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  Can Christians Be Converted To Reason?

  Quiet as the grave. Hopefully an end to all this LOTU nonsense.

  Fool, you're disturbing the dead.

  Where the hell am I again...?  It's been awhile.  LOTU has no momentum.  If anyone here is really into in the idea, I maintain you should probably join the church of reality.

  There is no evidence that senses or logic convey truth except that evidence which comes from senses and logic. Since a thing can't prove itself, this tarnishes all beliefs, even scientific ones, as baseless speculations.  You can, as I have decided to, choose to be "empirically minded".  This only means that you have faith in senses and logic and nothing else.  It doesn't mean you lack faith in anything.  Since pretty much everyone takes senses and logic for granted, and since these seem to suggest that religious beliefs are inaccurate or at any rate improbable, one could argue that an empirical mindset results in a more intercoherent set of first principles.

  In general, when you talk about things beyond the realm of this universe and our understanding of physics, you are blindly speculating.  There is presumably something there, but, well, nothing proven and hence any precise possibility is likely to be false.

  Posted 20 Oct 09 in The Church Of LOTU

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  Church of Reality

  If they weren't sentient than they wouldn't be self-aware.  They would have no conception of past, future, and self.  They would be mindless.  To clarify, lots of animals have sentience.  I have heard that even bees might have sentience.  I personally value humans more than other Earth's other sentient beings because I am human and I rationalize that on average our intellectual lives have greater depth.

  The most dominant life-form is already not us.  It is bacteria.  No I don't believe bacterias have rights.

  Posted 09 Aug 08 in The Church Of LOTU

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  First meeting of LOTU, June 28, Brisbane

   

  This is the first church that I have ever encountered that makes it mandatory to have a Facebook account to find out the location of the meetings.

  Facebook, or an email address and amiable identity.

  Posted 22 Jun 08 in The Church Of LOTU