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RE: Why be good?
June 6, 2015 at 4:43 pm
(June 6, 2015 at 12:56 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: (June 6, 2015 at 7:49 am)Randy Carson Wrote: First, thank you for your service to your country. I appreciate that very much. I also thank you for sharing your experiences with me.
A better way of showing your appreciation would be to avoid denigrating veterans with this foxhole atheist bullshit.
(June 6, 2015 at 7:49 am)Randy Carson Wrote: Second, is it reasonable for me to believe your personal testimony concerning what you experienced and reported in your written account above?
Here's my DD214: http://s6.tinypic.com/30s7pme.jpg
Here are my (mostly mundane) decorations, including my firefighter's badge: http://s6.tinypic.com/35jmt13.jpg
Here's the first airplane crash I worked: http://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/F-...file/2395/
As for what I reported from my life-threatening situations, those are my experiences. Whether or not you believe them doesn't matter to me. But pray tell, how many foxholes have you been in? How many tight corners? How many times have you looked death in the face?
And most importantly, why would you assume that your response would be shared by everyone else, including atheists?
You cannot speak for me or millions of others, and I'd suggest to you that the wise course is to stick to blathering about your own superstition, and at the same time avoid imputing it to those whose experiences you do not know.
Would you be willing to testify under oath - and I remind you of the penalties for perjury - that what you wrote previously was the truth?
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RE: Why be good?
June 6, 2015 at 4:45 pm
(June 6, 2015 at 4:43 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: (June 6, 2015 at 12:56 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: A better way of showing your appreciation would be to avoid denigrating veterans with this foxhole atheist bullshit.
Here's my DD214: http://s6.tinypic.com/30s7pme.jpg
Here are my (mostly mundane) decorations, including my firefighter's badge: http://s6.tinypic.com/35jmt13.jpg
Here's the first airplane crash I worked: http://www.f-16.net/aircraft-database/F-...file/2395/
As for what I reported from my life-threatening situations, those are my experiences. Whether or not you believe them doesn't matter to me. But pray tell, how many foxholes have you been in? How many tight corners? How many times have you looked death in the face?
And most importantly, why would you assume that your response would be shared by everyone else, including atheists?
You cannot speak for me or millions of others, and I'd suggest to you that the wise course is to stick to blathering about your own superstition, and at the same time avoid imputing it to those whose experiences you do not know.
Would you be willing to testify under oath - and I remind you of the penalties for perjury - that what you wrote previously was the truth?
If i were you randy id back off
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RE: Why be good?
June 6, 2015 at 4:48 pm
(June 5, 2015 at 11:10 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (June 5, 2015 at 8:56 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: When you think you are about to die, you'll be ready to get serious with God.
You're quite mistaken. I've been in that situation twice, and that fact can be attested to personally by another person on this forum (Kitty Galore).
At no time during either ordeal did I even give a single thought to "God".
This caricature of atheists that you've constructed isn't even amusing, it's insulting.
Are you suggesting that I should believe your personal testimony concerning what you experienced and reported in your written account above?
Is this something you would be willing to testify to under oath in a court of law? And your eye-witness, Kitty?
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RE: Why be good?
June 6, 2015 at 4:52 pm
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Think we've finally driven this one over the edge into creeper territory. Shows the inanity of his apologetic style, though, eh? Out of one side of his mouth he thanks us...and the other...like the fucking gestapo... demands that we make an account of our our papers.
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RE: Why be good?
June 6, 2015 at 4:53 pm
(June 5, 2015 at 8:56 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: There are no atheists in foxholes. When you think you are about to die, you'll be ready to get serious with God.
Ever been charged by a full grown mountain lion?!? I have and can state with absolute certainty that the all consuming terror leaves absolutely no room for any thought of mythical creatures.
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RE: Why be good?
June 6, 2015 at 4:54 pm
(June 6, 2015 at 4:43 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Would you be willing to testify under oath - and I remind you of the penalties for perjury - that what you wrote previously was the truth?
Anything to deny us our voices in favor of sticking your own baseless, ill informed bilge in its place, eh shitstain? 
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RE: Why be good?
June 6, 2015 at 4:56 pm
(June 6, 2015 at 4:48 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Are you suggesting that I should believe your personal testimony concerning what you experienced and reported in your written account above?
Oh, so NOW you're a skeptic?
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RE: Why be good?
June 6, 2015 at 4:59 pm
Yes, it's interesting how we're expected to swallow personal testimonies wholecloth and without question, yet we have to bring a note from home.
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RE: Why be good?
June 6, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Oh, and actually? Yes, I would happily testify in court about my experiences with my wife, and so would she. We could probably even furnish the medical reports to prove it; we still have the one from her latest surgery, last month, close at hand.
What the fuck now, Randy?
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RE: Why be good?
June 6, 2015 at 5:02 pm
(June 6, 2015 at 4:48 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Are you suggesting that I should believe your personal testimony concerning what you experienced and reported in your written account above?
Is this something you would be willing to testify to under oath in a court of law? And your eye-witness, Kitty?
Wow. You are fucking desperate to cling to your platitudes and presuppositional beliefs, aren't you.
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