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RE: HELL
September 2, 2015 at 5:42 pm
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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RE: HELL
September 2, 2015 at 6:22 pm
(August 31, 2015 at 8:56 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (August 31, 2015 at 8:43 pm)abaris Wrote: Don't you see how that looks for an outsider? How that points to an olympic discipline of mental acrobatics?
Not at all. It makes perfect sense to me, personally.
Of course it does, because everything is red when you wear rose colored glasses. I find this is what makes atheists such a sound position. You take the problem of evil for example. You have different people coming up with different and convoluted answers all the time and when you stack that next to the evidenced assertion that god(s) are man made constructs the apologist explanations are so childish and muddied in their thinking.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: HELL
September 2, 2015 at 6:27 pm
(September 2, 2015 at 5:42 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: ![[Image: 4hu5109.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4hu5109.gif)
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RE: HELL
September 2, 2015 at 6:28 pm
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
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Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
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RE: HELL
September 2, 2015 at 6:29 pm
(September 2, 2015 at 5:37 pm)abaris Wrote: You know, if someone was to hire henchmen to make christianity look as unattractive and backwards as possible, GC should be top on the list.
If he were less consistent in his bat-shittery, I'd call poe. As it is, he's a shining example of how not to be a christer.
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RE: HELL
September 2, 2015 at 6:34 pm
(August 31, 2015 at 8:13 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: A human construct?? Mmm, I don't think so. Perhaps as far as how we keep track of it, yes. But time is definitely something that exists. Regardless of whether we have clocks or calenders or count days, time still goes by. Everything around us gets older the longer it's been in existence, because time goes on.
We just can't fathom being "outside" of time, if you will.
To a certain extent, I can fathom being outside time. QM survives quite well without time or causality. But all this would be a topic for a different thread.
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Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
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RE: HELL
September 2, 2015 at 7:15 pm
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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RE: HELL
September 2, 2015 at 9:55 pm
(September 2, 2015 at 6:27 pm)Beccs Wrote: (September 2, 2015 at 5:42 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: ![[Image: 4hu5109.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.pic4ever.com%2Fimages%2F4hu5109.gif)
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RE: HELL
September 2, 2015 at 10:04 pm
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RE: HELL
September 3, 2015 at 9:49 am
(September 2, 2015 at 5:37 pm)abaris Wrote: You know, if someone was to hire henchmen to make christianity look as unattractive and backwards as possible, GC should be top on the list.
Radio program!
I honestly believe that a show featuring GC, Drich, and Professor would be a mighty, mighty tool for deconversion.
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