Who here is a believer in the Celestial Teapot?

Question

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Answer 1

Nurse!...Kleptoma... hasn't taken her tablets!!

Answer 2

Bertrand Russells analogy of the celestial teapot was
intended to refute the idea that the burden of proof lies upon the sceptic to disprove unfalsifiable claims of religions. In an article entitled "Is There a God?", commissioned (but never published) by Illustrated magazine in 1952, Russell wrote:

"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time."

I believe what Russell was saying.

Answer 3

I suppose it is as good a belief system as any other. At least if you believe it you don't have to pray to it. Well not yet not until someone sets themselves up as a priest to the Clestial Teapot and invents a reason to pray as happens in all religions of course

Answer 4

My Invisible Pink Unicorn can beat up your Celestial Teapot.

Answer 5

The teapot is not necessary in the Celestial Realm?

Answer 6

I believe in the Celestial Teapot as much as I believe in other supernatural entities.

Answer 7

I believe a bunch of bones prove that some ape mated and produced man kind.

even though all we have is bones to prove it.
I'm pretty sure the ghost of the first ape human appeared to a scientist some where and filled in the gaps.

Answer 8

I heard about it through Good old Richard Dawkins and I tell almost everyone I meet about it
:o) x

Answer 9

Most of my answers are rather lenghty even when they are entirely insane.

However, this time, it's appropriate to simply state;

What SHE (Isadora) said!

Answer 10

Not me. I kneel before the Cosmic Tea-leaves. And those "Strainer" worshippers are just mad.

Answer 11

as Dawkin's says...I am a teapot agnostic!