Moi Dix Mois on 13/9/2007 at 08:04
Quote Posted by fett
HAY GUYS
Well, I said it mostly because, although I'm not religious myself, I get tired of being beaten over the head with ATHEISM ATHEISM ATHEISM in every thread that discusses religion. You obviously know more than most people on these topics and I enjoy your posts.
I'll stop dribbling on your balls now.
Shayde on 13/9/2007 at 08:07
Quote Posted by BR796164
Stitchy
O NO HE DIDN'T!
Mr.Duck on 13/9/2007 at 08:10
(Sorry guys for derailing the thread with another derailment...just getting this out of the way and moving along now).
Quote Posted by Gloria Creep
MrDuck: I think you're a coward! Sorry for stating my mind! But I'm getting a bit more offensive here right now.
I liked the irony, but it stopped after you were cheering some posts :nono:
Welcome to Commchat.
Why yes, I hide under the anonymus principle of the Net and was looking to amuse you with irony (sarcasm, lads, sarcasm). And don't be sorry for being silly and thinking silly things and then expressing them over the Internet, be as you feel like it, just be prepared for some backlash from time to time. (Mind you, I'll cheer whomever I feel like cheering, so, cheers).
Don't like the soup?, stay for the rump roast.
Seriously, this thread goes on and on while the relevant points, imho, have been addressed. Can't we all just get along or crack some heads so things settle back to normal?
Gimme back my Internet.
ilweran on 13/9/2007 at 10:59
Quote Posted by SD
If you believe in God, it's only natural you want to find a place for him in the scheme of things. The trouble for believers is that his role has been gradually reduced over time from designer and builder of everything you see around you to passive observer and occasional branch-shaker.
I'm not Christian, and my views & beliefs are my own but I do believe in some form of god/ess
I don't think god/ess created anything and I don't think humans have any special place or hold much interest for him/her/it. All the gods and godesses that have been worshipped by humans were created by humans and bear no relation to god/ess.
Everything else, people trying to fill gaps in knowledge by saying it's God, persisting in belief in creationism or whatever, is actually about believing that human life is important to someone other than ourselves, when really the universe doesn't care and we're completely insignificant.
Quote Posted by Dia
It's the flag-waving, 'you're either with or you're against us' bullshit propaganda that gets stuck in my gullet. I'm thoroughly dismayed and disgusted that the tragedy of 9/11 gets used repeatedly as a soapbox for pro-war and retaliation against terrorism
This might be totally unfair as we're talking about a very small minority of Americans and an impression gained from UK media, but I'm saying it anyway.
I got the impression that the US was outraged and shocked that anyone would dare do this to them and that they should somehow be immune to something like this happening and it made me wonder how those Irish Americans who supported the IRA felt about terrorism after seeing it a bit closer.
I was in working in a department store when it happened, the news spread as people came back off breaks and the store became eerily quiet because of the lack of customers. Everyone took it in turns to go up to the staff canteen to 'have a drink' and watch the news and there were whispered discussions on what the US was going to do, what war would be started over it.
Stitch on 13/9/2007 at 13:45
Quote Posted by BR796164
stuff
Ah, I see. The problem here is you don't actually understand what evolution
is. Fair enough.
Quote Posted by BR796164
And you are often so vocal on the internet, Stitchy. :sly:
someone's got to keep you retards in line
Rogue Keeper on 13/9/2007 at 13:56
I had a very pretty book about the evolution of hominides as a kid and I was quite addicted to it, mind you.
But you're an anthropologist?
Dia on 13/9/2007 at 14:02
Quote Posted by ilweran
This might be totally unfair as we're talking about a very small minority of Americans and an impression gained from UK media, but I'm saying it anyway.
Not unfair in the least and not as small a minority as you'd like to think. Though their ranks have been shrinking with each passing year, there's still a hardcore group of 'America, love it or leave it' and 'Let's just nuke the shit outta them & be done with it' types over here. And though it seemed nearly everyone here in the US was a staunch flag-waver immediately after 9/11, it's amazing how many people are not so much waving their flags anymore as flying them quietly at half mast, especially when they realized that the statistics and collateral damages were actually once living, breathing human beings and somebody's husband, wife, or child, etc. (and that there never were WMDs in Iraq) (at least not after the 90's).
There are still many who try to justify the war on Iraq by trotting out their rather well-worn flags and start twisting and using the facts of 9/11 as ammunition for their argument that the US was right to wage war on Iraq. And, who remain stubbornly convinced that this war was a Just and Noble retaliation to terrorism on our soil; casualties and collateral damages (and oil rights) notwithstanding. Those are the people who make me see red and unfortunately, one runs into that type around here on an almost weekly basis. Especially out here in the boonies. (Go figure.)
Rant over.
P.S. Sorry; don't mean to sound as though I'm attacking you ilweran. Not the case. Just a sore subject with me.
PigLick on 13/9/2007 at 15:22
rhinestone shades or cheap sunglasses?
PigLick on 13/9/2007 at 15:23
lord, take me downtown
Stitch on 13/9/2007 at 15:27
Quote Posted by BR796164
But you're an anthropologist?
Nope, just a guy owning you on the internet.
Anyway, your last couple posts are essentially a load of misguided horseshit that I'm disinclined to wade through and sully myself with. That may seem like a cop out, but I don't have Monkeysee's patience to engage in this sort of thing anymore. You will, I'm sure, reply to this with a feckless zing that only serves to further establish as delusion your belief that we're even operating on the same level, and for that I, as an enabler, apologize to the rest of TTLG.
On the upside, to those of you believing in both evolution and god, rock on.
