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There's nothing to try. Even if the premise (believers are better behaved) were true, it in no way implies that what they believe is true. A kid afraid of Santa's list may be on his best behavior, and the parents may find that convenient, but there's no Santa.
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What? No Santa??? Are you serious??
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The difference becomes easier to see later in life, in the thirties and forties, again in the middle of the bell curve. The afterlifers try harder to avoid being jerks or worse. That, at any rate, is my observation.
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#35 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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In my experience, those who don't believe in an afterlife are no more inclined to act like a jerk than those who do.....if anything, marginally less. If there's no afterlife, then this life is it...better make the world a more pleasant place to be by being nice to people eh?
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So, now that I've ![]() I didn't think so. Your simplistic attempts to generalize the reasons for people's behavior are comically pompous. Not only is your logic fatally flawed, you manage to insult the believers and those still searching in the same breath. Can't I be good because I find that the best thing to be? Why does it have to be dependent on my spiritual beliefs? What of the Muslim fundamentalists against whom you rail? Their faith and belief in an afterlife is widely agreed upon, yet so many are "jerks or worse". Is that because of or in spite of their belief in an afterlife? I find your remarks disgusting, dripping as they are with their fecal afterbirth.
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How can you discount the people who feel the world would be a more pleasant place if it were all about me, if I had more money, if I had more power, if you did what I wanted? There are quite a lot of them, you know.
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We have to go back, Kate!
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#39 |
The future is unwritten
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You said, "better make the world a more pleasant place to be by being nice to people eh?"
I'm saying that there are a whole lot of people that would not agree that's the way to make the world more pleasant, whether they be religious or not.
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#40 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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The fact that there's a rationale for not being a jerk doesn't require anyone to act on it.
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#41 |
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Or even agree with it.
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#42 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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Who's requiring anybody to act on/believe anything? I'm just giving what I consider a rationale for not being a jerk. It's a fairly flippant rationale, granted.
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so because 3 out of 1,300,000,000 say something against their own religion, that you want to hear, they must be right. by that logic Christians must all be child raping bigots.
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#44 |
The future is unwritten
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No, we want to hear they can say something, without being murdered.
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Like I said, what you want to hear.
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