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21st January 2005, 04:07 PM | #41 |
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I heah that Jesus feller's got a real pretty mouth, too. Knows how ta squeal liker pig real good, haw!
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21st January 2005, 08:11 PM | #49 |
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If your god requires worship, thats pride. One of the 7 deadly sins I believe. umm wasn't that Lucifers problem? Therefore if you are busy worshipping a godlike being who suffers from pride I think you may be a Satanist and haven't realized it. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. That's envy, another of the 7. God doing nothing about tsunamis, diseases, wars etc? Sloth. As a side note, If tomorrow you found out god indeed existed and his name was Allah would you follow him? |
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How can there be a war anyway? Isn't your god all-powerful? how does anyone even attept to "fight" an all-powerful being? And didn't your storybook say that the war was over and the firstborn exiled to the burnie place? Seems like there's not much of a war left. Isn't your god supposed to be all-knowing? Then where is there any way for anyone to "choose sides?" Doesn't an all-knowing being already know who his friends are? I pointed out to you once that there is no way that anyone in the Western Civilisation that hasn't heard this fairytale by now. Wouldn't that mean that the sides have been chosen? Maybe he doesn't appear to us "evil atheists" for a reason. Maybe we are supposed to be on the firstborn's side. If that is true- and where is there any room to doubt it- aren't you violating operational security by sharing military secrets with the enemy? Boy, I wouldn't want to be you when your god's security angels get ahold of you. One last thing- how do you know that your Jesus didn't come back 2000 years ago (you know, when he said he'd come back), lose the war and die? Maybe the victorious firstborn keeps bibles and such around because it amuses him to see delusional believers continue to call on the long dead "son of god" in vain. That's a lie, and he's supposed to be the prince of lies. I think it's a good one. You fell for it, in any case... |
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One thing Christians strive for is to be one with god. Yet you could not believe that god could ever be one with his creation (in this case- the devil). Yet you come here and ask a question of people who believe that both God and the Devil are fictional. What did you ask? Something like: If Mickey Mouse told you he was God would you bow down before him. Wait - that's not exactly how you put it, Sorry... What did you say? Oh yah...If you found out tomorrow that God exists, would you follow Him? Would you submit yourself to His will?Not too different from the Mickey Mouse question, I guess. What is the difference between what I asked you and what you asked us? We both think the other is talking about impossibilities. |
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I am stuck inside during a blizzard....I couldn't have asked for a better treat than a visit from 1inC.
How are you? I believe you still owe some of the people on this board apologies for your horrible behaviour. |
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LOL thats a funny thread... I wonder how this guy is still convinced about anything is it sad?... or just funny ? |
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Well, you'd be convinced about anything if you spent enough weekends couped up in your friend's garage talking about the same book and not even reading the whole thing.
And later, he saw something on Fox about a videotape released by Osama himself and he goes, "Oh! He was captured on tape! Therefore it was fulfilled through God's sense of irony!" (Even though "captured on tape" refers to a candid performance, not a deliberate speech meant for release like the kind the news story was about.) Yet 1inC had to start several threads bragging about it after the fact, saying that he was mislead by God, and the prediction came true. Then he got upset because he couldn't win Randi's million. He made another prediction in a similar vein of right-wing politics, this time much safer- that George W. Bush would win the election. Kind of like predicting the outcome of a coin flip (a coin flip where you can influence the outcome by voting for Bush, and you can guess where his vote went. Not that his vote won the election for Bush, but it his vote and others influenced the decisions of the electoral college). But he didn't fill out an application for the Million Dollar Challenge at all, and so he could not win, and because he didn't, that made him think the entire challenge was bogus. Oh, and then there was the incident where he said he could heal people over the internet, and that was where he started to cross the line. Perhaps Truth Seeker and GM would like to explain. |
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That depends. How aesthetically pleasing is the curve of his bum? I don't want to be stuck back there staring at some flat bottom. You never cease to amaze me. You're such a great wit. I'm glad to see your original avatar back. You and Iacchus are cut out of the same cloth (in a manner of speaking). He likes shaplely bottoms, too. Regarding the topic of discussion, there's no need to follow Him. He lives within. |
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Hasn't he asked this question already?
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While I believe the injustice 1inC comitted was a genuine error on his part, there's really no explanation I can offer without getting really pissed off, and consequently blowing up at 1inC. Maybe he did not understand how serious the situation really was, but he needs to learn a hard lesson in reality- that this bubble of belief he lives in is harmful to himself and others, and it's going to cause him a lot more trouble than he thinks as long as he continues to fool himself.
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I agree. I was shocked however that once the seriousness of the situation was made clear, that he did not respond with compassion or caring. There is so little that is Jesus-like in him. That is all I can say without being disgusted.
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Yeah, I called him numerous times on the old faith healing bit. I never responded to the thread TS pointed to because I found it so far out of the realm of taste that about the only thing I could say about 1inTroll was that he's a c*ck biting f**cktard. Even trolls have standards for humor, generally.
Editted to add: Because I'm too lazy to think up a new message for 1inTroll, I'm reposting my words from another thread in which he posted here. Why hello Troll! We meet again! If it weren't for the fact that your unending blather was false, it would make my eyes bleed causing me to spork them out like some kind of back alley optical abortion. No one wants to hear what you have to say, go away you shmuck, you trog, you pathetic waste of human flotsam. If unchecked stupidity were a game, you'd be the clear winner. Be gone from here, and as you exit stage left may the fleas from ten thousand camels nestle in your crotch and be blessed with tripletts. |
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See, I was taught that God loved people and that good people went to heaven. Not that Christians went to heaven, or people who were baptized, or people who went to church every Sunday, or Catholics, or Episocpals, or non-homosexuals, that good people went to heaven. The good Jew, the good Muslim, the good Hindu, the good athiest could all go to heaven. I never saw any real evidence for God, so I don't believe in God. But I'm not too worried about it, if I'm wrong, especially since one of my primary lessons in my upbringing was, "Don't be a d**k." I try. If I had proof of God, I'd like to have a talk about some of his followers. You know, the ones that preach about hellfire and hatred, divine wrath and the smiting of sinners. I really think it makes God look bad. It makes God look like a petulant omnipotent child and I refuse to swallow that a cosmic and divine being could act like that. The ancient Greeks and Romans might have liked that in their deities, but not me. And afterwards: "So. You do exist." "Yep." "That's nice to know. Am I doing all right then?" Then we'd see what goes from there. |
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Wow. I learned a lot from this thread.
Red beans and rice didn' miss Him. (Marquis!) God has good taste in alchohol. (Ossai) And that I've never bothered to really reason out God beyond what I mentioned above. "See... no proof. Eh. All right." And that 1inChrist can land a plane. Boy, are American Airlines's landings nice. I just wish they cared about getting there ON TIME. |
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Which religion? Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh. Assuming Christian, since this is mainly an American site, which sect of Christianity? I guess that if God was proved to exist based upon a known belief system them I would have pretty much no choice in the matter and have to bow to His will. Actually, I do not perceive God as a monster because Atheism does not include any form of "God object" in it's belief system. We are not rejecting God, we are simply acknowledging His existence only in the minds of Man due to an overwhelming fear of death. I guess of course that this is a hypothetical question and has as much merit as "Would Christians become Atheists if proof was found of Gods non-existence". My only hope is that when I die, that the true faith does not turn out to be something like Kaballah. ( No red string, no paradise!! ) |
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Stultissima femina, (sic oppedo viri, C.F. Nahum 3:13) non potes credere mihi amplus quam meretrici. In Ezikiel 14:9 dixit "14:9 et propheta cum erraverit et locutus fuerit verbum ego Dominus decepi prophetam illum et extendam manum meam super eum et delebo eum de medio populi mei Israhel ", quod coarguit me esse mendax. N_cannon ducitur a me? Non futurus est, n_cannon actutissimus est. |
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Why do you people do this? You refuse to answer the question.
LET'S ASSUME GOD PROVED HIMSELF TO BE REAL! And yes, I mean the Christian God. HE IS THE ONLY GOD! Now stop playing this game with me and answer truthfully. He is the God I believe in and I believe in Him because He has proved Himself to be real. I feel so bad for those who's answer was that they would join Satan's army and fight a losing battle against God. |
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If your answer was that you would still follow Satan, when you die God is going to say theses words to you: ''You get your wish''.
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