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Why be good?
RE: Why be good?
Tank Girl is one of my favorite movies.  

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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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RE: Why be good?
(June 5, 2015 at 4:43 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: [...]Well, which is it?

Does God, as Christians understand Him, judge harshly and send people who do not deserve it into hell for eternity?

Or is God merciful and allow people who do not deserve it into heaven?

First of all - there is no god. That's what atheists mostly go on about...

Secondly - why would you even think those are mutually exclusive options? Christian version of god is a crappy mythological figure created by bronze-age goat-herders, of course he gets it wrong on both accounts. He threatens eternal punishment for trivialities (like blasphemy, or premarital sex), while gives a loophole for clever sinners, to get into paradise, regardless of their crimes (except blasphemy against the holy spirit, apparently). 
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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RE: Why be good?
(June 5, 2015 at 5:06 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Tank Girl is one of my favorite movies.

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I like the annotations, helpfully pointing out the difference between the two. You just know that someone made a horrible, horrible mistake at some point.

I'll get back under my bridge now.
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: Why be good?
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RE: Why be good?
Yeah, sorry about that. I had a curry.
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: Why be good?
(June 5, 2015 at 4:54 pm)pocaracas Wrote: unless driving the KV-2 with its 152mm Howitzer gun...

Hardly.  I have a fully tricked out KV-2 with the derp gun and I get bounces with HE all the time.  That thing is slooow and the range is abysmal.  It wouldn't suck so bad if it had indirect fire.
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RE: Why be good?
(June 5, 2015 at 4:55 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Define "truth", please.

The KV-1 is the best tier 5 heavy, and that's the truth.
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RE: Why be good?
(June 5, 2015 at 5:08 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:
(June 5, 2015 at 4:43 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: [...]Well, which is it?

Does God, as Christians understand Him, judge harshly and send people who do not deserve it into hell for eternity?

Or is God merciful and allow people who do not deserve it into heaven?

First of all - there is no god. That's what atheists mostly go on about...

Secondly - why would you even think those are mutually exclusive options? Christian version of god is a crappy mythological figure created by bronze-age goat-herders, of course he gets it wrong on both accounts. He threatens eternal punishment for trivialities (like blasphemy, or premarital sex), while gives a loophole for clever sinners, to get into paradise, regardless of their crimes (except blasphemy against the holy spirit, apparently). 

How are you able to judge what is trivial to God

Isn't that just your opinion?

And if he gives a loophole, doesn't He give the same to everyone equally?
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RE: Why be good?
Discussion on the merits of rock crushers in 3...2...1
Hard to imagine that people still believe those things exist...
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RE: Why be good?
Talking of HE bounces: Not specifically tank-related - though there was one in the area - I was playing Medal Of Honor Frontline (I think) once and I'd climbed to the top of the inside of a church tower in a French village. Somehow I'd managed to mess with the weapons physics, I forget how. Anyway, I'd ended up with rubber handgrenades. I peered down the centre of the stairwell and dropped one down it. It fell about forty feet, bounced, then came straight back up and blew my head off. It was like something out of a Road Runner cartoon.
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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