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Offline Chairboy

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« Reply #45 on: January 12, 2004, 09:11:31 PM »
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So did you have any problem with this threads author generalizing religion and its tie to violence

I'm not certain you read his message, he mentioned that two specific religions had violent connotations with him, then proceeded to list some that didn't.  Does that straw man come with a hat?
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« Reply #46 on: January 13, 2004, 08:48:25 AM »
In my experience when athiests are confronted with unexpected and immediate death they pray to God.  Not mom, or dad.
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« Reply #47 on: January 13, 2004, 08:54:06 AM »
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Of course, we all know that if you cannot see it, then it don't exist....sorry, I forgot that logic.


so you're saying beet1e is only a BBS entity?

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« Reply #48 on: January 13, 2004, 08:56:57 AM »
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Originally posted by Yeager
In my experience when athiests are confronted with unexpected and immediate death they pray to God.  Not mom, or dad.


that's an extreme way of spreading the word, yeager... and very illegal.  hope you don't get cuaght.

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« Reply #49 on: January 13, 2004, 09:11:03 AM »
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What is gained by the one dying with their stoic adherence to their belief that they are about to forever cease to exist?


Dignity.

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« Reply #50 on: January 13, 2004, 09:27:03 AM »
What is gained by the one dying with their stoic adherence to their belief that they are about to forever cease to exist?
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Dignity.

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Only up to the point where the person ceases to exist.  After that they wont care about dignity.  In fact after death, the whole experience of ones life becomes non existant and of no value whatsoever to the person who just expired.

In the final analysis, when the last human being dies, nothing that ever happened throughout history has any value.  None, zero....nadda.  The whole excercise of life is in fact, a total waste of time because after death, being born never really happened :D
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« Reply #51 on: January 13, 2004, 09:47:09 AM »
how did the dinosaurs miss the ark?

why didn't the fish drown in the flood?  they sure weren't on the ark. (read vewwy carefully the passages abut the flood). is the answer really 42?
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« Reply #52 on: January 13, 2004, 11:59:18 AM »
Science vs. creationism in 5...4...3...

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« Reply #53 on: January 13, 2004, 12:46:21 PM »
i'm bored.

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« Reply #54 on: January 13, 2004, 12:58:28 PM »
Life is a death sentence. I'm an atheist. After my death, I'll probably be pushing up daisies somewhere....but that's just me.
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« Reply #55 on: January 14, 2004, 04:20:16 AM »
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so you're saying beet1e is only a BBS entity?
I thank you not to mention my name in a thread which has "religion" in the title.