JoeUser ForumsBut then I don't know if I'm qualified to answer as I'm not really one of the 'Religious' of JU either. Neither am I. But that won't stop me trying. I would venture to sa
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I am not responding to answer the question, just saying thanks to you for asking it. Alrighty then. And you're welcome.
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( WWW Link ) I'd like to invite you to a conversation. But I'll understand if you're afraid.
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"In that event, we are finding fault in His System of Justice if we lament our misfortunes-- because we earned these misfortunes ourselves in the first place by our own deeds, and He Law punished us. So, a good Christian BOWS to HIS Justice. This not only lessens our pain but also moves Him to remit the punishment-- because we have REFORMED the way we relate to Him, His beings and our own inner selves." ( <a href="http://emperoroficecream.j
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I'm tired of you, you so-called 'religious'. You prate your pious nothings, endlessly quoting scripture you don't comprehend and expounding dogmas you have no understanding of. As I've said many times, your gods are delusions and your faith no more than over-anxious self-deceit. So now I'm come to challenge you with a question. Christians may answer it. Musli
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Aeryck is correct. Being a christian is not an easy choice. Being charitable is not easy - when charity is a matter of simply giving some of what you have, no matter how little that is, to someone who has less. When charity is not an action, but an attitude and a conviction that leads to acts which are not seen in public, which go unnanounced and unrewarded. By all means tithe. But give to others as well. Christianity is difficult wh
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All of the foregoing, every comment, illustrates exactly what logomachia is. Opposing positions, constantly reiterated, without possibility of resolution. Stubbyfinger - knowing you know nothing doesn't make you an agnostic, it makes you someone who knows the limits of his own understanding. And as the history of all the commonly favored religions shows we can indeed will something out of nothing. And yes, we are gods. Mortal gods. And if you
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if we could will truth into existence we would be gods. But we can.
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There are very few benefits to the study of philosophy - other than coming to know the truth and falling in love with it, of course. Other than that, the study of philosophy teaches you two things. It teaches you yourself, and it teaches you the world. Not the world as it actually is, of course, but the world as we consider it to be. I would like to tell yo
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The English Royal Navy does something very similar I know, though I'm not at all certain that it has the same divisions and particular types of trials. Other than that, I suggest you never refer to an English RNS (Royal Navy Serviceman) as a Wog - especially if he's black. 'Wog' is the English equivalent of 'Nigger'. All terribly manly, serious stuff, annd congratulations on becoming someone who has plucked a cherry from the navel of
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Well, that's terribly sweet of you, Gideon. Except that any and all religions that have a defined group of the 'saved' and a defined group of the 'lost' are equally religions of 'hate', just as they are equally religions of 'love'. Define hate as antagonism toward the Other; then all religions that are antagonistic toward the Other (the 'lost', 'infidels', whatever) necessarily become religions of hate. As long as you define yourself by what
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Hell and heaven. What makes you think there's a difference? They're both exactly what you want, seen as it really is.
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those that put their life on the line defending the so called rights of others for one small group. Spare me such nonsense. Most joined for the free education and employment after their tour was up, and are utterly horrified to find that they are now required to fight. Most, not all. Volunteering to joi
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What is the State? The State is an instrument of wider society. It's defining characteristic is possession of a monopoly on all forms of violence. The State has no morality, it has no purpose other than the perpetuation and extension of its own existence, and it has no conscience. Neither has it any rival. The State is not the government. In American terms th
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To: Locamama There's nothing wrong with your personality. But there's an enormous amount wrong with American society. You're hopelessly weak. You're convinced there's some connection between political reality and morality. You're convinced that sex is evil and that something called 'race' matters. Except it's not 'race' that freaks you out, it's skin color. But none of you dare say that because you're terrified of offending somebo
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'Idiocracy' is a wonderful movie, and horribly accurate in its depiction of the present state of American society. The present state of American society. Why else would you idiot sonsofbitches consider a 17 year old incapable of deciding who she will have sex with? While, of course, allowing those 14 and up to marry. There are days I'm forced to consider the possibility that, as a people, you're too stupid to be allowed to live
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I'm English by ancestry, and that means I am a propenent of the authority of the State by nature, breeding, and inclination. England is not the country most Americans imagine it to be. It is by nature Authoritarian, secretive, and indifferent to the privileges granted, over the ages, by the Crown to the subjects of the Crown's dispensation. Let one small ex
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I can imagine some of the responses I'm likely to get to this. "If you don't like it here then leave". Leave? Leave , you stupid son of a whore? I've spent the better part of five years and 10,000 dollars in the process of becoming a citizen. A process I've undertaken because I both love and believe in this country - despite its bizarre obsessions over race and sex (to name but two), and despite the incomprehensible habit its native citi
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Something that has impressed me in the worst possible way is this nation's preoccupation with what can only be called 'getalongness'. So long as everyone likes each other, so long as everyone gets along with each other, so long as everyone feels part of the team (no matter how utterly incompetent any given part of the team is), American employers would rather hire the
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To: Adventure-Dude However where we do differ is in the acceptance of the New Testament Messiah I think you have misunderstood me, a little. While I was at one time one of those who accepted the 'New Testament Messiah' in the Christian sense, those days are long gone. I no longer have any faith
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hey moe! Hey curly!
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That's sweet of you Aeryck. But you remain, as do we all, a nonentity. Nothing personal and it's not your fault. Just one more monkey that thought it could. And as for SC, if I was a praying man I'd pray that he reap the fruit of his prayers, just to see the bloom rubbed from the rose of his insouciance. But I'm not. And as for God being one, I entirely agree. But remember your Neo-platonism, and cease to be so self-satisfied. No matter what you think you know, your God doesn't
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To: Adventure-Dude There's nothing feeble in what you have to say, and I appreciate you taking the time to say it. Thank you. It's a worthy comment. Let me tell you a brief story. I once went to one of those sites online where you can find out what religion you are - it's awhile ago and I no longer remember the name. The site asked some insightful questions which I answered as honestly as I could given the range of options presented t
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SC Be careful whose attention you attract. Of what interest to Kali is the likes of a nonentity such as Aeryck? But you believe in her. And gods of any description have an inordinate interest in those who believe in them. Particularly those believers who invoke them lightly. All the gods that be dead, may they live forever. Be wary what you rouse from sleep, lest you be unable to make it sleep again.
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To: lulapilgrim OK, I lied...from the length, that was more than 2 cents worth But a benficent lie, because both interesting and informative - and rather more on topic than KFC's self-obsessed animadversions designed, as always, to turn the topic to her faith in her Lord. Not ev
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