Hall of wit and epicness.

[Cyberman]

Preserving this for posterity and nominating it for Post Of The Year:

Oh please. HIV is sooo 1992.

Of course it is. It's a retrovirus.

[Amarok]

Best anti white nationalist meme ever

[Amarok]

Random idiots think you can shoot a hurricane

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/flori...11921.html

[Edwardo Piet]

Proof I am very egocentric (it's a euphemism for 'obnoxiously arrogant'):

I've never seen a quark either but I've been told that we can deduce their existence from what can be seen.

Science is falsifiable and testable . . .  God isn't. In fact he is defined in such a way that it makes his presence as completely indistinguishable from his absence as possible. That's kind of the point. You fucking idiot.

[Amarok]

I've never seen a quark either but I've been told that we can deduce their existence from what can be seen.

This is an idiotic analogy. Quarks are nothing like your sky pixie Wooter. Now go back to praising your cult leader .

[downbeatplumb]

Preserving this for posterity and nominating it for Post Of The Year:

Of course it is. It's a retrovirus.

[Whateverist]

For Hammy who thinks we'd better off closing the forums to theists except the poop lady and her buddy: one of the best posts from a theist ever in my experience on these forums from a few years ago.

Well if the way you interpret the story is as flexible as all that, then just how do you 'hold' your faith?  Is it all wisdom stories and parables with those who recognize them as such keeping it on the down-low?  I think many clergymen loose the literal beliefs but stay in the community and to feel like the shepherd.  I'm probably making too much of this.

No, you're making just enough out of this, and that is an important question that I need to answer. 
I know that a Jesus figure did exist and certain people wrote about him. 
Did he rise from the dead? I don't know, he hasn't proven that he did, to me anyways. 
Worst case scenario: He didn't. His body decomposed and is humus on its way to the planet's core. That would be disappointing; he seemed like such a nice guy. But it has no effect on my life; the Christian practice of loving your neighbor is not affected by whether or not a Jew walked outside of a cave on Sunday morning. That doesn't even mean that what he taught was false; I'd still agree that we need to help the poor for reasons other than, "Jesus said so." To think otherwise would be an appeal to hypocrisy. 
When I talk about Biblical events, I don't mean to say whether or not they happened. I'm just acknowledging that that is what somebody wrote down in a book.

[Fireball]

For Hammy who thinks we'd better off closing the forums to theists except the poop lady and her buddy: one of the best posts from a theist ever in my experience on these forums from a few years ago.  

No, you're making just enough out of this, and that is an important question that I need to answer. 
I know that a Jesus figure did exist and certain people wrote about him. 
Did he rise from the dead? I don't know, he hasn't proven that he did, to me anyways. 
Worst case scenario: He didn't. His body decomposed and is humus on its way to the planet's core. That would be disappointing; he seemed like such a nice guy. But it has no effect on my life; the Christian practice of loving your neighbor is not affected by whether or not a Jew walked outside of a cave on Sunday morning. That doesn't even mean that what he taught was false; I'd still agree that we need to help the poor for reasons other than, "Jesus said so." To think otherwise would be an appeal to hypocrisy. 
When I talk about Biblical events, I don't mean to say whether or not they happened. I'm just acknowledging that that is what somebody wrote down in a book.

  I felt brain cells dying while reading that. I hope it was the weak ones.

[Whateverist]

For Hammy who thinks we'd better off closing the forums to theists except the poop lady and her buddy: one of the best posts from a theist ever in my experience on these forums from a few years ago.  

  I felt brain cells dying while reading that. I hope it was the weak ones.

I butchered the wording of my initial question pretty badly.  Hopefully that didn't contribute to your brain's weight loss.  I just liked communicating with a theist who held his beliefs realistically without any false bravado and over confidence.

[Edwardo Piet]

For Hammy who thinks we'd better off closing the forums to theists except the poop lady and her buddy: one of the best posts from a theist ever in my experience on these forums from a few years ago.  

Noooooooooooooooo I don't think we should close discussion off for ANYONE.

Theists can say what they want. But I think we should stop wasting our time debating with utter nonsense that is obviously wrong when they're just obviously going to convince themselves they're right anyway.

Like when you have Jor (as fucking awesome as she is) doing multiple paragraphs explaining to Little Rik exactly why he's wrong in great detail... and he responds with "Wrong again Jor!" and a bunch of rabbit smilies.... that's merely the extreme example of what a fucking waste of time it is to debate with theists. Even the most respectable theistic debaters are still at the end of the day apologizing for an imaginary friend.

We should... laugh at them. And change the subject. And talk about something other than a fucking imaginary friend in the sky.

We should stop humoring them. Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt and pretending like there's any REALISTIC chance that their God exists.

The fact SOME concepts of God are POSSIBLE IN PRINCIPLE... does NOT mean that that possibility is even REMOTELY REALISTIC. Even the least absurd concept of God is still 99.999999999999999999999999999999999% likely to be nonexistent. So let's stop humoring these people who are the intellectual equivalent of an adult who still believes in Santa Claus.

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For Hammy who thinks we'd better off closing the forums to theists except the poop lady and her buddy: one of the best posts from a theist ever in my experience on these forums from a few years ago.  

No, you're making just enough out of this, and that is an important question that I need to answer. 
I know that a Jesus figure did exist and certain people wrote about him. 
Did he rise from the dead? I don't know, he hasn't proven that he did, to me anyways. 
Worst case scenario: He didn't. His body decomposed and is humus on its way to the planet's core. That would be disappointing; he seemed like such a nice guy. But it has no effect on my life; the Christian practice of loving your neighbor is not affected by whether or not a Jew walked outside of a cave on Sunday morning. That doesn't even mean that what he taught was false; I'd still agree that we need to help the poor for reasons other than, "Jesus said so." To think otherwise would be an appeal to hypocrisy. 
When I talk about Biblical events, I don't mean to say whether or not they happened. I'm just acknowledging that that is what somebody wrote down in a book.

I just read what you quoted. The fact that this is amongst the BEST that theists can come up with is HILARIOUS and is a perfect demonstration of what a waste of time it is debating with them over God.

The most respectful thing a theist has said then.... amounts to "Nuh uh because even if Jesus didn't have magic powers he still may have been a nice dude!".