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RE: Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
July 19, 2014 at 8:33 am
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The Babble really doesn't work as a just-so story. Literalism is boring beyond belief. It is really as beneath us as it is to the better theists who rarely reply because the level of discussion is boring. Still, for most of us, this was the sort of belief held by the people who tried in vain to stamp us with their particular tribal totem.
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RE: Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
July 19, 2014 at 10:04 am
There is that old tale that atheists are more intelligent than theists. Not necessarily IMO, it's just that theists don't have a cap limit for their stupidity.
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RE: Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
July 19, 2014 at 4:57 pm
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(July 19, 2014 at 8:20 am)Losty Wrote: I say we have the orgy on the deck in the rain
I'm in!
(July 19, 2014 at 8:28 am)Losty Wrote: (July 19, 2014 at 8:22 am)Esquilax Wrote: If I didn't already have a "fucking in the rain" scene planned for my next book, I would totally take that idea.
What is it about sex in the rain? It just seems like the best idea possible to me.
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RE: Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
July 20, 2014 at 3:12 am
(July 19, 2014 at 8:25 am)whateverist Wrote: (July 19, 2014 at 3:44 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: It was actually a year.
For that matter, why bother at all with an ark? If blinking every living thing into existence by magic was so easy to do the first time, why not go that route again? Perhaps consider a couple of upgrades?
Well we know that the flood genocide didn't fix the problem because people are just as sinful, if not more, than they were before the flood. God never saw that coming. It's like Jesus when he cast out the demons but they came back in even greater numbers. http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_lif...04_31.html
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RE: Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
July 20, 2014 at 3:15 am
The entire bible, from the pov of god, is a serious of failures and disappointments. Guy just can't seem to get it right. You'd think he'd be more sympathetic to our condition.....
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: Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
July 20, 2014 at 2:47 pm
(July 19, 2014 at 8:25 am)whateverist Wrote: For that matter, why bother at all with an ark? If blinking every living thing into existence by magic was so easy to do the first time, why not go that route again? Perhaps consider a couple of upgrades?
Especially since the flood option did fuck all anyway. The idea, as I understand it, was to cleanse the world of sin and wickedness. Drowning everything under a superocean, except for a (supposedly) breeding population of all the lifeforms that gave rise to the wickedness, makes as much sense as ridding your garden of pernicious weeds by sterilising it with brine and then restocking everything that was originally in the garden including the weeds. If this god was anything other than imaginary, the Universe would truly be fucked.
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: Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
July 20, 2014 at 3:09 pm
People keep ignoring the fact that the flood story clearly states that the countries that existed before the flood continued to exist after the flood. The flood story is actually a story of warfare. It uses water as the symbol for the invading army, which was irresistible just like a real raging flood is. Assyria existed with Adam & Eve and it existed after Noah's flood. The Bible plainly says so.
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RE: Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
July 20, 2014 at 3:11 pm
You keep mentioning this....but tell me how you work noah into that?
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: Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
July 20, 2014 at 3:13 pm
(July 19, 2014 at 4:57 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: (July 19, 2014 at 8:28 am)Losty Wrote: What is it about sex in the rain? It just seems like the best idea possible to me.
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Uh oh, does this mean Estes Park is missing a 'T'?
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RE: Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
July 20, 2014 at 4:03 pm
Now I'm feeling dumb.
Missing a 'T'? Huh?
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