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RE: What advice would you give to your younger self?
June 23, 2014 at 5:28 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2014 at 5:28 pm by Mudhammam.)
1. Question authority more.
2. Don't fear empty threats or intimidation.
3. Be humble.
4. Live inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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RE: What advice would you give to your younger self?
June 23, 2014 at 5:32 pm
Walk a mile in the other guy's shoes a little more often.
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RE: What advice would you give to your younger self?
June 23, 2014 at 5:35 pm
Christianity isn't all it's cracked up to be. Join certain internet forums sooner.
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RE: What advice would you give to your younger self?
June 23, 2014 at 5:37 pm
(June 23, 2014 at 5:04 pm)Insanity Wrote:
Part of me wants more context. Part of me think's the greatness of that post is in the lack of any real context.
Exactly! Whose the kid at church who died in a shuttle crash?! Was it a space shuttlle or an airport shuttle fgs?! If I got that letter when I was a kid I would've been like, wtf? !
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
Quote:Some people deserve hell.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.
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RE: What advice would you give to your younger self?
June 23, 2014 at 6:12 pm
(June 23, 2014 at 4:55 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: Honor boils down to reputation, i.e how others see you. But the context you're using it in is psychological, in other words your overall happiness and self-esteem. You understand that these cannot come from man, technology, family, legacy, money, work, achievements, recognition, but you've granted special pleading to your god. He's exempt.
Yes, I understand that things like people, fame, money, work status, position, achievements, etc. are all just some temporary and very shallow sources of happiness. They just come and go. But I believe that finding real happiness and real honor depends on how God sees me, not how other people see me. One might think that he has some good reputation in this world just because of how much he is respected by his fellow humans, but none of that will matter anymore on the day he meets his Lord with a horridly black and dejected face. " And He whom Allah humiliates, none can give him honor" (Quran 22:18).
Okay, fine. You think that is special pleading but I don't. 
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RE: What advice would you give to your younger self?
June 23, 2014 at 6:15 pm
I'd like to nominate Vorlon13 for "most interesting life lived so far" when the forum awards come around again.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: What advice would you give to your younger self?
June 23, 2014 at 6:18 pm
I'd say, "you know that girl you didn't fuck because you were getting too religious? Well fuck her goddammit! "
I hate to say it but there was a time in my life (not long) that I turned some pussy down because I thought some pervert was looking at me from some cloud in the sky.
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RE: What advice would you give to your younger self?
June 23, 2014 at 6:20 pm
Do my homework.
Don't eat that.
Look after my teeth better.
Don't bother marrying the first wife.
Look after the second wife better than I did.
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
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RE: What advice would you give to your younger self?
June 23, 2014 at 6:37 pm
Experience is the best teacher .. I wouldn't tell the prick anything... He's doing OK and I won't risk any butterfly effect. Except maybe stop drinking so much fucking coke!
(He he, spell check changed "coke" to "cock", lucky I caught it!, otherwise I may accidentally burn in hell)
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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RE: What advice would you give to your younger self?
June 23, 2014 at 6:37 pm
-Understand that there are people in this world who do things that are absolutely unforgiveable.
-Pay cash or do without.
-Never feel guilty about sleeping in.
-When Becky Rafferty tells you that her brothers don't care who she sleeps with, don't believe her.
Boru
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