who are in a persistent vegetative state were judged as being "more dead than dead" by study participants, especially those with strong religious beliefs, according to a study in the journal Cognition. [...]In interviews with researchers about hypothetical car-accident victims, study participants (on average) ascribed less "mind" to those who were left in a persistent vegetative state than to those who had "passed away" or were laying in a coffin in a cemetery.[...]In the study, the researchers -- from Harvard University and the University of Maryland's Mind Perception and Morality Lab -- found that people who were not religious viewed those in a persistent vegetative state as on a par with the dead. But those who were "highly religious" made a distinction -- in favor of the dead.The researchers were able to show that the gap was due, in part, to belief in the afterlife. That was ironic, they noted, since those with strong religious beliefs are generally more resistant to withdrawing nutritional support from patients such as Schiavo to hasten their death.
I don't see what that study points out other than the obvious. The belief that someone braindead is worse of than dead follows the nature of most religions, you do the lords bidding now and you get rewarded in the afterlife. It's only ironic depending on your perspective, and a quite natural perspective says you give life every possible chance, and you do the lords bidding.
and a quite natural perspective says you give life every possible chance, and you do the lords bidding.
and you do the lords bidding