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I don't look down on you. I admire you whilest also acknowledging that you have some daft ideas.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:28, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I know you don't look down on me =) I'm not saying I know what god is and all that, I don't have a clue, but I like the idea of it, and it's no _less_ silly.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:36, Reply)
Look around at your computer, your desk, got a drink there? Can you see any birds or people from your window? The sky, the trees, the whole lot.... coming from an explosion? Have you ever seen someone throw, say, a hand grenade and ending up with a tree as a direct result from the explosion ?
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:42, Reply)
I believe in the actions of physics and chemistry and not religion.
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If anything I lean towards the idea that God is within each of us and not as a deity as in the Buddhist belief.
Religion has been around as long as man has been around. Man in his simple belief needed answers for all the world around him and religion was a useful tool for this.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:56, Reply)
I think you want to believe there is something more.
Own mortality, innit.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:57, Reply)
I'm not scared of being dead, only the way in which I die.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:02, Reply)
Surrounded by lusty young lads all waiting to service you.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:04, Reply)
It will be a surprise endorphin fuelled heart attack.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:08, Reply)
I hate people that think I'm stupid because I believe in God. I don't give a fuck about why you don't, why try to peg me on because I do.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:56, Reply)
Religion is so intergral to our society now that we've all got used to it being there. I'm fascinated by religion but lack the skills to debate it properly.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:00, Reply)
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:02, Reply)
Atheists will point out that there is no proof for the existence of God and believers will cite the necessity of faith. Neither party is likely to convince the other.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:06, Reply)
but that doesn't mean that one side isn't right.
It's like AV (yeah I went there) despite infallible logic in favour of the change, some people just go LALALALALALA!
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:09, Reply)
Religion. Not AV.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:12, Reply)
by saying that God/Allah/the FSM doesn't provide evidence specifically so that we can demonstrate faith.
I feel uncomfortable with a supreme being who says people who base their decisions on feelings and instinct are better than those who use logic and reason. I'm not saying they should be considered worse, I just don't think they should be elevated above rational people.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:13, Reply)
would you have just realised that God existed in the way you believe in it had it not been for your upbringing and the way other people around you told you it worked?
No, you wouldn't. The fact that there are many different religions demonstrates this in spades.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:08, Reply)
If no one had up until one was born then surely the concept of a higher being or "purpose" in life would be imminently forthcoming?
I don't think there is a period of human history that doesn't share the concept in one form or another?
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:11, Reply)
Hence gods of the sun and the lightning.
Anyway, I'm not getting into this, because as Kristine says, it's up to her to believe whatever she wants and I'm fully in favour of this. She doesn't tell people that they are wrong for not believing what she believes.
But I would say that BGB is also entitled to her view to not want to go out with someone who believes in god, because at some point in a relationship, you are going to have a clash of ideologies regarding it.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:15, Reply)
doesn't mean they won't let you peg them.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:19, Reply)
Yet they are morons for believing in FPTP.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:28, Reply)
misconstruing what I'm saying.
People have the right, if they so wish, to believe in god, any god.
Doesn't make them right, but it's their choice. I've given up arguing about AV, it's making me too angry. It's a failure of logical argument against ideology and stupidity and It's just getting me too pissed off, so yes, I do think those arguing in favour of FPTP are stupid cunts, but I'm not going to get into it anymore.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:33, Reply)
But as I stated previously, religion of one sort or another has been around since man evolved as a way of coping with the world around him. Look at scientology. Each of us knows what a pile of wank it is but the scientologists don't and would argue fiercly their point of view.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:16, Reply)
the only thing I'm saying is that the idea is insulting to free thinkers that have been around for thousands of years.
I have my own ideas and ways I feel about it, in some ways I may conform, but to me only you can choose the way you feel about it.
I understand that religion has been passed from generation to generation but that doesn't force you, especially now, to believe in God.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:25, Reply)
It's more insulting to look at all the evidence and then close your eyes and go LALALALALALALALALA.
But it's your choice.
And I'm not going to get into this
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:29, Reply)
nevermind
people may think I'm stupid and that's fine
but I'm glad I feel the way I feel and that's all I can say about it
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I do apologise. My wife likes posh chocolate, all the Girradelli stuff we tried she loved, but she's not keen on any Hershys chocolate.
She really likes Reeses peanut butter cups too.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:38, Reply)
it will be sent out this weekend
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:43, Reply)
I was looking forward to seeing your house.
and sniffing your undies
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:35, Reply)
He wouldn't let me try it on for size.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:41, Reply)
Osama's been dead for years and kept on ice until the right political situation came along. Like Barack's waning popularity, for example, even though Osama was supposed to have died in Dubbya's time in office and before the twin towers...
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:46, Reply)
I just think conspiracy theorists need a darn good kicking.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:49, Reply)
They’ll happily spout that so-and-so said this as an argument for their paranoia, yet never offer a source for the actual article / interview they were supposed to have said it in.
My next door neighbour is conspiracy theorist. Nice bloke, but he believes absolutely everything on DavidIcke.com or whatever.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:52, Reply)
They need to be able to explain why there lives are so shit, without taking responsibility for it.
Heh, my life is quite shit, but its my fault.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:58, Reply)
Didn't get any of this when Harold got an arrow in his eye.
"oh no, he'd had an arrow in his eye for ages!" etc.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:53, Reply)
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 13:59, Reply)
It's a French weaver's conspiracy to.....snorrzzzz.
(, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:01, Reply)
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