Wonder what he'd say to the fact that thousands of other competing figures are throwing the same party at their own houses but you can only go to one and you have to stay there for eternity, and if you pick the wrong one, something really bad happens to you, even if it's only an honest mistake on your part and none of these figures did fuck-all to genuinely convince you they were the right one. The best answer is, fuck all of 'em, not just because they're implausible in the highest degree, but also unethical in the highest degree. And fuck their dumb-ass party guests.

(July 21, 2017 at 5:38 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:

(July 21, 2017 at 4:03 pm)Dropship Wrote: It'd be torture standing outside in the cold looking through the window at the fun going on inside!
No sweat, it's easy for us to join the party, Jesus said "Knock and the door will be opened"..
PS- I like your "cloaking/decloaking" routine, other ships do it too-
"God goes by me but I see him not" (Job 9:10)
"..praise to the Lord, to him who rides the ancient skies above.." (Psalm 68:33-34)
"God rides upon a swift cloud" (Isaiah 19:1)

*decloak*

I'll keep the door closed, thanks.  I have no need for your Jesus, nor any god for that matter.  And, again, I hate parties.

*recloaking*

Forget the cloaking, Kevin.  Get your shields up.  Those are scriptures he's tossed your way.

(July 21, 2017 at 10:42 pm)Whateverist Wrote:

(July 21, 2017 at 5:38 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: *decloak*

I'll keep the door closed, thanks.  I have no need for your Jesus, nor any god for that matter.  And, again, I hate parties.

*recloaking*

Forget the cloaking, Kevin.  Get your shields up.  Those are scriptures he's tossed your way.

No need for shields, just something to scrape off the bottom of our shoes.

(July 21, 2017 at 10:42 pm)Whateverist Wrote:

(July 21, 2017 at 5:38 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: *decloak*

I'll keep the door closed, thanks.  I have no need for your Jesus, nor any god for that matter.  And, again, I hate parties.

*recloaking*

Forget the cloaking, Kevin.  Get your shields up.  Those are scriptures he's tossed your way.

Quoted scripture can simply bounce off the hull. Shields aren't necessary.

Real talk: I'm always baffled by theists quoting their holy books at us. Do they actually think it's compelling?

We don't believe in your god. Throwing out quotes mined from your particular instruction manual doesn't lend credibility or veracity to the content within. It doesn't bolster your argument, and it sure as hell doesn't buoy an inherently flawed analogy.

But, hey, since we're throwing out quotes, here's some word salad to get your motor running:

"Transglobal spectacle with postmortem fame,
Popsicle cannibal,
Can you hear me?
Rainbow dementia smiles,
Everyone smiles,
The small realities,
A pixie play land...." Orgy, "Where's Gerrold?"

Whenever scripture is quoted at me, it simply registers as gibberish much like the quote above. At least the song has a pretty cool guitar riff, which is more than Jesus can claim.

(July 21, 2017 at 10:04 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Speaking of Jesus and nuts . . .

wondering how His worked.  Like a normal sperm count for the era?  100% motile?

Did they have any special properties like totipotency?

Nocturnal emission(s)?

Prostate trouble?

One lower than the other?

In order for us to find that out he'd have to cum again.

Am I Jesus? I like nuts..

(July 22, 2017 at 1:26 am)KevinM1 Wrote:

(July 21, 2017 at 10:42 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Forget the cloaking, Kevin.  Get your shields up.  Those are scriptures he's tossed your way.

Quoted scripture can simply bounce off the hull.  Shields aren't necessary.

Real talk: I'm always baffled by theists quoting their holy books at us.  Do they actually think it's compelling?

We don't believe in your god.  Throwing out quotes mined from your particular instruction manual doesn't lend credibility or veracity to the content within.  It doesn't bolster your argument, and it sure as hell doesn't buoy an inherently flawed analogy.

But, hey, since we're throwing out quotes, here's some word salad to get your motor running:

"Transglobal spectacle with postmortem fame,
Popsicle cannibal,
Can you hear me?
Rainbow dementia smiles,
Everyone smiles,
The small realities,
A pixie play land...." Orgy, "Where's Gerrold?"

Whenever scripture is quoted at me, it simply registers as gibberish much like the quote above.  At least the song has a pretty cool guitar riff, which is more than Jesus can claim.

Well that (my bolded) would depend on how out-there this one's beliefs might be.  Many here in the states are fundies who believe the bible is the revealed word of God, like it still had a little of the burning bush in it.  For them they probably do think it is like an incantation capable of melting our hardened hearts, yada yada yada.

But yeah scripture is to conversion what a limp dick is to rape, entirely ineffectual.

(July 21, 2017 at 5:38 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:

(July 21, 2017 at 4:03 pm)Dropship Wrote: It'd be torture standing outside in the cold looking through the window at the fun going on inside!
No sweat, it's easy for us to join the party, Jesus said "Knock and the door will be opened"..
PS- I like your "cloaking/decloaking" routine, other ships do it too-
"God goes by me but I see him not" (Job 9:10)
"..praise to the Lord, to him who rides the ancient skies above.." (Psalm 68:33-34)
"God rides upon a swift cloud" (Isaiah 19:1)

*decloak*

I'll keep the door closed, thanks.  I have no need for your Jesus, nor any god for that matter.  And, again, I hate parties.

*recloaking*

I hate parties too, but remember Jesus said "In my fathers kingdom are many mansions", so if we don't want to go to the mansion that's hosting one, we can just stay home in our our own mansion watching Star Trek vids or whatever..

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(July 21, 2017 at 9:22 pm)Succubus Wrote:

(July 21, 2017 at 11:20 am)Dropship Wrote: Speaking of nuts, as a kid I overheard my dad say to my mam about me - "He's nutty! No don't laugh, I really do mean it, he wastes all his pocket money on silly plastic model aeroplanes then hangs 'em on string from his bedroom ceiling in full view of the street, I dread to think what the neighbours are saying about him. when's he going to start saving his money instead?"
I got my own back though, I filled his radio with sand from a builders yard down the road and rofl'd when he tried to tune in the Clay-Liston fight but all he got were electrical crackles and splutters. Hehe
Then the sand began pouring out in torrents like an Indiana Jones temple and he freaked, "I don't believe it!" he yelled, "its full of bleddy sand, how the hell did that get in there?" Needless to say, I innocently denied all knowledge of it..
He's been dead now 35 years but I wonder what he'd say if he knew I still buy models, I got Amelia Earharts red Lockheed Vega last year and have currently got my eye on a cool B-25 Doolittle Raider down the model shop..

Cool story bro. But then no not really, we watched it on a telly.

Lucky you, we never had a telly in our house for much of my childhood because my cheapskate parents reckoned they couldn't afford one, yet they always seemed to have enough cash to spend on cigarettes, they smoked like friggin chimneys!
PS- and anyway if i remember correctly boxing wasn't screened live on TV in those stone age days, and to get it live, people had to listen to the radio.

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(July 21, 2017 at 10:04 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Speaking of Jesus and nuts . . .

wondering how His worked.  Like a normal sperm count for the era?  100% motile?

Did they have any special properties like totipotency?

Nocturnal emission(s)?

Prostate trouble?

One lower than the other?

The film 'The Last Temptation of Christ' starring Willem Dafoe explored the possibility that Jesus came down from the cross to live a normal family life with a wife and kids, but in the end decided that being a family man wasn't his cup of tea, so he asked God to put him back on the cross.
The moral?- we holy men don't do "family"..
(I never married or had kids myself)

(July 22, 2017 at 10:56 am)Whateverist Wrote:

(July 22, 2017 at 1:26 am)KevinM1 Wrote: Quoted scripture can simply bounce off the hull.  Shields aren't necessary.

Real talk: I'm always baffled by theists quoting their holy books at us.  Do they actually think it's compelling?

We don't believe in your god.  Throwing out quotes mined from your particular instruction manual doesn't lend credibility or veracity to the content within.  It doesn't bolster your argument, and it sure as hell doesn't buoy an inherently flawed analogy.

But, hey, since we're throwing out quotes, here's some word salad to get your motor running:

"Transglobal spectacle with postmortem fame,
Popsicle cannibal,
Can you hear me?
Rainbow dementia smiles,
Everyone smiles,
The small realities,
A pixie play land...." Orgy, "Where's Gerrold?"

Whenever scripture is quoted at me, it simply registers as gibberish much like the quote above.  At least the song has a pretty cool guitar riff, which is more than Jesus can claim.

Well that (my bolded) would depend on how out-there this one's beliefs might be.  Many here in the states are fundies who believe the bible is the revealed word of God, like it still had a little of the burning bush in it.  For them they probably do think it is like an incantation capable of melting our hardened hearts, yada yada yada.

But yeah scripture is to conversion what a limp dick is to rape, entirely ineffectual.

The mistaken assumptions is, they don't realize that their indoctrination, while it may have been with similar themes, only took because they were so young and hadn't developed their defenses yet. So when they try pulling the same crap on adults, they don't realize it's not TECHNICALLY the same thing that convinced them, so they can't understand why it doesn't work on others. Those same arguments wouldn't convince them, they serve only to reinforce what's already believed. So there's literally no argument for their side that has any merit whatsoever.

(July 21, 2017 at 10:25 pm)Astonished Wrote: Wonder what he'd say to the fact that thousands of other competing figures are throwing the same party at their own houses but you can only go to one and you have to stay there for eternity, and if you pick the wrong one, something really bad happens to you, even if it's only an honest mistake on your part and none of these figures did fuck-all to genuinely convince you they were the right one. The best answer is, fuck all of 'em, not just because they're implausible in the highest degree, but also unethical in the highest degree. And fuck their dumb-ass party guests.

All the other "thousands of competing figures" are in graves, but Jesus is not, spot the difference?
And none of them could blow peoples socks off the way JC could, just like he said- "I am not of this world...even though you don't believe me, believe the miracles"
He ticked all the boxes for being an alien visitor so yeah, I kinda like him.
As for dumbass party guests, there won't be any because they won't even get an invite..
JC said- "Not all who call me "Lord,Lord" will enter the kingdom of heaven. Then I'll tell them plainly, I never knew you, get away from me" (Matt 7:21-23)