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Offline Fineus

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Which effectively means that all Christians trying to convert others are wasting their time. Also, it means "God" couldn't care less if people worshiped him or not.

Bring on the napalm / Bible quotes ;)

 

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Which effectively means that all Christians trying to convert others are wasting their time. Also, it means "God" couldn't care less if people worshiped him or not.

Bring on the napalm / Bible quotes ;)


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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill

 

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Whoops - that'll teach me to read the whole post - I mistook what neo_hermes said for an actual Bible quote as opposed to his own dogma :)

 

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Whoops - that'll teach me....



And just in case it didn't.... *lecture lecture lecture*
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill

 

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Which effectively means that all Christians trying to convert others are wasting their time.


are you a telepath?

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What is the point of this thread? We take a poll, and if the majority votes that aliens exist, then that somehow makes it true? Belief or lack theirof in extraterrestrial existence is significant in any way, even given that we have no way to prove or disprove such and it has utterly no bearing on anything we will ever do unless we encounter such life?

Or is this just another "post your forgettable personal opinion so that people may form into ideological camps and throw inaccuracies at each other until we're all bored and forget about it entirely" thread? Unless there's some truly bizarre ulterior motive at work in the creation of this thread, it's just idle post-whoring.


That said, sure, aliens exist. I shoot at them with lasers all the time. They come to rape cattle and abduct hillbillies for joyrides, because the outer rim of the Galaxy is really just one big Alabama.

 

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I think the poll was just the guy was curius as to the percentages,
and beond that I think your discription of it's nature is fairly acurate, so it's just like all discusion threads on HLP or 98% of all other internet forums
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the bible codes are sort of interesting in a mathmatical sence that if you get enough text put into a certan arangement you can get all sorts of interesting combiations of words, they have found similar 'predictions' (odd that all of these predictions are found only after the events ocur) in many other books, like 'War and Peace' and 'Moby Dick'
it is a very interesting phenominon


Interesting choice you mentioned there. I saw a program about the bible codes last week which pretty much debunked them.

The assasination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is often used as proof of the codes but in fact they prove nothing. All the codes turned up where his name and the phrase "Assassin wil assassinate".

When the same method was used for Princess Diana it turned up her name, a similar prediction of death (something about jaws of terror IIRC), the name Henri Paul (the driver of the car) and the name Dodi twice. However this wasn't from the bible but from Moby Dick! Does Moby Dick also have the ability to predict the future in retrospect?

In addition to all of that the guy who did the whole Bible codes things predicted that by 2003 the world would have suffered global economic collapse. On the program he claimed we had so his predictions were correct. I really felt like picking him up, shaking him and saying WHEN! Nothing has happened in the last 5 years that hasn't happened in a worse way before.
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of course aliens exist
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