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asalimpo:Proves? Merely making a claim does not constitute proof of anything. |
paulGrundy:Could you define what you mean by miracles and give examples of miracles? |
BraveGuy:So was he able to map the time duration of his out of body experience to "every minute" of his coma? Can he guarantee that his out of body experience did not occur moments before he slipped into coma or moments before he recovered from it? Given the subjective nature of his OOB experience, can we verify the objectivity of his claims? How do we know he's not exaggerated the whole experience? Asking atheists to explain this is like me claiming to be superman and asking you to prove otherwise. It is quite impossible to prove a negative, isn't it? |
Misogynist2014:It is not enough to throw statements around, highlight the flaws in his logic and point to the irrelevant examples, and tell exactly why they are irrelevant. Misogynist2014:Science is agnostic, and accuses religion of nothing. But listen to yourself call god an infinite creature (without proof, no less), and then stop short of saying god isn't created. Where's the logical coherence in your argument? I suggest you look up the relationship between the words "creature" and "create". Yes, it is NOT logical to say "matter cannot be created or destroyed" because that is an outdated postulation. By replacing/equating "matter" with "energy", science has since self-corrected that notion as it always does when new light is shed on any topic of interest. Misogynist2014:It is not synonymous at all. Science has phenomenological evidence for its claims. Much less can be said of the Christian argument which is based solely on faith. No one rejects that anything is designed. We reject the lazy attribution of design to false (imaginary) designers/deities. Misogynist2014:Again, no one rejects a designer. You seem to think your idea of god (a personal intelligent designer) is the only kind of designer that can exist. Read on the forces of nature and on entropy. The emboldened question doesn't make any sense at all. Could you clarify? Misogynist2014:Since you're not as stu.pid as those guys, surely, you care to share how "magic" (whatever it is) proves the existence of your god? Misogynist2014:The bible is stuff of fairytale that tells us stories of a god nonbelievers are glad doesn't exist. It tells us of a god who asked his faithful, Abraham, to sacrifice his son, who asked Moses to ravage people's lands, properties, kill children, animals etc. A war mongering, blood-sucking, malevolent and disgusting god. A god that would command atrocities that make the holocaust seem like a love story, just to make a stupid point. Misogynist2014:I wonder why you haven't applied the same litmus to your religion. "True god does not require blood of his creatures" you say? Here's a list of BLOODY atrocities committed by your "true" god. What's the other one again? "Highly contradictory" holy books. Dude, have you even read the bible? Here, I found you a ginormous list of biblical contradictions which you can verify at your convenience. I just hope you're not another hypocrite, and you stay true to your criteria for determining false gods. |
Misogynist2014: For your mind now, you have done a Q.E.D. |
I cannot see how they are not aware that the rule is the diabolic antithesis of the principle behind online forums. |
Dear Seun and Mynd44, If you're going to move every topic that touches upon Islam to the Islamic section, then it appeals to reason that you make the Islamic section open to all, because not everybody that wishes to discuss about Islam is Muslim. It is preposterous that I cannot contributed to a topic I opened, except I convert to Islam. Either change the rules of the section or stop moving topics to the Islamic section for ambiguous and arbitrary reasons. Thanks! |
Mintayo:"Islam for Muslims: A forum for Muslims to share their faith. Muslims only please, even the moderators are Muslims" It says Muslims only, and I'm not Muslim anymore, so why should it be catapulted there? ------------------------ Mynd44 why? ------------------------ AlBaqir , I should like to engage you, nevertheless, it appears Mac, in his infinite wisdom, has determined I cannot make any useful contribution to this group. As a result I've been banned. The best I can do its edit my previous posts. I left religion because of the many inconsistencies Ahmed vagueness found therein. |
Can they be wrong? This question, as simple as it sounds, did have a profound impact on my religious outlook. Many Muslims of the Sunni sect will vouch for the veracity of the sahih hadiths, citing the meticulous effort that was invested in the chains of narrations by the duo of Muhamad ibn Bukhari and Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj to produce two of the most revered scriptures, second only to the Quran in status, in Sunni Islam. The meticulous attention paid to the chains of narrations, otherwise known as Isnad, was so impressive to the greatest Islamic scholars of the time of compilation, that in spite of the fact that these works were compiled some 200 years after the death of the prophet, they still thought it was accurate. One of them being Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the initiator of the hanbali school of Sunni jurisprudence (one of the four main schools). For all the meticulousness paid to the Isnad though, the relative ease with which contradictions and inconsistencies can be found in these hadiths tell another story. My thought is that not as much attention was paid to the content of the hadiths, otherwise called the matan, as was given to the Isnad. The implications of this being that the prophet was either a very inconsistent person of questionable character, or the hadiths had been corrupted over time. Neither of these implications is a tenable proposition to the Sunni, as it casts aspersions on the person of the prophet, or the veracity of sahih hadiths, our even worse, both. Either way, the resulting response is the effervescing of the foundation of their faith. In fact this is exactly what happened to my Islamic faith. As it turns out, I had built my notion of god on questionable sources. The moment this fact became apparent to me, I veered out of the fold at a rate faster than the half-life of Seaborgium My question to Sunnis is: Why do you still hang on to sahih hadiths as sacrosanct in spite of the conspicuous inconsistencies in them? |
Take 20 (base10) for example, its BasePI projection is a complicated but provable rebasing of the following numbers 1, 6-PI and 20-6PI.I worked it out to be ~130.2(basePI) after I became a bit jobless ![]() |
SNCOQ3:Sigh! I don't even know where to start with you. I wanted to teach you about the ontology and epistemology of objectivity because you obviously don't know the difference (you can read on it, or if I have time, I'll get to it later), but your vile bastardisation of mathematics is more painful to accept than your juvenile musings. First of all, our crude representation of PI has nothing to do with its objectivity or otherwise, it is rather because it is an irrational number. The only reason you cannot represent pie rationally has more to do with the limitations of the base10 system than an inherent property of pie. This means I can define a new numbering system called (BasePI) where, to the astonishment of your primitive maths knowledge, PI would assume a completely rational value. In this system the value of PI would be 10, and I can prove it with perfect mathematical convergence, but I neither have the time nor the patience to type out such a proof. The reason such a system isn't used is that the irrationality of PI (base10) is such a small price to pay compared to the fact that most rational numbers will become irrational in the (basePI) system. Take 20 (base10) for example, its BasePI projection is a complicated but provable rebasing of the following numbers 1, 6-PI and 20-6PI. Now, using existing mathematical conventions, can you tell me what PI^2 is in BasePI? On the objectivity of PI, NO, it's not objective. It is descriptive. There is no entity called PI, independent of what it describes, which is the unchanging ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter. It's like saying the word cup is objective. That, of course, is an absurd proposition. If there didn't exist people that spoke the language whereby "cup" is used to describe a handheld liquid holding device or any other concept, there would be no need for it to exist, nor would it. Likewise, the the word PI and the value of PI are subjective and only useful to the beholders of the lingual framework within which it exists (e.g mathematics). Another language where PI exists is Greek. So if I were to be a Greek literate and I wished to transliterate "Pond" to Greek alphabet, it would be "πονδ" and only you will tell me PI, π, is objective. The notion of PI is objective; If your knowledge of its true value is not limited, please provide the actual value: _______________Non-sequitur We are clearly not mates. Where are the self-contradictions? Olodo.I didn't ignore "Some" because I had no need to ignore it...check again, it was emboldened! Do you mean to say "established models" are 'true' models, 'conjectured' models or both? If established models are 'true', then conjectured models cannot be established models. If they are conjectured, they cannot be true (until proven, in which case they cease to be conjectured) and if you mean to say both true models and conjectured models can be established models, then that's a meaningless statement because we're only interested in the truth or otherwise of your model. So, is trinity a true mathematical model or a conjectured one? If it's a true model, can you present its mathematical proof? lol...<shake head in disbelief> You are the one who created a false analogy(1+1+1=3=1x1x1=1) to debunk how I represented the trinity. Strawman.You should shake your head for your shaky mathematical foundation. According to trinity, Father, f = god; son, s, = god; spirit, h, = god. From mathematical axioms f+s+h=god+god+god=3god therefore, it is not mathematically possible to define a set g={f,s,h} such that the sum of its elements is god. Rather, if you take away s from the god set, you'll be left with a subset {f,h}. Do you wish to say {f,h} is an incomplete representation of set g? In as much as you desperately want the statement to be false, it is not. Perhaps it could be better represented- but not false.I'm not desperate to prove your Triniterian logic false, it's empirically false by mathematical standards, no matter how much you wished it weren't. But if you wish to believe it's true in some other realm, be my guest. You may find numerology an attractive avenue to explore, just don't bring it into the realm of mathematics. Oh, and I'm ignoring your foolish question because you have no prescriptive jurisdiction over what I choose to consider 'logical elegance'. Lol. You threw out the aspect that explains oneness in a marital relationship to cook up a fallacy. Enjoy.Is this imaginary oneness of yours a mathematical statement or a cultural cliche? ---I rest my case ---Yeah, rest your case; and while you're at it, also rest your head before you experience segmentation fault from your self-imposed cognitive dissonance. wiegraf: ![]() |
SNCOQ3:OMG!!! Did you just stylishly imply the subjectivity of mathematics? What happened to the "1+1=2 Objective" statement you made earlier on? Abomination...tu fiakwa!!! SNCOQ3:Mate, do you understand the difference between conjectures and true statements? In one stretch, you call the trinity a conjecture, and not one sentence after and what I can imagine will would have been a painful fumble through self-contradiction, it magically becomes true...ahn-ahn now, bros. SNCOQ3:You're entitled to establish your own Trinitarian mathematical formalisms whereby 1+1+1=3=1x1x1=1 and live your life as though it were the truth, but don't abuse millennia old mathematical formalisms and pretend what you're saying makes any sense. Trinity is a grotesquely false mathematical statement that flies in the face of all logical elegance. SNCOQ3:A husband and his wife are two persons, that is, 1+1=2, nowhere on earth is a husband and his wife seen as one person, except (s)he marries (her/him)self. Stop using silly cultural clichés to commit fallacies of equivocation as though the statement has any mathematical meaning. |
SNCOQ3:It's not diversionary, it's a mockery of your hypocrisy. You claim 1+1+1=3 is objective, but you also believe father is god, son is god holy spirit is god and all three are equal to god, not three gods, one god. And this too is objective. This is a mathematical aberration which means contrary to your claim, you don't really believe in the objectivity of the sentence 1+1+1=3. |
SNCOQ3:Trinitarian logic states otherwise. In Trinitarian logic, 1+1+1=1 Objective. There cannot be two objective ways to understand the same statement, no? |
Martian:Later MrAnony1 will claim he's not the one converting is to ought and whatnots to whatwhat. |
MrAnony1:It is a statement, not an answer because there was no question. And it is vague...So far everybody with whom you're having this discussion has been asking you for clarification since 19gbogboro and you have refused...like an artful dodger MrAnony1:Yes, but clarify your previous statement. MrAnony1:You don't have to tell me anything. However, we're having an adult discussion here, I hope. It's borderline haughty to postpone my question and then require me to answer yours, so you first...or explain why you don't have to tell me that purpose. Don't just prescribe to me as if I'm a child. MrAnony1:The examples I gave are evidently fallacious in light of your statement, but they are not vague, and I find nothing inherently fallacious in them, which is why I need you to clarify your statement...or show me the fallacy in them. |
MrAnony1:Good is that which we ought to do. MrAnony1:The only person that has pertinaciously insisted on transmogrifying "is" to "ought" is you. MrAnony1:So, surely you read the part about "ought" being a prescription for a specified goal? Hence, if you say "good is that which we ought to do" you know it should be predicated on some purpose. Tell us what that purpose is! Do you mean it is what we ought to do: If we are to be happy, if we are to make it to heaven, if we want Sunny Ade to sing a Christmas Carroll? Either you define "that which we ought to do" or you define the goal of your prescription. I can prove the vagueness of your statement with the following examples: Example 1: I believe it is good not to interfere in the lives of other living things, but I also believe I ought to interfere in their lives by eating them. To me, this good=/= ought to do Example 2: A thief mugs a woman's handbag at gunpoint. I believe it is good to stop that thief, but I'd be stupid to try and do so, so I know I ought not do it. Again good=/= ought to do. These are real life examples. So clarify what you mean by that vague statement because even though you've spent the last few pages insisting it is self-evident, it is not at all clear what it means. Your alternative would be to acknowledge that good is an undefinable, in which case your statement is meaningless. |
Joshthefirst:It is possible for entropy to cause localised order. Take the galaxies for example, their symmetries look ordered, yet they emerge purely from entropy. |
SmellMyFart:You must have heard of naturally occurring hydrogen (H2), oxygen (O2) and nitrogen (N2) molecules. Heck, you must have heard of H2O |
MrAnony1:I have to say, MrAnony, your argument is excruciatingly pathetic and bereft of meaning! You throw out a vague statement and rebuff every request to clarify your statement so that you can slither and undulate around reasonable attempts to engage with you. It's befuddling where you're headed with this. I suggest you read up the [url=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem]Wikipedia article[/url] on the "Is-ought" dilemma because vague arguments aren't arguments at all. |
BossTtdiamonds:That can only mean you don't have honest answers to my simple questions! Surely, the proof and motive of your god's existence are immutable to the possibility that my name could be biliki, akpos, yerima or john; or that I'm a devil worshiper, humanist, Hindu or muslim? You don't have to answer my questions. Your points are excruciatingly juvenile, and this conversation is becoming mildly irritating. |
BossTtdiamonds:Dude, if you're really suggesting that my belief and handle ID had/have any consequence on yours; and even more outrageous, that this will convolute an imaginary argument, how can I take you seriously? |
DavidKissinger:Never mind my ego my lad, asking the right questions isn't beyond any of us. But are we honest enough to acknowledge our limitations when presented with the questions? |
BossTtdiamonds:Evolution is design by nature. Perhaps you wish to compare evolution and intelligent, purposive design? By definition, any naturalistic/materialistic proposition for the origin of species, however flawed, is statistically less improbable than a supernatural alternative. So, your task is to show that this level of complexity is not naturally possible. |
BossTtdiamonds:I have sound deductive and cognitive skills, and I'm able to articulate my thoughts with lucidity. The way I see it, I'm in a position to ask any question I like. BossTtdiamonds:I don't think my beliefs had the remotest influence on the decision you made concerning yours, so you don't need to know what I believe in any more than you need to know what I had for breakfast. BossTtdiamonds:If you really wish to know, I believe in me. |
DavidKissinger:Assuming your analogy is appropriate, is it really the "greater good" of the pet or its owner that necessitates the clipping of its claws? You could have used a better analogy, like the sick baby and doctor's syringe, to a more potent effect. Regardless of whichever version you use though, your analogy still fails on one very important count: It presupposes the existence of the god whose very existence is being scrutinised. For your analogy to be applicable, you first have to show that: 1) like the pet owner, this god actually exists. 2) this god requires you to worship it. 3) this god does not harbour any evil intentions. After all, there's nothing that stops a pet owner from harbouring evil intensions towards their pet. Surely, asking us to make all three assumptions would be asking for too much?! |
Ubenedictus:Quick, off your head, come up with a synonym for "before"... What? Did I hear you say "prior to"? No, "prior to" does not help your cause...still a function of time! Ubenedictus:I don't follow at all. What is the habitus sequence of the three horned blue colourless unicorn with a discursive potential of 20eV? Does that clarify my question? |
Ubenedictus:Of course you don't realise the paradox inherent in creating "before" time. The word 'before' is inextricable from time. Saying god chose to create before time is analogous to saying "there was a time when time didn't exist". Add to that, the conundrum of choice you've created for god. See, if god already knows everything that will happen, by definition, god does not have an active role (choice) in it. For if god, out of choice, changes what it already knew, it clearly didn't know everything in the first place. So, can it really be said that an omniscient has made a choice? For emphasis, I could present such a paradox in the form of a question: Is it possible to know everything you're going to do and still call them choices? |
Rilwayne001:I smell fart...did a prat open it's cavum? |
Rilwayne001:Hahaha, see aproko o! You nkor, you answer your own? |
Smallville10:Agree to your bogus science? You got that right boss, probably never! |




ITS NO USE U ARE AN AGENT OF ALLAH SO THATS THE PROBLEM. YOU PROBABLY WOULD NEVER AGREE