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"I would not make it without God."
#31
RE: "I would not make it without God."
I'll just bet the fucking church did a study about how unhappy atheists are, right Aiza? They also have a study about how altar boys love have the bishops dick shoved up their ass holes.

You should be ashamed of yourself for remaining in that gang of perverts.
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#32
RE: "I would not make it without God."
(May 10, 2012 at 7:09 pm)Aiza Wrote: Is some 97% of humanity "weak"?

This 97% (which won't be a true percentage of the population) all believe different stuff. "believe" not "know". And yes they are weak because they have to make up beliefs to cling to.

Quote:I'm unsure how you are measuring "strength" (weightlifting? Tongue), but it is true that irreligious people are more prone to depression, suicide, anxiety, social maladjustment, impulsivity, and psychoticism.

Prove it is true. Links to peer reviewed articles showing these findings, or I call bullshit.

You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.

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#33
RE: "I would not make it without God."
(May 10, 2012 at 7:09 pm)Aiza Wrote:
(May 10, 2012 at 7:45 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: God is, essentially, a crutch for the weak. There is a reason that churchgoers are referred to as a "flock of sheep..."

Is some 97% of humanity "weak"?

I'm unsure how you are measuring "strength" (weightlifting? Tongue), but it is true that irreligious people are more prone to depression, suicide, anxiety, social maladjustment, impulsivity, and psychoticism.

I'm an ex-catholic. I can safely say that I'm happier as an Atheist than I ever was as a Catholic and I also feel my mental well-being has very much improved since I removed their shackles of indoctrination. What made me an Atheist is when I read the Bible cover to cover and after about a year of research afterwards I came to the conclusion there was no evidence to back it and even evidence to the contrary.

I found I could not bring myself to worship the God in that book even if this were not the case as he is almost certainly represented as being an evil, vain, masochistic and arrogant being. I am more morale than that, so are most people and for that matter so are you.

Does this answer your question?
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die." 
- Abdul Alhazred.
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#34
RE: "I would not make it without God."
(May 8, 2012 at 12:42 am)JustEd Wrote: I follow some folks on twitter who happen to be religious, and occasionally one of them will tweet something like, "Whenever times are roughest, I know that God (or Jesus, or My Faith) is the only reason I can make it through."
Interestingly I've never heard a theist ever utter those words after completing certain tasks, like making love to their partner or masturbating, because even they know its a pretty pathetic thing to admit that they needed a deity's help for those aforementioned activities. Big Grin

Now if only we can get them to be honest about everything else they do achieve on their own or with other people in their day-to-day lives. XD
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#35
RE: "I would not make it without God."
(May 11, 2012 at 11:09 am)Chuck Wrote:
(May 11, 2012 at 9:52 am)average Wrote: I went to a faith healer and he cured me.

Of any residual intelligence. Angel

Chuck....it is a joke Angel...cured me of religion
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#36
RE: "I would not make it without God."
(May 11, 2012 at 2:33 pm)average Wrote:
(May 11, 2012 at 11:09 am)Chuck Wrote: Of any residual intelligence. Angel

Chuck....it is a joke Angel

Ah-ha, I knew someone else would take it seriously other than me.

*ziiip*
*FLOP*

Suck it. -.-
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die." 
- Abdul Alhazred.
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#37
RE: "I would not make it without God."
(May 8, 2012 at 12:42 am)JustEd Wrote: I'm not perfect, and I can get pretty down on myself sometimes, but I have never - not once - needed an imaginary friend to get me through the day without jumping out of a window. Am i looking at this the wrong way?

I've heard this many times from believers, and even stranger, believers will claim that they found God at the moment they hit rock bottom, and he apparently pulled them from the abyss. Presumably, that means that God finally reached out to them a mere seconds before they pulled the trigger. ROFLOL

In any case, you aren't off base. They reveal how really weak they are when they confess that they absolutely can't do anything without big brother. Some confess that they actually got off of drugs or alcohol because of God. Really? You can't find enough motivation within yourself to improve your own life, so you try to summon the services of a god who never says a word except in people's delusional thoughts and in an antiquated and cobbled together book? Really? Yet, somehow plenty of believers manage to hold down jobs and build giant churches without any physical intervention from God. And on the flip side, plenty of unbelievers do manage to stop taking drugs and generally improve their lives in spite of the fact that believers say it's impossible with faith.
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#38
RE: "I would not make it without God."
(May 10, 2012 at 7:09 pm)Aiza Wrote: Is some 97% of humanity "weak"?


Yes.


(May 10, 2012 at 7:09 pm)Aiza Wrote: I'm unsure how you are measuring "strength" (weightlifting? Tongue)

Seach for facts instead of fantasizing about truth

(May 10, 2012 at 7:09 pm)Aiza Wrote: , but it is true that irreligious people are more prone to depression, suicide, anxiety, social maladjustment, impulsivity, and psychoticism.

No pain, no gain.
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#39
RE: "I would not make it without God."
(May 10, 2012 at 7:09 pm)Aiza Wrote: I'm unsure how you are measuring "strength" (weightlifting? Tongue), but it is true that irreligious people are more prone to depression, suicide, anxiety, social maladjustment, impulsivity, and psychoticism.

Complete bollocks. Now here's a slap for you - [Image: bitchslap.gif]
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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#40
RE: "I would not make it without God."
Aiza Wrote:I'm unsure how you are measuring "strength" (weightlifting? ), but it is true that irreligious people are more prone to depression, suicide, anxiety, social maladjustment, impulsivity, and psychoticism.

Do you have anything to back this up? If my experiences are indicative of anything, it is that religion has no real bearing on these issues. Another thing to keep in mind is that statistics on these issues can be skewed due to the fact that one group may be more likely to seek help for these problems than another. That means they are more likely to be diagnosed and more likely to be counted.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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