Don’t ya just hate it when this happens? I’m guilty too, I know, I just can’t remember when. 
01110100 01101011
I’m less interested in what people believe, than in why they believe it.
I suppose I’d decribe myself as a hard agnostic and a soft atheist.
Who?
and BTW, is this… 6 (six cubed or 666) or is it this ¦
Which is the accurate translation of 1010011010 ?
Maybe Librarian…I mean libertarian…er…tation…dammit
Libs or Lobs help me out! 
quote from 1010011010’s link - “Belief that only I myself and my own experiences are real, while anything else—a physical object or another person—is nothing more than an object of my consciousness.”
So are you citing this as your belief or questioning how/why someone else can believe this?
Hey, maybe you should get it tatooed on your forehead (or your palm, if the forehead isn’t suitable)
He’s already got it tattooed to his back. I tried to talk him out of it.
It would be better if 1010011010 were 00110111 01101111 01100110 00111001 . at least then we can have some dirty thoughts.
Solipsism is mental masturbation. I’d disagree with the quote you’ve chosen, though. You experience yourself as a physical object, and even this experience can be called to question. You can know nothing about your existance other than that you, whatever you happen to be, exists. Ye olde Brain-in-a-Tank scenario. However, if you imagine you’ll fall off a building and go splat, this is an effective deterrent to jumping off buildings… even if you won’t really be falling or splatting- merely imagining it. As far as decision making is concerned, the objective or subjective nature of reality is irrelevant. It’s not terribly useful to live your life with the gnawing suspicion that it’s all a delusion, but it can be instructive in understanding the decision making of those that believe in things you consider imaginary.
“Well, if there’s no god, what’s to stop me from murdering a bunch of people just because I don’t like them?” or “I was an atheist, but after all the drug use and fornication destroyed my life, I came back to jesus.” I think humanity would benefit from getting rid of religion, but not if most people can’t internalize that there are rational bases for behaving “morally”.
There’s a bit more to the tattoo on my back than 666 in binary.
Ohhhhh…Librarian! Well, that’s a different story. You had me fooled there for a minute.
Only on the SDMB could there be a thread about religion, metaphysics, tattoos, and binary humor. I’m of two minds about the binary humor, however.
Don’t you mean 010 minds?
Now cut that out!
Somehow I doubt the mods would want me to change my name to “01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01010111 01101001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000111 01101111 01101100 01100100 01100101 01101110 00100000 01000111 01110101 01101110”.
You guys are so 01101100 00110011 00110011 01110100
Hey, it wasn’t my choice. It came from your cite. I like the mental masturbation idea though. How’s that work exactly? Kinda like havin’ a wet dream, huh?
You impress yourself so much that you don’t need anyone else to exist. I guess that’s cool for some folks. Especially those who couldn’t get laid anyway.
I found it a lot easier to just define God in a way that I can comprehend. Not an omnipotent being that interferes in our everyday lives. Definitely NOT the God of my ancestors. After several years of studying many philosophies I’ve decided in the end, it really doesn’t make a fuck what you believe. Whatever the truth is, IS the truth and we’ll never know WTF that is while we are alive. If ever!
However, my idea of the truth is just that. It is one I can live with, it works for me (most of the time) and I really don’t give a shit who likes it or not. Sorry to be so blunt…1010011010 got it right from memory
First of all, what stops most people is the idea of prison. It doesn’t stop all of them obviously. BTW I believe that more deaths have probably been caused due to religious beliefs than not.
Morals is something taught by your parents not religion (IMHO of course).
I mean, just what morals are the worlds religions teaching us. To hate and/or kill those not like ourselves. Abortion is murder and it’s okay to kill those who perform them. Suicide bombings are a blessed event. War is acceptable as long as GOD is on our side. Gays are an abomination to God and deserve death. I’m not sure I like the morals that the world’s religions seem to be teaching…
Sorry Lib didn’t mean to hijack your thread here. I’m gonna go now. See ya 'round 666. 
I get a “page not available” message. Would I see your reflection in a mirror?
Nah, that’s okay. It wasn’t nearly the interesting story I’d hoped for anyway.
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t-keela,
Well said. I’m not sure if you were expecting me to disagree with you, but I get that sense. Happy to disappoint you, in this case. 
Liberal
Might be that it doesn’t like external deep-linking…
This should work, though it’s not actual size.
It really does just boil down to 1010011010 looking nicer than 1100001001. I’ve used both various places, and people seem to make fewer assumptions about 666 than 777… which would explain why I’ve maintained 1010011010 over the years. Way back when, anothe time, another place, I was given the byline The Devil’s Advocate- for good reason.
I could tell you the epic saga of Booty the Unfriendly Chocolate Ghost and how he freed the imprisoned spirit Zaeboola (The Unemployed Phantasm) from the hot water piping feeding the tub at Cafe Elliston when he was trying to clean the spilled coffee from his goat hide pants (the nice kind with the pockets). I could further tell you how Zaebools bestowed upon Booty the Chocolatte Touch, which goes terribly awry, leads to his untimely cocoa demise, and requires enlisting the skills of JuanCompos (Dealer of Fine Cheese Apparel)… and then throw in some crap about how it was the number Black Limestone (Dolemite’s Evil Twin) used for his beeper… but that’s just embarassing, happened more than 10 years ago, and has been erased from the face of the intarwheb since 1997.