My conversion

[aitm]

Actually my request for BVC has silenced

No, it proves time and time again, you don't know the babble and you just post spoon fed crap from your pastor. The babble is made up crap and you flaunt it like it is strawberries and cream instead of a horrendous book of a make believe deity that is far crueler than any human has ever been...but that gets your willy hard I guess. Run along now.....someone I am sure is looking for you.

[Cavebear]

Also, gollum was transformed into a degenerative creature by his obsession over a magical object in a world where magic actually existed, unlike the horseshit being touted here by a guy using the same ramblings a preacher uses to manipulate the masses into conversion.

The reason why guys like this ramble on so much is if they stop drilling their cult mindset into the heads of simple folk, it might give them pause for thought that maybe what their saying is horseshit. That's also why atheism has become so much stronger in the modern day unlike any other point in history, because we have information, examples, stories and accounts showing what religion is, instead of it just coming from a few sources of info like newspapers or controlled institutions of education

Your point that magic existed "for real" to the characters in the LOTR story is a good point.  It requires not only our suspension of disbelief, but also the characters acceptance of it as real.  Nice!

[sdelsolray]

Not as nice as Gollum--or smart.  At least Gollum was conflicted about his current state of affairs.

Gollum/Smeagol experienced periodic and intense cognitive dissonance ("CD").  CD arises in a healthy mind and often helps resolve the internal contradictions by bringing them to a conscious level so that the brain's rational processes can process them.

Poster Dritch1050 has exhibited no cognitive dissonance in his posts on this forum.  Likely, his earlier deep religious indoctrination has atrophied his brain's ability to generate cognitive dissonance of which he can perceive.

Short version:  Dritch1050's brain is miswired.

[Baruch]

Your point that magic existed "for real" to the characters in the LOTR story is a good point.  It requires not only our suspension of disbelief, but also the characters acceptance of it as real.  Nice!

It took you 70 years to get this?  This long to achieve reading comprehension of fiction?

[Drich0150]

No, it proves time and time again, you don't know the babble and you just post spoon fed crap from your pastor.

what it prooves is you do not obey the rules of this web site when quoting written material

The babble is made up crap and you flaunt it like it is strawberries and cream instead of a horrendous book of a make believe deity that is far crueler than any human has ever been...

To evil men and I appaude Him for it!

but that gets your willy hard I guess. Run along now.....someone I am sure is looking for you.

being brought up as a victim has cost you your discernment. in your attempt to persecute God and his followers you condemn the very things your society was built on, and I have yet to hear any one of you renounce any of the luxuries the pain and suffering of other has afforded you! but it all ok (being a hypocrite) just so long as you hate someone else for it.

[Baruch]

Weekly quotes from the sermons of Pepe ...

ܣܥܥ ܣܐܠܠܝ ܣܥܠܠ ܣܥܐܫܥܠܠܣ ܐܛ ܬܥ ܣܥܐܫܘܪܥ

[Blackleaf]

Weekly quotes from the sermons of Pepe ...

That's interesting. The mouse knows to start from the right side and go left when selecting Hebrew text. I didn't know it was smart enough to take that kind of thing into consideration. At least I managed to learn one thing from this stupid thread.

[Baruch]

That's interesting. The mouse knows to start from the right side and go left when selecting Hebrew text. I didn't know it was smart enough to take that kind of thing into consideration. At least I managed to learn one thing from this stupid thread.

Haha ... well, like the hidden hand of Adam Smith ... text formatting is there, even if you can't directly see it.  If you paste in right-justified text and post it, the justification is preserved.  And no, Kekistani isn't Hebrew at all.  Praise Kek!  My Kekistani posts aren't random, but nobody has the "ganas" to want to figure it out ... or doesn't have the "nous" to do so if they try to.  There are probably NSA agents feverishly trying to decipher it, worried that it might reveal CIA mini-transceivers hidden in the dental work of the Senate ;-)

[aitm]

  in your attempt to persecute God and his followers you condemn the very things your society was built on....

There are quite a few economists, and perhaps some of us who are not, who would suggest that one of the quickest ways to extravagant wealth is to not have to pay for the labor force to do all the work. Not just slavery, but indentured slavery....then we progressed into many decades of importing cheap laborers (and vast discrimination) from various ethnicities not the last of being the Chinese, who were also murdered and "re-located"...oh and should we start with the natives?

Yeah...."oh christians are what made this country great"....looks like you know as much about American history as you do your own babble.

[Drich0150]

No, it proves time and time again, you don't know the babble and you just post spoon fed crap from your pastor. The babble is made up crap and you flaunt it like it is strawberries and cream instead of a horrendous book of a make believe deity that is far crueler than any human has ever been...but that gets your willy hard I guess. Run along now.....someone I am sure is looking for you.

Actually it did silence someone.. bit of a dog with a bone if you will... (My request for BCV) silence you! I mean I did give a full explanation of the separation of waters as per your requesting after our bcv dance.

none of which I can promise you has ever been espoused from a pulpit, and it left you silent for a while. then the next time I asked for BCV you barked up again seeming having forgotten the last teeth kicking I just gave you.

How about putting some truth in your writing and go line by line and give me a scientific explanation as to how/why what I said about the separation of waters would not have worked the way I explained it... Rather than just spouting out dated cliché' that are true about most first year Christians who come to sights like this. Meaning show me you have the mental capacity to play on this level before challenging to another 'dual' you will just run from and then come back in a week or two and do it all over again.

[Drich0150]

Gollum/Smeagol experienced periodic and intense cognitive dissonance ("CD").  CD arises in a healthy mind and often helps resolve the internal contradictions by bringing them to a conscious level so that the brain's rational processes can process them.

Poster Dritch1050 has exhibited no cognitive dissonance in his posts on this forum.  Likely, his earlier deep religious indoctrination has atrophied his brain's ability to generate cognitive dissonance of which he can perceive.

Short version:  Dritch1050's brain is miswired.

Bwahahaha
someone misused a fancy word to show how dumb I'm supposed to be!!!
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cognitive+dissonance

Maybe talking so good is not thing for you.. maybe stay with talking only: "I am Groot" for now.

[Drich0150]

There are quite a few economists, and perhaps some of us who are not, who would suggest that one of the quickest ways to extravagant wealth is to not have to pay for the labor force to do all the work. Not just slavery, but indentured slavery....then we progressed into many decades of importing cheap laborers (and vast discrimination) from various ethnicities not the last of being the Chinese, who were also murdered and "re-located"...oh and should we start with the natives?

Yeah...."oh christians are what made this country great"....looks like you know as much about American history as you do your own babble.

I think you and I share a lot of common points on slavery

[aitm]

I think you and I share a lot of common points on slavery

well...yer a god fearing thumper...and god loves peeps having slaves...so I kinda doubt we agree on slavery.

[Cavebear]

Drich:  "in your attempt to persecute God and his followers"

You are assuming there are both a god AND followers.  There can be one without the other both ways.  There could be a god without any followers and there could be followers without a god to follow.  There can be followers without a basis...  And IF there is a god (and I suggest the possibility with some hesitation), it would most certainly be so far beyond comprehension as to make any theism a futile exercise.

[Drich0150]

Drich:  "in your attempt to persecute God and his followers"

You are assuming there are both a god AND followers.  There can be one without the other both ways.  There could be a god without any followers and there could be followers without a god to follow.  There can be followers without a basis...  And IF there is a god (and I suggest the possibility with some hesitation), it would most certainly be so far beyond comprehension as to make any theism a futile exercise.

wow are you new at this whole atheism thing?

Just look at what some of your peers have posted about a God they themselves like you do not believe in... Now tell me how can their be no belief in said God when you and your peers show distain and hate for Him?

For example I harbor no ill will towards the worshipers of FSM because I know he does not exist, but if the followers of FSM had it much better than I did I could learn to resent them, and  if they were smug assholes I could learn to hate them, not if the took all of what I hated and attributed to their FSM I would hate that too. Then in somecases break out into a rage fit against those in whom I hate and then taunt them and their God to save them.

So I ask again are you new to atheism? because it seems most of your peers are pretty darn close to lashing out at those in whom they hate.