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RE: Please welcome our newest moderator: pocaracas.
January 29, 2015 at 3:55 pm
(January 29, 2015 at 3:50 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Yep- we now have two Portuguese on staff. Scared?
They're my ancestral neighbors! It's like having a couple of cousins on the inside!
"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: Please welcome our newest moderator: pocaracas.
January 29, 2015 at 4:04 pm
LP did I just miss your celebratory thread?
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: Please welcome our newest moderator: pocaracas.
January 29, 2015 at 4:05 pm
(January 29, 2015 at 4:04 pm)Luckie Wrote: LP did I just miss your celebratory thread?
http://atheistforums.org/thread-31230.html
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RE: Please welcome our newest moderator: pocaracas.
January 29, 2015 at 4:07 pm
(January 29, 2015 at 3:55 pm)Tonus Wrote: (January 29, 2015 at 3:50 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Yep- we now have two Portuguese on staff. Scared?
They're my ancestral neighbors! It's like having a couple of cousins on the inside!
Ah, you can take the man out of the Jehova's witness, but you can't take the Jehova's witness out of the man.
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: Please welcome our newest moderator: pocaracas.
January 29, 2015 at 4:13 pm
(January 29, 2015 at 3:50 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Yep- we now have two Portuguese on staff. Scared?
Are we going to have the learn the fucking language. It's a lot like Spanish but pronounced all wrong.
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RE: Please welcome our newest moderator: pocaracas.
January 29, 2015 at 4:14 pm
Welcome aboard poc!
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RE: Please welcome our newest moderator: pocaracas.
January 29, 2015 at 4:15 pm
Well, well, well...
I'd like to thank my agent, my dad, my beautiful wife and awesome children.
I promise to uphold the law of the land and also to be fair and prevent you guys from being banned.
I hate banning... if you ever get a pm from me, heed its message.
First green post!
Thanks guys!
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RE: Please welcome our newest moderator: pocaracas.
January 29, 2015 at 4:16 pm
(January 29, 2015 at 4:13 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (January 29, 2015 at 3:50 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Yep- we now have two Portuguese on staff. Scared?
Are we going to have the learn the fucking language. It's a lot like Spanish but pronounced all wrong. Actually, Spanish is like Portuguese, but pronounced all wrong.
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RE: Please welcome our newest moderator: pocaracas.
January 29, 2015 at 4:37 pm
(January 29, 2015 at 4:15 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Well, well, well...
I'd like to thank my agent, my dad, my beautiful wife and awesome children.
I promise to uphold the law of the land and also to be fair and prevent you guys from being banned.
I hate banning... if you ever get a pm from me, heed its message.
First green post!
Thanks guys!
Yours was my first proper admin action. Took a while to find the right button, thanks CD for the help lol.
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RE: Please welcome our newest moderator: pocaracas.
January 29, 2015 at 4:37 pm
How close did you get to doing this?
"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."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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