Orthodontics is rarely portrayed as the painful, inconvenient, expensive, and also being fodder for high school razzing that it is.

(May 7, 2017 at 4:36 am)hopey Wrote: Well I want to offer some thing. I believe God wants to be involved in each of your lives, no matter how strongly you feel he is not there,

I don't feel strongly anything in regard to the apparition you call god. Depending on what this 'god' you speak of may be perhaps it does exist. But most descriptions I've heard have been pretty looney tunes.

(May 7, 2017 at 4:36 am)hopey Wrote: ..wrong,

W/out thinking it exists, I can't think it is wrong.

(May 7, 2017 at 4:36 am)hopey Wrote: ..ignorant of you etc.

W/out thinking it exists, I can't think it is ignorant of me.

(May 7, 2017 at 4:36 am)hopey Wrote: I have made some claims in some other posts that God has answered prayers that have been prayed. I want to reach out to you in some form of blessing. To pray that God would show his great love for you.

I don't trade in 'blessings' but feel free to send money.

(May 7, 2017 at 4:36 am)hopey Wrote: If you have any need in your life I ask you would you be willing to lift it up to God, to just see what he is willing to do for you.

You're asking me to partake in a charade with you. No thank you.


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(May 7, 2017 at 4:36 am)hopey Wrote: So just to get the discussion going is there anything that you think God would be please of in your life?

How in the hell should I know what would please your secret friend. More to the point, why should I care?

Ah, the compelling argument from dental work. Is that one of St. Augustine's?

(May 7, 2017 at 4:36 am)hopey Wrote: Hi all,

When I went to high school I had buck teeth, and every one called me rabbit. Fortunately I had dental work done that fixed my teeth. But it was rather hurtful to have people pick out our faults. To me the devil is out to destroy lives, to constantly cause harm, whether it be through trying to pick our faults, and press them. Or to just ravage lives. 

I believe that God wants to heal lives, to bring rest peace and joy to people. I am also a person who believes that God will reach into any situation, to find the good in us. As a human I often look at the negatives, but God at the positives. The reason why each of us has breath is due to the fact that God still sees some good in us all.

So why the soppy story? Well I want to offer some thing. I believe God wants to be involved in each of your lives, no matter how strongly you feel he is not there, wrong, ignorant of you etc.

I have made some claims in some other posts that God has answered prayers that have been prayed. I want to reach out to you in some form of blessing. To pray that God would show his great love for you.

If you have any need in your life I ask you would you be willing to lift it up to God, to just see what he is willing to do for you. 

So just to get the discussion going is there anything that you think God would be please of in your life?

You have got to be fucking kidding me. Do you have any idea just how many times the average atheist hears this bullshit? How many time we have to respectfully decline to listen to yet one more crock-o-shit fairy tale? If all you're going to do here, hopey, is preach, kindly go pound some sand.

(May 7, 2017 at 2:29 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Orthodontics is rarely portrayed as the painful, inconvenient, expensive, and also being fodder for high school razzing that it is.

Seriously, till reading that had any one here ever heard any criticism of orthodontia??

(May 7, 2017 at 6:18 am)hopey Wrote: I actually have plenty of personal evidence, evidences that God has shown me.

No, you fucking don't. If you had evidence you could show it to us. Demonstrate it. What you have is a lot of confirmation bias and wish fulfillment.

(May 7, 2017 at 6:18 am)hopey Wrote: I know, not just believe. I believe if you are open God can show you Himself too.

Not sure I want some psychotic, mass-murdering bastard showing himself to me. Then I'd have to call the authorities, fill out paperwork, probably appear in court if the sick fuck doesn't cop a plea... Yeah, no thanks.

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(May 7, 2017 at 6:33 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: I believe life is a test, earth is fighting ground between humans and Devils.

You faithers sure do believe some goofy shit!

(May 7, 2017 at 3:13 pm)Alex K Wrote: Ah, the compelling argument from dental work. Is that one of St. Augustine's?

Argumentum ad orthodontia. The latest convincing argument from the jawbone of an ass.

"You can't handle the tooth!"











I'll stop now.

From Paul's Epistle to the Dentarians:

'And the Lord shall come among ye, and Lo! He shall heal thy busted grill, for His is the power and the glory and the orthodontic appliances for ever and ever, amen.'


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(May 7, 2017 at 6:48 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

Quote:I believe life is a test, earth is fighting ground between humans and Devils.

And I believe that Margot Robbie's loins burn for me. This indicates the common disconnect between belief and reality.

Personal freedom is a blessing

Quote:All religions have an equal claim to authenticity. The Abrahamic religions are no more or less likely to be true than is the Serious Hat Sect Of Baconburg.

It's up to us to refute and validate, and up to God to guide and light the path

Quote:Men like Moses and Muhammed, you mean?

I can't see their faces because they are dead, but I can see the faces of politicians quite well.

Quote:I would be delighted (and not more than a little surprised) to see you produce '...a good authentic, scientific, logical claim;' to beat Satan. Before you start, though, I recommend you look up what those words mean.

"Enough" depends on the person; what is clear and enough for me might not be clear and enough for you.
Heck; the universe gives the best evidence to me. I just can't imagine planets creating synchronized orbits and cases with exceptions -assuming supernovas and black holes as the exceptions-. The exceptions are just so little; to the degree of them being considered to be "special cases" and not a norm.
At least during the short instance that we spend alive on the face of earth. 
That's a system. I can't ignore what Einstein or Newton had said about the system. And so; I don't believe systems come out of the blue.
Argument from design seems convenient for me; but the convenience does differ from a person to another; depending on the knowledge with the law.

Quote:This is what is known as 'self-delusion.' Innit funny how when people 'call for God', God always ends up instructing them to do what they were going to do all along? 

That's a problem with people; in many times they ask for the wrong things, not just from God but from other people as well.
You can't ask a cat to lay eggs, while my example is considered "common sense", it's considered "logic" when dealing with God.
I blame the Church, the Islamic clerics, and the sinners.
The Gentleman Bastard

Quote:You faithers sure do believe some goofy shit!

Actually, yes.

Christian testimonials are soooooo boring! Every once in a while there is one sinner who says something amazing like "I was once a mortician who stole bodies from the funeral home and had tea parties with them in my underground meadery where Odin appeared to me every Wednesday. One day a coworker asked me if I knew Jesus and .....blah, blah, blah!....".  That is when I am like.." Wait, wait .. Let's get back to the tea parties! That is fascinating..."

Usually the testimonials are mundane life occurrences such as "I used to a Catholic (Pothead, Gambler, Shopkeep who put his thumb on the scale, etc, etc). Not very impressive and nothing that requires the supernatural to overcome.  I was once a Catholic myself. To the OP:  Having overcome buckteeth with orthodontics and high school teasing is way down on the "Wow!" scale.