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[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago

Fine. Here we go:

God exists.

I cannot prove this claim, so it must be untrue.

There, I fixed it.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 24 points 21 hours ago

So the logic is that, whoever speaks first is the one who has to prove it? In that case we can go back to the earliest time these guys ever came up that there was this single deity named God. They never proved him back then, never did so now.

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago

no but see that was olden times so it doesn't count, only now once it's an established assumption does this rule go into effect and count.

unless I think of a new thing I want you to believe. then it has a teensy weensy time-out while I say that, then it's back in effect again.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 18 hours ago

That's a triple negative. So Zenith there, having made the third strike, is out.

Wait, that's not what the three strikes rule means? Well I mean according to Zenith's logic it is. You can't tell me he's right and I'm wrong twice. My double negative cancels out to a positive.

[-] underscore_@sopuli.xyz 11 points 22 hours ago

That’s a well charged battery

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Well since you said it... I now need you to prove its well charged.

[-] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Well since you said that you need to prove to me it's not well charged.

[-] underscore_@sopuli.xyz 3 points 20 hours ago

Clearly they are miss-underestimating the implications of the axiom habet multam industriam or… something like that?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 19 hours ago

Now that you all said your stuff, I want proof that you said it, as per the lorem ipsum eunt romanes axiom

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

What is this supposed language you SAY exists? I need proof of this alleged... "Latin".

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

More like zenithAIBot

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

Simple: just deny his denial. Now he has to provide proof.

[-] xep@fedia.io 56 points 1 day ago

Oh shit, he said something in Latin. Saying something in Latin means it's always correct since it sounds so clever. Quod erat demonstrandum, the argument ends there.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 21 hours ago
[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 19 hours ago

Levi-oh-SAAAAAAAAAAAH you pleb

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 21 hours ago

Latin and Greek are like the Ornstein and Smough of Western prescriptivism.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Everyone knows quiquid latine dictum sit altum videtur

[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

I just want to add Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 59 points 1 day ago

If we did away with organized religion, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now.

[-] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Greed, fear, and ignorance are the causes of all our woes.

Religion is just how the worst people look themselves in the mirror afterwards.

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

You could say this at basically any point in hunan history and it would still be true

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[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It has to be like the axiom said otherwise the axiom doesn't work.

Gee thanks pal.

"That's an awful nice axiom you have there. Would be down right awful if something should happen to it."

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

it's fairly easy to prove that no god exists.

jainism is a religion which negates the existence of god. islam is a religion that negates the existence of any god but their almighty.

if there did exist a god, s/he would not allow a situation where both these religions can co-exist. because any god except allah is excluded by islam, and allah themself is excluded by jainism.

ergo, god does not exist. quad erat demonstrandum.

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

if there did exist a god, s/he would not allow a situation where both these religions can co-exist.

All this proves is that he doesn't care about the intricacies of organised religion, not that he doesn't exist.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

ah. if she does not care about the intricacies of organised religion, can we then conclusively state that all organised religions proselytising the word of god are therefore bullshit?

surely the all-powerful god, glory be in her name, would not allow false organised teligions to exist?!

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[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

This reminds me of Ricky Gervais joke:

So you believe in one God I assume... there about 3,000 to choose from. So basically you deny one less God than I do. You don't believe in 2,999 Gods, and I don't believe in just one more.

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[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

The lack of omnipotence is tautological. Can a theorized seity make a rock so heavy, the deity cannot move it? If he cannot make it, he is not imnipotent. If he makes one he cannot move, then he is not omnipotent. Adding qualifications about logical consistent omnipotence is just dissembling and lame excuse making.

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think a better way of phrasing it is that I don't know that a god exists (as in, any god, I can be quite certain that the god of the Torah or Bible is too logically incoherent to exist). I admit I don't know. But that doesn't mean I should act as though one does, especially as I wouldn't know which mutually exclusive one it would be if it did exist.

The burden of proof is on one who makes a claim to knowledge, either that a thing does exist, or that it doesn't exist. The default state is agnosticism, or admitting that you don't know, not simply disbelief.

Edit: In fact, the OP's original statement seemed to be agnostic in nature, admitting that they couldn't prove that god didn't exist, but since they couldn't prove that god did exist either, that they shouldn't waste their time acting as though it did ('pretending').

It was only the believer who misunderstood them as seeming to claim that god definitely didn't exist, but then they got into a sidetrack discussion about the burden of proof, rather than just correcting the believer's assumption about OP's belief.

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[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

7 idiots need to leave Lemmy forever.

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