(June 15, 2010 at 8:10 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: It's OK You beautiful bloom.....Beautiful? Thank you, my flower is blushing! It's a photo of a flower in the Allen Garden greenhouse in Toronto some years ago. I think it's some sort of Brunfelsia, and out of those, I think it's one of the species often given the common name 'Yesterday Today & Tomorrow'. It was fragrant and made me all happy and stuff.
Quote:He doesn't red his 'Good Book' obliviously!!Obliviously might be exactly how he's reading it.
(June 15, 2010 at 2:20 pm)tackattack Wrote: @SN-Actually it does say just thatYeah, absence PLUS EVERLASTING FIRE!!!!!!! Who cares if absence goes along with it? The eternal torture doesn't somehow go away, if even your version of the biblegod story is to be believed. So what if he prepared it for the bad angels. Don't they run the place or something? Anyways, no one is saying the bad angels are not said to be there too. What the bible DOES say, is that humans get sent there eternally, after they die, if god doesn't like what the humans did/thought on earth enough.
It's actually quite clear that those who live a charitable, nurturing and loving compassionate life will be seated on his right and will inherit the kingdom, those that live selfishly shall "go away into everlasting punishment".
Even in this context you can read easily that it's a banishment from his presence, and from Jesus' teachings it's obviously not preferred that we live this way.
Quote:As far as the .666 - I didn't know you were a conspiracy theorist... there's a club here on AF for that.I'm not one. I just like to see whether any xtians are weird about that number. I saw a youtube the other day that mentioned 2/3 (.666) of the angels remaining, which made me laugh. I have always wondered why more 666 fearers don't also fear the fraction, 2/3rds. Maybe it's because fundie schools are not that big on real learning or something.
Quote:I can see why you think that a collection of deterministic molecules that form me rationalizes. I might say the same thing about the intellectualizing of atheists, if I thought it were true. I'm comfortable acknowledging that a lot of atheists really don't have any underlying daddy issues, or were all raped by priests when younger. I also acknowledge that it's obvious some do, and that's their only deterministic motivations. I allow that some people can actually think for themselves and come to their own conclusion rationally, logically and intellectually.What on earth are you going on about with 'daddy issues' and 'raped by priests' and 'deterministic motivations' stuff? You've lost me there, and even rereading that paragraph I can't figure out what you are talking about. However, it did remind me of this very funny video on youtube (I think I'm becoming a youtube spammer). I'll put it in hiding for off-topicness.
I'm really shitty at giving kudos and rep. That's because I would be inconsistent in remembering to do them, and also I don't really want it to show if any favouritism is happening. Even worse would be inconsistencies causing false favouritisms to show. So, fuck it. Just assume that I've given you some good rep and a number of kudos, and everyone should be happy...
