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Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
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#101
RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 24, 2018 at 8:43 pm
So, which Dark Lord are we praying to on behalf of our theists?

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#102
RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 24, 2018 at 8:45 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 8:43 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: So, which Dark Lord are we praying to on behalf of our theists?

I've always had a thing for Sauron. Naughty
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 12:01 am
(May 24, 2018 at 8:43 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: So, which Dark Lord are we praying to on behalf of our theists?

Me.
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 2:28 am (This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 2:31 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
So let's look at how Huggy argues here. If he can't answer the question then he deliberately derails the conversation by coming up with something irrelevant to argue about so the original point is lost. That is undeniably intellectually dishonest and disingenuous.

Recent examples:
  • He says that there are no degrees to morality there is simply right or wrong. I respond with many different contentious issues that people disagree on and he starts changing the subject to discuss each one in depth ignoring the point I made that people do not disagree.
  • He says that animals cannot reason so cannot be moral. I give an example of animals reasoning and he derails the conversation by drawing an arbitrary distinction between problem solving and reasoning. Then to cap it all starts talking about a Go playing computer program.
  • In response The Industrial Atheist's example of vampire bats being altruistic by regurgitating blood he avoids acknowledging the point being made by saying that the author is religious.
  • On being told by me that he cannot get his head around the scientific method so how can we expect to explain AI to him, he quotes an old post of his about a 600 foot rudder to make it look like I was previously wrong on an entirely different thread without mentioning the very next post in that thread where I refuted his example.

This is so utterly typical of how you try to debate Huggy. If someone counters what you say, you ignore what was said and derail the conversation to avoid what was said. Not to mention that this entire debate was a derailing of the original thread where I am suggesting praying to Satan for the christians on here. I think you are in dire need of guidance from the god of critical thinking.

You are intellectually dishonest and only concerned about appearing to win. It is lying for Jesus.
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#105
RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 9:15 am
(May 25, 2018 at 12:01 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(May 24, 2018 at 8:43 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: So, which Dark Lord are we praying to on behalf of our theists?

Me.

Initiative -and- ambition.  Good qualities in a Dark Lord.
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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#106
RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 9:28 am
Well we can't pray to Lord Voldemort or Sauron because we know the authors of books in which they appear.

If praying works because of the placebo effect then it might not work as well if the recipients know that it's a placebo. Not that this completely nullifies the placebo effect but why reduce its efficacy unnecessarily?

We could pray to Grendel's mother. No one knows who wrote Beowulf. But on the other hand, the book doesn't claim to be anything other than a story. What we need is the literary equivalent of "The following events are based on a true story ..."
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 9:39 am
(May 25, 2018 at 9:15 am)Khemikal Wrote:
(May 25, 2018 at 12:01 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: Me.

Initiative -and- ambition.  Good qualities in a Dark Lord.

I have psychopathic malevolence and sneering manners too.
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#108
RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 9:41 am
(May 25, 2018 at 9:39 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(May 25, 2018 at 9:15 am)Khemikal Wrote: Initiative -and- ambition.  Good qualities in a Dark Lord.

I have psychopathic malevolence and sneering manners too.

Do you have any characteristic hand movements you like to do, like tapping your fingers together or stroking a cat?
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#109
RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 10:44 am
(May 24, 2018 at 8:43 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: So, which Dark Lord are we praying to on behalf of our theists?

Pokemon!! Because it seems Pokemon scares them the most.



teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Group prayer on Skype on behalf of our Christian members
May 25, 2018 at 11:29 am
(May 25, 2018 at 9:41 am)Mathilda Wrote:
(May 25, 2018 at 9:39 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: I have psychopathic malevolence and sneering manners too.

Do you have any characteristic hand movements you like to do, like tapping your fingers together or stroking a cat?

I am allergic to cats, so they’ve been fed to the piranhas .
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