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TIL I learned that God is basically a supercomputer with
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TIL I learned that God is basically a supercomputer with


Aug 7, 2015, 11:01 AM

an astounding array of highly advanced microprocessors capable of making billions of choices per second about who lives and dies. Or at least he built this computer that runs these algorithms while he's playing golf. I mean...that's a lot of responsibility. I hope He has a good audit system in place.

What's it like going through life under the assumption that every single thing you do is predetermined, controlled, and monitored? That seems abnormally creepy and disconcerting.

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I wonder if he's upgraded to Windows 10 yet.***


Aug 7, 2015, 11:04 AM



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Bruh, he's definitely a Mac user***


Aug 7, 2015, 11:06 AM



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^^^^Scokkerkrzy scok***


Aug 7, 2015, 11:08 AM



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Krzy uses Windows, bruh***


Aug 7, 2015, 11:12 AM



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my mind is bottled***


Aug 7, 2015, 11:28 AM



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He uses iPhone, but uses PC for computing***


Aug 7, 2015, 11:30 AM



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But hates the IOS.


Aug 7, 2015, 11:32 AM

He's a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

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I hate OSx, you're right that I don't like iOS, but


Aug 7, 2015, 12:04 PM

jailbroken iOS is the best.

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Cole @ Beach Cole w/ Clemson Hat


Any time I connect to our company network


Aug 7, 2015, 1:30 PM

I spend more time getting around OSx than using it.

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TIL that 19B is trying to deflect us from the


Aug 7, 2015, 11:04 AM

disappointment of not providing in-law stories






























or "Jeff is slammed" stories

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You really ought to seek answers to these question in the...


Aug 7, 2015, 11:05 AM

P&R section of Tnet. :)

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Re: TIL I learned that God is basically a supercomputer with


Aug 7, 2015, 11:17 AM

I don't think most things are pre-determined. There is free will and such. People have choices and I'm a believer that things are much more random - Jeff Goldblum, chaos theory, Jurassic Park and such.

And I think He is more into open source and a Linux user.

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God as Big Brother


Aug 7, 2015, 12:08 PM

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2013/06/search-me-o-god

I'm not so sure that it shouldn't be much creepier and much more disconcerting going through life under the assumption that nothing grounds anything you do, and that nobody who isn't you that can make things matter much cares what you do. Atheist philosophers of nihilism and radical freedom certainly didn't think being unknown by a god was a comforting feeling. Sartre called the feeling of radical freedom "nausea;" Nietzsche hauntingly said that radical freedom was like looking into an "abyss" and having the abyss "look back into you."

None of which is to say which situation is better. But let's not pretend that there's nothing creepy about an atheistic world.

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Re: God as Big Brother


Aug 7, 2015, 12:34 PM

http://www.theonion.com/article/guy-in-philosophy-class-needs-to-shut-the-fuck-up-1804

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Huh. Page gone.


Aug 7, 2015, 12:40 PM

Sorry cam

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Well if Atheist philosphers say it, then that must be


Aug 7, 2015, 12:44 PM [ in reply to God as Big Brother ]

the default truth then for all atheists.

Or was that your point?

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atheism does not equal


Aug 7, 2015, 1:22 PM [ in reply to God as Big Brother ]

"going through life under the assumption that nothing grounds anything you do"

And if God equals the opposite, he's as bad at his job as the weather man.

Regards,
All incarcerated folks

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You'll need to explain that


Aug 7, 2015, 1:26 PM

At the risk of getting attacked for bringing up philosophy when somebody asks a philosophical question, I don't think there's any meaningful way of grounding our actions without a theology. That's why those atheist philosophers that Ineligible thinks are such morons ended up being existentialists and nihilists.

And, while I have no idea what you're trying to say about grounding things and incarceration, the point of the article I posted was that God isn't the surveilling God of morality that somebody like Nietzsche or 19B would criticize.


Message was edited by: camcgee®


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Mothra has a plan for each of us.


Aug 7, 2015, 12:31 PM

And for the trivial sum of $89.00 to (just to cover administrative costs), I will be happy to impart Mothra's plan for you, to you.

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Could I get an upgraded plan?


Aug 7, 2015, 1:18 PM

You know, for us no-talent a55clowns who have raised families, paid mortgages, held jobs, and just generally taken care of business?

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"Every man is my superior, in that I may learn something from him."


Just remember...no matter what you have done, its never


Aug 7, 2015, 1:29 PM

god enough.


It's the zeroth law of religion.

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Yep.


Aug 7, 2015, 1:36 PM

Check tmail.

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"Every man is my superior, in that I may learn something from him."


God has a plan


Aug 7, 2015, 12:58 PM

Which is why I do whatever I want and don't worry about it.

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