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RE: I don't know how much more of this I can take
August 31, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Binny,
I feel for you; it must be hard to have such a need and only find the help you need from a group that has decided that proselytizing is what their e-mail list is for. They DO mean well though, so at least you should re-frame your perception that way.
I fully acknowledge that much of what they send your way is crashingly stupid.
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RE: I don't know how much more of this I can take
August 31, 2009 at 6:41 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2009 at 6:42 pm by Godlesspanther.)
(August 31, 2009 at 1:51 pm)binny Wrote: Fuck me, it just keeps coming. This is a video my nephew posted on his facebook page with the caption 'Here is the truth if you wish to know it'.
I can't believe I wasted 5 and a half minutes of my life watching this crap. My own family has gone mad.
Of course I posted a comment of what I thought and his reaction was to invite me to bible study at his brothers house tonight. AHHHHHHHHH!
Fuck me too -- I did the same. Then looked at the comments. Illiterate ignorant Jesus freaks going on about what an awesome story it is and how it really gets them "thinking." Where's my fucking barf bag?
This one has been on Snopes for years. It predates the internet with plenty of room to spare. Snopes cites a reader hearing in back in '68 and and a book reference from '77.
Your nephew claims it happened "a few years ago." It's obvious that it never happened. I love the portrayal of the atheist professor demanding that any believer "stand up." Such professors could only exist in in a paranoid fundie fantasy.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste -- don't pollute it with bullshit.
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RE: I don't know how much more of this I can take
August 31, 2009 at 8:17 pm
binny, that vid, just as godlesspanther stated, has been around for a long time. Along with it has already been shown to be nothing more than total made up bullshit...
It was just as bad as your spam email you received.
Intelligence is the only true moral guide...
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RE: I don't know how much more of this I can take
September 2, 2009 at 2:46 pm
(September 1, 2009 at 2:59 pm)Tiberius Wrote: (August 31, 2009 at 6:41 pm)Godlesspanther Wrote: Fuck me too -- I did the same. Then looked at the comments. Illiterate ignorant Jesus freaks going on about what an awesome story it is and how it really gets them "thinking." Where's my fucking barf bag?
This one has been on Snopes for years. It predates the internet with plenty of room to spare. Snopes cites a reader hearing in back in '68 and and a book reference from '77.
Your nephew claims it happened "a few years ago." It's obvious that it never happened. I love the portrayal of the atheist professor demanding that any believer "stand up." Such professors could only exist in in a paranoid fundie fantasy.
Plus, the argument that God doesn't exist because he doesn't stop pieces of chalk from breaking only tells us that God (if he exists) really doesn't care about some atheist professor trying to disprove him.
That, and one occurrence of chalk not breaking does nothing to prove anything. Science is meant to be repeatable, so the professor should have just picked up the chalk and dropped it again and again. 
And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Chalk not breaking after being dropped for whatever observable reason is no miracle. If I were god the chalk would shatter as usual and then a strange glow would appear around the bits of broken chalk as they move back together into their original unbroken form. The chalk would then float into the air and hover before the class. A being whose power is greater than the laws of nature as we know them to be must prove that. Believers have such low standards when it comes to demonstrations of omnipotence. Being god must be a really easy job. What does it pay? --- Oh, I think I know the answer to that. A monthly check from the government plus whatever change one can panhandle downtown.
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RE: I don't know how much more of this I can take
September 2, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Oh god, I got the chalk breaking video from one of my friends! She really is a sweet girl, but shes a fundie. I talk to her about everything except religion, lol. It's a shame though because she really wants to do good things in the world, I just wish she could do it without preaching christianity. Anyways- there were a few reasons why I thought the video was Bullshit. A) I dont believe that for 20 years or whatever it was that nobody stood up to the professor. B) I dont believe a professor could talk to his students like that without ever getting reprimanded... obviously he could state his beliefs but not in the manner thats portrayed in the video. and then obviously c) the fact that the chalk didnt break means nothing. Statistics. chance. thats it.
Cher
"I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate" -Jeff Buckley
