Comments on: Does God Exist?

By: Charles L. Wang

Charles L. Wang — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:47:07 +0000

Almost all religion capitalizes on the afterlife for enduring hardship and altruistic behaviors in this life time.

Therefore, it’s like Market Economy: the more stable and solid the capital of the after life proves to be, the more value and demands are placed on it in this life time.

So, to find anything that can prove divinity, afterlife, and value of life, it reinforces the supply-side currency used on the Market Economy of Religion, Morality, and Ethics.

So things like Universal Morality (David Humes), Universal Grammar (Noam Chomsky), Bombardier Beetles, and how every civilization had a religion that they believed in, since its dawn, and Jesus’ 12 disciples wouldn’t have allowed them to be crucified for a lie that they are spreading, these evidences (and more, like what this essay is about) solidify and cement the currency of the afterlife. And thereby, achieving leverage over our behaviors and beliefs of the current life by capitalizing on the afterlife.

By: BobZaguy

BobZaguy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:20:09 +0000

Leave it to the Sisyphean Gallop boys to be able to ask such a question and then claim an estimated 8 million people in 1/3 of 15% of a national sample (±1200). Sixty people, actually, who agree to some form of a mystical experience and/or remember what they said while they were unconscious or even in a coma.

What did our ancestors, not to mention their ancestors before them, ever do without this insight?

And stitched into such a nice, tight package, categorized and set up for all to see and exclaim over.

Parody is the short form of paradise.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:06:38 +0000

What’s my point, you ask. Is a point necessary – it’s a satire site with satire played against ‘serious commentary’.
Is the subject of some mythical being, worshipped by cultures across the Earth since time immemorial, in a variety of guises, not worthy of parody?

By: Charles L. Wang

Charles L. Wang — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:43:03 +0000

Let me quote his biography:

‘after our minds were satisfied, we would try every sexual position possible until every inch of our flesh was satisfied…’

By: Charles L. Wang

Charles L. Wang — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:37:16 +0000

You know what? I’m also reminded of an average person who spends all night at the bar, buying random women drinks, and then getting their “game” on and carefully move in to try to get laid, (after much practice with paid prostitutes and strippers-in-need, of-course).

They spend the “dough” that they don’t have, to buy cloth, watches, car, and other status symbols that they don’t need, to impress 21 year old who are easy and jaw-droppingly shallow, in order to try to “mount them while their drunk…”

So, what’s your point? ’cause I’m missing it…

People have different needs and different utility-scales.
What’s wrong with someone who likes “intellectual-intercourse” better than sexual-intercourse?

C.S. Lewis was virgin most of his life until he met a communist woman in his mid 40s. They talk all evening on the “question of God” and politics and then have wild and ecstatic mid-night sex, all night.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:45:08 +0000

Ontological proof of the existence of God? It all comes down to Faith and needing Him to exist.
I’m reminded of the intellectual Irish agnostic who suffered not only from insomnia but also dyslexia and would stay up all night pondering the existence of Dog.