They are commanded to spread the word of god like herpes.

(July 5, 2015 at 12:27 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: Sentencing. Really, as if any of you have any power over another man. If a real judge has no bearing on me, then what makes you think you have any power. I have tried to make peace. Your accusations are unfounded. Do your worst. Everyone here knows that  I am just here expressing my views. If you feel so threatened by freedom of speech then by all means have me banned. I welcome it. These arguments evidently aren't helping anyone anyway. Best of luck in all that we try. May world peace and unity come to the patient.

No this is just humor at your expense.  When people say exasperatingly stupid things which strike me as pompous I tend to become insulting.  So far as I know there is no reason for you to be banned, and I'll defend your right to be as pfoolish as you wanna be.  I hope you will also defend my right to express myself.

(July 5, 2015 at 12:37 pm)whateverist Wrote:

(July 5, 2015 at 12:27 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: Sentencing. Really, as if any of you have any power over another man. If a real judge has no bearing on me, then what makes you think you have any power. I have tried to make peace. Your accusations are unfounded. Do your worst. Everyone here knows that  I am just here expressing my views. If you feel so threatened by freedom of speech then by all means have me banned. I welcome it. These arguments evidently aren't helping anyone anyway. Best of luck in all that we try. May world peace and unity come to the patient.

No this is just humor at your expense.  When people say exasperatingly stupid things which strike me as pompous I tend to become insulting.  So far as I know there is no reason for you to be banned, and I'll defend your right to be as pfoolish as you wanna be.  I hope you will also defend my right to express myself.

Indeed

(July 5, 2015 at 12:27 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: Sentencing. Really, as if any of you have any power over another man. If a real judge has no bearing on me, then what makes you think you have any power. I have tried to make peace. Your accusations are unfounded. Do your worst. Everyone here knows that  I am just here expressing my views. If you feel so threatened by freedom of speech then by all means have me banned. I welcome it. These arguments evidently aren't helping anyone anyway. Best of luck in all that we try. May world peace and unity come to the patient.

I am not threatened by freedom of speech. What I won't put up with, however, is when someone continually makes baseless and unfounded accusations towards me, which after repeated requests to provide such proof of anything that I have said specifically against another in the form of threats, is ignored.

If it was benificial to either of us I would slowly go through and find what I am referencing. However I would simply prefer to let it go. It would be cool if you did the same. Honestly doesn't look like you will though, for whatever reason. Why drag one another through the mud when we can benifet from one another? I'm not talking specifically about the two of us, but in general.

Ahh and there's the excuse... once again.. you don't want to have to back up what you say. You seem to do that a lot. I've noticed that. But hey, I'm not the one who brought it back up, but in typical narcissistic fashion, you somehow have managed to blameshift that onto me. Funny. Because the proof that you brought it back up is a few posts up. Nice try though. You amuse me.

(July 5, 2015 at 1:36 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: If it was benificial to either of us I would slowly go through and find what I am referencing. However I would simply prefer to let it go. It would be cool if you did the same. Honestly doesn't look like you will though, for whatever reason. Why drag one another through the mud when we can benifet from one another? I'm not talking specifically about the two of us, but in general.

It would be beneficial to you because it would strengthen your argument. You want to come on here and make claims, then try to act like it's too much work to actually use valid information to formulate arguments to defend what you say. If you feel like you're getting dragged through the mud, that's happening because people are becoming exasperated with your sensationalist, childish, emotion-charged, jargon-laced non-arguments that you flounder around with when asked to back yourself up with sources. You're like the Deepak Chopra of wishy-washy, half-informed bullshit.

there is no proof that stands up to inquiry. So why then does the idea of religion persist? The answer is fear and to a lesser extent lazyness.
We are blessed(cursed) with sentience. We can live life like other beasts (eating,drinking,mating) for only so long before everyone that lives long enough asks...why? Why are we here? How did all this come about? What happens after death. All of this is conveniently explained by religion and so comfort is attained.
All of this would be well enough but someone somewhere got the idea that they could use this fear to control people's lives. It worked for most but not all.
Carry on atheist. Know that you are the bravest of us all.

(July 6, 2015 at 9:35 am)loganonekenobi Wrote: there is no proof that stands up to inquiry. So why then does the idea of religion persist? The answer is fear and to a lesser extent lazyness.
We are blessed(cursed) with sentience. We can live life like other beasts (eating,drinking,mating) for only so long before everyone that lives long enough asks...why? Why are we here? How did all this come about? What happens after death. All of this is conveniently explained by religion and so comfort is attained.
All of this would be well enough but someone somewhere got the idea that they could use this fear to control people's lives. It worked for most but not all.
Carry on atheist. Know that you are the bravest of us all.

Where is laziness in proclaiming good acts and knowledge of Universal good?
Where is gravity in numbers. I stand alone and with all at once. My efforts are the opposite of lazy in that I am physically drained afterwards. Indeed, what I do is work for good.

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(July 6, 2015 at 9:16 am)Judi Lynn Wrote: Ahh and there's the excuse... once again.. you don't want to have to back up what you say. You seem to do that a lot. I've noticed that. But hey, I'm not the one who brought it back up, but in typical narcissistic fashion, you somehow have managed to blameshift that onto me. Funny. Because the proof that you brought it back up is a few posts up. Nice try though. You amuse me.

That makes sense. You didn't inquire to me first on this thread, and the Last? I'm not hear to offend anyone. It is a side effect.

One doesn't need religion to proclaim good acts. One doesn't need religion to DO good either. Religion, really, has nothing to do with that. If your moral compass is pointed in the right direction, religion won't matter.