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RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 19, 2013 at 7:43 am
I wonder if, given that jstrodel has found his god, what motivation does he have to post such a drivel. You can type and sing all about your 'spirit friend', it will still be far removed from reality.
This guy really is an exercise in poe's law. I truly wished that people couldn't be this deluded, but then, there are those with much worse beliefs, so I don't know, I truly don't.
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RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 19, 2013 at 7:45 am
You see, our religious friends: this is why xtianity gets laughed at. Blame those who propogate drool like this.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 19, 2013 at 7:50 am
I have to be honest about something.
Reading jstodel`s post gave me the desire to try some LSD again.
I think I will try to get some for this friday and if I wont be buissy doing other stuff, we might see what I will write here.
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RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 19, 2013 at 7:54 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2013 at 8:00 am by Mystic.)
(March 18, 2013 at 11:42 pm)jstrodel Wrote: True but that is immaturity in the spirit.
So that contradicts you saying that is what is needed to believe in/see God. They obviously believed in God without those characteristics.
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RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 19, 2013 at 8:16 am
(March 18, 2013 at 11:18 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Before anything existed, there was God in H'shem. God looked over everything and saw in H'Shem's nature that H'shem would make out of all of H'shem's joy a holy, holy creation.
Actualy it is pronounced "HaShem" with a patach, not a sh'va under the first letter. The initial heh as an article always has a "ah" sound, and never an "eh" sound.
On behalf of Hebrew speakers everywhere, please don't fake it if you don't know it.
Thanks! 
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RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 19, 2013 at 8:26 am
(March 19, 2013 at 5:43 am)FallentoReason Wrote: As I read, I was hoping to find that one thing that catches my attention and makes me engage in discussion. All we have here though are your baseless claims to something without any reason for us to take them seriously.
Actually, as I wrote this, I just realised I do have one thing to say:
No, I will not have the faith of a child. Such a requirement for understanding truth can be nothing but the cheap tricks of the snake oil salesman.
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RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 19, 2013 at 8:27 am
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2013 at 8:28 am by Faith No More.)
When I first read this post I felt like making a snarky comment about eating strange little pieces of paper or snacking on strange mushrooms, but after taking a little time to think it over, I can express nothing but pity for the mind spewed such nonsense and confused it for imparting wisdom.
(March 18, 2013 at 11:18 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The clarity of mind comes when people see their littleness and smallness and all their funny prides and how little they are and realize the stupidity of humans and their foolish games and pursuits and try to escape.
Ok, there actually was a nugget of wisdom hidden in there among the tripe. My question is, however, what does this have to do with believing in god?
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RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 19, 2013 at 8:29 am
(March 19, 2013 at 5:43 am)FallentoReason Wrote: As I read, I was hoping to find that one thing that catches my attention and makes me engage in discussion. All we have here though are your baseless claims to something without any reason for us to take them seriously.
Actually, as I wrote this, I just realised I do have one thing to say:
No, I will not have the faith of a child. Such a requirement for understanding truth can be nothing but the cheap tricks of the snake oil salesman.
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RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 19, 2013 at 1:25 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2013 at 1:33 pm by jstrodel.)
(March 19, 2013 at 8:16 am)EGross Wrote: (March 18, 2013 at 11:18 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Before anything existed, there was God in H'shem. God looked over everything and saw in H'Shem's nature that H'shem would make out of all of H'shem's joy a holy, holy creation.
Actualy it is pronounced "HaShem" with a patach, not a sh'va under the first letter. The initial heh as an article always has a "ah" sound, and never an "eh" sound.
On behalf of Hebrew speakers everywhere, please don't fake it if you don't know it.
Thanks!
You are the one who is faking it. I know H'shem. I don't care how you write it. God is my best friend. You are the one who is faking it with your scholarly knowledge of a being you do not know.
(March 19, 2013 at 8:27 am)Faith No More Wrote: When I first read this post I felt like making a snarky comment about eating strange little pieces of paper or snacking on strange mushrooms, but after taking a little time to think it over, I can express nothing but pity for the mind spewed such nonsense and confused it for imparting wisdom.
(March 18, 2013 at 11:18 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The clarity of mind comes when people see their littleness and smallness and all their funny prides and how little they are and realize the stupidity of humans and their foolish games and pursuits and try to escape.
Ok, there actually was a nugget of wisdom hidden in there among the tripe. My question is, however, what does this have to do with believing in god?
To believe in God is to laugh at what men consider great.
An atheist is someone that takes his culturally constructed world very, very seriously. It is not surprising that you would be offended.
(March 19, 2013 at 5:43 am)FallentoReason Wrote: As I read, I was hoping to find that one thing that catches my attention and makes me engage in discussion. All we have here though are your baseless claims to something without any reason for us to take them seriously.
Actually, as I wrote this, I just realised I do have one thing to say:
No, I will not have the faith of a child. Such a requirement for understanding truth can be nothing but the cheap tricks of the snake oil salesman.
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What do you base your ethics on? Do you base them on a complicated argument or do you base them on intuition?
(March 19, 2013 at 5:43 am)FallentoReason Wrote: As I read, I was hoping to find that one thing that catches my attention and makes me engage in discussion. All we have here though are your baseless claims to something without any reason for us to take them seriously.
Actually, as I wrote this, I just realised I do have one thing to say:
No, I will not have the faith of a child. Such a requirement for understanding truth can be nothing but the cheap tricks of the snake oil salesman.
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The con man is not the one who receives truth, the con man is the one that invents truth and says that he receives it.
To be a little child is to stop creating and start receiving.
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RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 19, 2013 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: March 19, 2013 at 1:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 19, 2013 at 1:25 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You are the one who is faking it. I know H'shem. I don't care how you write it. God is my best friend. You are the one who is faking it with your scholarly knowledge of a being you do not know. As opposed to the non scholarly knowledge that you possess about a being that you similarly do not know?
Quote:To believe in God is to laugh at what men consider great.
An atheist is someone that takes his culturally constructed world very, very seriously. It is not surprising that you would be offended.
To believe in god is to -insert whatever tired catchphrase you like here- 
An atheist is someone who doesn't believe in god, full stop. The various ways that such a simple concept is so consistently abused has amazed me from my first day here and will likely continue to amaze me until my final day here.
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