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Do church people offend you?
#19073953 - 11/02/13 07:59 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I live in America and christianity is the accepted nature of spirituality. I must admit I am a little offended. We live in a modern world and I have accepted death as being very similiar to certain drugs. I keep thinking when I am exposed to church people, that they will be surprised when they die. They won't go onto a world at all like this one, or with jesus being anymore than a hallucination. I find it offensive that they made illegal things more truthful than what they impose on others. Talking drugs here. Not meth or crack, which they think all drugs are like. But the ones that make you feel like your dying, in a really light and spiritual way.
Are you offended by what remains in power over our freedoms? These old beliefs that jesus is the only way to find goodness?
I am all for whatever gets people through life, but religion seems to impose beliefs on others. I know you can take certain drugs and live a good life. A life with more insight, intensity and passion. Most laws in America are highly influenced by christan modes of thought. Do you find this offensive? Do you think the war of cultures, based on a war of spiritual beliefs to be wrong?
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy] 2
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Christianity or churchgoers are not number one on the list of Americas problem in my opinion, far from it, if anything a resurgence of true Christian values is one of the only things that could save the west from it's current influences, hardly anyone goes to church anymore anyway & the political/media/legal/banking structure does not adhere to Christian values at all, so America if anything is the opposite of a society under the influence of Christianity, and this is no mistake
The 'war of cultures' that have been going on are somewhat about spiritual beliefs, but not due to differences between Christian views & other religious views which are all fundamentally peaceful religions, from what i understand it's more to do with Zionism/Satanism and it's war against ALL religion
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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no, because i don't associate with "church people"
but churches in general offend me.
although i do admire the philosophy of many saints and revered christians of old.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Chronic7]
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The Chronic said: Christianity or churchgoers are not number one on the list of Americas problem in my opinion, far from it, if anything a resurgence of true Christian values is one of the only things that could save the west from it's current influences, hardly anyone goes to church anymore anyway & the political/media/legal/banking structure does not adhere to Christian values at all, so America if anything is the opposite of a society under the influence of Christianity, and this is no mistake
The 'war of cultures' that have been going on are somewhat about spiritual beliefs, but not due to differences between Christian views & other religious views which are all fundamentally peaceful religions, from what i understand it's more to do with Zionism/Satanism and it's war against ALL religion
Wow! I dunno. It seems church people founded America and with the idea that hard work is god blessed. Seems they gave the government a system of faith. They actually gave the gov a system of mistrust, but most people practice democracy with a system of faith.
It seems that church people think they are correct and better than everything else. So they wage war against what they see as a lesser valued system. I tend to agree that many other ways are not favorable.
I suppose my problem is the war on drugs. There are natural and semi-synthetic drugs that really have high rates of experiences that transcend normal imaginations of what higher powers are like. I have known church go'ers that have used these substances. But their pracites reading the bible seem off.
This isn't really about what's wrong with the USA. The USA are humans so there will always be misguided human interests. But I do think that if they had accepted psycadelic pracites, they wouldn't have the dual christian mindset. The attitude that they are supreme, good and holy while all other beliefs are illegal or misguided.
I'm sure I have had real experiences with much more validity than someone who reads the bible as if it were fact. I know what's true and what's real. I have tasted the divine on many occasions. I've discovered lies because I've found the truth.
Just saying that if they were no so caught up in their private religious practices, they would allow to a greater degree certain plants, fungi and semi-synthetic allies.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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sounds like you need the butthurt thread
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: stzacrack]
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Christians that actually believe in a talking snake, burning bush, and walking on water are retarded plain and simple. Even if all that Shit really did happen, theres no reason other than indoctrination, retardism, and gullibility to believe that psycho Shit.
Seriously, its as retarded as believing Buddha sat under the bodhi tree for a litteral year, but hey, at least that's actually possible.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: B_BOY]
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I just think that at it's core, peoples idea of what is greater, is their foundation of everything they do. Lot's of people go to church in America. They eat it up in droves. They are offended that science can great experiences of god. That their is biology of the mind, that creates after life. It's not that these drugs are that dangeroQuote:
B_BOY said: sounds like you need the butthurt thread
You must be catholic.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
#19074417 - 11/02/13 10:18 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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why would that make me catholic? 
so far this thread is a
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: B_BOY]
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Because you talk about butt hurting, seems catholic. I suppose you enjoy the christian nature of prison. If you don't like the thread, stay out.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
#19074464 - 11/02/13 10:26 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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lmao you post nothing but garbage anyways, let me guess, you are just a Liberal, now that makes sense.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: B_BOY]
#19074473 - 11/02/13 10:28 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't have a political standing. I'm not sure what is the matter with you. You seem to take offense easily.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: B_BOY]
#19074474 - 11/02/13 10:28 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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He's Christian and he's shitting on this thread because he knows believing in a bearded MAN (with a cock) in the sky who is omnipotent but who doesn't ever appear and help people is retarded.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
#19074499 - 11/02/13 10:33 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Lmao look at your post. Who took offense easily? now i am done have a great day melting over people's choices.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: B_BOY]
#19074508 - 11/02/13 10:37 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Jeebus died for our sins, ET, now go to confession.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: B_BOY]
#19074514 - 11/02/13 10:38 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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B_BOY said: Lmao look at your post. Who took offense easily? now i am done have a great day melting over people's choices.
You call the prospect of prison, loss of all personal property and the destructing of a very ancient way of life.......being offended EASILY?
You don't know reality as it is son!
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
#19074519 - 11/02/13 10:39 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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and you sir make no sense, go back to all your failed attempts at cultivating Morels
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: B_BOY]
#19074528 - 11/02/13 10:41 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hail magic book that hates homosexuals, blacks, women, and people who eat seafood,
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: B_BOY]
#19074538 - 11/02/13 10:44 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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B_BOY said: and you sir make no sense, go back to all your failed attempts at cultivating Morels
Bye
Oh, you have cultivated the holy grail of mushrooms? Please do share. Seriously, few people have grown morels. I have not given up. I do believe I require a better culture and medium.......then I will grow 'em!
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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i got some to grow outside , yes, that is all
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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Nevermind. Must be a troll.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: B_BOY]
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B_BOY said: i got some to grow outside , yes, that is all
You have what? Spores? A dirt mix with spores? Good luck with that. When you get some schlerotia let me know.
Thanks for killing the thread. Seems what trolls do. I just wondered how many people are unhappy with the christian prison system.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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Christian prison system argument hold no water, as it makes no sense, and dude i found 20 lbs of morels this year and have had them come up where i made a bed for 3 years, so good luck to you, i don't need luck
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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Faith offends me most because it's choosing to be ignorant of any other facts which would really help you be a better person and make better choices . Therefore religion is a crutch you have to throw away to walk with the real people on this planet not some heard of sheep but individuals...
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: B_BOY]
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B_BOY said: Christian prison system argument hold no water, as it makes no sense, and dude i found 20 lbs of morels this year and have had them come up where i made a bed for 3 years, so good luck to you, i don't need luck 
Guess you have been lucky enough to stay out of court or you would understand. I just don't tolerate very well that people of an offensive faith put me away for their own way of life.
Very good on the morels. If you care to share what you are doing, in my thread...please do assist your knowledge and understanding!
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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I recently read that a third of Americans identify as Evangelical Christians. Bible thumpers. Protectors of The One and Only True Faith.
A third.
With all due respect, if ever we needed an explanation as to why the United States of America is such a fucked-up place today, there it is.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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Do church people offend you?
Not if they keep it to themselves, but as soon as they try to use it to persuade me into some type of bullshit, then I get offended. Or if they tell me I'm immoral, then they offend me.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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There is no "they," and if there is no "they," it follows that "they" are not Christian. We do not live in a theocracy, and the laws really are supposed to protect citizens. The problem is that laws are created based on erroneous information and the worldly people are all about lies. Otherwise, cigarettes would've been banned long ago. MDMA was made Schedule I after a flubbed research study at Johns Hopkins University where several Rhesus monkeys died. Unfortunately, they were given mislabeled methamphetamine, not MDMA. Nevertheless, the law was enacted based on wrong information. Cannabis prohibition goes back to the ignorant and paranoid 1930s, Harry Anslinger, and the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Big Pharma and the alcoholic beverage manufacturers who are enormously powerful do not want legalization to muscle-in on their territories. It is not a Christian conspiracy, it is political and money-based.
BTW, I live in the USA ad there are hundreds of religions represented here. Many do belong to Christendom, but this country is host to everything you could imagine, and everyone is free to practice whatever faith they wish under the Constitution.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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I go outside and see atheists who at least know they don't believe in God, then I go to church and see atheists who think they believe in God, but they know him not... Christians who take it on themselves to judge others all the time instead of examining themselves are not real Christians by definition, though no one is perfect, and we all have judged another person at some point in life.
Christianity is the standard belief system for America???? As a Christian, I can't take that statement seriously. Maybe 1 in 3 people 'SAY' they're Christians, but I know the real number is a WHOLE lot lower than that. Non believers outweigh believers by a large margin in this current time period. You don't need statistics on this either. Just look at the world around you.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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Morel Guy said: I live in America and Christianity is the accepted nature of spirituality. I must admit I am a little offended. We live in a modern world and I have accepted death as being very similiar to certain drugs. I keep thinking when I am exposed to church people, that they will be surprised when they die. They won't go onto a world at all like this one, or with jesus being anymore than a hallucination. I find it offensive that they made illegal things more truthful than what they impose on others. Talking drugs here. Not meth or crack, which they think all drugs are like. But the ones that make you feel like your dying, in a really light and spiritual way.
Are you offended by what remains in power over our freedoms? These old beliefs that jesus is the only way to find goodness?
I am all for whatever gets people through life, but religion seems to impose beliefs on others. I know you can take certain drugs and live a good life. A life with more insight, intensity and passion. Most laws in America are highly influenced by christan modes of thought. Do you find this offensive? Do you think the war of cultures, based on a war of spiritual beliefs to be wrong?
Feel free to rant.
I could adjust my reality to make attending church a worthwhile experience, if the churchians would shut the fuck up. Perhaps they could pray silently and preach in Latin, this would work. Those ones that think they have some truth that they have to convince me of really kill the buzz. I wish I could go to church, I just don't have any contacts, so fucking hard to get anywhere without contacts. Yeah I am offended by the retarded-ness of churchians.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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Morel Guy said: I live in America and christianity is the accepted nature of spirituality. I must admit I am a little offended. We live in a modern world and I have accepted death as being very similiar to certain drugs. I keep thinking when I am exposed to church people, that they will be surprised when they die. They won't go onto a world at all like this one, or with jesus being anymore than a hallucination. I find it offensive that they made illegal things more truthful than what they impose on others. Talking drugs here. Not meth or crack, which they think all drugs are like. But the ones that make you feel like your dying, in a really light and spiritual way.
Are you offended by what remains in power over our freedoms? These old beliefs that jesus is the only way to find goodness?
I am all for whatever gets people through life, but religion seems to impose beliefs on others. I know you can take certain drugs and live a good life. A life with more insight, intensity and passion. Most laws in America are highly influenced by christan modes of thought. Do you find this offensive? Do you think the war of cultures, based on a war of spiritual beliefs to be wrong?
Feel free to rant.
Nope, I try not to take it personally. I see humanity as damaged goods, running very complex 2013 cultural software on paleolithic hardware.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: CosmicJoke]
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so i think i'm going to start an atheist church to help people from the crutches of religion and make people better people..... who's in??
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: lighthouse09]
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Can't really practice any sort of drug based shamanism. That seems to be what I have chosen. Religious freedom has been enhanced, as the native Americans can use peyote.
I have family that goes to church. They really believe that there will be no states of heaven for a non-believer. They say some things that I find offensivley stupid. It's too early right now to bring up anything specific. I'm just glad I don't have to go to church, and play make believe with all the other delusionals.
Cause if your belief is wrong, your delusional. I firmly believe in brain sciences, explaining why we have spiritual experiences. Not that the universe has less to offer than what the average brain percieves.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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I'm gonna rant a little on the thread I opened in the Philosophy forum. I just give up on proselytizing of any sort. Whatever belief or lack there-of, why must you convince others your right? I'm not necessarily talking about people that share their personal views in the context of a natural conversation. I'm talking about the people that just have to let it be known that they found the right God or brand of Nihilism. Its sort of why I've always admired Buddhism. I mean reality itself is entirely subjective. You can change belief systems and reality tunnels and essentially get to the same place in the end. In fact some rather interesting people have written on the subject. Aliester Crowley in particular would completely change his entire belief system up in his younger days from time to time to see which ones held water. wrote pretty interesting accounts on attaining spiritual development vica vi fluctuating alternative paths. I guess my point is why the jimmy rustlin'?
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
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I am a buddhist and a mystic hindu in my daily practice, but I also enjoy going to church, reading the bible and praying in a christian tradition. I like to get high, or drunk, or do other drugs and attend church services and take communion. I really want to make church attendance a weekly thing. Its hard to get up early enough in the morning though.
I dont 'believe" in what most people think christians believe in, but I value the experience of church attendance. I think it is a form of spiritual food.
In sociology of aging at university we learned that church attending people tend to live an average of 7 years longer than non-church attenders, even when other variables are controlled for. That is an astonishing increase of life expectancy that is directly causally related to church attendance. This strongly suggests that church attendance is highly worth while even from a strictly health and medical perspective, strange as that certainly is.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Moonshoe]
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If I live to be 90, idk that I'll care enough to have an extra 7 years to burden people with my cryptic presence.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: cez]
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Generally speaking more life is good. Especially if you have loved ones.
And there is no guarantee you will live to 90, but if you go to church you have a much better chance of doing so then if you don't.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Moonshoe]
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I understand that stories can be a basis for personal insight and growth. However I don't buy that shit as a real thing that happened. Anyone can make up stories, I prefer movies. I believe in Hollywood more than I do any religion. At least they don't do only fiction.
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No, but really bro, there was a talking snake... And frealz women were made from a male rib because when lillith was equal she wanted to fuck on top.
Now she.litteraly is the cause of sids.
Really, its in there.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Yogi1]
#19098461 - 11/06/13 11:58 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I read the entire bible cover to cover. It was a brutal, grueling, arduous task but I did it and I am glad I did.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Moonshoe]
#19099116 - 11/07/13 06:42 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: I am a buddhist and a mystic hindu in my daily practice, but I also enjoy going to church, reading the bible and praying in a christian tradition. I like to get high, or drunk, or do other drugs and attend church services and take communion. I really want to make church attendance a weekly thing. Its hard to get up early enough in the morning though.
I dont 'believe" in what most people think christians believe in, but I value the experience of church attendance. I think it is a form of spiritual food.
In sociology of aging at university we learned that church attending people tend to live an average of 7 years longer than non-church attenders, even when other variables are controlled for. That is an astonishing increase of life expectancy that is directly causally related to church attendance. This strongly suggests that church attendance is highly worth while even from a strictly health and medical perspective, strange as that certainly is.
i think you'll like the book "cutting through spiritual materialism" - chogyam trungpa
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: stzacrack]
#19182988 - 11/24/13 02:51 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I just think it is crazy how conservative church people generally are. Seems they actually believe the bible over science. They think they know everything, because the bible has a lame story of how it all went down. They actually think languages were created from some boner building that went wrong (tower of babble) and that two of every damn animal was put on a boat.
These church people have no reasoning skills nor logic. I've met insane people with more sense of what is real. We didn't come from adam and eve, unless those are evolutionary markers...not real people that learned suffering from temptation.
I will admit that it is hard to beat their system of make belief. Can't aruge with an idiot.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Morel Guy]
#19184661 - 11/24/13 09:41 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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People have a hard time realizing that the bible was the best thing people could come up with about the nature of our existence in the universe 2000 years ago.
We've evolved a lot in 2000 years and now have a better understanding of our place in the universe. Like for instance the universe doesn't revolve around us. It's sad when people can't even realize the evolution of their own species. Those who refuse to evolve in the universe get left behind. Simple as that
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Stromrider]
#19199297 - 11/28/13 03:52 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Stromrider said: People have a hard time realizing that the bible was the best thing people could come up with about the nature of our existence in the universe 2000 years ago.
We've evolved a lot in 2000 years and now have a better understanding of our place in the universe. Like for instance the universe doesn't revolve around us. It's sad when people can't even realize the evolution of their own species. Those who refuse to evolve in the universe get left behind. Simple as that
That's really not important though. The spiritual truth the Bible has to teach us is far more important whether the sun revolves around the earth or the earth around the sun. Yes in a way its humbling to know that the earth isn't the center of the universe, but the Bible already teaches that we should conduct ourselves with complete humility. Remember, Moses was the meekest of all men and the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve.
So while humanity has evolved a lot in areas that mean nothing, like scientific knowledge, it has not evolved that much spiritually. Humanity is still fooled by the same old delusion of the ego that was the problem in Biblical times.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Deviate]
#19200846 - 11/28/13 01:21 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't think church or believers are offensive, I just have a problem with it becoming (or trying to become) a monoculture.
Like right now I live in a city of 250,000 inhabitants, and there's not ONE fucking non-christian establishment I can show up to. No Hindu temple, no weird Ashrams, no Wiccans no Satanists no Voodoo no nothing. Religion should be like a nice tolerant colorful pizza. It should have a myriad different things on it, not just salty olives. Every day all day pizza with just olives.
Oh and the sexual repression. The Romans had orgies. With shitty medicine and no birth control to speak of, they enjoyed fantastic orgies. Nowadays we don't have orgies, and the few we do have are frowned upon, because of crap Christian influence. Same with nudity.
 It's not the Christians that offend me, it's the continued absence of things that are hella fun, that we used to have and enjoy, that Christians persecuted out of existence.
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For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. - Matthew 13:16
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: Deviate]
#19220345 - 12/03/13 12:45 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Weird how they try to say something (the Earth) isn't the center of the universe when they still don't know how big the universe actually is. I'm not saying the earth is the center, I'm just saying how could you know where the center is with out knowing the boundaries first... I tell you... you can't. It's an assumption. They think because the universe is so big that we couldn't possibly be the center. They still don't know how big it is though so they're far from finding the center.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: J Dash]
#19220403 - 12/03/13 01:14 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's more political than religious. Christianity has been in America for hundreds of years. Drugs have been illegal for much less. I think as a whole humans like to blame people. You also offend Christians, I'm sure so it not really a one way street, bud. It's actually selfish to think of it that way. If you accept them then they're more willing to accept you for who you are although yes, they do try to save your soul and so they preach but just tell them you don't wanna hear it an if they don't stop then tell em they're being disrespectful and if they keep on then you won't accociate with em anymore. Also, you can let them pray for you, it won't kill you.
IT'S POLITICS, not religion.
You say "our" freedoms, what about THEIR freedoms?
The gay sex thing is society based so you can't blame them for that either. We have evolved from a Christian based nation so it has come from them but hey, things are a changing, guy. To be accepted, you must accept what's around you as well. That's where you'll find balance.
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Re: Do church people offend you? [Re: GreySatyr]
#19228351 - 12/04/13 07:26 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I use to work at this gas station, was the local stop for the church near by to fill up the buses they use to haul around in. For some odd reason they would always leave me pamphlets, literally every time they came into my work. That got pretty annoying lol.....
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