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RE: Religion poisons everything, Thanskgiving Edition
November 26, 2012 at 9:27 pm
(November 24, 2012 at 3:04 am)Daniel Wrote: (November 23, 2012 at 9:18 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Actually it's not. I get it now, it's like leaving a takeaway menu with the other services provided by the business. How awful!
Except the takeaway menu gives you a list of real stuff that you can actually buy, so no it's not.
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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RE: Religion poisons everything, Thanskgiving Edition
November 26, 2012 at 10:24 pm
(November 26, 2012 at 2:09 pm)apophenia Wrote: (November 26, 2012 at 1:41 pm)John V Wrote: So you were bilking taxpayers for a meal you didn't need...nice.
Them sour grapes tasty, John?
Maybe he wants to make some humble pie?
Because you typically use a more tart apple when making apple pie.
... I am bad at jokes. ):
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RE: Religion poisons everything, Thanskgiving Edition
November 27, 2012 at 2:59 am
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RE: Religion poisons everything, Thanskgiving Edition
November 27, 2012 at 12:37 pm
(November 27, 2012 at 2:59 am)Daniel Wrote: (November 26, 2012 at 1:41 pm)John V Wrote: So you were bilking taxpayers for a meal you didn't need...nice. You're an idiot. Christian organizations can choose who they allow to receive their assistance and why they refuse, yes, but they don't decide based on judging people - that's ridiculous. They're made based on whether the service is being abused, and similar reasons. Like if someone is using the service when their needs are better met elsewhere.
You should know this if you've ever been involved in any charitable organizations.  I am at a complete loss as to how your response applies to what you quoted.
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RE: Religion poisons everything, Thanskgiving Edition
November 27, 2012 at 12:41 pm
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RE: Religion poisons everything, Thanskgiving Edition
November 27, 2012 at 12:56 pm
BTW, if an atheist organization provided charity to the needy and included secular literature which they had found helpful in their lives, I personally would give them credit for being charitable. I wouldn't think that the literature reduced it to advertising and nothing more.
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RE: Religion poisons everything, Thanskgiving Edition
November 27, 2012 at 1:02 pm
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Meh, you're a far more credulous man than I John. I wouldn't call either example advertising and nothing more..I would call both "advertising and more". The relative value of either endeavor "advertising" or "and more" I would judge based upon how often the one is not accompanied by the other. Again, no one so much as offers you a copy of (or even mentions) "Why We Fight" when you go to the WIC office.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Religion poisons everything, Thanskgiving Edition
November 27, 2012 at 1:07 pm
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(November 27, 2012 at 12:56 pm)John V Wrote: BTW, if an atheist organization provided charity to the needy and included secular literature which they had found helpful in their lives, I personally would give them credit for being charitable. I wouldn't think that the literature reduced it to advertising and nothing more.
If someone handed out copies of The God Delusion with free meals, I would have the same objections regarding the true charity of what is going on.
I think I would very much like if works of classic or contemporary literature were handed out with food, though.
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RE: Religion poisons everything, Thanskgiving Edition
November 27, 2012 at 1:29 pm
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I'm with you on that one Ryan, I mean, if you're handing out meals to the needy, may as well give em a book so they have toilet paper/jacket liner as well, amiright?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Religion poisons everything, Thanskgiving Edition
November 27, 2012 at 1:55 pm
(November 27, 2012 at 1:29 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I'm with you on that one Ryan, I mean, if you're handing out meals to the needy, may as well give em a book so they have toilet paper/jacket liner as well, amiright?
That'd be a great way to dispose of Twilight books, or Dan Brown novels.
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