I Have A Ten Feet Tall Talking Bunny Rabbit In My Backyard
By gewcew23
@gewcew23 (8007)
United States
March 11, 2010 6:35pm CST
I wish to do a little experiment. Okay lets say I said to you I have a ten feet tall talking bunny rabbit in my backyard, hopefully you would not just believe me. Maybe the questioning would go a little like this,
Could you produce a photo of your rabbit? No I am sorry my rabbit is invisible.
Well could you us thermal-imagining camera to take a photo of the rabbits heat? No I am sorry my rabbit does not produce any heat.
Well could I come to your backyard and touch your rabbit? No my rabbit has no physical form.
Well then how do you know that your rabbit is ten feet tall? Because the rabbit told me.
Well could you record one of your conversation with your rabbit so we could hear your rabbit talking. No because the rabbits words are only heard inside the mind.
Okay so could I come to your backyard and have the rabbit talk to me. Well the problem is you can only hear the rabbits voice if you truly believe that the rabbit exist.
How am I suppose to believe that you have a ten feet tall talking bunny rabbit in your back yard if there is no evidence of the rabbits existence. Oh but there is I have a book with all the adventure and conversation between the rabbit and myself.
Okay who would be ready to lock me up for being mentally insane? I know you would. Yet if I interchanged the word ten feet tall talking bunny rabbit for God what would I be then?
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@batcountry72 (219)
• United States
12 Mar 10
You'd be pissing Christians off. Personally, I love every religion, and none. I respect everyone's belief system. I'm a little more partial to an Eastern way of thinking myself. I don't like any situation where I have to succumb to a doctrine telling me what I have to believe. How many Followers does you Bunny have? Is your Bunny believed to have created man, the heavens, and the Earth? Did he make other Bunnies in his image? Insanity may be a label we put on things we can't, or don't want to understand. Sometimes, there are underlying medical issues. The Bunny argument is pretty weak because you are the ONLY one with faith that the Bunny exists. One thing I do like about religions is faith. Faith breeds hope for millions of people. Hope brings productivity. That's why I don't question it. It's a personal choice. Besides, your Bunny is lame. He's just hanging out in your backyard inspiring only you...to do what...mylot? Go build an ark or something:) Happy Mylotting.
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@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
12 Mar 10
Well I am not trying to create a religion around an invisible bunny. By only point is if you cannot have faith in an invisible bunny then how can you have faith in an invisible anything.
If thinking causes people to become pissed off then that is their problem.
@batcountry72 (219)
• United States
12 Mar 10
You're allowed to piss off whomever you like. It makes no difference to me. I was just responding to the last line of your query. The point is that faith is just that...faith. It doesn't matter if it's oriented towards religion or not. If someone has faith in a 10' bunny, and that get's them from one day to the next, great! But, that is why it's a weak argument. It's the subtle difference between faith and belief. People have faith in all kinds of invisible things. It stems from belief, but more importantly a certain amount of substance. A way for people to explain the surroundings and happenings in their lives. It's a mindset that has been around since before recorded history. Then ancient civilizations gave it a format. Greeks, Romans, Mayans, Native Americans, etc...A lot of people forget that these kinds of faiths have nothing to do with a monotheistic system. It was a way to tell the story of why things were the way they were, and assuage fear of things they couldn't see or understand.
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@machivado (528)
• Indonesia
12 Mar 10
It's a nice thought I guess... I'm not a very religious person myself but I do like philosophy and spirituality. I believe only fools would limit God's existence. Even in science, if we aim for the bigger picture, we'll find that everything is circled independently in the law of attraction and most of all, love.
@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
14 Mar 10
Oh, gewcew23!
What a cute way to look at faith and the belief in God and the Bible!
I believe in my darling rabbit, and I don't care what anyone else believes!
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