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Offline Flipside

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And here come the Pro-God Busses
on: February 06, 2009, 09:45:07 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7875457.stm

Not that I care about the message, it just makes me chuckle that all this has started here, frankly, I'm beginning both sides would just shut the hell up and let people get on with their lives without having either opinion rammed down their throats. Maybe I should get together my own little campaign.

'All of you, shut up and let us enjoy our lives!'

or maybe

'Our lives would be more enjoyable without arguments on the side of Busses'
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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #1 on: February 06, 2009, 10:59:07 pm
 :lol:
I'll second that. Im sure the rest of the HLP-London Crew will agree as well
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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #2 on: February 06, 2009, 11:50:33 pm
In my opinion there was never a greater waste of money in the history of the world.  Except maybe US presidential election adverts. :rolleyes:
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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #3 on: February 06, 2009, 11:55:35 pm
Quote from: Flipside on February 06, 2009, 09:45:07 pm
'All of you, shut up and let us enjoy our lives!'

Isn't that what the Atheists were asking of the Catholics/Protestants/Muslims/Jews/etc.?
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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #4 on: February 06, 2009, 11:57:05 pm
Quote from: Galemp on February 06, 2009, 11:55:35 pm
Quote from: Flipside on February 06, 2009, 09:45:07 pm
'All of you, shut up and let us enjoy our lives!'

Isn't that what the Atheists were asking of the Catholics/Protestants/Muslims/Jews/etc.?

Not really.
 

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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #5 on: February 06, 2009, 11:59:25 pm
At least your bus system will be well funded because of this.....
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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #6 on: February 07, 2009, 02:14:13 am
:lol:

I never thought of it like that

:wakka:

maybe it is some use if it raises the money to have a decent bus system...

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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #7 on: February 07, 2009, 06:57:58 am
Quote from: Galemp on February 06, 2009, 11:55:35 pm
Quote from: Flipside on February 06, 2009, 09:45:07 pm
'All of you, shut up and let us enjoy our lives!'

Isn't that what the Atheists were asking of the Catholics/Protestants/Muslims/Jews/etc.?

Plenty of Catholics/Protestants/Muslims/Jew/etc. want the same thing; it goes both ways.

EDIT: Better ad; "God is dead, and I killed him"

If I could find a picture of Nietzsche with a hunting rifle I would stick that on the ad as well. It's early in the morning and my photoshop skills aren't at their peak.
 

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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #8 on: February 07, 2009, 07:22:40 am
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The Russian Orthodox Church plans ads on 25 buses that read: "There IS a God, BELIEVE. Don't worry and enjoy your life."

....Or else. :lol:


Am I the only one who finds the shouted imperative to believe rather Orwellian? :D


To be honest I think this is going to end up being another load of advertising that gets paid no attention at all.
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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #9 on: February 07, 2009, 10:34:58 am
Quote from: karajorma on February 07, 2009, 07:22:40 am
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The Russian Orthodox Church plans ads on 25 buses that read: "There IS a God, BELIEVE. Don't worry and enjoy your life."

....Or else. :lol:


Am I the only one who finds the shouted imperative to believe rather Orwellian? :D

It's certainly very Russian. :D
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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #10 on: February 07, 2009, 01:33:42 pm
In Communist Russia, God bothers YOU!
 

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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #11 on: February 07, 2009, 01:59:56 pm
Quote from: karajorma on February 07, 2009, 07:22:40 am
To be honest I think this is going to end up being another load of advertising that gets paid no attention at all.

Well it's certainly caught our attention. :p
 

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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #12 on: February 07, 2009, 02:56:21 pm
Maybe, but we're a bunch of people on a forum who occasionally, by some sheer miracle of fried synapses, become alpha self-important twatts who enter into discussions over Sh!t like this only to have the thread locked two or three pages later.

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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #13 on: February 07, 2009, 03:16:27 pm
Only when self-important twats like you start trying to create problems.

Basically, if you don't like it, don't post in it, but if you are going to deliberately start insulting members or creating a flame war, this thread won't get locked, you'll just end up monkeyed.
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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #14 on: February 07, 2009, 10:19:12 pm
Ack, didn't mean to sound so jaded and bitter. I forgot my sarcasm tags. My bad!

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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #15 on: February 07, 2009, 10:26:24 pm
Heh, fair enough, we all have bitter and twisted moments, but yeah, sarcasm tags help :p
 

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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #16 on: February 07, 2009, 10:30:10 pm
How about "in Soviet Russia, God hears YOU."
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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #17 on: February 07, 2009, 11:29:40 pm
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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #18 on: February 08, 2009, 12:01:04 am
Seriously?  I thought that the article up top was another one of related topic.  That'll show me for skipping the link.

Tell ya what:  Let's compare timestamps on these articles.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0116/p01s04-woeu.html

This one is from Jan. 16

EDIT:  Just checked the stamp on yours.  It's from Feb 6.  The atheist buses came first by a good two and a half weeks.  That puts a little bit of a new twist on this thread, I think.
Quote from: karajorma on February 07, 2009, 07:22:40 am
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The Russian Orthodox Church plans ads on 25 buses that read: "There IS a God, BELIEVE. Don't worry and enjoy your life."

....Or else. :lol:


Am I the only one who finds the shouted imperative to believe rather Orwellian? :D


To be honest I think this is going to end up being another load of advertising that gets paid no attention at all.

Lol, the athiest one says "There's probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life."  Sound familiar?

Am I the only one who finds the imperative to believe there is no God rather Orwellian?  :D
 
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Re: And here come the Pro-God Busses
Reply #19 on: February 08, 2009, 12:23:46 am
The lack of the word 'probably', and the lacks of capitalization on the word 'BELIEVE' is what makes it Orwellian though.

If it had read 'There is no God, so STOP believing and enjoy your life', then it'd be more along the same lines ;)

And why does it put a twist in the thread, the article I actually linked to said exactly the same thing? In fact, the picture directly under the article title is of one of those buses. Even my first comment was about the fact it was annoying to see the two sides having an argument about it all over the sides of public transport.
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