Theists of NIS, why do you believe?

1. 2019-03-08 at 5:39 AM UTC

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   GGG victim of incest [my veinlike two-fold aepyornidae]
   I'm not a theist, but I'd like to hear what you have to say about it.
2. 2019-03-08 at 6:48 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   I’m not a theist either, I’m just subscribing to the thread with this post so I can school all the retards later
3. 2019-03-08 at 12:38 PM UTC

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   gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
   I am a devout Pastafarian.
   
   I have been touched by His (Sauce Be Upon Him) noodly appendage, and have since dedicated my life to the church of the holiest of dieties.
   
   If you worship any other (false) prophet, you will one day have to face your maker in the big Italian cuisine in the sky.
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   • AngryOnion
4. 2019-03-11 at 11:25 PM UTC

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   GGG victim of incest [my veinlike two-fold aepyornidae]
   Itt: no theists
5. 2019-03-11 at 11:30 PM UTC

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   gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]

   Originally posted by GGG Itt: no theists

   
   FSM (Sauce Be Upon Him) is a deity, and therefore I am a theist.
6. 2019-03-11 at 11:49 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   Im a pantheist. I dont worship anything. I just appreciate things for what they are. So it goes.
7. 2019-03-12 at 1:35 AM UTC

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   Nil African Astronaut [the overexcited four-footed chanar]
   No believers then? Real progress in 2019.
8. 2019-03-12 at 1:37 AM UTC

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   Erekshun Naturally Camouflaged
   I believe there is a God but that is as far as it goes. I don't practice, pray or worship. What does that make me?
9. 2019-03-12 at 1:49 AM UTC

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   AngryOnion Big Wig [the nightly self-effacing broadsheet]
   I have one these on the back of my truck.
   
10. 2019-03-12 at 1:49 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Nil No believers then? Real progress in 2019.

    
    I believe in God.
11. 2019-03-12 at 1:56 AM UTC

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    Nil African Astronaut [the overexcited four-footed chanar]

    Originally posted by ohfralala I believe in God.

    
    Zeus?
12. 2019-03-12 at 1:57 AM UTC

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    Erekshun Naturally Camouflaged

    Originally posted by Erekshun I believe there is a God but that is as far as it goes. I don't practice, pray or worship. What does that make me?

    
    I was brought up as a Catholic but never molested. I still feel violated.
13. 2019-03-12 at 2 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Nil Zeus?

    
    No.
14. 2019-03-12 at 2:46 AM UTC

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    SHARK Houston
    I am a theist of sorts.
    
    Here is my logic.
    
    If the universe is eternal, it suffers from the problems of infinite regress. If it had a first moment, then it suffers from the problems of the uncaused cause.
    
    In what sort of scenario is existence possible while needing to worry about neither of these issues?
    
    Imagine simulating a universe where the only elements are a particle that moves from the left to the right and collides with a wall.
    
    An observer inside this universe might ponder as to how this strange universe came to be: if the particle was coming from infinity, why now this brick wall, and how did it cover the infinite distance between it and this wall? And if indeed the particle popped into existence from some arbitrary point, why? Why there and nowhere else? Why this particle? What structures this first event? But as the programmer of the simulation, I can simply set the particle to appear at some arbitrary position and internally it would be indistinguishable whether or not I did so, or if the particle came from infinity.
    
    I think so too is the nature of our universe.
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    • mmQ
15. 2019-03-12 at 2:52 AM UTC

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    D4NG0 motherfucker

    Originally posted by GGG Itt: no theists

    
    *yawns*
    
    This again? What do you want to know now? Most religions and their various sects are but a click away on Google.
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    • The Self Taught Man
16. 2019-03-12 at 3:26 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
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17. 2019-03-12 at 4:14 AM UTC

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    GGG victim of incest [my veinlike two-fold aepyornidae]

    Originally posted by D4NG0 *yawns*
    
    This again? What do you want to know now? Most religions and their various sects are but a click away on Google.

    
    When will god make himself felt to me?
18. 2019-03-12 at 4:54 AM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by SHARK I am a theist of sorts.
    
    Here is my logic.
    
    If the universe is eternal, it suffers from the problems of infinite regress. If it had a first moment, then it suffers from the problems of the uncaused cause.
    
    In what sort of scenario is existence possible while needing to worry about neither of these issues?
    
    Imagine simulating a universe where the only elements are a particle that moves from the left to the right and collides with a wall.
    
    An observer inside this universe might ponder as to how this strange universe came to be: if the particle was coming from infinity, why now this brick wall, and how did it cover the infinite distance between it and this wall? And if indeed the particle popped into existence from some arbitrary point, why? Why there and nowhere else? Why this particle? What structures this first event? But as the programmer of the simulation, I can simply set the particle to appear at some arbitrary position and internally it would be indistinguishable whether or not I did so, or if the particle came from infinity.
    
    I think so too is the nature of our universe.

    
    How fuckin high are you rn, dumbass? What am I even reading
19. 2019-03-12 at 8:25 PM UTC

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    D4NG0 motherfucker

    Originally posted by GGG When will god make himself felt to me?

    
    Have you considered it's a two-way relationship?
20. 2019-03-12 at 8:47 PM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by D4NG0 Have you considered it's a two-way relationship?

    
    Any relationship with “god” is strictly one-way. Because it’s a relationship between someone that exists, and someone that doesn’t.
    
    This is why prayer doesn’t work, for example