*Reads through the OP*
*Blinks slowly and tilts head to the side*
*Goes through the rest of the thread*
Ya know, before fstdt lost its forums, we had a guy who had been quoted on the main page come to the site to debate us. He had claimed to have battled Leviathan in his bathtub (no, I'm not joking). He claimed he could perform exorcisms through forums and several people volunteered. Of course, it was all bullshit, but he kept acting as if he'd proven something great to us, that he had exorcised a demon from one of the volunteers, even though the volunteer had stated flat out that absolutely nothing had happened.
In a way, this reminds me of that thread... except this one is much shorter... thankfully. I don't think my brain could handle reading enrico's posts for several hundred pages. As it is, I think I lost a huge chunk of my IQ. I was reminded of when the Nostalgia Critic reviewed the Digimon movie and his brain fell out of his ear with the opening theme song. It seriously felt like that to me.
Let me make a few things clear. I am a Solitary Witch who believes in life after death, multiple deities, and even nature spirits. I have had my own personal experiences that have cemented my personal faith. But I'm not one to disregard physical evidence and science out of hand. And I am also willing to acknowledge that I have absolutely NO EVIDENCE for my beliefs being right, only my personal experiences. Personal experiences don't mean fuck all in science, which is why NDE/OBE accounts are NOT considered valid evidence of life after death to science.
I'm not going to bother quoting Enrico since he pretty much repeated himself a zillion times already, and my headache doesn't want to go back through the thread and read through his piles of dog excrement to find the specific quote, but he said something along the lines of "Prove to me that life is finite." (And there went two more IQ points just typing out that sentence)
Now... this is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard. Even Mister I-Battled-Leviathan-In-My-Bathtub would say what the fuck to something like that! Physical death is 100% proven. I watched my grandmother die of cancer. My mother was at death's door a few years back. She was so close to death my father called in a Catholic Priest to give her her last rites. She managed to pull through the night, and the experimental treatments the doctors were using on her (thankfully) worked. (oops, did I just disprove his assertion that medical science doesn't lead to progress? I'd say pulling my mother from the BRINK OF DEATH FUCKING QUALIFIES!!) When my mother woke up, she didn't even believe that a month had gone by. She thought she'd just gone to sleep for the night and remembered absolutely nothing. Does this mean there most definitely is NOT life after death? Not in my book. After all, she was pumped full of so many different drugs, it could have made her unable to remember any NDE she might have had.
I did have more in mind to say, but fuck it. Arguing with a fundy is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what moves you make, the pigeon will just knock over the pieces, shit on the board, and strut around like it's victorious.
*Blinks slowly and tilts head to the side*
*Goes through the rest of the thread*
Ya know, before fstdt lost its forums, we had a guy who had been quoted on the main page come to the site to debate us. He had claimed to have battled Leviathan in his bathtub (no, I'm not joking). He claimed he could perform exorcisms through forums and several people volunteered. Of course, it was all bullshit, but he kept acting as if he'd proven something great to us, that he had exorcised a demon from one of the volunteers, even though the volunteer had stated flat out that absolutely nothing had happened.
In a way, this reminds me of that thread... except this one is much shorter... thankfully. I don't think my brain could handle reading enrico's posts for several hundred pages. As it is, I think I lost a huge chunk of my IQ. I was reminded of when the Nostalgia Critic reviewed the Digimon movie and his brain fell out of his ear with the opening theme song. It seriously felt like that to me.
Let me make a few things clear. I am a Solitary Witch who believes in life after death, multiple deities, and even nature spirits. I have had my own personal experiences that have cemented my personal faith. But I'm not one to disregard physical evidence and science out of hand. And I am also willing to acknowledge that I have absolutely NO EVIDENCE for my beliefs being right, only my personal experiences. Personal experiences don't mean fuck all in science, which is why NDE/OBE accounts are NOT considered valid evidence of life after death to science.
I'm not going to bother quoting Enrico since he pretty much repeated himself a zillion times already, and my headache doesn't want to go back through the thread and read through his piles of dog excrement to find the specific quote, but he said something along the lines of "Prove to me that life is finite." (And there went two more IQ points just typing out that sentence)
Now... this is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard. Even Mister I-Battled-Leviathan-In-My-Bathtub would say what the fuck to something like that! Physical death is 100% proven. I watched my grandmother die of cancer. My mother was at death's door a few years back. She was so close to death my father called in a Catholic Priest to give her her last rites. She managed to pull through the night, and the experimental treatments the doctors were using on her (thankfully) worked. (oops, did I just disprove his assertion that medical science doesn't lead to progress? I'd say pulling my mother from the BRINK OF DEATH FUCKING QUALIFIES!!) When my mother woke up, she didn't even believe that a month had gone by. She thought she'd just gone to sleep for the night and remembered absolutely nothing. Does this mean there most definitely is NOT life after death? Not in my book. After all, she was pumped full of so many different drugs, it could have made her unable to remember any NDE she might have had.
I did have more in mind to say, but fuck it. Arguing with a fundy is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter what moves you make, the pigeon will just knock over the pieces, shit on the board, and strut around like it's victorious.
