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 Voting is deliberate consent to the outcome, explicitly granting your sanction to the status quo ... 
 What alternative did you have in mind? 
 If humanity has a Creator then there's no reason why that Creator can't also have a Creator. And ... 
 God is not a verb in either of those three sentences. 
 Yeah, fuck you, lungs! 
 You have no idea what you're talking about.  The "program" you download is a compiled binary, not the source code, and anyway, source files take up very little "memory". 
 New season of Rick & Morty is alright - the plots are still edgy. But darned if the new Rick voic... 
 "Alright" isn't actually a word.  I learned that in high school. 
 Lol that's worse
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 What are you talking about, ever? 
 If someone offered you 1 bitcoin for $4,000 you’d say yes in a heartbeat right? 

Well bitcoin ... 
 BTC is not currently at 400K, so, not the same thing.  Don't be illogical. 
 Dafuck is a fire arm? 
 The word is "purposely". 
 Only in a fuzzy-brain way.  If you actually want to describe intentionality, the word you want is purposely. 
 There is no opting out of economics and economic choice except through death. You may not like sp... 
 Friend, have you heard the good news about paragraphs? 
 I watched the entirety of the Succession show, along with my husband. We don’t watch many shows... 
 I felt like it died when the old man said "You are not serious people!". That kind of ended the chase. 
 Like many paradigm breaking discoveries, #Bitcoin likely enforces the world YOU already see.

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 Agnostics are atheists.  It's the same thing.  In theory, there is such a thing as a "gnostic atheist", but I've never actually encountered one.  It's basically a unicorn. 
 Love Mark Moss, but he fumbled the ball on the conversation about religion with nostr:npub14mcddv... 
 How are atheists silly?  I don't understand your point. 
 This is all fairly uneducated with regard to atheism.  I suggest you YouTube Christopher Hitchens.  He addressed your arguments much better than I ever could. 
 Where did I say I'm uneducated?  I've been thinking and reading about this matter for decades.

Of course, if you're unconvinced by Hitchens's arguments (or unwilling to hear them), then this discussion is pointless. 
 I simply deferred to a much better debater, someone who has addressed all of your points directly.  How you think that makes me uneducated is a mystery.

And the point of life is for it to go on.  That's evolution, my guy!  We are here because we survived.  It's not that complicated.  What's "silly" is thinking you need a god to explain what science has already gotten right. 
 I take it you're smarter than 99% of climatologists.  Good for you. 
 What straw man?  I'm just choosing the experts over your pablum. 
 How is marijuana responsible for all that other stuff? 
 Weed is legal where I live, and literally the only changes are that it's now far cheaper and safer to get, and we're getting billions in tax revenue.  That's it, no social changes.  I don't see any causal relationship to the other problems you describe.  You seem to be making a gateway-drug argument. 
 I like your candor.  I actually live in Portland, and while I can agree about the degradation here, I don't see any evidence that weed is responsible. 
 yeah the fudge-rounds line was dumb but my man is singing his heart out 
 I am so completely out of context. 
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 I take it you're smarter than 99% of climatologists.  Good for you.