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RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 3:59 pm
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Unlikely. I'd be in a pretty small subset of us if I did...and I just don't see that as a credible outcome..that I'm one of the few..rather than another among many.
You think that a dozen people on a mountain have any more power to speak about who I am or what I might do than The Walking Dead would......?
You play a rudderless immoral cunt like a pro.
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RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 4:06 pm
(March 23, 2015 at 2:59 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Accountability is always present, if you believe in God.
... except for that deathbed prayer for forgiveness.
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RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 4:06 pm
Rhythm, of course (in his mind) you would be eating the dead, looting corpses, killing other survivors, etc... All of us atheists here would be, because we don't have the proper "absolute morality" handed down from an iron age book of fairy tales.
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RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 4:09 pm
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By the way, you only don't fear death in four cases:
- you're so old that you don't really care any more
- you don't actually face it
- you're a fool
- you're a fanatic or a berserk or otherwise brainwashed
I've read some memoirs (WWI, WWII,Russian & Allies, German) and heard quite enaugh interviews with veterans of Great Patriotic War (Russian World War II campaign) and even talked to some myself and NO ONE has ever said or wrote that they were completely unafraid of death. The most common answer is "only fools aren't afraid". Instinct of self-preservation isn't that is easy to suppress. In fact it's only moments of either complete apathy from tiredness or short moments of last heroic feat when one loses their fear of death on frontline or in other such situation.
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RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 4:12 pm
I don't know whether this is relevant, but I don't fear death because I'm desperately depressed. I'd welcome it. I've wished that I'd get a terminal disease so that I could die and it wouldn't be my fault. I stay alive only because of what my death would do to others. It's very sad, but I crave death.
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RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 4:14 pm
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Hookers and blow buddy.
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RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 4:17 pm
(March 23, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Smaug Wrote: By the way, you only don't fear death in four cases:
- you're so old that you don't really care any more
- you don't actually face it
- you're a fool
- you're a fanatic or a berserk or otherwise brainwashed
"I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens!"
---Woody Allen
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RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 4:18 pm
I guess it puts me in the fool category.
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RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 4:23 pm
(March 23, 2015 at 4:18 pm)robvalue Wrote: I guess it puts me in the fool category.
I chose "All of the above."
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RE: New Testament arguments
March 23, 2015 at 4:24 pm
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(March 23, 2015 at 4:18 pm)robvalue Wrote: I guess it puts me in the fool category.
Sorry if I hurt your feelings, I didn't mean it. I forgot to include extremal cases such as heavy depression. Although they may not completely remove the fear (as in panical fear of immediate death).
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