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RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 3, 2014 at 4:14 pm
(March 3, 2014 at 3:48 pm)Tonus Wrote: (March 3, 2014 at 1:31 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Turn about is fair play...
Go to the most important person in your life and tell him or her that they are a worthless piece of shit that should never have been born and you hate them and wish they were dead...then say you didn't really mean it.
Now are you scared or do you just not care about their feelings? Would this person know that I did not mean it, that I was just doing it as some kind of dopey exercise?
When you say something hurtful that you don't mean, especially as a dopey exercise, what kind of person does that make you?
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RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 3, 2014 at 4:48 pm
(March 3, 2014 at 4:14 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: When you say something hurtful that you don't mean, especially as a dopey exercise, what kind of person does that make you? That doesn't answer the question.
"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."
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RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 3, 2014 at 5:03 pm
(March 3, 2014 at 4:14 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: When you say something hurtful that you don't mean, especially as a dopey exercise, what kind of person does that make you? The extremely average kind. People do that all the time, you know.
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RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 3, 2014 at 6:51 pm
And if lots of people do it, that makes it OK.
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RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 3, 2014 at 6:53 pm
(March 3, 2014 at 6:51 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: And if lots of people do it, that makes it OK. Not always, but "saying things you don't mean" doesn't seem like a major offense to me.
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RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 3, 2014 at 7:01 pm
I'm not saying you should take it out of context. The point stands.
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RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 4, 2014 at 11:53 pm
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(February 26, 2014 at 8:07 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Type the following words, say them aloud to yourself. You don't have to mean them. And of course, you can ask your God for forgiveness if you feel dirty afterwards. But prove that you're not actually buying into the crap you believe in based on fear by uttering the simple phrases, knowing "in your heart" what you actually think. Look, I'll try it from my end.
I love the Lord with all my heart and mind. God is great.
I don't mean any of that but it was fairly easy for me to type, knowing how meaningless the words actually are. Now you try:
Jesus is a retarded piece of shit. Yahweh is the dumbest god of them all.
Can you type that? If not, is it because you're afraid?
I'd fear I'd be like those Republican politicians or like Obama.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
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RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 6, 2014 at 6:46 am
(February 27, 2014 at 4:36 am)fr0d0 Wrote: (February 27, 2014 at 4:30 am)Luckie Wrote: Fr0do are you saying you don't believe in angels and demons?
No I believe. That answer was less than sort of for me.
Repentance: I'm more random than that. I see it as humility and respect which empowers me. It isn't a fearful thing in that I'm scared in any way or that fear of a negative kind motivates me in any way.
"Fear of God" to me is respecting what's right and good and helping yourself.
Why do you need 'fear of god' to respect what's right and good, when everybody knows instinctively what is right and good.
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RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 6, 2014 at 7:11 am
(March 6, 2014 at 6:46 am)Sinbad Wrote: (February 27, 2014 at 4:36 am)fr0d0 Wrote: No I believe. That answer was less than sort of for me.
Repentance: I'm more random than that. I see it as humility and respect which empowers me. It isn't a fearful thing in that I'm scared in any way or that fear of a negative kind motivates me in any way.
"Fear of God" to me is respecting what's right and good and helping yourself.
Why do you need 'fear of god' to respect what's right and good, when everybody knows instinctively what is right and good. Insecurities, fear of the unknown, wishful thinking, etc. What else drives people to fervently embrace woo-woo?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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RE: Christians, prove your minds aren't molested by fear.
March 6, 2014 at 9:54 am
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(March 6, 2014 at 7:11 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Insecurities, fear of the unknown, wishful thinking, etc. What else drives people to fervently embrace woo-woo? Rebellion, self-conceit, licentiousness, etc. What else drives someone to adamantly reject God? ;-)
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