A vital touchstone since my adolescence ... :fire:It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — William Kingdon Clifford
When you believe in things
that you don't understand
then you suffer ...
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. — Voltaire
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. — Mikhail Bakunin
\\//_ :nerd:"Kirk to Enterprise. Red Alert! Cestus Three has been destroyed." — ST TOS, s1e18
The Supreme Fascist! That's what Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician, called God. — Agent Smith
character is personification of idea
well, real people have bodies also . — BohdanZ
no, talking about Chesterton, he wrote fiction literature, personification is a term from literature theory here, not from philosophy. — BohdanZ
does it? :smile: — BohdanZ
Yes, now there is a God.” — Agent Smith
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