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Why be good?
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RE: Why be good?
June 5, 2015 at 5:45 pm
(June 5, 2015 at 5:43 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Discussion on the merits of rock crushers in 3...2...1

Why would we talk of rock crushers in a thread about tanks?
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RE: Why be good?
June 5, 2015 at 5:47 pm
(June 5, 2015 at 5:45 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(June 5, 2015 at 5:43 pm)Iroscato Wrote: Discussion on the merits of rock crushers in 3...2...1

Why would we talk of rock crushers in a thread about tanks?

Civil war between AF tankists and crusherists in 3...2...1
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RE: Why be good?
June 5, 2015 at 6:09 pm
(June 5, 2015 at 5:40 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(June 5, 2015 at 4:55 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Define "truth", please.

The KV-1 is the best tier 5 heavy, and that's the truth.

Ah... you should have used it when it was just KV.... no bloody 1, 2, or ... 220. That same 152mm gun from the KV-2 at tier 5! Glorious!
And the KV-3 at tier 6... we called it "the steel wall magnet".
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RE: Why be good?
June 5, 2015 at 6:11 pm
(June 5, 2015 at 6:09 pm)pocaracas Wrote:
(June 5, 2015 at 5:40 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: The KV-1 is the best tier 5 heavy, and that's the truth.

Ah... you should have used it when it was just KV.... no bloody 1, 2, or ... 220. That same 152mm gun from the KV-2 at tier 5! Glorious!
And the KV-3 at tier 6... we called it "the steel wall magnet".

I can imagine the screams when that got nerfed.
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RE: Why be good?
June 5, 2015 at 6:29 pm
Maybe it's time we took our business elsewhere?
http://atheistforums.org/thread-33876.html
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RE: Why be good?
June 5, 2015 at 6:35 pm
But we tire of Randy's endless proselytizing and WOT makes my phone turn into a lava brick.

Rock Biters don't do that. I think they're from the same time as this Jesus fella. From the same land, at any rate.
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RE: Why be good?
June 5, 2015 at 8:43 pm
(June 5, 2015 at 5:43 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: How are you able to judge what is trivial to God?

Why is god able to judge what is serious for humans? Isn't that just his opinion?

And for that matter, why would god's opinion carry any weight at all? I've yet to see a theist answer that question without irrelevant claims they fail to justify, or a "might makes right" approach.

Quote:And if he gives a loophole, doesn't He give the same to everyone equally?

No: the loophole seriously favors those who are capable of performing sufficient mental gymnastics to believe in something with insufficient evidence. It's nigh unobtainable to those of us unwilling to take a series of enormous leaps of faith; rationality is a serious handicap to obtaining that loophole.
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RE: Why be good?
June 5, 2015 at 8:56 pm
(June 5, 2015 at 8:43 pm)Esquilax Wrote:
(June 5, 2015 at 5:43 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: How are you able to judge what is trivial to God?

Why is god able to judge what is serious for humans? 

He made us in His image. 

Quote:Isn't that just his opinion?

God does not opine. He knows. And He doesn't have to think it through and come to a conclusion through a process of discovery. He knows.

Quote:And for that matter, why would god's opinion carry any weight at all? I've yet to see a theist answer that question without irrelevant claims they fail to justify, or a "might makes right" approach.

Because might makes right.

Oh, that and the fact that God does not opine. He knows.

Quote:And if he gives a loophole, doesn't He give the same to everyone equally?

No: the loophole seriously favors those who are capable of performing sufficient mental gymnastics to believe in something with insufficient evidence. It's nigh unobtainable to those of us unwilling to take a series of enormous leaps of faith; rationality is a serious handicap to obtaining that loophole.

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RE: Why be good?
June 5, 2015 at 9:02 pm
Randy, have you already defined good for me?
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RE: Why be good?
June 5, 2015 at 9:10 pm
(June 5, 2015 at 9:02 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Randy, have you already defined good for me?

Not that I recall...

Feel free to provide a working definition for discussion, if you like.
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