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Do you agree with the dictionary's definitions? |
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What's your point. The dictionary is a egotistical human way of trying to define its world. Get it?
HUMAN. Its human to spread ones opinion. What did jesus want to do? Spread his belief in god to
others. Now the webster book is saying that god exists because that's what the books writer
believes. There's two problems with this though. There's no evidence of spirits thus destroying
spirituality. The world is a physical place with physical objects. Does that animal go out of its
way to be a moral creature and get gods favor? Maybe if god tells that creature that all he wants it
to do is survive in anyway possible.
We cannot argue that the book doesn't say that.
We can argue whether or not it's true. |
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I agree. Can't really say more than that. |
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Actually the dictionary says the word god exists, and then defines the usage of that word. |
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This is just about the silliest of Calvin's "arguments" that I have seen yet. Let's see, I have a
dictionary right here, and I see that it also defines the following words in addition to the word
"exist":
Unicorn
Elf
Leprechaun
Fairy
Ghost
Mermaid
Zeus
Allah
Brahma
Jupiter (the god, not the planet)
Troll
Ogre
Wow! So I guess, by this sort of "logic," ALL OF THESE must exist as well!!!! |
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The dictionary is not there to say whether or not god exists it merely gives the definition of each
word. Any more straws you care to clutch at. |
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Well, i believe in GOD but i would like to tell that one of school teachers told me that god never
existed...he even has the proof....i don't know much and so i would not like to give fake facts |
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I believe in God, but your dictionary proof means nothing. Hizashi is right, Webster is explaining
what the word means, NOT proving God exists. Actually look up some other conceptual words too, like
"magic" for example, and you'll find definitions essentially proving magic exists too.
And besides, you haven't looked in enough dictionaries yet. We used them all the time in debate in
college - they don't prove a fact they simply help set a parameter within which the rest of the
debate will flow. There are dozens of dictionaries in every library, comparing the definition of
one to another gets a surprising amount of variability. Also there are different types of
definitions which better fit depending on context needed - operational definitions, contextual
definitions, etc. Just pointing to Websters means nothing, this isn't a game of Scrabble. |
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Using the premise of your debate’s description, you’ve only proven that the word "god" exists as
a title, not an actual supernatural being. |
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And the US constitution, before the amendment, says blacks are worth 3/5ths of a white person.
Just because it's written on an "official document" doesn't mean it's true.
Edit:
What "god"? Prove one exists before claiming it. The easiest way to prove it is you dying in front
of me, say, via shotgun, then coming back to life.
And which "god" do you refer to? Asatru? Bahamut? Ceres? Demeter? Eris? Freya? Ganesha? Hades?
Isis? Janus? Krishna? Or do you arrogantly assume that your particular fiction is somehow "special",
that's it' paucity of evidence (i.e. It has none) is somehow different from all the others?
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