Does God exist? Your thoughts, please.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

[Brother Buzz]

1. If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex™?

-Art Hoppe

[Marrah_G]

2. Which one and do Godesses count also?

[Symarip]

3. I used to believe there was a god

Then I heard Siamese Dream and I realized, there's no way a loving and all knowing God would allow this to happen.

[Deep13]

4. If god exists, he's an evil bastard. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. _Something_ exists, maybe. No old guy with a flowing beard sitting on a throne, though.

[arcadian]

8. That's the ONLY way I want God to exist

With Narwhals on clouds playing the harpsicord.

[amitten]

46. You need to shut the fuck up about narwhals.

Or I'm gonna stabbity-stab the fucking shit outa you.















With a dead narwhal.

[A HERETIC I AM]

57. That'll leave a nasty mark, I'll bet.

Not to mention it could get infected. And get all red and stuff. He'll be walking around with a dead Narwhal hanging out of one of the several red, swelling stab wounds.

Gonna need a fucking CASE of Bacitracin after that.

And a Glade Plug-in for the smell.

Rotting Narwhal has a rather unpleasant odor, I'm led to understand.

[CreekDog]

6. I think God exists

things like love, culture, language and how we humans are fascinated by tales of right and wrong --as if we are wired to care about how we behave towards each other. some say it's all just biology, but it feels like more than that.

:shrug:

[seemunkee]

7. Does it matter?

I wouldn't change how I live, what my core values are.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

9. I have no idea.

And that's the only real answer.

Now, if you asked if I believed "god" existed, it might be different. :)

[sammythecat]

10. Don't think so, not yet anyway

It's a big universe. It's 14 billion years old and still growing.

[Arugula Latte]

11. Doubt it very much.

And the chances of there being a human-like form controlling the universe, with Earth being the culmination of His (of course it's a man :eyes: ) grand plan seem to be about, oh, zilch.

[sakabatou]

12. There is no evidence nor good, logical argument for any god existing.

[jeff30997]

49. And the reverse is also true.

There is no evidence nor good,logical argument against any god existing.Therefore I don't know

and I frankly don't care.:)

[Sky Masterson]

13. No

...

[southpaw]

14. I don't believe so...

[applegrove]

15. It is still a mystery. Something has to have started it all.

[Arugula Latte]

28. But then, wouldn't the catalyst have to have started somewhere, too?

It just makes your mind circle around and around. :crazy: I think I'll go pour another glass of wine. :beer:

[applegrove]

35. LOL!

[Deja Q]

48. The chicken and the egg - which came first?

If it was the egg, the mess on its inner walls would not be a pretty sight...

:yoiks:

[jobycom]

16. Yes.

I do exist.

[Arugula Latte]

27. But I don't believe in you.

:P

[jobycom]

33. Oddly, neither do I.

It gets confusing, I admit.

[elshiva]

17. No, god does not exist.

Do you want there to be a god?

[RagAss]

18. As a concept in mind.

[Swede]

19. I think so.

But,who knows?

[blogslut]

20. boB exists

And there is no prob with http://www.subgenius.com/pam1/pamphlet.html">boB

[jeff30997]

50. Wow! A lot of sexual activity in this cult.

Where do I sign ? :D

[blogslut]

52. Eternal Salvation or your Money Back!

http://www.subgenius.com/scatalog/membership.htm

[Incitatus]

21. .

[BlueJazz]

22. I don't believe in any Gods

[Lyric]

23. For me, it's not so much a question of whether God exists as it's a question

of, Does God exist in the way that we WANT him/her to? As to that, no, I don't think so.

There's probably something bigger and more advanced/powerful/important than we are out there in existence, but I certainly don't think that he/she is personally concerned with our lives. In fact, I'd guess that if something like a God exists, it probably doesn't even know that we're here. Are *you* intimately concerned with the life choices that one particular ant makes? Or even one individual bacterium in your gut?

I have no problem with a belief in a higher being, but the whole, "We're so special that the most powerful, important being in all existence chooses to spend its time keeping account of who we have sex with and how often!" That whole notion is just ridiculous to me. Our entire galaxy is probably nothing more than a molecule of his/her body. Meanwhile, we murder and torture and hurt each other constantly over whose special relationship with "God" is better/truer/deeper/ad nauseum.

In reality, I guess I'm a loose Deist, but in practicality, I stand with the atheists and agnostics. If there IS a God, he/she/it is entirely too enormous and distant to ever be a factor in our lives, so to me, religion is mostly a waste of time and money that could be spent doing things that help people *without* hurting anyone in the process.

[SPKrazy]

24. unprovable

[emilyg]

25. Yes.

[Common Sense Party]

26. Yes.

I could be wrong, but why take chances?

[cherish44]

29. My great freaky ephiphany

There are things our human minds just can't comprehend. We have only our five senses. Who is to say that things do not exist unless our brain can sense them. Our minds can only understand linear concepts of time. Everything has a beginning and an end. If that is the case then there really has to have been a time when absolutely NOTHING existed. Well then how did all this get here? Obviously there are things that have always existed and were not formed or created or born. But logically, as our brains can't comprehend it, everything has to somehow be created. How could something have always existed? There has to be things that have always existed because otherwise there had to be a time when there was absolutely nothing. In our line of thinking all those atoms and molecules had to be created somehow... how can something be created from nothing?
OK...back away from the bong cherish44 :hippie: :hippie: :hippie: :hippie:

[kentauros]

30. That's the best answer, bong or no bong.

Gotta gong? :D

[qwertyMike]

31. Of course he does

(Just taking out afterlife insurance in case he exists.)

Did you hear me up there?

[Lucian]

32. None of us have any idea if a god/gods exist or not.

[Jamastiene]

34. Sometimes, I think He exists and just doesn't like me.

Other times, I think there is no God and it's all made up to keep losers like me feeling low about life and ourselves. Still, other times, I feel like there is a God and I'm thankful the tornado didn't demolish my little hovel. :shrug:

[Strong Atheist]

36. My thoughts? Guess.

;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_atheist

[Tommy_Carcetti]

37. This is all pretty deep talk for a joke thread meant only to draw attention to St. Corgan's Day.

I'm quite impressed with myself. Really.

[Strong Atheist]

40. Religion is a"hot button" issue for many.

:hide:

I'm surprised it has not been moved to R&T...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

42. Which is precisely why I chose it.

Along with pit bulls, Olive Garden, breastfeeding and tasers.

[cherish44]

44. Oh I love the Smashing Pumpkins!

I didn't know the lead singer had his own holiday....or that he was a saint. I learn something new every day on teh internets

[guitar man]

38. I think something exists

I don't think it's a dude in the sky with a long white beard though. Probably a race of beings way advanced beyond us with a collective consciousness or something. I'm not inclined to believe that life as we know it was just a happy accident, but I'm not so arrogant as to purport to know who or what "god" is. It's just way above and beyond us.

[Rising Phoenix]

39. I, personally, know there is a god.....

because you can't hate and swear to never speak to someone again who doesn't exist

also, you can't forgive someone who doesn't exist

[rurallib]

41. per Epicurus

One of the most persistent issues concerning belief in God is the problem of evil. Epicurus's argument still holds up:

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/latergreeks.html

Thank you Ep

[PVnRT]

43. Bingo

[Shell Beau]

45. Yep!

[amitten]

47. No--but everything else does! (?)

Actually, I believe in God. But my definition of that may not be the same definition someone else has, so it's a moot point. And my belief in a God is in no way akin to the Flying Spaghetti Monster analogy, so that little jokey-poo is lost on me, sorry atheist folk.

Plus, no one can prove or disprove a damn thing in that realm anyway.

[jeff30997]

51. I have no Idea.I need proof one way or the other to believe in something.

Blind faith is not my thing but for some peoples,even in the cruelest of conditions,

they continue to believe in the existence of God like in this case:

"Yet it is also true that even in Auschwitz some Jews continued to study the Talmud and observe the traditional festivals,not because they hoped that God would rescue them but because it made sense.

There is a story that one day in Auschwitz, a group of Jews put God on trial. They charge him with cruelty and betrayal. Like Job they found no consolation in the usual answers to the problem of evil and suffering in the midst of this current obscenity. They could find no excuse for God, no extenuating circumstances, so they found him guilty and,presumably,worthy of death. The Rabbi pronounced the verdict. Then he looked up and said that the trial was over: it was time for the evening prayer."

I just copied the first article about this that I found with Google but I learned about

that event a long time ago.God even had a defense lawyer! If He had chosen to be represented

by the same team that O.J had,God would have gotten away with it.

[madinmaryland]

53. Yes. Because, Wednesday is Flying Spaghetti Night!

We worship her noodly appendages every Wednesday night!!!

Ramen to you all!

[New Earth]

54. God is ALL that exists...

the entire universe and all that is within it is the body of God....energy is the "intelligence" or force behind it all....
there is nothing else but God! (but no I do not believe God "controls" everything, do not believe it is a he or she...God is within all equally...
And yes I "believe" in Science.
Science is the study of God!

[kwassa]

58. Amen.

[Tommy_J]

55. If by God you mean --

--a force that controls how our world and how everything in it behaves then yes there is a god!

I call her THE LAWS OF PHYSICS

[DontBlameMe]

56. This just in. From tonights Epilogue,

God exist by two falls to a submission.