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Aren't you afraid to die?

Maybe they're just gathering data for the JREF Forum Awards at TAM III.

You know -- "And the award for poster with the most serious replies to an obvious sock puppet goes to..."
 
roger said:
Argument by misquote.
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While I do like you, Roger, I am going to go out on a limb here and nominate 1inC as winner. He actually has us coming up with conspiracy theories involving Ranid posing as a Christian fundamentalist. Well done, my love.
 
alfaniner said:
Maybe they're just gathering data for the JREF Forum Awards at TAM III.

You know -- "And the award for poster with the most serious replies to an obvious sock puppet goes to..."
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...and a9 gets the award for "Most Efficient Threadkilling Post"

:D
 
Afraid to die? Being born is the #1 cause of dying, all in all.

What happens after I die? Probably more of what happened before I was born.

All this whiney Christian supremacist 'hellfire' talk is just so much superstitious bull. You may as well tell me Santa won't be bringing me any presents for not being retarded enough to fall for such fairy tales. Or maybe santa will creep into my house with a knife?

Watch out! There are unsubstantiated supernatural "consequences" for not believing in the same idiotic garbage I do! You better live in fear all your life and give men power over yourself for wearing a dress and standing behind a pulpit and shouting at you!

What a crock.
 
I'm certainly afraid to die - there'll be no more me after that, which is a pretty horrific thought! Of course I won't care then, because there won't be a me to care, but there's a me now, and the idea is pretty horrible to me.

But so what? No matter how scary death might be, there's no alternative so I just have to lump it.
 
1 in Christ

Evil...........where did it come from?


Evil..........origin???

If God can do no evil, where did evil come from?
 
1inChrist said:
Atheist who knowingly reject Christ:

Aren't you scared of the fact that you will be banished to the Lake of Fire for eternity with Satan and his angels? Tormented day and night forever and ever. There shall be NO rest for the wicked!
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No more than I am afraid that Santa will bring me lumps of coal this year.
 
cbish said:
1 in Christ

Evil...........where did it come from?
Evil..........origin???

If God can do no evil, where did evil come from?
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He can't hear you...

NoneinChrist, much like Elvis, has left the forum...again.
 
Damn, this whole thing happened while I was asleep or working.
I wanted to win. Can I go on the winners roster?

Not afraid of death, though dying seems potentially quite nasty.
 
1inChrist said:
Atheist who knowingly reject Christ:

Aren't you scared of the fact that you will be banished to the Lake of Fire for eternity with Satan and his angels? Tormented day and night forever and ever. There shall be NO rest for the wicked!
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Atheists who hate god aren't really atheists now, are they? ;)

Atheists who unknowingly reject Christ:

Aren't you scared to die if you believe there is nothing afterwards? Do you know how lonely it would be to not be alive or to not be feeling anything?
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How would you know after you were gone? You'd be GONE, and therefore wouldn't feel 'not alive'.

What are my views on mortality?

From my experience of the universe, everything ends. There just wouldn't be enough room in the universe if everyone went on in one form or another. So I accept it as a natural end to things, and as a practical limitation on the availability of existence.

Now you may ask, what does it all mean? I don't have the answer to that. We all make our own meaning. My meaning is living as good and noble and interesting a life as I am able. Now maybe, just maybe there's something more to this existence than just living and dying. But if there is, I seriously doubt (and all respect to the religious persons on this board) that it has anything to do with any religions that man has invented. IMHO.
 
cajela said:
Damn, this whole thing happened while I was asleep or working.
I wanted to win. Can I go on the winners roster?

Not afraid of death, though dying seems potentially quite nasty.
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The roster no longer exists.

As the former keeper of the list, I declare you the winner

Argument by letting go of the list is hard.
 
1inChrist said:
But there are MILLIONS of Hellish NDE's. This is proof that there is life after death. Also there are more Hellish NDE's than Heavenly.
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Any evidence for that? Got any sources? WWN or the Enquirer don't count.
 
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1inChrist said:

Explain city workers working down in sewers hearing screams.
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I'm almost sorry that I gave you that idea. Now you're parroting it like a... well a parrot. :D
 
HarryKeogh said:

(my 1st and last response to one of this guy's posts because frankly I think he's just having a fun time jerking our chain)
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Probably, but he's at least entertaining at it.
 
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1inChrist said:
Explain Hellish OBE's.
Explain Hellish NDE's.
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Never had one. All other claims are anecdotal, untestable and of no value to my world view.

However, research suggests that the human brain has the capacity to respond to stress in ways that can be mistaken for any number of phenomena, including OBEs, NDEs, alien abductions, recovered memories, etc.

Explain city workers working down in sewers hearing screams.
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The really interesting thing about sewers (or any smooth-walled, irregularly shaped environment), is that sounds can come from just about anywhere, yet they will seem to have come from just about everywhere. Some may consider the sewers to be Hell, but that's hardly a sound basis for a system of belief.

Explain the atheist doctor who was terrified when his patients would be revived screaming ''I'm in HELL!!!!''
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Let's assume for a moment that this didn't come from Weekly World News. "I'm in hell" as a statement can mean any number of things, most notable being "I'm in great pain." Being terrified at hearing this is presumably a natural reaction to someone dedicated to preventing or relieving pain and suffering. The fact that said doctor was an atheist is irrelevant.

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Of course, by writing all of this, I'm not saying that I inany way believe that these events have actually happened, merely that there's more than one explanation than 1inChrists. I prefer one that doesn't require invoking mysticism.

Nope, still not afraid.
 
wollery said:
This may come across as a bit of a weird statement, but it just occured to me that 1inC seems to me to be failing the Turing test! His responses are almost all parrot-like, but the real giveaway was when zaayrdragon mentioned the "troll under the bridge" 1inC responds by saying, "Would you people STOP calling me a troll. I'm getting sick of it."

Now if that isn't an automated response to a keyword then I'm a small furry animal from Alpha Centauri!! ;)
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thank you for your insight! i was afraid 1 inch christ was a transhuman AI (a demented and terribly flawed transhuman, but it would explain the consistency). too bad, really. the singularity would have been fun. :o
 
Thanks, truthseeker. If I turn out to be god, you will go to heaven for being kind to newbies :)

Yay! I won! Go me!

(I still believe that nonparticipation is the way to win with 1"troll, but geeze it's fun to read all these threads.)
 
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