How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
07-28-2010, 01:13 PM
#1762
Boost Pope
iTrader: (8)
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
Posts: 33,022
Total Cats: 6,590
Atheism
The belief that there was nothing. And nothing happened to nothing, which then suddenly exploded for no reason, creating everything, after which, a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself into self-replicating bits, which then turned into dinosaurs.
Makes perfect sense.
The belief that there was nothing. And nothing happened to nothing, which then suddenly exploded for no reason, creating everything, after which, a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself into self-replicating bits, which then turned into dinosaurs.
Makes perfect sense.
Reply
0
0
so I went with the more sensible thing, lol.
07-28-2010, 01:16 PM
#1765
I created it all and I created you, DON'T **** WITH ME!
__________________
Best Car Insurance | Auto Protection Today | FREE Trade-In Quote
__________________
Best Car Insurance | Auto Protection Today | FREE Trade-In Quote
Reply
0
0
07-28-2010, 01:17 PM
#1766
**** yea!
__________________
Best Car Insurance | Auto Protection Today | FREE Trade-In Quote
hello
dear my name is mrs.sarah welsh; i am a dying woman who has decided to donate what i have to you, church and widows.
I am 60 years old and i was diagnosed for cancer for about 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, who has left me everything he worked for and because the doctors told me i will not live longer than some weeks because of my health, i decided to will/donate the sum of $10,400,000 (ten million four hundred thousand dollars) to you for the good work of humanity, and also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows.
I wish you all the best and may the good lord bless you abundantly, and please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others.
Contact my lawyer (barrister mike adams) with this specified email: (barr.mikeadam@googlemail.com ) and tell him that i have willed ($10,400,000.00) to you and i have also notified him.
I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as i don't want anything that will jeopardize my last wish.
Thanks and god bless.
From mrs.sarah welsh
dear my name is mrs.sarah welsh; i am a dying woman who has decided to donate what i have to you, church and widows.
I am 60 years old and i was diagnosed for cancer for about 2 years ago, immediately after the death of my husband, who has left me everything he worked for and because the doctors told me i will not live longer than some weeks because of my health, i decided to will/donate the sum of $10,400,000 (ten million four hundred thousand dollars) to you for the good work of humanity, and also to help the motherless and less privilege and also for the assistance of the widows.
I wish you all the best and may the good lord bless you abundantly, and please use the funds well and always extend the good work to others.
Contact my lawyer (barrister mike adams) with this specified email: (barr.mikeadam@googlemail.com ) and tell him that i have willed ($10,400,000.00) to you and i have also notified him.
I will appreciate your utmost confidentiality in this matter until the task is accomplished as i don't want anything that will jeopardize my last wish.
Thanks and god bless.
From mrs.sarah welsh
Best Car Insurance | Auto Protection Today | FREE Trade-In Quote
Reply
0
0
07-28-2010, 01:23 PM
#1768
Boost Czar
iTrader: (62)
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 79,493
Total Cats: 4,080
this just pissed me off: A federal judge on Wednesday granted a partial injunction requested by the federal government on the controversial Arizona immigration law, SB 1070.
Reply
0
0
07-28-2010, 01:38 PM
#1771
I was a member, it's complicated. We had a discussion about it once. His name is Rev. Ruben Velasco and he is a very good friend of mine. We talked about me not being religous and he said that's fine because I am very respectful and help out every once in a while(I play bass for some of there shows). I believe in the human ability to be kind, not religion.
Reply
0
0
07-28-2010, 01:43 PM
#1772
I wonder if hustler is in this book that popped up below that one:
http://www.amazon.com/Badass-Relentl...ref=pd_sim_b_2
Reply
0
0
07-28-2010, 01:54 PM
#1773
Boost Pope
iTrader: (8)
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
Posts: 33,022
Total Cats: 6,590
I can't believe I'm actually about to debate religion on the internet...
(deep breath)
Honestly, I don't find any contradiction between things such as the fossil record or astrometric observations concerning the size/age/rate of expansion of the universe and the fundamental tenets of the Judeo–Christian faiths.
I don't believe that the universe is only 6,000 years old (or whatever you want to call it), and I also don't find this to be in conflict with the idea that it might still have been willingly created by an intelligent being of an origin unknown to me.
Is every single word in the (Bible / Tanakh / Kabbalah) absolutely and unquestionably accurate? Probably not. Does that mean that the general concepts conveyed within are inherently false just because they seem a bit mystical?
I simply assume that the various texts which compose the religious cannon were all written, translated, edited etc., by men, and that some of those folks may have been exaggerating for dramatic effect (parting the sea), writing from a very limited viewpoint (a flood that covered a region a few hundred square miles would have been interpreted to have covered the whole world from the perspective of a person who had never left his home town), or just plain tripping ***** (either that, or John of Patmos had suffered a serious head trauma just prior to penning the book of Revelations.)
Basically, for me, it boils down to a willingness to admit that since I wasn't there when the universe came into being, and cannot know with any degree of certainty exactly what happened, nor do I claim to be the smartest sentient being in the whole history of everything everywhere, it would be extremely arrogant to discount any one theory over another on the basis that it involves something apparently incomprehensible.
Perhaps there genuinely was a flying spaghetti monster? I cannot disprove it.
(deep breath)
I don't believe that the universe is only 6,000 years old (or whatever you want to call it), and I also don't find this to be in conflict with the idea that it might still have been willingly created by an intelligent being of an origin unknown to me.
Is every single word in the (Bible / Tanakh / Kabbalah) absolutely and unquestionably accurate? Probably not. Does that mean that the general concepts conveyed within are inherently false just because they seem a bit mystical?
I simply assume that the various texts which compose the religious cannon were all written, translated, edited etc., by men, and that some of those folks may have been exaggerating for dramatic effect (parting the sea), writing from a very limited viewpoint (a flood that covered a region a few hundred square miles would have been interpreted to have covered the whole world from the perspective of a person who had never left his home town), or just plain tripping ***** (either that, or John of Patmos had suffered a serious head trauma just prior to penning the book of Revelations.)
Basically, for me, it boils down to a willingness to admit that since I wasn't there when the universe came into being, and cannot know with any degree of certainty exactly what happened, nor do I claim to be the smartest sentient being in the whole history of everything everywhere, it would be extremely arrogant to discount any one theory over another on the basis that it involves something apparently incomprehensible.
Perhaps there genuinely was a flying spaghetti monster? I cannot disprove it.
Reply
0
0
07-28-2010, 02:06 PM
#1775
Joe- my problem with religion is that most of their followers will NOT accept the fact that men have put their hand into the foundation of their belief, The Bible etc. Most take the words written there to be a literal and the only explanation or reason of our existence.
I find religions to be extremely convenient to their profit and well-being. And most important manipulative with the sole intention of maintaining control over masses.
I do not believe in "blind faith"
I find religions to be extremely convenient to their profit and well-being. And most important manipulative with the sole intention of maintaining control over masses.
I do not believe in "blind faith"
Reply
0
0
