(05-19-2020, 01:02 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: All right high horseman, let everyone hear your great point that you have to make.
Or you could always try, you know, reading.
Stupid cunt.
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As the darkness consumes my soul.
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(05-19-2020, 01:02 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: All right high horseman, let everyone hear your great point that you have to make. Or you could always try, you know, reading. Stupid cunt.
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(05-19-2020, 01:05 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-19-2020, 01:02 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: All right high horseman, let everyone hear your great point that you have to make. Okay, Thump, make sure you quote everybody no matter who they're talking to or what they're talking about because the important thing is they get exposed to your brilliant high-horsed point about no one cares. Lol. (05-19-2020, 01:28 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote:(05-19-2020, 01:05 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-19-2020, 01:02 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: All right high horseman, let everyone hear your great point that you have to make. *Yawn*
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(05-19-2020, 02:03 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-19-2020, 01:28 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote:(05-19-2020, 01:05 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Or you could always try, you know, reading. Quotes me endlessly, gets spanked, then it's yawn. lol. (05-17-2020, 07:33 PM)SYZ Wrote:(05-17-2020, 04:41 PM)Link Wrote: I pray you gain guidance from God. Oh c'mon, just say what you REALLY think. LOL! sarc
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(05-19-2020, 02:05 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote:(05-19-2020, 02:03 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-19-2020, 01:28 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Okay, Thump, make sure you quote everybody no matter who they're talking to or what they're talking about because the important thing is they get exposed to your brilliant high-horsed point about no one cares. Lol. Kicks over the pieces, shits on the board, declares victory ... ... *yawn*
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(05-19-2020, 03:13 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-19-2020, 02:05 AM)jerry mcmasters Wrote:(05-19-2020, 02:03 AM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: *Yawn* Ah, she's OK... Top 20 mebbe. Not that I always agree, but makes decent arguments.
Never try to catch a dropped kitchen knife!
(05-18-2020, 06:00 AM)Cavebear Wrote:(05-18-2020, 05:49 AM)Cavebear Wrote:(05-17-2020, 07:24 PM)Unsapien Wrote: Challenge accepted. Well I'm in under Unsapien no problem, I didn't upload my avatar as I'm not sure how a monkey holding a dagger would go over, but maybe i'm over thinking that. They ask you to give your religion which I put as "none". Made 2 posts in a thread where someone is saying that they're having doubts about whether god really exists, someone posted about there has to be a god cause who created the universe and I posted that there is no reason to think, however the universe started, required a conscious being to do it. So we'll see where this goes. Both my posts so far have required a moderator to approve the post. I couldn't find an "introduce yourself" section, but maybe I've just missed it. We'll see how it goes. (05-19-2020, 03:32 AM)Unsapien Wrote:(05-18-2020, 06:00 AM)Cavebear Wrote:(05-18-2020, 05:49 AM)Cavebear Wrote: Following you to see what you say. Not something I would normally do, but I'm feeling challenging today. Thanks for relating the experience. I don't think I'll bother pursuing it further though.
Never try to catch a dropped kitchen knife!
(05-18-2020, 11:30 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-18-2020, 10:51 PM)Chas Wrote:(05-18-2020, 09:49 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: But that also means that its cultural roots aren't limited to Islam. We already understand it. Religions co-opt local traditions to aid acceptance. Just look at the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Truly, we already understand how it works. It is part of the religion because of it having been part of the culture(s) subsumed and assimilated.
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte (05-19-2020, 03:52 AM)Chas Wrote:(05-18-2020, 11:30 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-18-2020, 10:51 PM)Chas Wrote: I, for one, don't care whether or not it originated with the religion. It's part of it. They approve these evils. Yeah, religions always co-opt hard-won practical experience and then say their god did it!
Never try to catch a dropped kitchen knife!
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As the darkness consumes my soul. (05-19-2020, 12:56 AM)Vera Wrote:(05-18-2020, 11:03 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote:(05-18-2020, 09:02 PM)Chas Wrote: It sounds like bad filtering and thin skin. They should get over themselves. The Académie Française called. That should be "la même jerk".
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte (05-19-2020, 03:58 AM)Chas Wrote:(05-19-2020, 12:56 AM)Vera Wrote:(05-18-2020, 11:03 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Thin skin? The forum just had a stroke over a guy posting a poem. That can't be French. Otherwise it would have had "Américaine" in it. Like "Les secousses américaines"...
Never try to catch a dropped kitchen knife!
(05-19-2020, 12:56 AM)Vera Wrote:(05-18-2020, 11:03 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote:(05-18-2020, 09:02 PM)Chas Wrote: It sounds like bad filtering and thin skin. They should get over themselves.
Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Mâyâ.
Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies. Vivekananda
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As the darkness consumes my soul. (05-19-2020, 03:58 AM)Chas Wrote:(05-19-2020, 12:56 AM)Vera Wrote:(05-18-2020, 11:03 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Thin skin? The forum just had a stroke over a guy posting a poem. No, it shouldn't. He is, arguably, male (the curcimflex accent was too much of a hassle. Of, course, I know that the idea of grammatical gender is too much for most English speakers
“We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?”
(05-18-2020, 11:03 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Thin skin? The forum just had a stroke over a guy posting a poem.Well, to be fair, it wasn't a very good poem...
"Aliens? Us? Is this one of your Earth jokes?" -- Kro-Bar, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
Don't mistake me for those nice folks from Give-A-Shit county.
(05-19-2020, 03:52 AM)Chas Wrote:(05-18-2020, 11:30 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-18-2020, 10:51 PM)Chas Wrote: I, for one, don't care whether or not it originated with the religion. It's part of it. They approve these evils. Which means, to me, that assigning blame to religion is probably not digging deep enough to uproot the problem. Ingroup/outgroup thinking probably far predate organized religion.
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(05-19-2020, 10:09 AM)trdsf Wrote:(05-18-2020, 11:03 PM)jerry mcmasters Wrote: Thin skin? The forum just had a stroke over a guy posting a poem.Well, to be fair, it wasn't a very good poem... Short on poetry, long on polemic. Color me jaded.
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(05-19-2020, 11:41 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-19-2020, 03:52 AM)Chas Wrote:(05-18-2020, 11:30 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I think understanding why a thing is is useful in understanding how to defuse it. There's no such thing as religion.
Don't mistake me for those nice folks from Give-A-Shit county.
(05-20-2020, 12:20 AM)Old Man Marsh Wrote:(05-19-2020, 11:41 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-19-2020, 03:52 AM)Chas Wrote: We already understand it. Religions co-opt local traditions to aid acceptance. Just look at the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Explain?
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(05-19-2020, 11:41 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-19-2020, 03:52 AM)Chas Wrote:(05-18-2020, 11:30 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I think understanding why a thing is is useful in understanding how to defuse it. I think you are emphasizing a distinction without a difference. Without the cover and protection of the prevailing religion, rational humanist argument would have a chance to change the culture.
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte (05-19-2020, 09:33 AM)Vera Wrote:(05-19-2020, 03:58 AM)Chas Wrote:(05-19-2020, 12:56 AM)Vera Wrote: So, people pointing out that he's posting badly scribbled shit (and someone picking the same old fight with the ame old person for the n'th time) is the forum having a stroke? The 'la' was a typo, the circumflex was the point. Oh, well.
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte (05-20-2020, 04:41 AM)Chas Wrote:(05-19-2020, 11:41 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(05-19-2020, 03:52 AM)Chas Wrote: We already understand it. Religions co-opt local traditions to aid acceptance. Just look at the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Yeah, imagine a world where no idiot conceived the concept of a deity. We might be in 4020 or beyond now...
Never try to catch a dropped kitchen knife!
(05-20-2020, 04:41 AM)Chas Wrote:(05-19-2020, 11:41 PM)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Which means, to me, that assigning blame to religion is probably not digging deep enough to uproot the problem. Ingroup/outgroup thinking probably far predate organized religion. I doubt eliminating religion (as if that could ever happen) will eliminate misogyny, bigotry, or the other ills that those assholes practice under cover of religion. They'll simply find another thought process that seemingly supports their prejudices, much like the European scientists of the 19th century spent quite a bit of time giving "scientific explanations" for why Africans weren't as advanced as white Europeans, for instance.
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