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The Swansong.

Sometimes it helps to change surroundings, kinda like addicts trying to kick a habit. I've known a number of people who did that (not necessarily drug related) and it saved their lives. Hell, I'm 53 yrs old, disabled and living in a van with my dying dog (almost 20 yrs old) and I'm reasonably happy.
If you figure on pulling the plug, why not just take off and travel? Being dead leaves you with nothing, so traveling with little or nothing isn't any worse.. and meeting new people in different surroundings might change your outlook.

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So I am a Athiest, what now?

No one has to present station fulls of information from around the world with endless hours of interviews to be qualified to speak a simple truth.
There was nothing wrong with my analogy - I made it simple, not lazy, and there is a difference.

Wrong. You specifically named 3 blind people and refuse to back up your statement.

No, Willy, not by my God, but by my ability to read and comprehend what you clearly wrote at the beginning of this Post -

Life goes on. I don't believe in a god and am quite happy.

I answered you according to the very claim your belief
The chronological order of the thread is the very proof of it.

Look up agnosticism vs atheism, specifically Agnostic Atheist. Maybe parse what I stated; "I don't believe in a god"=/="I believe there ISN'T a god", stating 2 different beliefs.

My anology breaks down? No amount of opposing (ie "VS") can weaken the construct of the example...
The sheer number of sighted people is very comparable to the number of people who believe in God (or a god) regardless of their religion. A majority of people are believers. The number of people who aren't are few (like it or not).
Now....is there some special claim of knowledge you possess that should elevate your claim above the majority of the world?
As I said before, People who have been blind from birth aren't obligated to believe what sighted people believe when it comes to sight. The smarter ones, however, would.
Sure. There are liars, but reality and truth walk hand and hand.

The number of people believing something doesn't automatically make it true and therefor reality. Logic elevates my claim above the majority of the world. For example, how many kids believe in Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and are told that they exist by others?

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If I take a pro-biotic and an anti-biotic together, will I explode?

You might, however, develop explosive diarrhea. [https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q...

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So I am a Athiest, what now?

Slash wrote:

Though you are happy, is what you believe (that there is no God), a verifiable fact? From what corner of the universe did you assume your source?
Why hold me to a standard by virtue of your beliefs you can't implement?

I was trying to make a point. People who have been blind from birth aren't obligated to believe what sighted people believe when it comes to sight.
The smarter ones, however, would.

I fully understand the point you were trying to make, but your analogy was flawed. Assuming that said blind people have a certain belief, without proof that they indeed have such a belief is, to my mind, intellectually lazy. You are, yet again, making a rather unwarranted assumption when you claim to know what I believe; maybe this is special knowledge conferred to you by your god?
Your chosen analogy also breaks down insofar as it's assumed that people who can see, vs those who are blind, equal those that believe in a god vs unbelievers. The first lot (sighted) would be describing a quantifiable phenomenon, whereas the second lot (believing in a god) would be describing a mental construct, lacking objective reality.
My last point, regarding "People who have been blind from birth aren't obligated to believe what sighted people believe when it comes to sight.
The smarter ones, however, would.", is that blindly believing (See, I made a funny!) is NOT a mark of intelligence, since people have been known to lie. Also, what people 'see' isn't necessarily what's there, so a certain amount of skepticism regarding their claims isn't unwarranted.

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So I am a Athiest, what now?

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Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Terry Gibbs - they don't believe in rainbows and are just as happy as you.
Cheers [/quote]
Do you know this as a verifiable FACT? If so, name your sources.

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So I am a Athiest, what now?

Life goes on. I don't believe in a god and am quite happy.

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Dolly understands

What is this.."work" I hear about?

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What's the difference between suncream sunblock and sunscreen ?

A centrifuge filter w. a settling tank (at the very least) would be required to obtain even a minimal purity of baby oil.

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im a closet chef...

Don't need no stinkin recipe! Just throw it all in a pot n boil the piss outta it. Whatever can't be eaten, the dog is welcome to.. and she's some fat n sassy.

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So I watched all the terminator movies after terminator 2 and...

Sarah Connor is just plain badass and not having her in the sequels after T2 was plain dumbass.

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