Off Topic

religion

106 replies · 4,571 views
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Ubergunner I belong to a sect that believes in the Turtle but holds that the elephants do not in fact exist. We have faith in the turtle and denounce those who waste time on praise of the elephants. This belief is founded on secret papers revealed not to the prophet Pratchett but to a wandering businessman in Morepork.
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
which is the point really I find most religions talk absolute bollocks most of the time
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Anyone see Louis Theroux last night? The story of the Phelps. Amercia's anti-homosexual propagandist family.Google Westboro baptist church for more.
The sort of people who give religion a bad name.
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
kiwi pie wrote:
All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and you are the imagination of yourself.
 
...here's John with the weather
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
kiwi pie wrote:
All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and you are the imagination of yourself.
 
haha bill hix, classic
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
sanday wrote:
Anyone see Louis Theroux last night? The story of the Phelps. Amercia's anti-homosexual propagandist family.Google Westboro baptist church for more.
The sort of people who give religion a bad name.
 
Yer i saw it.  Gees there are some f%^ked up people in the world. I just feel sorry for the children who seemed to be brainwashed by there extemist parets.  Picketing anyones funerals is just plan wrong.
 
..on another Loius Theroux eposide he went to a neo-nazi family who didnt reaslise he was Jewish.  Should have seen the facial expression on the familyies faces when Lous told them. Classic.
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
sanday wrote:
Anyone see Louis Theroux last night? The story of the Phelps. Amercia's anti-homosexual propagandist family.Google Westboro baptist church for more.
The sort of people who give religion a bad name.
 
yes i saw it, twas discusting, their perspective of the bible was everything that the bible is against, they didnt want US to goto war, not because they dont like war but because they dont beleive iraq should be saved(americas version of forcing democracy) due to the islam religion lol, Where was WAR IS BAD in their attempted arguement geeeeeeez
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Yea i dont agree with organised religion, just due to the fact that its had to many people playing apart in what a specific religions morals and beliefs etc and input was more beneficial for themselves..in short term "too much chinese whispers" i do believe in a god (god, not some dude chilling in the sky judging us our our peformances on earth) but god being everything and that explains as to the beginning of the universe etc etc
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
sanday wrote:
Anyone see Louis Theroux last night? The story of the Phelps. Amercia's anti-homosexual propagandist family.Google Westboro baptist church for more.
The sort of people who give religion a bad name.


CULT

man that chick was gagging for it, Louis did a great job of flirting with her slightly.The leader guy was a psycho!
I like tautologies because I like them.
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
she was tappable eh, damn sux she was brain washed all that potential haha
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Cosimo wrote:
sanday wrote:
Anyone see Louis Theroux last night? The story of the Phelps. Amercia's anti-homosexual propagandist family.Google Westboro baptist church for more.
The sort of people who give religion a bad name.


CULT

man that chick was gagging for it, Louis did a great job of flirting with her slightly.The leader guy was a psycho!
 
 
Heathens and sinners, all of you. You're all going to Hell   
Jag2008-02-05 09:29:22

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
i hope there is a lot of chicks in hell
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

No belief in religion, they all just steal fables off each other. For example Christianity stole Christmas from the Romans, it was originally a massive end of harvest festival called Saturnalia and everybody loved this festival so they needed something equally cool to help people convert to Christianity. But the Romans stole half their stories of the Greeks - ie the Greek Zeus and the Roman Jupiter are the same person, and most of the stories are the same but with different names (ie Hercules/Herakles).

That's my rant, and I'm not one to judge, people can believe in what they want as long as it doesn't affect me, I don't push my views on others (except for this rant I guess, but it was asked for!) because I don't like others pushing their views on me!
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
jamesnz wrote:
UberGunner wrote:
BTW I'm Agnostic. Anything is possible, as long as its provable.
 
Isn't that a bit of a contradiction? The nature of god is such that his existance can't be proven - at least scientifically. I would have thought the agnostic believes god's existance is a possibility, but only because it's more or less impossible to prove that he/she/it doesn't.
 
Proving the non-existance of anything is always pretty hard...
 
have you heard of CERN in europe, that is god or so scientists believe it will be, CERN is 26km ring under the ground the slams 2 protons togetherat such a speed that creates a similar effect to that inwhich is the big bang
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Which proves nothing. Nothing at all.

Science is quite lacking in proof. It has lots of "proof by example" and observation, but little concrete proof. And crashing protons together is nothing new...
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Lonegunmen wrote:
Dislexics of the world untie
 
Hey be nice! I recently found out I was dislexic...I didn't know I was until I went to a toga party dressed as a goat!
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
yomcat wrote:
Which proves nothing. Nothing at all.

Science is quite lacking in proof. It has lots of "proof by example" and observation, but little concrete proof. And crashing protons together is nothing new...
 
yea i dont believe that science will ever explain everything, science is just a bunch of equations that scientist use to claim they know how and why, there are things that equations will never be able to explain, quantum physicis is a rather interesting concept
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
kiwi pie wrote:
Lonegunmen wrote:
Dislexics of the world untie
 
Hey be nice! I recently found out I was dislexic...I didn't know I was until I went to a toga party dressed as a goat!
 
I'm actually in tears over all these jokes!
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
beav/ars4life wrote:
quantum physicis is a rather interesting concept


Ah, the joys of PHYS214...
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Cern, They made an appearance in Dan Brown's Angels & Demons??
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
beav/ars4life wrote:
quantum physicis is a rather interesting concept
I love quantum, mainly because I like stuff that is screwed up, as some people will say just like me. And not screwed up in a bad way, a good way of screwed up ness, which is possible. If that makes any sense, the only English I ever learnt was in French.
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
orilla wrote:
beav/ars4life wrote:
quantum physicis is a rather interesting concept
I love quantum, mainly because I like stuff that is screwed up, as some people will say just like me. And not screwed up in a bad way, a good way of screwed up ness, which is possible. If that makes any sense, the only English I ever learnt was in French.
 
ahhh yes 1 of those abstract potentials huh??
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Why are French road signs always in English letters and not French?
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Lonegunmen wrote:
Why are French road signs always in English letters and not French?
Because French and English letters are the same.
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
lol that seems like a logical explanation...i had no idea
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
orilla wrote:
Lonegunmen wrote:
Why are French road signs always in English letters and not French?
Because French and English letters are the same.
 
Purely FYI - They are referred to as Roman Letters
 
 
p.s. In answer of the OP. Atheist. 
dairyflat2008-02-05 14:50:45
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Lonegunmen wrote:
Why are French road signs always in English letters and not French?


Because they use waterproof paint - so dont need the rubber coating.

I think you joke was obscured by the generation gap! :)

When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ginger_eejit wrote:
Lonegunmen wrote:
Why are French road signs always in English letters and not French?


Because they use waterproof paint - so dont need the rubber coating.

I think you joke was obscured by the generation gap! :)
 
I think you're right, Waste of a good pun. Still, you got the joke, one is better than none.
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Just so there's no confusion...
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Non believer (different to atheism in my eyes, which, as I understand it, has a position of arguing the non existence of a divine creator. Must be difficult to 'prove' there is no such thing, as how can you disprove something based on faith?!).

Someone find out what the term is for such a position as mine (Yomcat rises to such challenges), as I can't remember off the top of my head and my vocabulary needs expanding (although I tend to narrow it to a few choice examples of the anglo-saxon vernacular when watching Spurs and the Nix!)

Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
HarryHotspur wrote:
Non believer (different to atheism in my eyes, which, as I understand it, has a position of arguing the non existence of a divine creator. Must be difficult to 'prove' there is no such thing, as how can you disprove something based on faith?!).

Someone find out what the term is for such a position as mine (Yomcat rises to such challenges), as I can't remember off the top of my head and my vocabulary needs expanding (although I tend to narrow it to a few choice examples of the anglo-saxon vernacular when watching Spurs and the Nix!)



i think the term is "heathen" or "infidel"
I like tautologies because I like them.
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Atheism has two meanings

1) Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods
2)The doctrine that there is no God or gods
 
You may mean agnositic if i read you right. That is..
1) One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
2) One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
dairyflat wrote:

Just so there's no confusion...


LG - They still don't get it!?!?

When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
we do. 

p.s. Further back I said atheist. So just for clarity I do mean atheist and in the terms 1 and 2 of 2ndbest's post.

Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I had a friend who is a physicist who worked at CERN.
It's on the border of Switzerland and France, but not officially in either country.

The entrance is on the Swiss side, but he lived in France, so he had to cross a border twice a day.

And it has an Ernest Rutherford St (look on a $100 note if you don't know who he is)
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

God said to Adam, "I've got some good news and some bad news. First the good news. I have given you a brain and a penis. The bad news... I've only given you enough blood to work one of them at a time!"

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
2ndBest wrote:

Atheism has two meanings


1) Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods

2)The doctrine that there is no God or gods
�

You may mean agnositic if i read you right.�That is..

1) One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.

2) One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism


Neither, Atheisim or Agnosticism, as I remember it...I'll do some of my own donkey work and report back (as if anyone is bothered!.) But thanks for the assistance: clearly meaning 1 of agnosticism is closest!
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
ok so here's a question. I was driving over the Haywards the other day and looking at all the beautiful farm land, and I saw this cow and a calf walkin side by side, and my initial thought was god damn that must be painful to give birth to.
So then I'm thinking, God punished Eve for taking the apple by giving her the pain of childbirth, wtf did the poor cow do to have to push something like that out??
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
HarryHotspur wrote:
Non believer (different to atheism in my eyes, which, as I understand it, has a position of arguing the non existence of a divine creator. Must be difficult to 'prove' there is no such thing, as how can you disprove something based on faith?!).

Someone find out what the term is for such a position as mine (Yomcat rises to such challenges),

nullifidian
Permalink Permalink
about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
HarryHotspur wrote:
Non believer (different to atheism in my eyes, which, as I understand it, has a position of arguing the non existence of a divine creator. Must be difficult to 'prove' there is no such thing, as how can you disprove something based on faith?!).

Someone find out what the term is for such a position as mine (Yomcat rises to such challenges), as I can't remember off the top of my head and my vocabulary needs expanding (although I tend to narrow it to a few choice examples of the anglo-saxon vernacular when watching Spurs and the Nix!)



supine
Permalink Permalink