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The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)
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RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements
May 19, 2015 at 3:42 am
Apo, you know the drill, the fact that the staff members are also voicing their perspective doesn't mean we are acting as staff on you, and unless I missed a memo, "no action" has been taken regarding this. Discussion is healthy albeit heated. I'll grab my Popcorn
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RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements
May 19, 2015 at 12:21 pm
Thank you for the apology, Apo Smile

I honestly do want this to be a nice forum, and I think it is. I honestly don't want anyone to ever feel I'm trying to intimidate them or retaliate against them, so it's really tough to hear criticism that I, or other staff members might do that. I hope we can just get past this.
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RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements
May 19, 2015 at 12:25 pm
Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya... Big Grin
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements
May 19, 2015 at 12:26 pm
Yay! Happy place Smile

Let's crack open a nice cold baby and have some fun.
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RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements
May 19, 2015 at 12:28 pm
(May 19, 2015 at 1:18 am)Parkers Tan Wrote:
(May 19, 2015 at 12:34 am)Stimbo Wrote: That's what got my attention; the phrase "often they are threatened with retaliation for voicing their opinion." If not for that I wouldn't have posted at all.

And asking for support for the sentiment is fair, with multiple examples to justify the word "often".  

Well, one anyway.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements
May 19, 2015 at 4:37 pm
(May 19, 2015 at 12:21 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: I honestly don't want anyone to ever feel I'm trying to intimidate them or retaliate against them, 
But... you're supposed to hold our feet to fire.  Sad
"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: The Newly Departed thread: announcements
May 19, 2015 at 4:52 pm
"Anyone" doesn't include trolls and assholes Big Grin
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RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements
May 19, 2015 at 4:53 pm
The Bunny Haz Rizen! 

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(thought you should know) 
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements
May 19, 2015 at 4:59 pm
Yay Luckie. How are you feeling?
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RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements
May 19, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Welcome back Luckie! I hope you're OK?
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