So Boerd

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Aegon knows it is game over, he just wants to leave as destroyed a nation as possible.

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Uhh... Wut. No. They're incredible rational. They help preserve the societies we live in and protect us from each other, which increases our overall survivability without compromising our own independent lives. It also puts us all on an equal playing field.

But I offered you a better means of accomplishing this that you refused in the name of human rights.

Like a talking donkey is in the Bible. A !@#$ing. Talking. Donkey.

I see talking asses on this forum nearly every day.

I don't believe because skepticism taken to its rational end point leads to atheism. I want you to read this very carefully: Skepticism taken to its rational end point, results in atheism. SKEPTICISM. You don't have to be 100% skeptical of everything. Faith is in no way worse than skepticism. It's just your flavour of ice cream: So long as you're a good person I couldn't give a rat's ass what it is you believe. You could believe Japanese school girls rape tentacle monsters in heaven for all I care, really. If Christianity strikes your fancy for being the most believable thing, then believe in it. I'm not going to tear down your church or stalin-execute you for not not believing, or for not being as skeptical as I am.

I did not, at any point, say that I am more rational than you. I said that I am more skeptical than you. Humongous difference.

Good. Now go tell Gwazi :/

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Byrd Man said
Wow... that update sure was... something.

Sorry man. Win some, you lose some.

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Brovo said
heheThe fact that I have an independent mind?... With its own thoughts?... That are largely determined by a huge variation of complex social and biological things... And so on...... What does this have to do with human rights? And why are you avoiding the fact that you compared atheism to sociopaths?

~Does or does not matter move in probabilistic ways?
~Is your brain composed of matter?

Because you don't believe in a soul, your thoughts and actions must stem from the particles within your brain. These particles themselves move according to the laws of physics. Therefore, you do not make choices. You are a computer with no programmer.

I merely state that you are also irrational. Human rights (which I firmly believe in) are irrational and there is nothing wrong with that. Just stop calling the religious irrational because you both hold beliefs of equal evidence. If you don't believe because you don't want to, that's fine, but it isn't because you are more rational that you don't believe.

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By all means, determinism can be empirically verified. But free will is already philosophically impossible in the absence of a supernatural being.

Go ahead, be rational. Prove free will is possible without souls. I will wait.

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Pasta Sentient said
I don't speak German? But google translate gave me, "Are you coming at me, Pal?"As for coming at you...I don't know. You don't really have anything I want. So I think we're good.

Not sure why it rendered that as a question. It means the equivalent of "Come at me bro".

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Pasta Sentient said
I would say go for it, but considering that that character eventually led heavily to the creation of Batman....I'm not sure how Outcast would feel about Prussia becoming the most OP nation in the history of WIR. Prussia conquers the world in one turn....People ask why...So Boerd Responds,"Because I'm Batman."Nah. Lol. If you wanted to write some little side story though of a German Scarlet Pimpernel assisting English Aristocrats you can. Though that might give me a casus beli...

Kommst du mich an, Kumpel!

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Also, really?... Atheistic to human rights? Like not killing each other, or respecting individual choices... What kind of insane god complex do you have to sincerely believe this?

I am pretty sure I said "play" precisely because I don't sincerely believe this. And I applied "atheist" to something unrelated to religion.

Youu also just can't seem to get past the whole idea that god is in no way comparable to beliefs on how human beings should be treated by other human beings from the perspective of a human being.

Why should I? I have seen no evidence.

You are allowed to disbelieve religion for intuitive reasons. You are not logically allowed to claim you are any more rational in so doing.

respecting individual choices.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming.

-Puts back on insufferable "I believe in science" guy hat-

Free will is scientifically impossible. If your behavior is random, you are not responsible. If your behavior is predetermined by previous factors beyond your control, you do not have free will. Choice does not exist, so why should it be respected?

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A la lanterne los aristos!

Also: Pasta, you need to let me have a German Scarlet Pimpernel.

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Pasta Sentient said
Mainly humor. I wasn't reading too much into it. Just went with that 'stereotype' if you will.

Oh, I thought it was a generic prostitute because France is leaving you out to dry.