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[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

At best it proves the concept of gods exists and I doubt anyone disagrees with that, you can't really argue that a thought can't exist. What it doesn't prove is that God exists as some material or immaterial entity and that's what atheists claim, that there is no existence of any entity that could be considered a god.

Why it doesn't prove the existence of gods is simple. If the proof is that it exists because we thought it then dragons exist, faeries exist, even flat earth exists because there are people who think it exists. I don't think I need to bring more examples to show how ridiculous the premise is. Just because we can think of a thing doesn't mean that thing now exists.

[-] Grail@aussie.zone -2 points 4 months ago

Dragons certainly exist. They live in books and reproduce when someone reads a book about dragons and is inspired by it. Over time evolutionary pressures have caused the more successful of the younger dragons to become cuter and more friendly, and the most successful dragons even made the leap to film. That's how Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon came to be. He is the result of a long process of evolution of dragons. You can trace his lineage from the Beowulf dragon, to Tolkein's Smaug, through Eragon's Saphira, to the Toothless of the HTTYD books, and finally to Dreamworks' movie version. Each generation trying out new evolutionary adaptations that changed their fitness to survive and reproduce, and the niche they occupy within the ecosystem that is human thought. Toothless is the culmination of those thousands of years of evolution, purpose built to fill children's heads up with wonderful dreams.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

I don't know if you have a wife but I'm now going to imagine you have a wife. You're now married. Now I'm going to imagine having consensual sex with your new wife. Now I'm imagining you're killing your wife because she cheated on you. I guess you're a murderer now, it's true because I thought of it. Actually I thought about a lot of way worse things about you but I'm not going to go into detail about all the vile shit you've done, I'll just sum it up as you being the worst human being who has ever lived. Since that's what I thought it must be true, right?

[-] Grail@aussie.zone -4 points 4 months ago

*You. I use capitalised pronouns. And My ex-wife uses it/its.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago
[-] Grail@aussie.zone -3 points 4 months ago

If you don't care, then surely you don't mind editing your comment to use My preferred pronouns, seeing as you have no preference and I do.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

I couldn't care less about your wishes. Editing the comment would mean I care at least a little, but I don't so I won't.

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