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Apollyphelion said: Instead of piling a shitload of hats on my head, I'd rather just go bald. More honest, plus, more shiny!
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Moonshoe
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Apollyphelion said: Instead of piling a shitload of hats on my head, I'd rather just go bald. More honest, plus, more shiny!

These days, a hat is essential. What with the holes in the ozone layer and global warming, your bald head might get sunburned!
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Apollyphelion
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Moonshoe]
#18742888 - 08/22/13 03:04 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Callousing is pretty good. Don't want the top of my skull to be a baby's ass.
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RiderOnTheStorm
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Moonshoe]
#18742890 - 08/22/13 03:04 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Some of us prefer the sunscreen of reason to the hats of mysticism, faith and dogma.
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KremrBigSikter
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Sunscreen smells funny and leaves you feeling kinda greasy.
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Moonshoe
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RiderOnTheStorm said: Some of us prefer the sunscreen of reason to the hats of mysticism, faith and dogma.
Not all of religion is incompatible with reason. Even the most reasonable and rationale person can find wisdom, beauty and insight in the scriptures of each religion, without ever sacrificing any of his rationality.
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Apollyphelion
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Moonshoe]
#18742938 - 08/22/13 03:13 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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God is like a crazy asshole talking shit on the subway, that mostly rambles about beating women and fisting children
and amidst all this rambling he'll say something like We must love everyone!
Then all of a sudden people hear this and forget what an asshole he is.
It doesn't really take a genius to come up with the morals in the bible however the poetry is pretty genius you can have genius poetry talking about doing dope. Look at Bukowski.
I think religion has had all the cherries picked off the tree already, so lets concentrate on whats in the basket rather than the bare branches and tell god to go kill himself.
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dontknow
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Moonshoe]
#18742989 - 08/22/13 03:30 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said:Many parts of the bible directly contradict other parts
examples pls
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RiderOnTheStorm
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Moonshoe]
#18743020 - 08/22/13 03:42 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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KremrBigSikter said: Sunscreen smells funny and leaves you feeling kinda greasy.
The cheap stuff maybe, the good stuff makes your skin healthier and gives it a nice glow.
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Moonshoe said:
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RiderOnTheStorm said: Some of us prefer the sunscreen of reason to the hats of mysticism, faith and dogma.
Not all of religion is incompatible with reason. Even the most reasonable and rationale person can find wisdom, beauty and insight in the scriptures of each religion, without ever sacrificing any of his rationality.
True, not all of it is, I just find it simpler to be a naturally good and mindful person than to pick and choose silly beliefs and rituals that subtly convey wisdom and lessons that could have been stated plainly in a paragraph rather than be stretched throughout books of inane babble, lies, violence and theocratic manipulation, coded in parables.
To put it simply, I don't need my insights and wisdom all dressed up and buried within a river of shit. I also don't believe that there is wisdom or insight within the "holy" texts that is unattainable through secular and less divisive or perverse mediums.
To each his own though, if you enjoy spending half your day counting beads and bowing to Mecca, more power to you, just never was my thing.
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Tmethyl
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: dontknow]
#18743054 - 08/22/13 03:50 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said:Many parts of the bible directly contradict other parts
examples pls
There are literally hundreds.
PSA 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
JER 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
The shape of the earth
ISA 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
MAT 4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Moonshoe]
#18743062 - 08/22/13 03:51 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Nice post I wish I had more time to read about different religions. It'd be cool if there was an informational podcast or audio... anybody know any?
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dontknow
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Tmethyl]
#18743066 - 08/22/13 03:53 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said:Many parts of the bible directly contradict other parts
examples pls
There are literally hundreds.
PSA 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
JER 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
That's not a contradiction. All you did was take a verse out of context. He's talking about wicked people in Jeremiah 13:14.
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: dontknow]
#18743082 - 08/22/13 03:57 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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It is a direct contradiction, one verse says mercy to all, the next says no mercy and destroy. Context is irrelevant here. The entire book is the "word of god"
One God.
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: dontknow]
#18743102 - 08/22/13 04:01 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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On this common defense
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"It has to be understood in context." I find this amusing because it comes from the same crowd that likes to push likewise extracted verses that support their particular view. Often it is just one of the verses in the contradictory set which is supposed to be taken as THE TRUTH when, if you add more to it, it suddenly becomes "out of context." How many of you have gotten JUST John 3:16 (taken out of all context) thrown at you?
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Moonshoe]
#18743154 - 08/22/13 04:11 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm not convinced there are any real benefits to practicing a religion in the first place. Why would I want to practice more than one?
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Tmethyl
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Heffy]
#18743169 - 08/22/13 04:15 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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He is not telling you to, he is just saying its not impossible or illogical. For those who benefit from religion, it would be optimal to be more open minded and eclectic and extract knowledge from all the best parts of many religions.
Just do what feels good.
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Heffy]
#18743180 - 08/22/13 04:17 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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If I think practicing one religion is illogical, it follows that I would think practicing more than one would be illogical........
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Tmethyl
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Heffy]
#18743208 - 08/22/13 04:24 PM (10 years, 6 months ago) |
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He wasn't writing about you.
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Moonshoe
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: dontknow]
#18752435 - 08/24/13 05:23 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said:Many parts of the bible directly contradict other parts
examples pls
"Interactive map traces 463 of the Bible's contradictions"
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread966425/pg1
"Using data from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible, programmer Daniel G. Taylor created this encyclopedic visualization of 463 of the Bible's major contradictions"
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Re: Practicing all religions [Re: Heffy]
#18752441 - 08/24/13 05:25 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Heffy said: I'm not convinced there are any real benefits to practicing a religion in the first place. Why would I want to practice more than one?
I once took a course on the sociology of aging and dying. One thing that was interesting is that regular church goers live substantially (average seven years I believe) longer than non church goers, even when other factors are controlled for.
So it does seem that there is a health benefit to religious participation. And of course, there are countless benefits to meditation (reduced stress, beneficial changes in the structure of the brain, reduced risk of heart attack etc.).
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