Thrawn's Revenge
Off Topic => The Lounge => Topic started by: Meyer on October 11, 2007, 01:31:14 PM
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Which is the best in your opinion?
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personally, im not religious...but if i had to choose, it would be "other"...the true form of christianity which is based on the gospel of thomas, which is closest to gospel of jesus. it states "The Kingdom of God is within you, not in buildings of wood and stone. Split a piece of wood and I am there. Lift the stone and you will find me." so naturally, was declared heracy by the church.
i actually knew about this before i saw or heard of Stigmata, which talks about it. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_St._Thomas#Notes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_St._Thomas#Notes) for the Gospel of Thomas
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many of thr gospels were declared as heresy.
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religion is the root of all evil
nuff said
well christianity especially
im not religious
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originally, religionwas useful...but in modern day society, it serves no purpose...
what especially annoys me is that parents can send their children 2 RC schools and that, so they get brainwashed with religion....i was sent to one ofthese schoools, and was oneof the few that saw reality.
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i honestly cant understand why so many smart, intelligent people are religious.
and i go to a methodist school and virtually everyone in my year (grade for you americans) is not religious or seriously at the least
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from the age of 3 i was being brainwashed with it. but i managed to find science, which i founda much better answer than "because god did it".
just to let you know, the main reason these smart, intellegent people choose religion is for comfort, in one form or another. my mum is religios because she NEEDS to know that the people who made her life a misery will have justice dealt to them.
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Christianity, although that may be because im a Christian :-\ :P
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i dotn see whats so believable about it
only thing worse is scientology
which is the most bullshi* religion (if you can call it that) on earth
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Guys, keep this civil or I will lock it and pass out week-long bans to bans to all who participated in any flaming. I changed best to true as well.
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I dont really like organized religions, but I have to believe somethings out there, so im just saying none
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Guys, keep this civil or I will lock it and pass out week-long bans to bans to all who participated in any flaming. I changed best to true as well.
Thanks for that Arby. If you do believe in anything you will know this topic is wrong.
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Thanks for that Arby. If you do believe in anything you will know this topic is wrong.
Yes it is. I hate topics where people flame religion.
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"Hey, if you read history, you'll notice God is one of the leading causes of death!"
I voted other. I'm assuming all = wrong is under other. I'm not at all a fan of religion. I've gone to catholic school all my life. All the prayers and such drive me crazy, but I must tell you it's interesting to watch its effects on all the people around you. Usually I don't like what I see. I could get into a whole discussion about my thoughts on it... but in a nutshell, I see religion as just books written ages ago with stories of good morals and to give people [false?] hope.
:angel:
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Ouch, catholic school, im sorry
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i go to methodist school
virtually noone in my year is the stereotypical devout christian school person
i just dont pary in general when its time to pray
banot many in my year do
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I don't really hate any religion. I just can't believe that there is some almighty God who guides our lives. but I also think that if there is a God it will not be good to just say that he isn't. so I use my Lutherism as a backup.
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I myself am an atheist, yep i don't like religion or any thing to do with it.
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not even the idea of an eternal life after death?
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im probably like Meyer, i have to have some belief just in case
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Many people believe in some sort of afterlife because they are afraid of nonexistence, however the good thing about nonexistence is that you have nothing to worry about, and you won't care that you don't exist.
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quite philosofical. but you are right. I'm afraid of nonexisting but if there isn't afterlife after death I don't have to worry about it.
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Many people believe in some sort of afterlife because they are afraid of nonexistence, however the good thing about nonexistence is that you have nothing to worry about, and you won't care that you don't exist.
I like that. :)
I tend to think sometimes that perhaps after you die your existence becomes whatever you want it to be or what you expected it to be. Or perhaps it all starts over...not in the way of say Buddhism, but everything around you, you, and the universe is completely different. Ever think maybe everything around you never existed before you and will not exist after you, and they're just your imagination preparing you for something else maybe? Maybe there are different universes inside cells inside cells etc. I don't know, and I probably shouldn't, cause then where's the fun? I could get into a whole plethora (zomg big word) of ideas and theories about life and the afterlife etc if you catch me at the right time of the night in the right state of mind...like now for example, haha.
Who knows...good discussion, though...
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not even the idea of an eternal life after death?
I don't even believe in an after life, I don't see any real point of it. you go there when you die then you get pampered for like all of eternity, I would get bored if it was like that. Or if you've been bad(which everyone one has been)will be tortured for all of eternity and i dont really like the sound of both of them.
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neither do I. but I wouldn't like being nothing either.
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I don't even believe in an after life, I don't see any real point of it. you go there when you die then you get pampered for like all of eternity, I would get bored if it was like that. Or if you've been bad(which everyone one has been)will be tortured for all of eternity and i dont really like the sound of both of them.
Maybe not just getting pampered for eternity, maybe just taking everything in your life you liked doing and minus everything you didnt
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i dont belive any religion and i once egg a catholic priest religion is a great brainwashing tool now some of the philospys of buddism and hindism i like but i still will not worship any religion
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I don't have anything agaisnt religion, but the people in charge and stuff make it bad, like the catholic priest scandals and the whole terrorism leaders teaching its holy to blow yourself up
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So there is some sensible stuff in this topic... I do agree that the Catholic Church is destroying itself with popes and priests. Sounds a lot to me like Judaism.
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religion isn't the power it used to be anymoe. in the old times popes and priests ruled but not anymore.
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i dont think these day that religion is at all useful
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but still people kill for it. so it is important to some.
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yes but these are fools from devloping countrys
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but still it's modern times. so you can't say religion is not useful.
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And even if you dont think that people should "believe" them, they are still beneficial in terms of morals and society, etc.
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some religions like buddhism have nice ideas (not that i believe in the bigger picture) and dont cause many problems.
christianity and islam, however cause problems.
don't get me wrong, i respect any religion, i just cant stasnd fundamentalism in religieon, like people who take the bible word to word. the bible to me i a book of good morals (except the bits like homosexuality is a sin, not that i am gay)
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and what about your views of judaism? it's very similar to christianity and they are the ones causing problems in middle-east. Personally I think that christianity, judaism and islam are three forms of one religion. and I also think that homosexuality is against nature. and should be banned. especially gays shouldn't be allowed to adopt a child. I hope they never get that right.
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judaism predates christianity and Islam. Nowadays, there are few problems between christianity and Judaism, but Islam has enormous problems with them
its because after 1945, the founding of Israel. If the allies werent so ethical and politically correct, there would be a hell of a lot less problems tosday.
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or if israel and all of those muslim countries that surround it would just stop the bloodshed. and that's odd in my mind. As far as i know the 10 commandments (or how it's written) are very important to jews. but still they completely disobey the Fourth: thy shall not kill.
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i dont think these day that religion is at all useful
Then again, Being Gay makes it hard to find it Useful.
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who said M-T-I is gay? have I missed something?
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He himself said he was on UEAW.
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so we have a gay communist among us. you learn something new everyday.
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religion is the root of all evil
remember that
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I though religion was there to resist evil.
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the biig 3 (judaism,Islam christianity) have caused nothing but misery for the last 1000 years
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true. but I favor the ancient religion used by Romans. they had a god for everything.
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dont you mean greek?
or do you mean pagan romans?
i favour anti-conquest religions
but i believe science is the only thing that caused the earth
as for everything else, its just how it happened
we'll never know
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ROMAN! how do you get greek from that? Roman gods are the best there are. Although you could see them as the one god of christianity who has different names depending the matter where you need help or something else.
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Gereek also had all the fgGods
romans had lots of pagan gods, sun, mon all that butv were mainly christian in the future
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you do know that the greek gods were also pagan gods? and christianity has taken lot of influence from roman religion before christianity.
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duh
its obvious
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which one of those is obvious to you?
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christianity took influence off pagan
although a lot of christian traditions have pagan orrts as to favour roman pagans in the past
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it was simply made to make it easier to change from paganism to chritianity. that's why we have christmas and midsummer.
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christianity took influence off pagan
although a lot of christian traditions have pagan orrts as to favour roman pagans in the past
LOL....K
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What's so LOL in that?
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how does any one fiind religion useful if u need a pook or a preist to teach you wrojng from right then u neeed therapy if you cannot pick your own moral imo you dont need to be alive
And meyer i am a gay communist and if you have a problem wioth that then you must brlitening to a preecher other wise u would not belive that
of the few thousan aithests if ment none of them have any thing against homosexuality
so your veiws are produce by the center of evil religion
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half of that is something I don't understand.
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I would have to agree
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well said
im sick of intolerance in the world.
ABSOLUTELY SICK.
its not a choice of lifestyle, homosexuality (not saying its a bad thing) and if they want to live like that, so be it.
likewise, communism is a system of government. Personally, I am only against it because it has been proved no tto work nd to take the tiime to properly showcase it, you'd need a hell of a long reign with no change. On the other hand, I am against Fascism and dictatorship, because they are prejudice, racist, oppressive, and dont work fairly IN THIS DAY OF AGE.
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hell my veiws come from the route of all comedy
No, Kthanks
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I'm tolerant, But don't expect me to listen to the person Bash my own beliefs.
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i respect people if they want to seek guidance from an all-powerful being, but if it starts making them prejudice, im not a fan of that form of the religion in question. Liberal worship= fine
fundamentalist worship=BAD BAD BAD
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ill think about it
Excuse me? You WILL do it, Understand Kid?
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Id say organized religion is bad, like the Catholic church and its popes and cardinals
But the individual churches that aernt really a part of anything but themselves are good
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IM PRETTY MUCH ANTI-FUNDAMENTALISM (NOT NECESSARILY RADICAL, WHICH I AM ALSO AGAINST) BUT WHAT HAVE MODERN RELIGIONS LIKE KABBALAH AND SCIENTOLOGY DONE FOR US? (SORRY IF MESSAGE IS IN CAPS CAPS LOCK)
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Those havent done anything except get celebritys to wear red bracelets
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yeah they are a pile of crap
ESPECIALLY SCIENTOLOGY
who believes that crap?
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Tom Cruise.
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i dunno ho theuy buy into it.
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You can say you don't believe any of them, but refrain from calling every religion a "pile of crap". Except Scientology. That is some fucked up shit right there.
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so true, so true
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Arbiter is PISSED! (You've gone further than anyone before at it too.(not really but you are good at it)
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when it comes to ethcal rants that christians and other people are against (abortion, gentic engineering, animal testing etc) i end up going rant-crazy. and yes, im pro- all of that. although with animal testing, im not for it if its like for make up and that crap. like medical research is good. but off-topic.