NSW would arm wrestle Victoria for the Convention.
Its about tourists and hotel beds full not religion.
I would go if I was nearer.
Am however a nonbeliever but unimpressed with a group to stand in opposition to another group.
We in my view would be better to walk alone now we are grown, nothing however wrong with the rules past great humans put together as rules to live by.

Fair enough Lexi and woot. I see your point.

Unfortunately, I live in Perth, otherwise I might be tempted to come along and hear the arguments myself, as long as it wasn't a recruitment drive or something similar :).

I wouldn't be into joining an Atheist 'sect', and pounding the pavements outside Parliament with a banner emblazoned with the words:
"There are no Gods'!

Atheism is not a religion or aspiration to a higher order of consciousness.It is belief in disbelief.If you study physics and astronomy,the universe is a non ordinary reality.Space time,energy and matter are intergrated in a continium that links all that we are.

Theoretically via the study of physics,it is possible to travel through time,and that hints at immortality and a reality of a supreme consciousness, that us mere mortals have yet to realise.

The concept of god is a human invention to try and explain what we cannot understand.Religion is a perversion of spirituality since the elites use religion to dumb down and subvert the masses.

Life is about raising our levels of consciousness.It only happens when we have endeavour and a true heart that seeks the advancement of all humanity.

ok..so olo has become a vehicle for publicity

well i wish to disscuss opinion
[afterall athism..is just another OPINION
unless it becomes a faith system for the faithless]

so who is the focus...athiests hate god.or hate religeon
[i know from previous publicity blurb's that you deney there is any such thing as god]

so in that line of opinion
lets egsamin pauls blurb

""The convention “Is a great opportunity to bring forth new enlightenment""

great enlightenment[rather new age
but never the less enlightenment...in the 'new age relitivism's
generally implies spirit 'secret knowledge'

thus a clever spin word designed[cghosen].to decieve
pretending to inform[to wit eduucate..secret knowledge

""in the face of growing irrationality,""

ok so give me your 'rational'
[what does this clever buzz word ratrionalise>?

""fundamentalism and superstitious thinking""

great...like your going to inform us of the scam of global warming?

and expose the many faulse prophets..
espousing capital idealism..[bailing out the rich?]
by the bankers being bailed out..bia bying govt bonds?

""Atheism has provided the perfect foundation
in which people can come together to celebrate science""

religeon has no despute with true science
its only the fraud theories[like the gap theory in evolution
that i refute...mendelic inheritors are perfectly good science..trouble being evolution iS A THEORY[not a science

sellibrate..""reason and secular values in today’s society.""

hangon ...i inserted the celibrate
but your spin is saying values...[as in godless values]
so your going to preach the NEW ATHIEST values?

ie attack believers DARING to belief different from YOU?

""With the planet in a state of organised chaos"""

yes its organised all right
trouble being the same 'organisers'..organising YOUR NEW AGE WAY
are the same 'organisers'..what organised the same old way

your just putting on some new age spin

""and the menace of religious extremism"""

the extremists are those who blame a whole belief system
for inmdividual acts of extreemists FAINING belief

when wil;l the first nutter athiest
non believer..get his FAITH..blamed for his own outrage?

its not religeons that..""threatening everyone’s quality of life,""

its fools blaming systems
for individual insanity

thats our only true threat

faulse messengers

those forcing others
to question their own belief
only seek instant belief..[and then instant obediance]

""this 2012 event will once again provide rational discussion""

as ling as you sit passivly
while your prophets of doome brainwash your mind into unthinking agreement[it all sounds so new age...you got so many gurus

""and debate""

oh good
oh you mean listen to a one sided spin routeen
that passes for debate..but actually is just de bait..!

""about what can be done
to address the issues facing the globe""

ahhhh now i get it
the next new age al gore
gloom and doom

but if you buy permits[dispensation]
all will be fine..[as long as we shut up thinking
and just pay up..

and learn to parrot..back
your prophets blurb..verbitam

ps your creed books
are for sale in the lobby?

with vidios..that fully explain EVERYTHING

yeah yea
we heard all that before

lol

What is...in human terms......?

I think that's the only question.

Cactus:)