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Old 02-27-2007, 07:19 AM
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Why do walruses need a god?

Anyone beside me gasp at how ridiculous this question sounds when put it into another context?
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Re: Why do walruses need a god?

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Anyone beside me gasp at how ridiculous this question sounds when put it into another context?
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Seriously, it is a real question. Why does anyone need to have an invented creator? I think the walrus analogy may leave something to be desired.
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Re: Why do walruses need a god?

O Now that we know what we didn't
when we wanted to,
maybe we should carve a tablet in the walruss language, with a divine tusk,
informing them as they make their sacred evolutionary ascent
that No, there wasn't a creator,
they happened and now
they just have to wander around howling.
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Re: Why do walruses need a god?

How else would you account for the existence of this animal, the Prairie Walrus?
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Re: Why do walruses need a god?

That's one fugly rodent...

Seriously, though... Why do gods need a dog? (a little theological dyslexia humor there...)
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Re: Why do walruses need a god?

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Anyone beside me gasp at how ridiculous this question sounds when put it into another context?
Yup.. and I ask.. why does God need Walruses..?? Does that sound just as ridiculous..??

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Seriously, it is a real question. Why does anyone need to have an invented creator? I think the walrus analogy may leave something to be desired.
Where did this analogy come from.. I think I missed something..

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Re: Why do walruses need a god?

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Yup.. and I ask.. why does God need Walruses..?? Does that sound just as ridiculous..??



Where did this analogy come from.. I think I missed something..

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Read "why do we need a God."

InfiniteNow just sort of made the analogy up to show that the question is silly. I'm not sure I understand why. . .
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Re: Why do walruses need a god?

in the hindu religion.what would a person have to do in life to be reincarnated as a walrus?as a english springer spaniel?
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Re: Why do walruses need a god?

Follow this logic. Walruses and other animals don't have a God because they are not high enough on the evolutionary scale to have one. They react in the real time, without much contemplation of infinity. The idea of God did not appear until humans evolved civilization. Since both animals and aetheists don't have any God concept, does that mean that aetheists and animals have something in common?
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Re: Why do walruses need a god?

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Follow this logic. Walruses and other animals don't have a God because they are not high enough on the evolutionary scale to have one. They react in the real time, without much contemplation of infinity. The idea of God did not appear until humans evolved civilization. Since both animals and aetheists don't have any God concept, does that mean that aetheists and animals have something in common?
not in the hindu religion.you screw up in some weird way,like being a klepto,and you come back as a walrus and your left contemplating all that stuff you stole.so,ide say the average walrus would contemplate god as a fixed an absolute state of enlightenment compared to his state of devolution.
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walrus, don't be discouraged,
The Man he ain't so hard to understand.
walrus, if you try now,
I know that you can lend a helping hand.

Because there's good in everyone
And a new day has begun
You can see the morning sun if you try.

And I know, things will be better
Oh yes they will for walrus and the Man
Yes they will for walrus and the Man.

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