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Hello, everyone.
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#31
RE: Hello, everyone.
January 5, 2011 at 5:15 pm (This post was last modified: January 6, 2011 at 8:35 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
orogenicman Wrote:
(January 3, 2011 at 10:03 am)barboft Wrote: No you can't live your life doubting everything just for the sake of it. You have to have faith in something.

According to who?


It's "whom" after a preposition*. But far more polite than I would have been had I replied. Fortunately for me, my not-suffering-fools-gene kicked in,and I couldn't be bothered

*Sorry, I'm a pedantic old fart.Indubitably

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Edwardo Piet Away
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#32
RE: Hello, everyone.
January 6, 2011 at 7:07 am (This post was last modified: January 6, 2011 at 7:08 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Just because the connotation for pedantry is negative doesn't mean it's a bad thing. "Good" and "bad" are relative. So I wouldn't apologize, Padraic.

I often see pedantry as a virtue. I could sugar-coat my pedantry by saying I'm just being "specific" or "detailed" but negative connotations are awesome!! "Doubt" often has a negative connotation because of the retarded religious cultures we grow up in, but is doubt a bad thing? Fuck no.
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#33
RE: Hello, everyone.
January 6, 2011 at 5:45 pm
padraic Wrote:
orogenicman Wrote:
(January 3, 2011 at 10:03 am)barboft Wrote: No you can't live your life doubting everything just for the sake of it. You have to have faith in something.

According to who?


It's "whom" after a preposition*. But far more polite than I would have been had I replied. Fortunately for me, my not-suffering-fools-gene kicked in,and I couldn't be bothered

*Sorry, I'm a pedantic old fart.Indubitably

Don't worry, Pad; I'm only seventeen and I'm the biggest grammar Nazi on the planet.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken

'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.

'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain

'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
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#34
RE: Hello, everyone.
January 6, 2011 at 5:51 pm
padraic Wrote:*Sorry, I'm a pedantic old fart.Indubitably

But a lovable one! Big Grin
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#35
RE: Hello, everyone.
January 7, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Rayaan Wrote:
(January 2, 2011 at 5:35 pm)GodIsNotGreat Wrote: I'm an agnostic atheist from the UK. Was raised as a Muslim but was never especially devout. I've always had doubts even from an early age, there were many things in Islam that didn't make sense. I succumbed to those doubts after learning about the story of Buraq and finally accepted that Islam was made up. It was a difficult few months for me, I left Islam but I was still confused, stuck in limbo. There were a few lingering doubts which I couldn't remove. A few months later after reading various books, debates and discussions, I realised that I was an atheist.

Another ex-Muslim? Sad

Anyways, welcome to the website of doomed-for-hell kaffirs/mushriks independent rational thinkers.

I know! Isn't it great!
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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#36
RE: Hello, everyone.
January 7, 2011 at 7:22 pm
Skipper Wrote:
(January 3, 2011 at 10:15 am)barboft Wrote: Don't be ridiculous. No one said you're going to go to hell.

We all sin, and unless we except your idea of god and jesus into our hearts and seek forgiveness we are going to hell. Thats right isn't it?

Nope

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#37
RE: Hello, everyone.
January 8, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Your sig says 'the two tenants of atheism', Statler. I wasn't aware that atheism was a landlord. Perhaps you mean 'tenets'? Wink
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken

'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.

'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain

'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
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Edwardo Piet Away
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#38
RE: Hello, everyone.
January 8, 2011 at 12:54 pm
His sig's definition of atheism is erroneous.
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#39
RE: Hello, everyone.
January 8, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Also too big. Big Grin
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