Proof you can be bald, unsuccessful...and still get women
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I'd consider my an kinda mix between Agnostic and Roman Catholic, I know, I know, that's an oxymoron, sounds like a load of BS, but that's what I'd consider myself.
Here's a brilliant quote from Richard Dawkins -
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state, from which the vast majority have never stirred."
Amazing.
I think the average sperm released from a man is about 500 million, now, seeing as each sperm is individual one unto itself, that's some f*****g amazing odds that the one sperm that fertilized the egg just happened to be you.
As the above quote puts it, count yourself lucky that you're even alive.
Here's a brilliant quote from Richard Dawkins -
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state, from which the vast majority have never stirred."
Amazing.
I think the average sperm released from a man is about 500 million, now, seeing as each sperm is individual one unto itself, that's some f*****g amazing odds that the one sperm that fertilized the egg just happened to be you.
As the above quote puts it, count yourself lucky that you're even alive.
Thom
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Well put! Hey, even Richard Dawkins claimed to be agnostic recently. His reason being something along the lines of you can't scientifically prove God doesn't exist so he couldn't fully claim to be atheist. Like i said though, live and let live. You can still get women and be bald. 
Thom said:Well put! Hey, even Richard Dawkins claimed to be agnostic recently. His reason being something along the lines of you can't scientifically prove God doesn't exist so he couldn't fully claim to be atheist. Like i said though, live and let live. You can still get women and be bald.
Not a decent one when fully bald(not receeding,or wearing a poxy HP,BALD).
Thom
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But you are reading it as such so you can't know how he's actually saying it. I'm always getting into trouble when texting girls because they can't audibly hear what I'm conveying. I, for one, respect his bluntness.
I mean if you can't face your faith being challenged now and then, what's the point of having it?
I mean if you can't face your faith being challenged now and then, what's the point of having it?
Thom said:
I am talking in genral.My "faith" is not written in stone,I constantly sway.Anyway,I dont believe in organised religion,its just man-made bulls**t,too control people,and make people feel like crap.
I am more spiritual then religious,theres a profound difference.
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seb said:
I think you're confusing me with yourself.
I'm not the one who's every post on here is a ridiculous 1 paragraph answer in response to someone elses post.
You're just a disturbed delusioned depressive trying to spread negativity and bring others down to your level.
Ps Its a legitimate question.
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dudemon said:
I take it you aren't an academic?? From his point of view, for an idea to be a valid idea, it needs to be a proven idea.
I was talking to one of my neighbours this evening, he was going on about respect, religion, etc and at one point he said "those guys who think that we come from a monkey are monkeys"...
I quickly changed the subject and gave him a short intro into evolution, I know he didn't buy it but I gave him a few scientific facts.
Back to Richard Dawkins. I happen to agree with him in a sense that facts are facts and if some religious group attacks the validity of those facts, then that religion is a backward one.
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dudemon said:
I thought that also, but he has clarified that he his talking about the fundamentalist, he mentions he has friends and highly respects people in the field of science who hold faith, but are not crazies, ala the Phelps Family.
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He does come off that way and I am certainly not a fan, but I do respect him for his knowledge. I don't see why faith and science cannot work together. I think his main problem, like you said, is with fundamentalists and, of course, young earth creationists.
Don't even get me started on the Phelps. When I graduated back in '05 they were a few blocks away from us protesting a soldier's funeral. Absolutely disgusting human beings they are.
Don't even get me started on the Phelps. When I graduated back in '05 they were a few blocks away from us protesting a soldier's funeral. Absolutely disgusting human beings they are.