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Originally Posted by LarryS
I will agree to disagree with you and MrV on what my beliefs are vs. yours. To each his own.
One minor bone to pick with you though. You state Christianity is a minority religion and I believe (correct me if I’m wrong) it is still number 1 with over 2 billion followers. About a third of the worlds population.
Not sure if he meant Christianity is followed by a minority of the world's population, which is true enough.
There is plenty of historical proof that Jesus lived, died, and at least 500 people saw him in resurrected form. Even children have a concept of sin and that "all have sinned and come short". God sent prophets, leaders to warn people- even "winking"-as the Bible says- at their sin. Finally, he sent His Son and when he was rejected and crucified it was mandated -in His mercy- that all who would repent and believe in His Son would be spared. This gave mankind Free Will to choose. The Holy Spirit?? No matter how much He pricks the heart or pleads, unless one responds He will not force Himself. One final note: repentance means turning away - not saying sorry and continuing in sin.
We attribute too much meaning to the things we do. We aren't so different from the other animals. Different animals hunt in different ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
Prove it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Yung
Religion was just the easy pretext. If religion had not been available another pretext would have been foundQuote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
Uh, no, actually I can't: there is no such thing as hell, other than as a construct of your imagination.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
But then again you already know that, don't you?
You atheists really like to go after Christians. What's up with that? You pissed about something? There's a reason I won't get bogged down in an argument about whether God exists or not. You don't have one original argument that he doesn't exist. Every argument that can be made has been around for 2000 years and has been argued, re-argued, rehashed, re-rehashed and beaten to death. I've heard all the arguments a thousand times. None of it has changed my mind. You believe what you want to and I'll believe what I want to. I'm hanging with my man, Jesus, no matter what you say.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterVUh, no, actually I can't: there is no such thing as hell, other than as a construct of your imagination.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
But then again you already know that, don't you?
From now on, when I first see that you are ridiculing believers and/or denying the existence of God I will immediately stop reading. You can keep writing about it all you want. I just won't be reading it. I've got better things to do.
The only reason I brought it up is because you started with the religious bullshit earlier in the thread, the shit about heaven and accepting jesus.
Fuck jesus.
Mary Magdalene did, so they say.
"He's a man, he's just a man, and I've had so many men before, in very many ways he's just one more."
--- "I Don't Know How to Love Him" - Jesus Christ, Superstar
MrV's a top notch troll.
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This is the most offensive post I've ever read. It's really got me thinking about what I'm doing here. I think the cause is lost. The confederacy of dunces is winning. This forum has gone totally back to the sewer. The way of darkness, unenlightenment, bottomless ignorance, and infantile stupidity is winning out here. All threads have been wrecked. Singer has pretty much wrecked the road pic thread. The genealogy thread is now not being used for it's intended purpose. They've all gone to the sewer. The name of the forum is Vegas Casino Talk but you can't write about gambling at all without Singer and his dunce crew wrecking it. And a dopehead lawyer is offending my faith. Blocking the offending parties does no good. They are still free to write offending posts about you or your beliefs behind your back. And they can do it without being challenged by you. It's just not the correct way to do things.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterV
I signed up on Twitter a few days ago and I'm already impressed. If someone offends you then you can block them from following you and seeing your posts and you won't be able to see theirs. This is the way things should be done.
I'm pretty much disgusted with this forum. I'll be doing my posting on Twitter where I won't have to tolerate the likes of the confederacy of dunces. I'm sure they will all be glad to have gotten rid of me. Now they can freely wallow in ignorance and stupidity.
This's easy. Let's say that it's one hand of poker, at some point in a pot, and one of the players shall (certainly) win at least half of pot. That player has a freeroll for the whole pot because he can do no worse than half of the pot. But, that same player (likely) will be up against another who has the same freeroll in another hand. It evens out, the same way that even your erroneous freeroll bet to Singer about the pictures will even out when Singer makes another error of his own. In general, say, over many poker hands, there are no freerolls, because each must pay his dues for success to become proficient at one thing. Some study problems of problems, but others, just the problems. Say, pharmacy, which is fine, as long as you don't try to be an expert at everything else, and look foolish when the other person really does know of what he speaks.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimmProve it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Yung
Does your shift at Sam’s Club start anytime soon?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill YungThis's easy. Let's say that it's one hand of poker, at some point in a pot, and one of the players shall (certainly) win at least half of pot. That player has a freeroll for the whole pot because he can do no worse than half of the pot. But, that same player (likely) will be up against another who has the same freeroll in another hand. It evens out, the same way that even your erroneous freeroll bet to Singer about the pictures will even out when Singer makes another error of his own. In general, say, over many poker hands, there are no freerolls, because each must pay his dues for success to become proficient at one thing. Some study problems of problems, but others, just the problems. Say, pharmacy, which is fine, as long as you don't try to be an expert at everything else, and look foolish when the other person really does know of what he speaks.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimmProve it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Yung
Truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill YungWe attribute too much meaning to the things we do. We aren't so different from the other animals. Different animals hunt in different ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
And you may keep right on talking, as well. Freedom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keystone
Thank you...I feel a 100 x’s better now that I have your permissionQuote:
Originally Posted by Bill YungAnd you may keep right on talking, as well. Freedom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keystone
Mickey, like I said you started it, you opened the door and I just walked in.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
I asked you to prove your claim that there is a heaven: *crickets*
You tell me, an atheist, to "go to hell:" what did you expect me to do, blithely sit back and take that kind of shit from you?
I don't think so.
Enjoy twitter ("Machete don't tweet"): too bad you're too faithless to stick around and mount a defense for your false god and to prove your claim.
In my teens and early 20s I was a fundamentalist Christian.
In my late 20s and early 30s I was an edgelord fedora-tier atheist.
Now that I'm a little further removed, I'm still an atheist but I understand that, despite the fact that it isn't true, it is evolutionary advantageous for a tribe to believe in it as a whole, that tribes with strong religious beliefs outcompete those who are more rational, and understand the wisdom of the proverb "the simple believe the gods to be true, the wise to be false, and the rulers to be useful".
Why is that?
We should all embrace "science" and objectivity, not superstition.
I guess we haven't been out of the caves long enough to make the necessary cultural intellectual leap.
I didn't start anythung you rat bastard bitch. Fuck off and die, cunt.Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterVMickey, like I said you started it, you opened the door and I just walked in.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm
I asked you to prove your claim that there is a heaven: *crickets*
You tell me, an atheist, to "go to hell:" what did you expect me to do, blithely sit back and take that kind of shit from you?
I don't think so.
Enjoy twitter ("Machete don't tweet"): too bad you're too faithless to stick around and mount a defense for your false god and to prove your claim.