Challange: Disprove the Little Teapot orbiting the sun

[Acorn Sigma]

I beleive, as my religion dictates, that a small teapot orbits the sun between mars and jupiter. It's so tiny, that it cannot be seen with any instruments available to humans, but it's there.

If you can prove that it's not there, I will gladly renounce my faith.

~AS

[madnak]

The problem with using this to validate your religion is that there are approximately 23 teapots all orbiting the sun, and you have no basis for a claim that this teapot is somehow special.

[FortunaMaximus]

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The problem with using this to validate your religion is that there are approximately 23 teapots all orbiting the sun, and you have no basis for a claim that this teapot is somehow special.

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Well, maybe not. It depends on how many of those 23 contain frozen oolong, how many have internal heat sources. Is the religion based on the teapot or the frozen tea within?

Personally, I hold my faith in that apple core orbiting in a retrograde orbit in the Oorts.

But I digress.

[RayBornert]

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I beleive, as my religion dictates, that a small teapot orbits the sun between mars and jupiter. It's so tiny, that it cannot be seen with any instruments available to humans, but it's there.

If you can prove that it's not there, I will gladly renounce my faith.

~AS

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i have zero motive to prove or disprove your teapot faith.

jesus said

"love your god"

which might be the greatest philosophical statement of all time.

you and you alone bear the burden to:

love your teapot

the basis on which you make this judgement is up to you. but you also need to know that you have zero expectation that anybody should also have to love what you love. the value of your teapot religion is directly related to what it can do for those that host the best ideas of the teapot within their minds during this lifetime.

i can care less if the teapot exists (unless there is actual proof attained - one way or the other).

what i want to know is:

what can faith in the teapot do for me?
why should i love the teapot?

ray

[Skidoo]

Your argument seems to be that all beliefs that are not empirically falsifiable are equivalent. If so, I would like to see the reasoning behind it, because that's an extremely wide net you are trying to cast.

[thylacine]

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I beleive, as my religion dictates, that a small teapot orbits the sun between mars and jupiter. It's so tiny, that it cannot be seen with any instruments available to humans, but it's there.

If you can prove that it's not there, I will gladly renounce my faith.

~AS

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The burden of proof is on you. The burden increases dramatically if you want to kill me and brainwash my children.

[arahant]

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The problem with using this to validate your religion is that there are approximately 23 teapots all orbiting the sun, and you have no basis for a claim that this teapot is somehow special.

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Idiot. There are 84 teapots orbiting the sun, and 1 within it. Each arc of zodiac has a hierarchy of 7 teapots, who control the elements and spirit in turn.

I hope you accept this by next scorpiopotish, because those teapots have a real problem with infidels, and I'm afraid I'll have to hunt you down and...well, i won't make threats on a message board, but you get my point.

[arahant]

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I beleive, as my religion dictates, that a small teapot orbits the sun between mars and jupiter. It's so tiny, that it cannot be seen with any instruments available to humans, but it's there.

If you can prove that it's not there, I will gladly renounce my faith.

~AS

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i have zero motive to prove or disprove your teapot faith.

jesus said

"love your god"

which might be the greatest philosophical statement of all time.


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It also runs a close second for the most inane.

[revots33]

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what i want to know is:

what can faith in the teapot do for me?
why should i love the teapot?

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Because the teapot loves you and created you and will send you and all your loved ones to heaven after you die.

[Acorn Sigma]

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i have zero motive to prove or disprove your teapot faith.


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Exactly!

I can't go aroud telling you to disprove my religion, and then act like it's a rational faith until you do so.