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Old 02-23-2008, 12:09 AM   #12 (permalink)
Gettin' In Tune
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since becoming agnostic, my personal definition of god has become increasingly vague.
Wait until you become atheist, and god loses all meaning at all. It's beautiful.

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but i do think that the nature of our existinance is worth considering.
Fair enough.

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and of course there is my favorite question: "which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
Do you have access to JSTOR? This is a fun paper using Granger Causality.

Chickens, Eggs, and Causality, or Which Came First?
Walter N. Thurman, Mark E. Fisher
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 70, No. 2 (May, 1988), pp. 237-238
doi:10.2307/1242062
This article consists of 2 page(s).


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for all the cycles of life, where was the beginning? now i know this is not necessarily evidence of god, but for me, it is enough to consider god a possibility.
We do not know. Let's figure it out without god.
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