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Atheism is a religion in the same way that "not playing golf" is a hobby. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Curiously enough, "not playing golf" is one of my most avid hobbies! I do it every day, sometimes spending the entire day doing it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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To present the diametrically opposite view I am quite impressed at the equanimity with which the subject has been handled. It could be a lot different.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I'm not sure what you're referring to either. I may have missed it, because I don't get around to seeing all the posts.
I am a Christian. I'm not angry or even upset when I see a post overtly bashing Christianity or even the more common passive-aggressive bashing. It makes me sad for where those people are at, and I'm sure it does God too -- just as if your kid were to ridicule you or say he or she hated you. It doesn't change my belief structure.
I agree with you that attacks on religion should be in the Soapbox.
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Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Tim Carmichael wrote: but history has shown that anyone who believes will be attacked.
I take it that you're limiting this to what you're seen here on CP? 'cause, outside of CP, history has also shown the opposite. Those that don't believe will be attacked by those who do.
I'm stopping here because going any further is Soapbox material.
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Indeed.
I saw the "Christianity" on the front page and rolled my eyes with a "here we go" and was pleasantly surprised.
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I guess we can add this up to not only focus on Christianity, but any religion. It's a programmers site, and if we'd follow the Lounge rules, any religion shall belong into the SB.
To be fair, the attacks (even though I don't reckon having seen one recently - Maybe I missed something?) seem to come from atheists, who seemingly believe that their no-religionousness frees them from the no-religion rule.
A ghost from the past. Known to others as "Linda".
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Is a decision to not believe, a belief?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I don't believe so.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I thought so.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I suspected you might.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I gathered that you had.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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It's kind of like the color black. Black is not a natural color in that it represents a complete lack of pigment or light. Humanity simply had to call it something other than "lack of pigment or light", so they called it "black".
It can also be equated to the word "nothing". What is a hole filled with? The answer, of course, is "nothing". "Nothing" is a word we've given to the "absence of something" so we could have a tangible idea of what it is. In other words, nothing is something, or we wouldn't have a word for it.
In closing, I'd like to remind everyone that their mind is there to step on, and they're likely to do it too, at least two times.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Seems John, that you have given a lot of thought about nothing.
Now we know what it means when the wife asks, "What are you thinking about?" and you answer "Nothing".
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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What women in general don't seem to understand is that when a man responds to that question with "Nothing", they actually mean it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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<PedantWarning type="obligatory for The Lounge">
The absence of pigment is clear and transparent or opaque and white. Pigments are things that absorb colors of light; black is the combination of all pigments and absorbs all (visible) colors of light.
</PedantWarning>
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's true for pigments in a "neutral" lighting situation. But for light, black is the absence of photons: any photon will have a colour that is "not black".
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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What about black coloured photons?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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They count as Dark Matter and nobody can see 'em.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Forogar wrote: What about black coloured photons?
They are like the invisible to the naked eye 20 million plus bed-bugs that inhabit the average mattress, each of which defecates once an hour, around-the-clock.
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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So bedbugs are made of dark matter 
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So his point is actually even more apropos. Since black would mean no photons are reaching the eye, that would mean they're all being absorbed by the object looked at.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Not quite - the major reason for a lack of photons is there is nothing emitting them, rather than something absorbing them.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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