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But then all the Muslims, Jews, Hindu's, and Buddhist's would step up along with a surge of Scientology to fill the void that the apparent absence of Christianity would create.
aww, i was hoping for hell. hell is more fun
Not to be a total douche but you get no sympathy from me on misquoting. All of the church groups at the college I'm forced to deal with do the exact same thing daily and they're magically exempt from any wrong-doing because it's a church group. The thing that really baffles me is how they can get away with naming a church group "Campus Crusade for Christ" when it clearly references a genocide and is on par with calling a club the "Jihad Muslim Jamboree" or something like that. It's really hypocritical and irritating.
I mean really there are movies and "retreats" (some, not all), and while we're at it why is Kentucky giving the Ark museum 50 million dollars when it can't even pay its own workers? The same people that run these things get up in arms and acts like this massive oppressive force is after them when someone misquotes the Bible. All these movies do is help everyone build an even larger box around themselves and isolate themselves from the outside world. I don't see how this is remotely fair or comparable.
Because of these church groups I live with someone currently who actually thinks "Saturday Night Fever" (the disco movie with John Travolta) was created by "the gays" so that they could begin recruiting converts, and they needed to popularize disco music to do this. That makes as little of sense to me as it did when he explained this to me. These thoughts came directly to him from a church, and nowhere else.
I know I'm being an asshole right now and the idiot I live with is a bit of an unfair extreme example so i won't expect anyone to really address his stupidity and I know he is on the high end of what I'll call "stupid", but I don't really see how any of this is remotely even on the same playing field and I don't think you have anything to complain about whatsoever. The Bible is misquoted because it's vague and quite frankly it's really easy to do.
Also I am still waiting to meet someone that doesn't believe in evolution that can adequately explain it, and I'm really close to applying the same principle to climate change. It all comes from stubborn ignorance and a refusal to get out of the box someone has built around themselves.
get into his van.. he will drive you to to a magical land of candy and toys..
It seems ironic to me, to read you saying that, when this is exactly how Christianity works with everything.
Especially awkward for the people who spent all of their kids college fund to find out the wasted it all. This is way worse than shouting fire in a crowded building. This guy is a freak, even though I never believed that poop, I'm not religious.
That is the most hypocritical thing I have ever seen that hasn't come out of Ted Haggard's mouth. I'm not even kidding. This from you is unacceptable. I mean really you're in "christian education" which is a joke in itself.
I have my little quarrels with Real (read above) but Real isn't on a crazy train like you are.
Real: When I mentioned "misquoting" I was addressing how it has been used as a tool to justify slavery and a multitude of other horrible things. What I'm getting at is that the meaning of everything seems to changes on a time scale as small as a decade, so i don't really see where one would draw the line on extremism because of the meaning of everything seems to switch around with time and geographic location.
What I'm saying is I feel if it was more concretely written it wouldn't have 9000 "interpretations" floating around which each different bunch of people when something bad happens going "oh those are ________ and they're different" as opposed to the "hey perhaps something should be done about it" approach.
Right now there are rare pro-gay marriage churches in the USA and simultaneously Uganda is attempting to legalize a gay genocide inspired by Biblical passages (seriously that is happening right now). That is a hell of a spectrum to cover that I don't think would exist if the Bible was somewhat clearly written.
RAPTURE in 0 days...
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Originally posted by Coasterkidmwm
You would be worth the semi-utopia of a Christian-free United States.
You would be worth the semi-utopia of a Christian-free United States.
But then all the Muslims, Jews, Hindu's, and Buddhist's would step up along with a surge of Scientology to fill the void that the apparent absence of Christianity would create.
Originally posted by AJClarke0912
^Yes, this is Heaven. Surprisingly similar to Earth, isn't it?
^Yes, this is Heaven. Surprisingly similar to Earth, isn't it?
aww, i was hoping for hell. hell is more fun
Making screams come true
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Just so were all clear...
Harold Camping is a lunatic. These kinds of people make my skin crawl because they spread OBVIOUS falsifications about the Bible.
Harold Camping is responsible not only for now being wrong about the rapture a second time in a row but also for trying to spin off that you can discern from the bible when the earth started and when the great flood happened. All of which, cannot be found in the Bible.
So all those debates we have around the crazier things in the Bible like, when events happened, when the world started, etc - any sane Christian would tell you "I dont have that answer" and that would be that.
Anyone who argues with you that they know when the world started or anything thats not pretty much either traceable through historical documents is a complete sham.
Harold Camping, through all of his absolutely wild and completely false claims, has done as much damage as anyone claiming to be a Christian. Hes what we call a false prophet, a sham, a fake and I call a nuisance.
I saw an awesome billboard taking the place of several of the ones he put up...All it reads is:
"That was awkward" LOL
I read that the guy has like 6 children, 20 grand children and like 50 great grandchildren. No one but his wife believes him. Thats pretty sad, and not in a satirical way. Its sad that he only has his wife to believe in his wild prophecies that never happen. And hell go back and think he was wrong and waste more of his life trying to figure the answer to a problem that NEVER existed.
You ever see anyone say "The world began on exactly this date" or "Christ comes back on exactly this date" or even a general idea...probably a raving lunatic. Actually, Id say a raving lunatic right off the bat. Especially if they tell you the Bible or God told them so.
Harold Camping is a lunatic. These kinds of people make my skin crawl because they spread OBVIOUS falsifications about the Bible.
Harold Camping is responsible not only for now being wrong about the rapture a second time in a row but also for trying to spin off that you can discern from the bible when the earth started and when the great flood happened. All of which, cannot be found in the Bible.
So all those debates we have around the crazier things in the Bible like, when events happened, when the world started, etc - any sane Christian would tell you "I dont have that answer" and that would be that.
Anyone who argues with you that they know when the world started or anything thats not pretty much either traceable through historical documents is a complete sham.
Harold Camping, through all of his absolutely wild and completely false claims, has done as much damage as anyone claiming to be a Christian. Hes what we call a false prophet, a sham, a fake and I call a nuisance.
I saw an awesome billboard taking the place of several of the ones he put up...All it reads is:
"That was awkward" LOL
I read that the guy has like 6 children, 20 grand children and like 50 great grandchildren. No one but his wife believes him. Thats pretty sad, and not in a satirical way. Its sad that he only has his wife to believe in his wild prophecies that never happen. And hell go back and think he was wrong and waste more of his life trying to figure the answer to a problem that NEVER existed.
You ever see anyone say "The world began on exactly this date" or "Christ comes back on exactly this date" or even a general idea...probably a raving lunatic. Actually, Id say a raving lunatic right off the bat. Especially if they tell you the Bible or God told them so.
The guy should be arrested or sent to an asylum, he clearly has some issues, and caused what could be considered a degree of mass hysteria.
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Yea, you can not believe in God or whatever, thats fine. We all get that choice.
But Harold is doing far worse than anyone who simply says "the Bible isn't true", he makes things up that it doesn't even say. Sadly, many people do this. Its one thing just to say "nah, I don't believe in that" but completely another to say it says something other than it does.
I wouldn't go as far as arrested, but silenced would be nice about now. Im just waiting for the response...
But Harold is doing far worse than anyone who simply says "the Bible isn't true", he makes things up that it doesn't even say. Sadly, many people do this. Its one thing just to say "nah, I don't believe in that" but completely another to say it says something other than it does.
I wouldn't go as far as arrested, but silenced would be nice about now. Im just waiting for the response...
Theres a hairy guy with a beard and wearing robes at my door. Got a kind of white glow around him too.
Wat Do?
Wat Do?
[19:47:28] rcking04: /smoke bong through wrong end
Probably another Jehovah Witness...
Oh, were you expecting something here?
Originally posted by Real
he makes things up that it doesn't even say. Sadly, many people do this. Its one thing just to say "nah, I don't believe in that" but completely another to say it says something other than it does.
he makes things up that it doesn't even say. Sadly, many people do this. Its one thing just to say "nah, I don't believe in that" but completely another to say it says something other than it does.
Not to be a total douche but you get no sympathy from me on misquoting. All of the church groups at the college I'm forced to deal with do the exact same thing daily and they're magically exempt from any wrong-doing because it's a church group. The thing that really baffles me is how they can get away with naming a church group "Campus Crusade for Christ" when it clearly references a genocide and is on par with calling a club the "Jihad Muslim Jamboree" or something like that. It's really hypocritical and irritating.
I mean really there are movies and "retreats" (some, not all), and while we're at it why is Kentucky giving the Ark museum 50 million dollars when it can't even pay its own workers? The same people that run these things get up in arms and acts like this massive oppressive force is after them when someone misquotes the Bible. All these movies do is help everyone build an even larger box around themselves and isolate themselves from the outside world. I don't see how this is remotely fair or comparable.
Because of these church groups I live with someone currently who actually thinks "Saturday Night Fever" (the disco movie with John Travolta) was created by "the gays" so that they could begin recruiting converts, and they needed to popularize disco music to do this. That makes as little of sense to me as it did when he explained this to me. These thoughts came directly to him from a church, and nowhere else.
I know I'm being an asshole right now and the idiot I live with is a bit of an unfair extreme example so i won't expect anyone to really address his stupidity and I know he is on the high end of what I'll call "stupid", but I don't really see how any of this is remotely even on the same playing field and I don't think you have anything to complain about whatsoever. The Bible is misquoted because it's vague and quite frankly it's really easy to do.
Also I am still waiting to meet someone that doesn't believe in evolution that can adequately explain it, and I'm really close to applying the same principle to climate change. It all comes from stubborn ignorance and a refusal to get out of the box someone has built around themselves.
"Careful man, there's a beverage here!"
Originally posted by HazBruv
Theres a hairy guy with a beard and wearing robes at my door. Got a kind of white glow around him too.
Wat Do?
Theres a hairy guy with a beard and wearing robes at my door. Got a kind of white glow around him too.
Wat Do?
yes jay, i am he
Making screams come true
CK, its really ignorant of you, knowing that there are extremists (like the people you mention and someone like Camping) and then care to not differentiate between them. You do the same thing the extremists do and your propagating the problem, just from the opposite side.
The bible is misquoted because people distort it for their own gain. I would venture to say a majority of what you know of it is incomplete or incorrect. Not because its vague. Its really not that vague, people like to twist it for their own agenda. Camping has made millions (like other people) and even if they don't do it for money, they do it for power. Control. Extortion.
Like I said, you dont have to believe in the bible or God. Thats irrelevant. Whats relevant is how the few idiots who completely misquote it for their own personal gain are the ones that the rest of the world judges us by. I have no power to remove Camping from his position. Or any power to tell your roommate hes a bigoted bafoon and needs to have his head examined.
But for someone of your rational thought, your initial thoughts when you see or meet people like this is "is this REALLY how it is?" Because even YOU point out the extreme bull crap these morons spew from their mouths. If you can spot it, I certainly can and thats what I'm talking about.
And I never asked for sympathy, I asked for the understanding that the 80% of what you hear being shouted from tv or the streets...yea, thats the stuff you should ignore. Its been tampered with.
The bible is misquoted because people distort it for their own gain. I would venture to say a majority of what you know of it is incomplete or incorrect. Not because its vague. Its really not that vague, people like to twist it for their own agenda. Camping has made millions (like other people) and even if they don't do it for money, they do it for power. Control. Extortion.
Like I said, you dont have to believe in the bible or God. Thats irrelevant. Whats relevant is how the few idiots who completely misquote it for their own personal gain are the ones that the rest of the world judges us by. I have no power to remove Camping from his position. Or any power to tell your roommate hes a bigoted bafoon and needs to have his head examined.
But for someone of your rational thought, your initial thoughts when you see or meet people like this is "is this REALLY how it is?" Because even YOU point out the extreme bull crap these morons spew from their mouths. If you can spot it, I certainly can and thats what I'm talking about.
And I never asked for sympathy, I asked for the understanding that the 80% of what you hear being shouted from tv or the streets...yea, thats the stuff you should ignore. Its been tampered with.
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Paradox wrote:
No need to tell Oscar about the problems. He is magic.
Though you know at some point there's going to be some publicity over coincidence. Because some lunatic is screaming end-of-world prophecies *and* we have a particularly violent weather pattern, the world *must* be ending. People on edge tend to overlook the obvious, where the unusual circumstances can be explained, clear as daylight. (such as a strong La Nina). But if someone wants something badly enough, they will make it seem true, and for whatever reason they will remain undeterred despite all evidence proven against it.
I read an interesting article a while back,
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... l-patterns
Some might find it interesting. I don't know. Perhaps we're all wrong too...
...Because the hype of 2012 has died down far too soon for it to be profitable.
I read an interesting article a while back,
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... l-patterns
Some might find it interesting. I don't know. Perhaps we're all wrong too...
...Because the hype of 2012 has died down far too soon for it to be profitable.
the hype of 2012 is still profitable. Check out these products and their gravities:
http://www.cb-analytics.com/product.php?id=DEC212012
http://www.cb-analytics.com/product.php?id=FUTURESEEK
http://www.cb-analytics.com/product.php?id=WS2012
There's many more but those there are selling very well judging from the stats and consistent gravity indicates consistent sales as well. There's a lot of competiton though so hard to profit from it when everyone is trying to get a piece of it.
http://www.cb-analytics.com/product.php?id=DEC212012
http://www.cb-analytics.com/product.php?id=FUTURESEEK
http://www.cb-analytics.com/product.php?id=WS2012
There's many more but those there are selling very well judging from the stats and consistent gravity indicates consistent sales as well. There's a lot of competiton though so hard to profit from it when everyone is trying to get a piece of it.
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Paradox wrote:
No need to tell Oscar about the problems. He is magic.
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Jee, this all seems oddly familiar... when the Great Disappointment happened, and then even though the apocalypse clearly didn't come when the church was predicting it, they explained it away by saying that some spiritual "introspective judgment" had taken place, refusing to admit that they were wrong, and then adjusting the date to a later one only to be disappointed all over again.
Originally posted by cjd
Jee, this all seems oddly familiar... when the Great Disappointment happened, and then even though the apocalypse clearly didn't come when the church was predicting it, they explained it away by saying that some spiritual "introspective judgment" had taken place, refusing to admit that they were wrong, and then adjusting the date to a later one only to be disappointed all over again.
Jee, this all seems oddly familiar... when the Great Disappointment happened, and then even though the apocalypse clearly didn't come when the church was predicting it, they explained it away by saying that some spiritual "introspective judgment" had taken place, refusing to admit that they were wrong, and then adjusting the date to a later one only to be disappointed all over again.
It seems ironic to me, to read you saying that, when this is exactly how Christianity works with everything.
Originally posted by Real
I saw an awesome billboard taking the place of several of the ones he put up...All it reads is:
"That was awkward" LOL
I saw an awesome billboard taking the place of several of the ones he put up...All it reads is:
"That was awkward" LOL
Especially awkward for the people who spent all of their kids college fund to find out the wasted it all. This is way worse than shouting fire in a crowded building. This guy is a freak, even though I never believed that poop, I'm not religious.
Originally posted by cjd
Jee, this all seems oddly familiar... when the Great Disappointment happened, and then even though the apocalypse clearly didn't come when the church was predicting it, they explained it away by saying that some spiritual "introspective judgment" had taken place, refusing to admit that they were wrong, and then adjusting the date to a later one only to be disappointed all over again.
Jee, this all seems oddly familiar... when the Great Disappointment happened, and then even though the apocalypse clearly didn't come when the church was predicting it, they explained it away by saying that some spiritual "introspective judgment" had taken place, refusing to admit that they were wrong, and then adjusting the date to a later one only to be disappointed all over again.
That is the most hypocritical thing I have ever seen that hasn't come out of Ted Haggard's mouth. I'm not even kidding. This from you is unacceptable. I mean really you're in "christian education" which is a joke in itself.
I have my little quarrels with Real (read above) but Real isn't on a crazy train like you are.
Real: When I mentioned "misquoting" I was addressing how it has been used as a tool to justify slavery and a multitude of other horrible things. What I'm getting at is that the meaning of everything seems to changes on a time scale as small as a decade, so i don't really see where one would draw the line on extremism because of the meaning of everything seems to switch around with time and geographic location.
What I'm saying is I feel if it was more concretely written it wouldn't have 9000 "interpretations" floating around which each different bunch of people when something bad happens going "oh those are ________ and they're different" as opposed to the "hey perhaps something should be done about it" approach.
Right now there are rare pro-gay marriage churches in the USA and simultaneously Uganda is attempting to legalize a gay genocide inspired by Biblical passages (seriously that is happening right now). That is a hell of a spectrum to cover that I don't think would exist if the Bible was somewhat clearly written.
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