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so I met this christian dude a few years ago
    #12440789 - 04/22/10 10:03 PM (13 years, 11 months ago)

brilliant fuckin dude, his math skills were un-fucking-believable, he seemed to know an amazing amount of shit about almost everything we talked about, whether it be science, philosophy and everything in between... at some point we got on the subject of human nature and how long we've been around and shit like that... this is where shit got weird and I couldn't help but look at him like :what:

this seemingly brilliant dude honestly believed, without a fucking doubt in his mind... that the earth is only a bit more than 5000 years old... I asked "well what about fossils and dinosaur bones and shit?.. seems to me geologists and even anthropologists have proven it's obviously quite a bit older than that" "it says so in the bible man, dinosaur bones aren't real, neither are fossils, it's a conspiracy"

:oogle: :wtf:

I honestly could not comprehend how such a smart dude would think this... still can't

do christians really still think this way??... should they still be considered christians if they don't?... I mean that would go against the teachings of the bible... no?

:shrug:

any christians on here perhaps that could clarify this for me?


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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: LuSiD9] * 1
    #12441042 - 04/22/10 10:50 PM (13 years, 11 months ago)

If I could unearth just one of your pet irrational beliefs, would you then begin to understand?


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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: OrgoneConclusion] * 1
    #12441045 - 04/22/10 10:51 PM (13 years, 11 months ago)

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OrgoneConclusion said:
If I could unearth just one of your pet irrational beliefs, would you then begin to understand?




what?


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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: LuSiD9]
    #12441064 - 04/22/10 10:54 PM (13 years, 11 months ago)

It's all about interpretation. I asked that same question to the jehovahs witnesses that came to my house once and they told me this;

-the bible says that God created the earth in 7 days, but that in Gods eyes a single day and a thousand years could be the same thing. So some christians believe the earth is 7000 years old because they took that super literally, whereas this particular lady at my door said that it was just a rough guideline and so the scientific estimate of 4.5 billion years is still possible depending on how long a single day actually is for "God"

:shrug: bit of a stretch in my opinion.

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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: ApJunkie]
    #12441108 - 04/22/10 11:04 PM (13 years, 11 months ago)

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ApJunkie said:

-the bible says that God created the earth in 7 days, but that in Gods eyes a single day and a thousand years could be the same thing.




  :what:

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So some christians believe the earth is 7000 years old because they took that super literally, whereas this particular lady at my door said that it was just a rough guideline and so the scientific estimate of 4.5 billion years is still possible depending on how long a single day actually is for "God"





  :what: :what:

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:shrug: bit of a stretch in my opinion.





  :lol:  a bit??


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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: LuSiD9]
    #12441164 - 04/22/10 11:17 PM (13 years, 11 months ago)

Either you're easily impressed, or he's an idiot with a good memory for facts but zero logic. A 5,000 year old model of the world is incompatible with intelligence IMO, unless he has some elaborate and interesting theories to back it up. Alien cowboys who steal time by sucking in their farts is more convincing than a biblical account.

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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: ApJunkie]
    #12441365 - 04/22/10 11:55 PM (13 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

ApJunkie said:
It's all about interpretation. I asked that same question to the jehovahs witnesses that came to my house once and they told me this;

-the bible says that God created the earth in 7 days, but that in Gods eyes a single day and a thousand years could be the same thing. So some christians believe the earth is 7000 years old because they took that super literally, whereas this particular lady at my door said that it was just a rough guideline and so the scientific estimate of 4.5 billion years is still possible depending on how long a single day actually is for "God"

:shrug: bit of a stretch in my opinion.




I agree, a day means a day.

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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: LuSiD9]
    #12441470 - 04/23/10 12:16 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

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LuSiD9 said:
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OrgoneConclusion said:
If I could unearth just one of your pet irrational beliefs, would you then begin to understand?




what?




What part is unclear? I used small English words.

You don't understand another's irrational belief, but I would bet you hold several yourself. Seems you may be afraid to explore them - and that is OK.


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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: DieCommie]
    #12441489 - 04/23/10 12:19 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

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I agree, a day means a day.




So if I said, "Back in the day, I was a hippie," you would understand that as meaning one 24 hour period a few decades back?


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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #12442042 - 04/23/10 03:17 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

:sherlock:


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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: LuSiD9]
    #12442198 - 04/23/10 05:29 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

LuSiD9 said:
Quote:

OrgoneConclusion said:
If I could unearth just one of your pet irrational beliefs, would you then begin to understand?




what?





I can't believe you don't understand that. You are just like your "friend" :lol:

Emotional skill and intellectual skill are two different things.


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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #12442551 - 04/23/10 08:39 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

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I agree, a day means a day.




So if I said, "Back in the day, I was a hippie," you would understand that as meaning one 24 hour period a few decades back?




Do you not understand what back in the day means?  Its not the same thing as a day ago, or I was a hippie for a day.

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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: LuSiD9]
    #12442647 - 04/23/10 09:10 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

I guess the rational aptitude of someone is not going to equal in all areas of their map of the world due to emotional hang-ups and such things. Knowledge of the world and its workings isn't indicative of a desire for self-honesty. But it does get a bit weird when you try to imagine how all this varied knowledge he supposedly had accumulated is fitting into his framework of a hardcore Christian universe.

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LuSiD9 said:
Nothing is true, everything is permissible.




What about this quote in your signature? If this is the case then both of your concepts of the history of the earth are valid if I'm not mistaken.

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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: LuSiD9]
    #12443159 - 04/23/10 11:12 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

LuSiD9 said:
brilliant fuckin dude, his math skills were un-fucking-believable, he seemed to know an amazing amount of shit about almost everything we talked about, whether it be science, philosophy and everything in between... at some point we got on the subject of human nature and how long we've been around and shit like that... this is where shit got weird and I couldn't help but look at him like :what:

this seemingly brilliant dude honestly believed, without a fucking doubt in his mind... that the earth is only a bit more than 5000 years old... I asked "well what about fossils and dinosaur bones and shit?.. seems to me geologists and even anthropologists have proven it's obviously quite a bit older than that" "it says so in the bible man, dinosaur bones aren't real, neither are fossils, it's a conspiracy"

:oogle: :wtf:

I honestly could not comprehend how such a smart dude would think this... still can't

do christians really still think this way??... should they still be considered christians if they don't?... I mean that would go against the teachings of the bible... no?

:shrug:

any christians on here perhaps that could clarify this for me?





Why did Bill Hicks' "Relentless" (I believe it was) came to my mind when i read this story???:rolleyes:

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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: LuSiD9]
    #12443221 - 04/23/10 11:26 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

You should ask him about Noah and the arc. When you believe the earth was created by one god, all sorts of magical things can happen.

Its sad because these people teach there children this stuff, giving them no chance of actual learning.

"Look children study this book thats 2000 years old when people believed the earth was flat and thy hung people from crosses because they didn't believe."

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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: Tomandjerry58] * 2
    #12443243 - 04/23/10 11:30 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

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You should ask him about Noah and the arc.




Noah sucked at geometry and always got his sine mixed up with his cosine.


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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #12443301 - 04/23/10 11:43 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

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You should ask him about Noah and the arc.




Noah sucked at geometry and always got his sine mixed up with his cosine.




meh, they are the same thing really.

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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: DieCommie]
    #12443334 - 04/23/10 11:47 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

That is precisely what confused him.


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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: OrgoneConclusion] * 1
    #12443343 - 04/23/10 11:49 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

Did he tell his wife to let him be her derivative so he could be tangent to her curves?


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Re: so I met this christian dude a few years ago [Re: deCypher]
    #12443369 - 04/23/10 11:53 AM (13 years, 11 months ago)

There was this snake couple who could not conceive, so they went to the doctor. He told them to build a table out of wood and to copulate on it. Lo and behold Mrs. Snake had a brood of snakelets.

The moral of the story is... ?


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