National Day(s)of Reason in Canada

taxslave

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You remember the plate they pass around don;t you? The sun is the only god you should pay any attention to. The rest are rank loathsome pretenders.

Forgot about that. We never had a church were I grew up. Some preacher types of unknown variety came out to the camp on sundays and did a Sunday school for us little heathens and some kind of hallelujah for the adults. My mother went , I don't remember my father ever going. I quit going as soon as I was old enough to put my foot down. Actually I went fishing with my friends and mom gave up on me after a month or so. I thought the money was to pay the preacher.(Union camp, nobody worked for free).
 

darkbeaver

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Forgot about that. We never had a church were I grew up. Some preacher types of unknown variety came out to the camp on sundays and did a Sunday school for us little heathens and some kind of hallelujah for the adults. My mother went , I don't remember my father ever going. I quit going as soon as I was old enough to put my foot down. Actually I went fishing with my friends and mom gave up on me after a month or so. I thought the money was to pay the preacher.(Union camp, nobody worked for free).

Fishing on a nice day day. So you hung with God afterall.
You are a natural smart guy.
 

Dexter Sinister

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What is the definition of God?
Just gotta ask the hard questions eh? :) Every definition I've ever seen rapidly ends up in inconsistency and/or incoherence when I try to follow the logical implications of the characteristics and motives ascribed to him/her/it/whatever. The whole idea of a deity, of any sort, fundamentally does not make sense to me, I do not see how there can be such a being. So I don't think there is.

I like your idea about the sun though. I can SEE the sun. That's important. :)

Fishing on a nice day day. So you hung with God afterall.
Good one Beave, I begin to suspect you of hidden depths of wisdom and understanding.:) If by some remote and vastly improbable chance there IS a deity, the zen of fishing will be one place to find out.
 

Angstrom

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I tend to believe you.




So you're doubting the rabbits worship and devotion to lettuce? And the snake sunning on the rock is not in communion with his god, I suppose.

That be simple natural drive to survive on the part of living things.
 

darkbeaver

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Just gotta ask the hard questions eh? :) Every definition I've ever seen rapidly ends up in inconsistency and/or incoherence when I try to follow the logical implications of the characteristics and motives ascribed to him/her/it/whatever. The whole idea of a deity, of any sort, fundamentally does not make sense to me, I do not see how there can be such a being. So I don't think there is.

I like your idea about the sun though. I can SEE the sun. That's important. :)

Good one Beave, I begin to suspect you of hidden depths of wisdom and understanding.:) If by some remote and vastly improbable chance there IS a deity, the zen of fishing will be one place to find out.

The deity is reason? I spent a lot of time fishing brooks when I was a kid. It was heavenly for me.
Every bend in the stream was oportunity and discovery. The big fish was just up a head and I was bound to find it.