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Not necessarily ... You could be a character in a computer game or simulation... Or playing a part in someone's dream... The bottom line is, you don't have refutable evidence that you exist.

I'm off to change my pants. Too much laughter = too much leakage (Too much information?)

House! (But just to correct you again, it's: "God makes me think that I think, therefore he makes me think I am")

MLG believes we exist without being able to provide irrefutable evidence that we do exist, ergo he has faith in our existence. (Bingo card duly poised for the predicable MLG retort )

That's ironic

I'm still waiting for unrefutable evidence that we exist, by the way. Anyone?

Promise me one thing? You'll never stop thinking and posting the way you do? I'm not sure I could cope without the regular doses of amusement

True, but I like His sense of humour

Btw, I had a chat with God last night and I'm happy to report that he's as amused by this thread as I am. I did ask why he's programmed MLG's mind to think the way way he does, but all I got was a wink and a wry smile. Make of that what you will....

I could've told you that 72 pages ago...

Outta here now. Enjoy the rest of the futile debate chaps. If God does exist, I doff my hat to the mind games he's playing with the doubters. It's a joy to behold

No. Call me old fashioned but I usually ask a question because I don't know the answer...

Can not believing in something also give rise to harmful conflicts and tension...?

How can you cite "evidence" in something that's fictional...?

I guess the ultimate question is: why does MLG care so much about what other people do or think about how or why we're here? (If indeed there's any evidence that anything actually exists). Why does it matter that other people have a different state of mind? So what if you think they're "wrong". It's doesn't matter whether they are or not. I'm not a religious person myself but I'm not obsessed with trying to prove those that are are "wrong". Bizarre.

As least there's two of us that get it...

Is this the space and time concept that God invented to put doubters off the scent..?

Tweaked it for you

If God does exist and he's purposely made it impossible to prove that he does exist, hasn't he played a blinder in confounding those whose whole argument is predisposed on proving He exists...?

I'm not convinced that reading the minds of those that came up with the idea of Christmas is demonstrable evidence...

Where's your source that they 'absorbed' these ideas simply because they pre-existed rather than coincidentally deciding they were a good idea through unrelated thought processes?

I'm still waiting for MLG to explain why he believes that God isn't making him doubt the existence of God Himself... Surely there must be some irrefutable evidence that God isn't playing such doubters like a fiddle...?

Just because an activity existed before someone else later carried out the same activity doesn't necessarily mean they did it just because it pre-existed. They might have had their own reasons for doing an activity that others happened to have done before for different reasons.

Having been in the IT industry myself for almost 40 years, I feel your pain

As I say, how do you know for certain that it wasn't His intention to make you think that...?