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Started by Sorginak, February 12, 2017, 08:56:34 PM

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Unbeliever

I had to take a GED test when I joined the navy, and even though I'd only finished 10th grade, I still passed the test with high marks. I don't remember what they were, but the recruiter told me it was the highest score he'd seen. But he probably said that to everyone he gave the test to.
God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Baruch

Quote from: Unbeliever on February 17, 2017, 03:34:16 PM
I had to take a GED test when I joined the navy, and even though I'd only finished 10th grade, I still passed the test with high marks. I don't remember what they were, but the recruiter told me it was the highest score he'd seen. But he probably said that to everyone he gave the test to.

I presume you know now ... that all recruiters lie ;-))
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on February 17, 2017, 12:47:33 PM
I became a bad-doing-on-command guy like General Colin Powell.  Not.

So was that "became" or "not". You can't have it both ways.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on February 19, 2017, 02:32:02 AM
So was that "became" or "not". You can't have it both ways.

Millennialist irony ... that is how the young speak.  I am perpetually young.  I have big hands too, and you are so losing!
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on February 19, 2017, 08:57:49 AM
Millennialist irony ... that is how the young speak.  I am perpetually young.  I have big hands too, and you are so losing!

And the answer is not an answer.  Shocked I am...
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on February 23, 2017, 03:57:02 AM
And the answer is not an answer.  Shocked I am...

Yoda you are not ;-)
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on February 23, 2017, 05:56:15 AM
Yoda you are not ;-)

Yoda I am not.  My grandmother was Amish and that was her natural way of speaking.  How dare you insult her memory that way?
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on February 23, 2017, 11:05:12 AM
Yoda I am not.  My grandmother was Amish and that was her natural way of speaking.  How dare you insult her memory that way?

Did she make good snake soup, and train Jedi too?
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Unbeliever

Quote from: Baruch on February 17, 2017, 06:41:35 PM
I presume you know now ... that all recruiters lie ;-))
I've found very few people, recruiters or otherwise, who don't lie. I guess it's just part of human nature.
God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Baruch

Quote from: Unbeliever on February 23, 2017, 06:09:03 PM
I've found very few people, recruiters or otherwise, who don't lie. I guess it's just part of human nature.

Telling the truth, with evil intent ... isn't a good thing either.  The focus has to be on intent ... not on the fact that human epistemology sucks.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Mike Cl

Quote from: Unbeliever on February 23, 2017, 06:09:03 PM
I've found very few people, recruiters or otherwise, who don't lie. I guess it's just part of human nature.
My recruiter did not so much as left stuff out.  And with the military, they can use you any way they see fit--but the recruiters don't tell you that.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

Unbeliever

Quote from: Mike Cl on February 24, 2017, 12:06:26 PM
My recruiter did not so much as left stuff out.  And with the military, they can use you any way they see fit--but the recruiters don't tell you that.
Lies of omission are still lies. We probably get lied to more that way than any other, I would guess.
God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Baruch

Quote from: Unbeliever on February 24, 2017, 03:59:54 PM
Lies of omission are still lies. We probably get lied to more that way than any other, I would guess.

Given human ignorance, even in spite of trying not to be ignorant, G-d uses that as the primary method, lies of omission.  Of course for an atheist, G-d is silent anyway, so it it tautological ;-)
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Jason78

It costs a lot to free yourself of material possessions.

For example:  It costs me about £1 to make lunch in my kitchen.   If I had none of that stuff, I'd have to eat out and it would cost me ten times as much.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato

Cavebear

Quote from: Mike Cl on February 24, 2017, 12:06:26 PM
My recruiter did not so much as left stuff out.  And with the military, they can use you any way they see fit--but the recruiters don't tell you that.

I knew that all marketers (including military recruiters) lied, by the time I was 10.  But then I've always been sales-resistant.

Which, I suppose, is why I became an atheist around that time... Theists are just another sales operation.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!