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Anonymous Fri Jul 9 01:20:13 2010 No.1362943 [Reply] [Original]

The great skeptic David Hume wrote, “But allow me to tell you that I never asserted so absurd a Proposition as that anything might arise without a cause.”

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>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 01:23:13 2010 No.1362971 >>1362943 A statement, that if taken as truth, prevents the possible existence of God.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 01:25:13 2010 No.1362987 >>1362971 Self-causation bro.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 01:37:13 2010 No.1363077 >>1362987 You're making a special rule for your god. Surely you understand this? Then again...you probably don't.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 01:41:13 2010 No.1363097 >>1363077 >special rule for your god God is a special entity. He is that than which nothing greater can be conceived!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 01:45:13 2010 No.1363125 >>1363097 "nothing greater" is subjective, which is partially why that argument falls flat on its face.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 02:06:13 2010 No.1363240 >>1363097 I can't tell if this is a troll or sarcasm. =/

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 02:11:13 2010 No.1363267 >>1363240 I suppose one might argue, like the Mormons do, that God was just created by another God, who was created by another God, and so on. Turtles all the way down.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 02:17:13 2010 No.1363317 >>1362987 The Universe caused itself then.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 09:43:13 2010 No.1365001 >>1363317 All composites are contingent. Only pure actuality can self-cause.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 09:44:13 2010 No.1365006 >>1362943 i'd tap that

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 09:45:13 2010 No.1365007 This coming from the guy who said you can't know anything.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 09:47:13 2010 No.1365011 >>1363267 gtfo

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 09:53:13 2010 No.1365031 >>1363125 >"nothing greater" is subjective How so?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 10:01:13 2010 No.1365054 >>1365031 Does "greater" mean heavier? Faster? If you use "greater" in the ontological argument, what you mean by it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 10:07:13 2010 No.1365071 >>1365054 > Does "greater" mean heavier? Faster? If you use "greater" in the ontological argument, what you mean by it? Heat and speed cannot exist without matter. God is immaterial. Look up "great-making properties."

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 9 10:46:13 2010 No.1365225 File: 54 KB, 560x373, geico-caveman-relaxing.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1365071 So you duck out of defining "greater" by defining "greater-making" -- that is incoherent.

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