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The Not-so-elephant In The Room
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RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 10, 2015 at 6:32 pm (This post was last modified: December 10, 2015 at 6:32 pm by Napoléon.)
(December 10, 2015 at 6:28 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: Is it really? I could only imagine that mattered if you somehow feared your position on the matter is liable to change.

Well the reality is that nothing at all matters; but with regards to how I feel about other idiots in the world, knowing I'm not one of them gives me a serious dose of intellectual superiority and that satisfies my ego enough not to give a toot.
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RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 10, 2015 at 6:32 pm (This post was last modified: December 10, 2015 at 6:33 pm by Iroscato.)
(December 10, 2015 at 6:29 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote:
(December 10, 2015 at 6:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Live and let live. If a person is a good person and isn't harming anyone, then I don't see why it should bother you whether or not they believe in God.

No. I will vote to send you to the gas chambers any minute now.

What the figurative fuck...
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RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 10, 2015 at 6:33 pm
(December 10, 2015 at 6:32 pm)Kaiser Wrote:
(December 10, 2015 at 6:29 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: No. I will vote to send you to the gas chambers any minute now.

What the figurative fuck...

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RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 10, 2015 at 6:33 pm
(December 10, 2015 at 6:32 pm)Kaiser Wrote:
(December 10, 2015 at 6:29 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: No. I will vote to send you to the gas chambers any minute now.

What the figurative fuck...

Exactly.
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RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 10, 2015 at 6:36 pm
I believe in God, and if anyone has a problem with it they can suck my vajay.
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RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 10, 2015 at 6:36 pm
(December 10, 2015 at 6:25 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote:
(December 10, 2015 at 6:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There are a lot of idiots in the world.


And you're sure you're not being one of them right now, are you?

Pretty much...unless you have evidence that those fairy tales are real which I strongly doubt.
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RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 10, 2015 at 6:37 pm
(December 10, 2015 at 6:32 pm)Napoléon Wrote:
(December 10, 2015 at 6:28 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: Is it really? I could only imagine that mattered if you somehow feared your position on the matter is liable to change.

Well the reality is that nothing at all matters; but with regards to how I feel about other idiots in the world, knowing I'm not one of them gives me a serious dose of intellectual superiority and that satisfies my ego enough not to give a toot.

So here's where you seem to be confused about things, or at least misleading in how you present your take on the matter at hand. Your own well-being matters to you, therefore things do matter. Mayhaps not in a universal way, for the purpose of this conversation, but on a lesser, human scale, things do matter. Surely, you hold that to be the case?
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RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 10, 2015 at 6:37 pm
I cope with it by joining a message board and talking about it amongst like-minded people. I realize that if you grow up hearing something over and over again, especially if the elders will badger you into agreeing with them (or worse), then you're going to start believing it. No matter how silly or easily refuted that belief is. Humans are superstitious, and don't like change, so it's hard to cast aside outdated beliefs.
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A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 10, 2015 at 6:38 pm
(December 10, 2015 at 6:36 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I believe in God, and if anyone has a problem with it they can suck my vajay.

I conveniently have a problem with your belief in god.
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RE: The Not-so-elephant In The Room
December 10, 2015 at 6:40 pm
(December 10, 2015 at 6:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
(December 10, 2015 at 6:25 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: And you're sure you're not being one of them right now, are you?

Pretty much...unless you have evidence that those fairy tales are real which I strongly doubt.


I was implying you were being an idiot yourself because of your unsophisticated response.
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