Oh, this is very much relevant to my interests. We have someone at work that preaches (even though I have suggested to him that it's not appropriate for the workplace, in the same way I would not contemplate sitting next to religious people and telling them their beliefs are shite).
This man tells me that when I went to Castleton and saw for myself the fossils that prove that the earth is millions of years old, that I was foolish to believe that evidence just because someone had TOLD me they were that old. The Earth is thousands of years old, and I should believe what HE says.
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:24,
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Ask him why there's no mention of "Big fucking lizards"* in the bible
*©Bill Hicks.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:33,
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There's a type of crocodile that looks a bit lika a dinosaur
so people did live alongside dinosaurs and there were dinosaurs on the ark.
(c) The Jehovah's Witness who came to my door once.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:18,
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Nice one.
I found out recently that a friend of mine is super-religious but you'd never know. He cooks his elderly neighbour a roast dinner every Sunday. Is that religion or is it just being 'nice'. Am I a cynic for thinking that he gets as much out of the good deed as the old man? Mind you, he did get into financial shit once so him and his wife prayed. And, this isn't a joke, they got out of the financial shit. I'm not saying you-know-what, but it certainly cemented their belief that they were on the right track. Meh.
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:35,
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Good for him.
Using it as a framework to create your own augmented rule base for living is fine. Just be nice.
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zacherynuk @echo off, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:37,
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Precisely.
Do things that make both you and the other person feel good. A mutual friend of ours was dumped by her fiance and he told her that he was going to pray for her. I not sure what the point of all that was about.
Time to phase out silly religions (the ones about gods, aliens etc) and time to bring in Nice Club (cynical cunts also allowed).
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Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:47,
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Exactly.
I make a point of not committing murder. Not because someone told me that God summoned Moses to the top of a mountain and gave him instructions carved into a couple of slabs, but because I have decided that it's not a very nice thing to do.
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....and you've not met Pissflaps IRL.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:06,
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You weren't complaining last weekend when you overdosed on heroin & I took you to A&E.
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To be fair, I think we were BOTH surprised
at how much crack Herbs is able to smuggle in her knickers.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 11:13,
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