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RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:32 pm
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The sky is blue regardless of what one perceives it to be. This is because the color blue is just a human word for a wavelength of light that exists independent of the human eye. I'm not close, I'm dead on.
Yet another reason for separating what we believe from what we know. One can imagine two groups of people stabbing each other over such a disagreement.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:35 pm
When the world seems to be ruled by stupidity i can always count on rhythm to make sense.
If I die and god is real, im so screwed.
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RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:35 pm
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"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
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RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:37 pm
(August 26, 2011 at 2:24 pm)Rhythm Wrote: (August 26, 2011 at 2:16 pm)salty Wrote: I see no problem with loving something "imaginary" especially if the pretend force is molding me into a more patient person, a person who seeks to know more about others, help them if possible and seeks to dedicate time and energy to building others up. What's wrong with that kind of lifestyle? Why are you showing so much anger for my "ignorant" thoughts? Have I ever been angry at your opposing ways?
That's all well and good. The very same also molds folks into the kind of people that fly planes into buildings. Or burn people alive. Or exterminate entire races of "savages". The problem with imaginary underpinnings of reality is that they are so malleable as to lead to just about anything. While you may feel compelled to do good by your faith, many do not, or redefine what is good. Your god and my atheism may both lead to wonderful things, the caveat is that atheism can never command me to genocide.
I see what you're saying. Just keep in mind, people choose for themselves how and in what ways they react to a message. Any message.
I command you to tie my shoes!
Are you going to do it Rhythm? I don't see why you would, you know I'm capable of doing it myself. You don't know where I am, if I'm even in the States or overseas. I'm not your parent, I'm not in need...you make your own choices and so did they.
"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him." Hebrews 11:6
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RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:38 pm
wow. The forums have been difficult all day on this computer, so I've only seen bits and pieces of this thread and now I'm afraid to go back and read it all.
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RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:41 pm
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(August 26, 2011 at 2:38 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: wow. The forums have been difficult all day on this computer, so I've only seen bits and pieces of this thread and now I'm afraid to go back and read it all.
Just read my answer right above yours and Salty's answer to Rhythm's then. It's the best one. 
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RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:42 pm
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(August 26, 2011 at 2:37 pm)salty Wrote: I see what you're saying. Just keep in mind, people choose for themselves how and in what ways they react to a message. Any message.
Perhaps gods should be more explicit in their commands. Perhaps they should flesh out their authority with actual knowledge instead of superstition.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:46 pm
(August 26, 2011 at 2:41 pm)Anymouse Wrote: (August 26, 2011 at 2:38 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: wow. The forums have been difficult all day on this computer, so I've only seen bits and pieces of this thread and now I'm afraid to go back and read it all.
Just read my answer right above yours then. It's the best one.
My oft-proclaimed good opinion of certain people of a pagan bent notwithstanding, excuse me if I remain skeptical as to whose answers are "best". 
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RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Whodat, whodere?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: What are your answers?
August 26, 2011 at 2:47 pm
howzit?
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