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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #320 on: May 10, 2011, 04:58:04 pm »
The problem with such topics is that 90% of the time some people are just running in circles. Its never over.
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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #321 on: May 10, 2011, 05:03:56 pm »
Very well, I shall take it apart, one piece at a time.

(Most) Christians live a happier life.
Research is all over the board in this matter, simply because gauging religiousness and happiness is so difficult to do scientifically. Some show positive correlation src, some show no correlation src (note: both of those 2 use the same scale of attitude towards Christianity, but a different happiness scale) src2, some show a seemingly negative correlation src (I'm not sure if this one applies).

(Most) Christians do more good.
"Do more good" is such a broad statement that this can't even been qualified. What does that even mean? I think that's actually rather offensive to secular persons. You basically have said "Christians are better people by default than others." Thanks, that's really modest of you.

(Most) Christians die much happier.
Again, impossible to qualify. One could make an argument that belief in an afterlife somehow relieves death anxiety, but then it would have to be demonstrated that those who don't believe in the afterlife have more death anxiety. Overall impossible really to do.

Since none of these statements can be qualified or scientifically defended, the statement on the whole is a lie.

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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #322 on: May 10, 2011, 05:12:38 pm »
Since none of these statements can be qualified or scientifically defended, the statement on the whole is a lie.
The truth value of the statement can't be accurately determined, which is wholly separate from a lie.
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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #323 on: May 10, 2011, 05:17:32 pm »
Here, the promised stuff:
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My few cents on this:

Humans are in fact animals. So a Human (animal) could mary any other animal. So why not gay marrige? They're in love, they "belong" together
As I understand it god wants you to be happy too.

Scientists have proof that there are gay relationships in the animal world too.

(because we have souls and animals do not, we are SEPARATE
I don't remember god ever saying animals have no souls.
The only thing that separates us from animals is that we are self aware of our existence and we can think.
Id interpret the Genesis, the forbidden, i dont have a bible, so it might be a bit off:
God said that they will surely die if they eat from the tree of cognition of good and evil, where as Lucifer (Devil, Satan, whatever you want, i prefer this for its meaning) said that they will "open their eyes".

My interpretation:
God didnt say that they will die the same moment, just indicate that they would die, whereas Lucifer said that they will realize their existence, but with realizing it, they would see that their lives are passable, and they would die eventually. They didnt realize that before they ate from the tree.
Now, read what god said. I interpreted this part that god actually isnt a good, loving person, but more like a tyrant, who is keeping his "creation" under a leash, and forbidding them to think for themselves, being autonomous beings, doing things which arent instinctive, but thought over.
Humans in the garden of eden, were nothing but animals, they werent thinking, but reacting, but with the apple they became "gods", self aware, autonomous, having skills instead of abilities and so on..

And i would combine this with the Greek mythology, Prometheus to be precise.
He gave humans the fire of gods, and was punished by the main god, Zeus, for that.
The "fire of gods" is the same thing as the apple in the Genesis. Its self awareness, the intellect, skills, the 'soul'...

Also, relate the punishments:
Lucifer has lost 'his' legs, what made the snake crawl on the ground in the Bible, Prometheus was imprisoned on the Caucasus in the myth, 'mankind' was forced out of heaven in the bible, nothing special happened to mankind in the myth.

Lucifer- Light bringer
Prometheus- Flame bringer

Then, after creating Adam, the verry first human who ever lived, he created his female counterpart, Eve, from the ribbone of adam. So as you can plainly see it was Adam and Eve who were the first married humans. (it was not Adam and Steve)
After the sin of man, God told Adam and Eve amoung many other things, to be fruitfull and multiply. There is absolutly no gay married couple that can complete this command.
Laughed at the steve bit (how do you know it isn't a typo :O).
Ya and at the time it also says they were the ONLY people, eve was also made from adam making her closer than a sister, so the bible tells you to have incest.
Very moral.
Figurativeness ftl.
We are all gods children, and he loves us all.
That sounds dirty.

This was written one year ago, the topic was homosexuality but it went something offtopic towards "what bible says, what people do". Im tired and i have a school presentation to make, so i cant be arsed to recheck and change something (because my beliefs are constantly changing as im learning).
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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #324 on: May 10, 2011, 05:18:54 pm »
The truth value of the statement can't be accurately determined, which is wholly separate from a lie.
Very well, my logic is not perfect.
"That's a lie" just feels so much better than "That cannot be determined."

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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #325 on: May 10, 2011, 06:16:35 pm »
There is no way in HELL that this Earth in which we live and breathe is 6000 years old.

There is no possible way that this Earth is 6000 years old.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33110809/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/worlds-oldest-human-linked-skeleton-found/

If the worlds oldest skeleton is 4.4 million years old then there is no possible way that the Earth is 6000 years old. Just want to come in here and say that.
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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #326 on: May 10, 2011, 06:27:44 pm »
ye but god made it seem like it's 4.4 million yrs old so ur point is invalid

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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #327 on: May 10, 2011, 10:09:59 pm »
Lol most Catholics and Christians do not believe that the Earth is 6000 years old.

Let me guess you also believe that the water really turns into wine during mass. Give me a break.
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« Reply #328 on: May 11, 2011, 12:21:19 am »
The irony behind this is that young earth creationists think they know why God did this or that. It's really funny how they try to find evidence which cannot be proven in any way but supports their position.

One word: Simplemindedness

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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #329 on: May 11, 2011, 02:15:44 am »
You did not properly read my post. I did not ask you to prove my statement wrong or not proveable. This topic will not convince anyone, who isn't unsure from the start on, of any point of view.
I talked of experience. How many real christians do you know? How can you judge their faith and their life based on scientific researchs? Life is much more than just science.

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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #330 on: May 11, 2011, 03:08:51 am »
Believing that your existence is of cosmic significance says more about your egotism and narcissism than of your morality or spirituality.

You can believe in whatever you want if it gets you through life, but its no justification for negatively interacting with the universe around you.


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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #331 on: May 11, 2011, 07:10:15 am »
My beliefs are what make me miserable 80% of my life.

Don't think that believing in God is all rainbows and sugar-coating, it's a tough mentality to live with, but it makes the good times that much better every single time.

My beliefs make me happy, maybe you should consider dropping yours if they make you miserable. :D

Also, the church is indeed unbiased, why else would it always admit it's mistakes and even dismiss the work of the crusades as being a glorified act? Why else would it be the very first to question any Christian's sainthood?

I've tried looking for "non-biased" sources other than the church, and found zilch. Because almost every single one was written by another anti-religion pushing atheist.

It's a sad world.

Of course the church isn't unbiased, don't be ABSURD. Do you know why they admit their mistakes? Because their mistakes are documented and they can't deny them when there's evidence. We live in the information age, not even governments can hide their mistakes now.

You've found zilch because you don't want to find anything. Why are you so afraid of discovering that you could be wrong?

Yeah, everything is a conspiracy, every scientist and intellectual in the world is an atheist and it's just so twisted! We actually make fossils in a factory and then we hide them for people to find. Satellite imaging and the moon landings are faked and really the Earth is flat and on top of 4 giant elephants on top of a giant tortoise. GPS is a lie! Nuclear power is fake. We're not made of atoms we're made of dust and ribs. The Sun revolves around Earth. All medicine is placebo and only prayer makes you better. The wheel was invented 500 years ago. Black holes are an illusion created by Satan. There is no such thing as DNA. Dinosaurs never existed, they're just CGI like Jurassic Park. The Holocaust didn't happen. There's no such thing as pollution. Ionizing radiation doesn't exist, it's a myth. Electricity is witchcraft but we can use it as long as we love Jesus.
ALL SCIENCE IS EVIL AND A LIE! ITS AN ATHEIST CONSPIRACY!!!!

Wow, you're still trying to discredit me by pinning "Insecure" labels on my ass.
Well guess what, I don't need this. I'm sick and tired of this bull, you're making it personal, and I honestly don't have the time for a senseless back-and-forth right now, either learn to be neutral, or piss off.
Bottom line: No matter what you say, I won't let a figure or picture change my mind, I have strong opinions and stick to them, and I have standards that should have a long time ago prevented me from engaging in a discussion with someone as small-minded as yourself.
Thank you for wasting that much of my time, talk to you in another life.
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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #332 on: May 11, 2011, 07:40:24 am »
Wow, you're still trying to discredit me by pinning "Insecure" labels on my ass.
Well guess what, I don't need this. I'm sick and tired of this bull, you're making it personal, and I honestly don't have the time for a senseless back-and-forth right now, either learn to be neutral, or piss off.
Bottom line: No matter what you say, I won't let a figure or picture change my mind, I have strong opinions and stick to them, and I have standards that should have a long time ago prevented me from engaging in a discussion with someone as small-minded as yourself.
Thank you for wasting that much of my time, talk to you in another life.

Learn to be neutral?... But you think the church is neutral. I simply don't need to discredit you when you say things like "the church is un-biased", "I get all my information from the church", "the church doesn't try to cover things up".

I'm not making it personal, you are. You're afraid of challenging your own beliefs for yourself. You said yourself your beliefs make you miserable 80% of the time. Why do you think that is? Do you think it's possibly that you have to spend 80% of your time pretty much ignoring any information or things that go on around you because they clash with your beliefs? Don't you think there's a very obvious reason as to why anything at all clashes with your beliefs?
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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #333 on: May 11, 2011, 08:01:42 am »
Bottom line: No matter what you say, I won't let a figure or picture change my mind, I have strong opinions and stick to them, and I have standards that should have a long time ago prevented me from engaging in a discussion with someone as small-minded as yourself.

So let me get this straight : you admit to being the very definition of having a closed mind, yet those who possess cognitive and objective reasoning are 'small-minded' ?
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« Reply #334 on: May 11, 2011, 08:13:48 am »
So let me get this straight : you admit to being the very definition of having a closed mind, yet those who possess cognitive and objective reasoning are 'small-minded' ?

I was just about to say that myself o/

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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #335 on: May 11, 2011, 04:40:26 pm »
You did not properly read my post. I did not ask you to prove my statement wrong or not proveable. This topic will not convince anyone, who isn't unsure from the start on, of any point of view.
I talked of experience. How many real christians do you know? How can you judge their faith and their life based on scientific researchs? Life is much more than just science.
fyi science is literally experience en masse and crosschecked
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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #336 on: May 12, 2011, 03:09:08 pm »
The act of sacrificing a thing or a living object is an act of praising/appeasing a higher being/higher goal. The act of God sacrificing his own son to himself stands in contrast to the definition of a sacrifice. How could God praise himself by sacrificing his own sown to himself? He can't. Appease? I'd get rather angry about myself. Higher goal? The goal was to deliver all humans from sins. Since God is seen as a being which suffers from all the sins humans carry with them - at least modern theology says that - it's unnatural that he sacrifices his own son to himself to alleviate his pain.

C. S. Lewis has a good interpretation of the dynamic in his book Mere Christianity.

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If God was prepared to let us off, why on earth did He not do so? And what possible point could there be in punishing an innocent person instead? None at all that I can see, if you are thinking of punishment in the police-court sense.  On the other hand, if you think of a debt, there is plenty of point in a person who has some assets paying it on behalf of someone who has not.
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In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here comes the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.  The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person-and he would not need it.
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Now if we had not fallen, that would be all plain sailing. But unfortunately we now need God's help in order to do something which God, in His own nature, never does at all-to surrender, to suffer, to submit, to die. Nothing in God's nature corresponds to this process at all.  So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked.  God can share only what He has: this thing, in His own nature, He has not.
But supposing God became a man-suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in one person-then that person could help us. He could surrender His will, and suffer and die, because He was man; and He could do it perfectly because He was God. You and I can go through this process only if God does it in us; but God can do it only if He becomes man. Our attempts at this dying will succeed only if we men share in God's dying, just as our thinking can succeed only because it is a drop out of the ocean of His intelligence: but we cannot share God's dying unless God dies; and He cannot die except by being a man.

TL;DR: A bad person needs to repent, but only a perfect person CAN repent.  Repentance requires being human, but true repentance requires being God.  Therefore, God had to have become human and die for us if there was any possibility of our sins being paid for.
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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #337 on: May 13, 2011, 05:52:53 am »
All he says is, that a "bad" person needs to repent, but because he's a bad person, he's not "good" at it. A "good" person needs to repent less but can repent "better" than the "bad" person. There are two extremes: A) the Devil who needs to repent for everything he does, because he is the devil in person, and B) God, who is perfectly good and doesn't need to repent for anything, because all he does is good and he's perfect at repentance.

I can repent, because I'm bound to my conscience. That means that a "good" person has a "better" conscience than a "bad" person. Does this mean I'm a good person? After this definition, yes. So the better I am, the closer I am to God. The less failures I do in my life, the "godlier" I become. If I live my life for other people, I eventually become God - at least in a way, I'm still bound to my mortal body. This is the weak point in his argument. Lewis wrote "Mere Christianity" for both laity and intellectuals. Sure, it's nice if everyone can catch his point, but his arguments lack substance.

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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #338 on: May 13, 2011, 06:28:40 am »
Food for thought:

It's well known in psychology that narcissistic liars propagate lies both in their favour and against the ones who oppose them. Honest people don't do this as there is no necessity to twist the truth in their favour as it is already in their favour. The facts speak for themselves.

So what if God is really the devil and the devil is actually God?

-The devil tempts people to his side with the promise of eternal paradise.
-The devil proclaims that people who don't believe in him are not to be trusted.
-The devil states that people who do not beg him for forgiveness for their sins are tortured eternally.
-The devil attributes acts of evil to God's work.

Meanwhile:
-God doesn't demand to be followed.
-God doesn't make any claims against the devil.
-God is modest and silent and mysterious.

Interesting perspective isn't it? It actually fits perfectly. Though I'm sure people will disagree by default. Afterall, the devil is perfect and God is not to be trusted.
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Re: Stop what you're doing and laugh at the U.S.
« Reply #339 on: May 13, 2011, 08:16:07 am »
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You two guys didnt hear for the concept of self-sacrifice and altruism?
Also, truly forgiving oneself >>> repenting.

Reminds me
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Do not take the name of the Lord in vain.
When better analysed, that means do not give 'labels' to god. He is.
That makes him perfect, and if you label him, you take a part of the perfection away.

Even by saying 'God is perfect' you take away a part of that perfection.
I could relate that to Hamlet's "To be or not to be, that is the question..."


@ mangled- Its quite similar to my post here
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