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RE: The use of Religion to control, manipulate, and gain power
September 29, 2014 at 3:29 pm
In Soviet Russia, Soviet Russia joke thinks of you.
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: The use of Religion to control, manipulate, and gain power
September 29, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Does that mean I am a figment of a countrys imagination.
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RE: The use of Religion to control, manipulate, and gain power
September 29, 2014 at 3:56 pm
Well, a joke's imagination, more correctly; creating an existential quandary of a personified conceptual convention.
You may need to sit down.
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: The use of Religion to control, manipulate, and gain power
September 29, 2014 at 4:18 pm
Ohh...*passes out*
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RE: The use of Religion to control, manipulate, and gain power
September 29, 2014 at 4:44 pm
(September 29, 2014 at 1:51 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: If I was an elder or a leader I would be giving away money to charitys and such, to set a
good example. You can't expect the congregation to give if you the minister doesn't give. I don't really know how much a minister gets paid, but I don't think it would be right if they are being given a lot.
The Bible established their pay scale, working conditions, retirement and benefit package.
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RE: The use of Religion to control, manipulate, and gain power
September 29, 2014 at 4:46 pm
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(September 29, 2014 at 4:18 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: Ohh...*passes out*
*rushes over*
*loosens clothing*
*finds wallet*
*goes to pub*
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: The use of Religion to control, manipulate, and gain power
September 29, 2014 at 4:51 pm
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*wakes up*
*pats pockets*
*gets mad*
*stocks stimbo*
*breaks into house*
*takes wallet back*
*leaves house*
(based on a true story)
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RE: The use of Religion to control, manipulate, and gain power
September 29, 2014 at 4:52 pm
(September 29, 2014 at 4:46 pm)Stimbo Wrote: (September 29, 2014 at 4:18 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: Ohh...*passes out*
*rushes over*
*loosens clothing*
*finds wallet*
*goes to pub*
Had me real worried for a moment after that second line there Stim.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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RE: The use of Religion to control, manipulate, and gain power
September 29, 2014 at 4:52 pm
I must admit I've never been stocked before. Sounds fun.
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: The use of Religion to control, manipulate, and gain power
September 29, 2014 at 4:53 pm
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Yes this is how I met my first friend in high school. I partake in a stocks society, we have vows which go" I am the stocker on the wall..."
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