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    How something appears is always a matter of perspective

    This is actually true in a more literal sense than most people realize. Take the checker shadow illusion, for example. Checkershadow Illusion (Make sure you click the proof button and "more evidence" if you don't believe it!)
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    Just watched "Frequencies", a strange but interesting movie, well worth a watch. That final...

    Just watched "Frequencies", a strange but interesting movie, well worth a watch. That final scene will keep me thinking for a while.
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    Out of place object

    She wasn't necessarily talking into it, she would have had to hold the device to her ear to hear anything out of it. (No ear pieces back then) As for the guy on the bridge, he was certainly conspicuous, but everything he was wearing was available at that time. He was just an unusual guy, I suppose.
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    five time travel movies

    I came across a time travel movie yesterday called "Predestination". It released earlier this year but pretty much slipped under the radar. Wikipedia tells me it's based on Robert A. Heinlein's short story "All You Zombies". It's a pretty slow movie that relies heavily on story, not action...
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    Debate Stephen Hawking makes it clear: There is no God

    Hey, never confuse an Englishman with one of those cheese-eating surrender monkeys. The travesty! :eek: Everyone knows arguing 'till you're blue in the face is a British trait. The French just turn tail and run.
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    Debate Stephen Hawking makes it clear: There is no God

    The Aztecs thought the Spanish were gods, and look how that turned out.
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    Debate Stephen Hawking makes it clear: There is no God

    That was a British joke. :D I would see what we're doing now as somewhere in between. It mostly doesn't feel hostile enough to be an argument, but we both seem to be trying to convince the other person of something, so it's not really a conversation either. Debate seems to fit the most, in...
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    Debate Stephen Hawking makes it clear: There is no God

    There's a difference? :p Okay, so, you think I'm being ignorant about something. Could you explain what exactly I'm being ignorant about, and how it pertains to this discussion/debate/conversation? eg., Why is what you believe important to whether or not you should be free to believe in it...
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    Debate Stephen Hawking makes it clear: There is no God

    Also, for the people wondering why this debate is still going it's because: a) I'm British, and we enjoy arguing for the sake of arguing. b) The mind is a muscle in a certain sense, and this is one of the ways I exercise it. c) Sometimes people do actually present a point eloquently enough that...
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    Debate Stephen Hawking makes it clear: There is no God

    Firstly, I will admit I made an assumption here as to the exact nature of your beliefs, and I apologize for that. "Well , do you know that my god is your god is his god is all god? God is God regardless." Those are your exact words. You are asserting that any god or goddess anyone else...
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    Debate Stephen Hawking makes it clear: There is no God

    I think the day we manage to verify things one way or the other is the day the last war on Earth will end.
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    Debate Stephen Hawking makes it clear: There is no God

    Please do me the courtesy of quoting where I actually said that, like I did for you, because looking back I don't see anywhere where I told you what you believe.
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    Debate Stephen Hawking makes it clear: There is no God

    Just for the sake of clearing up your confusion, I'll reply to this. I don't believe in any gods or goddesses. Therefore I don't believe the god you believe in exists. I don't believe any of the gods or goddesses anyone believes in exists. As Harte mentioned above, saying "your god" (note the...
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    Debate Stephen Hawking makes it clear: There is no God

    While I don't believe in a soul or afterlife per-se, there is one thing I've always wondered about. Since my belief is that consciousness arises from the brain, what happens if you take apart my constituent atoms and reassemble them somewhere else in exactly the same pattern? I think the...
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    Debate Stephen Hawking makes it clear: There is no God

    And I think this is where I bow out of this discussion. When your debate partner starts to twist your own words and outright lie about and ignore what they themselves said, it's time to accept that they aren't open to discussion any more. And he has the gall to say the atheist is the problem...

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