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RE: Hello
February 6, 2015 at 6:00 pm
(February 6, 2015 at 3:22 pm)TheMessiah Wrote: Well, the arguments I encountered were truly and wholeheartedly dreadful. Utter nonsense.
How many 'believers' argue on this forum? Either way, I'm here to stay but just curious.
I think no matter how well-thought and articulated a religious belief is it's going to eventually reduce to utter nonsense, so the only true way to avoid it is to avoid debating religious people altogether.
We have a few resident theists, and they never cease to amaze me with using their poor reasoning skills to defend the most henious aspects of the bible. I have to take it in small doses lest I go insane.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Hello
February 7, 2015 at 5:55 pm
Thank you for the warm welcome everyone!
As The Messiah, I shall bring self-righteousness, delusion and extraordinary claims without evidence!
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RE: Hello
February 8, 2015 at 9:17 am
(February 7, 2015 at 7:46 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: We wouldn't expect anything less!
*taps you on the shoulder, points at the OP*
Jesus H Christ, it's The Messiah!
"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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RE: Hello
February 8, 2015 at 1:34 pm
That's not the messiah! He's just a very naughty boy!
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RE: Hello
February 8, 2015 at 2:16 pm
Welcome aboard.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
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RE: Hello
February 8, 2015 at 2:30 pm
(February 8, 2015 at 1:34 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: That's not the messiah! He's just a very naughty boy!
I was going to say that oh well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjz16xjeBAA
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
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RE: Hello
February 8, 2015 at 2:34 pm
Be sure to barbecue kittens, record the NFL without their permission and rip the tags off of your mattress.
