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Poll: What do you think of this story in the Book of Job?
This poll is closed.
It's a completely literal story that should inspire Christians to do right.
6.67%
2 6.67%
Yahweh is way to concerned about how much people love him.
16.67%
5 16.67%
It's completely the Devil's fault.
3.33%
1 3.33%
God works in mysterious ways.
3.33%
1 3.33%
Both god and the devil are a couple of wicked wicked horrible, self-absorbed characters in a fictional story.
63.33%
19 63.33%
I'm proud to be a sheep. This is a great story.
6.67%
2 6.67%
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Yahweh, the Devil, and Job
RE: Yahweh, the Devil, and Job
Nobody persecutes me.
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RE: Yahweh, the Devil, and Job
(November 13, 2013 at 1:02 am)missluckie26 Wrote:
(November 13, 2013 at 12:15 am)Cinjin Wrote: Please. The man is not here to address anything. He's here to perfect a cyclical march through conversations. Sad


What if..... he's actually here trying to address stuff? Tongue

Well, his way of "addressing" something is to deny either what he said or what he meant and then repeat himself for the rest of the thread. He has also openly admitted to getting banned from other discussion boards for this. As for having theists around to debate with - we have plenty of sheep around to talk to. Undecided


(November 13, 2013 at 6:25 am)Lion IRC Wrote: Attempting to rationalize your loss of self-control??? (Irony much?)

Let loose an angry emotional response at John V (rather than an intellectual response) and there's an upside???

Yes clearly. Feel free to teach me a lesson and join him. Three days from now, no one will give a shit if John V is posting his drivel on this site. Members come and go and in the end, no one really cares if you or I disappear.


Quote:If I were an independent, free-thought community skeptic/atheist, I would hate like hell to have someone appointing themself
as spokesperson on my behalf - especially if they lacked the ability to have a civil conversation using reason and logic
instead of invective and abusive Ad Homs.

Oh please. I never told him to leave. He felt defeated and left. If John V thought that I was one asshole out of 1000 there is NO WAY I could have gotten him to jump ship like that. He would've laughed at me and said, "whatever loser," but instead he figured out that he had pushed one too many buttons around here. He even admitted to getting banned off other discussion forums for the same offense. He wore out his own welcome - I didn't wear it out for him. You don't like me for my remarks, that's fine. I don't like a lot of your posts either. Does that mean that if you're an obtuse, arrogant, pseudo-intellectual that I'm not allowed to pop when you finally go too far? Your answer doesn't matter. I gave John V both barrels. Maybe I shouldn't have, but I sure don't regret telling him to finally shut the fuck up ... and that sir, is my only real offense here.
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RE: Yahweh, the Devil, and Job
(November 13, 2013 at 6:25 am)Lion IRC Wrote: The really surprising thing I see a LOT at atheist fora is the;
...we all think this... we all agree that... everyone here says... we can all bid a troll....
I think it's what you'll see on most internet forums because humans are social creatures and have a desire to belong. I just shrug my shoulders at it; if someone needs to know what I think of one issue or another, they can always ask.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Yahweh, the Devil, and Job
(November 13, 2013 at 10:04 am)Tonus Wrote:
(November 13, 2013 at 6:25 am)Lion IRC Wrote: The really surprising thing I see a LOT at atheist fora is the;
...we all think this... we all agree that... everyone here says... we can all bid a troll....
I think it's what you'll see on most internet forums because humans are social creatures and have a desire to belong. I just shrug my shoulders at it; if someone needs to know what I think of one issue or another, they can always ask.

The point is that Lion is attempting to hold me on trial for saying the words, "we all are." When in reality he knows good and well that I just used them as a turn of phrase. When a large majority of people hold to an understood notion, the turn of phrase is "we all" even though its not actually anywhere near the 1000+ members that subscribe to these forums. I shut down a religious troll that didn't offer anything and he wants to play it off like I just executed jesus.
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RE: Yahweh, the Devil, and Job
(November 13, 2013 at 10:13 am)Cinjin Wrote: ...The point is that Lion is attempting to hold me on trial for saying the words, "we all are." When in reality he knows good and well...

Oh you wanna double-down?
Now you're directly telling everyone what Lion IRC really thinks as well.
You do not speak for me and I don't want you 'splaining to everyone what everyone thinks "in reality"
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RE: Yahweh, the Devil, and Job
Care to elaborate?
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RE: Yahweh, the Devil, and Job
There is a mean joke in there, about how Lion would actually need to think at all, before one could tell us what he's really thinking.

Not that I'd stoop to indulge such low hanging fruits, of course. Dodgy
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee

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RE: Yahweh, the Devil, and Job
Lion thinks? The fuck did I miss?
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(September 17, 2015 at 4:04 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I make change in the coin tendered. If you want courteous treatment, behave courteously. Preaching at me and calling me immoral is not courteous behavior.
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RE: Yahweh, the Devil, and Job
* Lion IRC peeks in on the thread to see if it's back on topic yet.
Nup!

Carry on slagging and sledging people behind their backs.
Go Team Atheism!
Victory is almost in sight for the torch-bearers of enlightenment and reason. Clap
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RE: Yahweh, the Devil, and Job
(November 14, 2013 at 6:53 am)Lion IRC Wrote: * Lion IRC peeks in on the thread to see if it's back on topic yet.
Nup!

Carry on slagging and sledging people behind their backs.
Go Team Atheism!
Victory is almost in sight for the torch-bearers of enlightenment and reason. Clap

Think of it as Team Anti-Dickhead, and you'd have it right.

The way to stop being ired at is to stop provoking our ire by saying stupid things, Lion. I would have thought a lifetime of being a human being would have clued you in on that little fact.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee

Want to see more of my writing? Check out my (safe for work!) site, Unprotected Sects!
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