Re: HOPE but not faith
Sylvia Else <[email protected]>
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On 08-Apr-23 1:55 pm, Maximus wrote: > Sylvia Else wrote: >> On 08-Apr-23 9:57 am, Michael McLean wrote: >>> On 7/04/2023 10:33 pm, Sylvia Else wrote: >>>> On 29-Mar-23 4:16 pm, David Dalton wrote: >>>>> Right now I don’t have faith but do have hope that my global new >>>>> age onset magickal workings will have effect. >>>> >>>> Having some expectation that something will happen with no >>>> reasonable basis for thinking it will is neither hope, nor faith. >>>> It's delusion. >>>> >>>> Sylvia. >>> >>> No, it's life, fool atheist. >>> >>> Life does not exist according YOUR mind's reasonable basis, Ms >>> Glorious Mind. >>> >>> The atheist is always a self-worshiper! My questions are, why and >>> who anointed them the self-glory? >>> >>> One guess. >>> >>> >>> >>> Michael >>> >> >> I don't really see how you reach the "atheist" conclusion. >> >> Religion mostly seems to involve believing that something, God, >> exists, without supporting evidence. There does not appear to be an >> expectation that something will happen as a consequence. Indeed, much >> of the support for religious belief seems to form around explaining >> the absence of things happening, such as protecting churches from >> earthquakes, despite the supposed existence of God. >> >> OK, NOW you can probably reasonably conclude that I'm an atheist. > > just ignore 'Mad Mike' > >> >> Sylvia. > > I would, but sometimes it's fun to play with these people. Sylvia.