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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
August 16, 2016 at 2:07 am
(August 15, 2016 at 11:31 pm)Rhythm Wrote: (August 15, 2016 at 2:41 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: True, the ancient celebrity were warriors, kings or gladiators, not actors...they actually did things.
On the same page I read a story about Brad Pitt who wrote a letter to Costco asking them to make sure there chickens were free range and treated well. They're working on it.
When Bard Pitt tells you to be nice to chickens, you be nice to chickens. lol
Yeah, like behead people and press their daughters into sex slavery. The good old days, when there were decent heroes, amiright? Hey, remember when our heroes used to send bears at children, flood out the world...and call grieving mothers a bitch for being part of the wrong tribe? That's what we -used- to "worship".
Personally, I'd call Brad an improvement, even if he is a chicken sympathizer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E88RUqyjts
 ....carry on.  Isn't that all just a fairy tail? Why would you argue as if it was real? Or are you asserting the bible is an accurate historical document?
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
August 16, 2016 at 8:05 am
Brad Pitt is also a fairy tale...it doesn't matter, with regards to what people "worship"....does it?
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
August 16, 2016 at 9:35 am
We stopped inventing gods to actually believe in because they're more trouble than they're worth.
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
August 16, 2016 at 10:15 am
They consolidated. Too many gods to keep up with and sacrifice to (all the good virgins were getting killed) so why not wrap them into one and oh I dunno stop killing the pretty girls. Hey new religion invented all pocket sized and fun. No more need to invent more.
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
August 16, 2016 at 11:39 am
and this either wacky idea of Jesus's, or he's been misconstrued this way, that one can be continuously saved regardless of what some of us might deem to be highly offensive conduct.
I might think if some miscreant were truly perfused with jesusism that it might preclude some of the more odious activities the 'saved' have persisted in doing, but it sure looks like I (and my conservative Methodist upbringing sunday school teachers) are dead wrong about how total fealty and piety to jesus can manifest itself.
Anyhow, the applicability to the topic is, of what use are any other gods when this take on jesusism is essentially 'perfect' for saints and (unrepentant) sinners of all stripes?
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
August 16, 2016 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2016 at 12:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There's nothing perfect about jesusism, as evidenced by the millions of personal jesi(?) inhabiting the minds of the faithful, and our ability to continue..as we always have, to reinvent the divine to suit our mundane needs. To modify the timeless truth to our temporal circumstances.
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
August 16, 2016 at 12:18 pm
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and why are these jesusites loathe to rebuke, castigate and condemn their fellow jesusites that are CLEARLY violating essential tenets of jesusism as clearly spelled out in sacred scripture ??
peoples salvation is at stake here !!! Error in dogma sends otherwise innocent souls to hell for ETERNAL torment !!!
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
August 16, 2016 at 12:19 pm
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Because another's lie exposes ones own, lol.
Those fuckers are crazy..you can't -really- turn a wafer into the body of christ, that's all gibberish. Christ's a disembodied telepath who can grant the wish of immortality! The rank and file does bicker like this...the folks benefitting from the pyramid scheme know better, and so go along to get along. Particularly in the case of a common interest or common opposition.
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RE: Why did we stop inventing gods?
August 16, 2016 at 12:33 pm
(August 14, 2016 at 6:46 pm)firecat318 Wrote: Gods were a way for ancient people to explain the unexplainable - the stars in the sky, the changing of the seasons, the very nature of life itself. With the introduction of the scientific method in the 17th century came a system in which ideas and theories could be tested and evidence could be examined to find answers instead of chalking everything up to an imaginary deity in the sky. Hi, consider introducing yourself and I hope you stick around. 
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