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    Thread: Cannibalism
Post: RE: Cannibalism

Good grief. You're not supposed to eat the penis! There's no spiritual enlightenment in that, it merely increases your sex drive. This might sound like a benefit, but if you eat too many you'll surel...
John_S3V Humor 24 9586 May 18, 2010 at 12:32 pm
    Thread: The Long and the Short of it.
Post: RE: The Long and the Short of it.

(May 17, 2010 at 12:27 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: @John_S3V: That is all a very good description of agnostic views... and I agree that we cannot know any of those things at this juncture, or if we ev...
John_S3V Religion 153 55694 May 17, 2010 at 12:34 pm
    Thread: The Long and the Short of it.
Post: RE: The Long and the Short of it.

(May 17, 2010 at 10:58 am)Paul the Human Wrote: (May 17, 2010 at 10:24 am)John_S3V Wrote: I think it's a mystery, because the exact reasons are unique to every person. It can't be explained in a ...
John_S3V Religion 153 55694 May 17, 2010 at 12:11 pm
    Thread: The Long and the Short of it.
Post: RE: The Long and the Short of it.

I think for a lot of people it gets down to whether you want to believe in god or don't want to believe in god. If you want to believe in an eternal, blissful afterlife and eternal suffering for crim...
John_S3V Religion 153 55694 May 17, 2010 at 10:24 am
    Thread: Badass Bible Verses
Post: RE: Badass Bible Verses

"Looks like someone bit of more then he could Jew". I started to cry with tears of laughter.
John_S3V Christianity 2 4036 May 17, 2010 at 9:36 am
    Thread: No life after death
Post: RE: No life after death

(May 16, 2010 at 5:28 pm)Caecilian Wrote: (May 16, 2010 at 1:23 pm)John_S3V Wrote: One must keep in mind that the reasons for suicide might be impossible to understand from an observer's perspect...
John_S3V Atheism 59 18607 May 17, 2010 at 9:33 am
    Thread: Determinism vs Free Will
Post: RE: Determinism vs Free Will

(May 17, 2010 at 9:16 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Free will may or may not exist with or without determinism. If the universe is indeterministic then how does that give you any more freedom than if i...
John_S3V Philosophy 36 20356 May 17, 2010 at 9:26 am
    Thread: Great bible teachings!
Post: RE: Great bible teachings!

Quote:Firstly, I'm only commenting on your patronizing tone because I initially thought it was towards me. Since you also assume to speak for people, this should probably be what you should change th...
John_S3V Christianity 43 14007 May 17, 2010 at 9:18 am
    Thread: No life after death
Post: RE: No life after death

One must keep in mind that the reasons for suicide might be impossible to understand from an observer's perspective, because sometimes it has to do with damage or improper functioning of the brain. L...
John_S3V Atheism 59 18607 May 16, 2010 at 1:23 pm
    Thread: Great bible teachings!
Post: RE: Great bible teachings!

Quote:As soon as you start saying that the bible may be wrong about some things you have to admit that based on the lack of evidence to support pretty well anything in the bible that it could very we...
John_S3V Christianity 43 14007 May 16, 2010 at 1:02 pm
    Thread: The Long and the Short of it.
Post: RE: The Long and the Short of it.

This might seem like a shallow reply, but I don't believe because I find the bible to be stupid. Even as a kid I thought it was stupid, (even though my parents were christians). When I was 5 yrs old ...
John_S3V Religion 153 55694 May 16, 2010 at 12:09 pm
    Thread: No life after death
Post: RE: No life after death

I don't exactly find eternity as a human on Earth to be a particularily pleasent concept. That's why I don't care much for the premise of having multiple lives. Now, if death took me to a place lik...
John_S3V Atheism 59 18607 May 14, 2010 at 2:32 pm
    Thread: Great bible teachings!
Post: RE: Great bible teachings!

(May 14, 2010 at 12:21 pm)tackattack Wrote: John, no we can't prove that. In fact you could burn every holy book ever made and every written account of any God and it wouldn't make a bit of differe...
John_S3V Christianity 43 14007 May 14, 2010 at 2:14 pm
    Thread: Determinism vs Free Will
Post: RE: Determinism vs Free Will

I've figured out what the first cause was! There was nothingness. Absolute non-existence. But non-existence couldn't sustain itself, because non-existence can't really exist, because it's nothing and...
John_S3V Philosophy 36 20356 May 14, 2010 at 11:54 am
    Thread: Dear Christians
Post: RE: Dear Christians

You guys don't get it. He hasn't read the second commandment so he can plead ignorance. He'll just tell god that he thought you guys were pulling his leg about what you said the 2nd commandment was a...
John_S3V Christianity 40 14533 May 14, 2010 at 11:45 am
    Thread: Creation of the World
Post: RE: Creation of the World

god actually seemed pretty fond of the whole idea of a single family populating the Earth. He thought that it was such a good idea that he drowned the entire planet and did it all over again. That me...
John_S3V Humor 30 8968 May 14, 2010 at 11:43 am
    Thread: Great bible teachings!
Post: RE: Great bible teachings!

(May 14, 2010 at 9:39 am)Watson Wrote: (May 14, 2010 at 8:21 am)John_S3V Wrote: However, the bible was not written by the men of the time. IT was written by prophets who were listening to god.Pro...
John_S3V Christianity 43 14007 May 14, 2010 at 11:36 am
    Thread: Cannibalism
Post: RE: Cannibalism

I've decided to become and unorthodox vegan. I just can't stand the suffering of the innocent animals anymore. At least humans put up a fight. In the cases where I take down a human before he knows w...
John_S3V Humor 24 9586 May 14, 2010 at 8:28 am
    Thread: Great bible teachings!
Post: RE: Great bible teachings!

The bible is a holy, sacred book used for attaining wisdom and finding moral ground work. Right? Point one: Just how consistent is god's moral groundwork if it changes throughout the times as cultur...
John_S3V Christianity 43 14007 May 14, 2010 at 8:21 am
    Thread: Great bible teachings!
Post: RE: Great bible teachings!

Come to think of it. Here's what pisses me off about the whole, 'We must ponder the bible,' stuff. If I had kept the post named, 'Great bible teachings' and what not and had filled it full of stuff...
John_S3V Christianity 43 14007 May 13, 2010 at 12:40 pm