Comments on: Being Godless

By: An Angry Little Troll | Relativity OnLine

An Angry Little Troll | Relativity OnLine — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:58:09 +0000

[...] point Harbortenors was doing little more than fighting with the RELATIVTY OnLine community. (See Being Godless or even Top Ten Unwinnable Arguments to get a general idea.) When I let “Harbortenors” [...]

By: Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:52:36 +0000

Despite me closing out this post, this peice has recieved a few more comments. Most continue to abuse Harbortenors with over the top attacks on his/her person, with at least one, perhaps rightfully aimed at Canucklehead. With that said, the comments are only going around in circles. I thought the last two comments were a nice way to end things and have taken John’s advice. As said above “Being Godless” is closed out. Feel free to attack the magazine for this decison elsewhere.

By: Harbortenors

Harbortenors — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:30:36 +0000

You’re absolutely right John.

By: John

John — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:02:56 +0000

Looking over these comments, I feel like I’m the father coming in here and telling the kids to be nice – but be nice people. The name calling and personal attacks are simply not necessary. Mr. Harbortenors has a right to his opinion.

I’m nearly 60 years old and soon to be a grandfather. I am guessing that you, Harbortenors are a lot younger than me. Let this old dog offer you a piece of advice: A man only has to live by his principles; he doesn’t need to state them over and over again.

You certainly seem sure of your views, but if that is the case, why do you try so hard to prove others are wrong? You are flailing away at every comment and looking rough around the edges because of it. You have even lowered yourself from your former higher position with your last two postings. You stated your opinion – now let others tee off on it as much as they want.

I for one will choose not to tell my daughters their world is Godless and that they have no souls. I just could never do that. That doesn’t mean I don’t respect you or the right you have to be who you want to be. Coming back with a comment to argue against this point is fruitless. Be who you are and be proud and dont worry about what other people think. If you can do that then everything, as my father used to say, is good as gravy.

By: Canuckle Head

Canuckle Head — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:28:41 +0000

Wow Harbortenors, you piss everyone off dont ya, you horses ass you! LOLLLL! “No one has a soul,” Muslims and Christians are atheists”???!!! What the hell are you on!!?? And then you cry like a little suck because the title was changed!??

I give credit to the magazine for letting you come on and embarass yourself. In fact, you’re the most hilarious one on this site!! Thanks for always making me feel better, you guarantee a good laugh every time you open your mouth!! LOL! Now hit me with your pearls of wisdom you rube! Make yourself look like the moron you are again!

By: Harbortenors

Harbortenors — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:36:21 +0000

miss universe,
If you don’t have anything useful to say about the origins of morality, I suggest you open another book of fairytales. I recommend “Jack and the Beanstalk.” It’s got giants and a goose that lays golden eggs.

By: Harbortenors

Harbortenors — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:35:43 +0000

agnostic,
As an agnostic are you in a perpetual state of not knowing or do you ever get off the fence about anything? You certainly seem quite cocksure about how people should phrase their sentences.

By: miss universe

miss universe — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:34:17 +0000

Just like a religious zealot, I see you have a case of bad tunnel vision, Harbortenors. You see only what you want to see and anything outside your view is wrong. Imagination is the whole point!

And yes, just because many people believe something to be true doesn’t make it so, but only a few people believing something to be true doesn’t make it so either. You’re really not worth much else.

By: agnostic

agnostic — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:18:24 +0000

I’m perfectly aware that that Atheists dont have prophets. I simply said atheists quote him a lot. No need to be pompous (or maybe with you there is) and insult my intelligence. And your arrogance lies in your refusal to say “I beleive” instead of “I know.” This is diplomacy 101. You really are quite immature.

By: Harbortenors

Harbortenors — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:28:49 +0000

Agnostic,
Atheists have no prophets. And Dawkins is certainly not one. But he’s a staggeringly brilliant geneticist and zoologist who was voted the world’s top intellectual (along with Noam Chomsky). How would you like being called arrogant if you maintained (and rightly so) that pixies, gnomes, fairies, and flying unicorns don’t exist?

Miss Universe
As I’ve said elsewhere on this site, a large number of people believing a proposition no more makes the proposition true, any more than a large number of people contracting a disease makes the disease good. Expand your world view a little. Atheists don’t live in a barren world. We see beauty in nature, music, art, love, and companionship. No need to drag imaginary entities into all this. It is faith and lack of the questioning spirit that drives people to become suicide bombers. The issue of whether or not gods exist outside our imaginations is a scientific question and should be approached as such.