ruveyn wrote:
Signs654 wrote:
Just what did he do before he created the world?
The question presumes the existence of a creator agent, and there is not an iota of empirical evidence to support this presumption. In fact the more we know of the physical world, the more absurd this presumption appears.
One should not presume the existence of anything when there is no evidence to support that existence.
If you want to believe in sky daddies, ghosts, spirits and all sorts of non-material bojums, by all means do. Just do not pretend your believes and hopes are facts.
Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and opinions. No one is entitled to his own facts.
ruveyn
Yes yes. But nobody in the thread has made that claim. Note the first word of the thread title. An amusement. A mental exercise.
It perhaps speaks of the possible experience of those born deaf and blind. Such a discussion of imaginary things is vital to the expansion of the human mind, to our knowledge base, our vocabulary.
Dont believe me?
You used a word, bojum, which perfectly fits what I am talking about. Do you even know the origin of that word? It comes from a nonsense poem about an imaginary invisible monster. It comes from fiction: Lewis Carroll's "The hunting of the snark". The Boojum might not even exist in the poem, as it could be a macguffin to cover up a murder.
And yet it is the writing, reading and discussion of that fiction that allows you to colorfully ridicule someones post. Your vocabulary owes a debt of gratitude to the fact that someone wanted to think about nonsense things.
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