Why don't you believe in Hell?

[Marquis de Carabas]

DARWINISM HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN OR TESTED BY ANY OTHER SCIENTIST!

Oh Lord...

Start a thread about Darwinism and proof, 1inC. Really. I mean it. Do it in the Science forum. I'm starved for entertainment today.

 

[TruthSeeker]

No I'm fine, thanks.

I'm glad. Mostly, my teasing/playing in your threads is good natured.

However, I was upset with you last night about the anti-semitism. It doesn't excuse it, but I do feel you are blind to it. My hope is that you will come to an appreciation of it.

A story to illustrate:
In grade 4, a girl in my Catholic school used to have as her daily intention "please Jesus do not let my new baby brother/sister be dark skinned" (She was white and her mother had married a black man and was expecting a child) She said this outloud, every day in a multicultural, mulitrace class.

Years later (we must have been 30), I ran into her. Although I hadn't seen her in decades, she reminded me of that time and apologized to me (although I am white). She said that it had only been many years later that she began to see her own racism and that she was deeply ashamed of her earlier self. I felt there was nothing to forgive because she had been so ignorant.

My hope is that you will grow in the same way she has.

 

[Marquis de Carabas]

Re: Re: Re: Fair enough, Lisa

So you want me to leave? Just because I spread His Word you want me banned? Do my words strike fear into your heart? YES THEY DO BECAUSE THE LORD'S WORD IS LIKE A SHARP ARROW! Now that you have felt the fear of the Almighty it's time to repent for your sins. Please step out of a sinful life and come to the side of Glory.

I want you to stay, 1inC. You're my straight man. We should hit the Improv or something.

 

[Lisa Simpson]

Re: Re: Re: Fair enough, Lisa

So you want me to leave? Just because I spread His Word you want me banned? Do my words strike fear into your heart? YES THEY DO BECAUSE THE LORD'S WORD IS LIKE A SHARP ARROW! Now that you have felt the fear of the Almighty it's time to repent for your sins. Please step out of a sinful life and come to the side of Glory.

Calm down, you are going have a conniption. All I said was that if you didn't like the way we respond to your posts you can leave. You are not a child, being picked on by schoolyard bullies as someone else stated. As long as you play nice, you will not get banned here.

There is nothing you could possibly say that would ever frighten me. You are too ridiculous to be scary.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Re: Re: Re: Fair enough, Lisa

So you want me to leave? Just because I spread His Word you want me banned? Do my words strike fear into your heart? YES THEY DO BECAUSE THE LORD'S WORD IS LIKE A SHARP ARROW! Now that you have felt the fear of the Almighty it's time to repent for your sins. Please step out of a sinful life and come to the side of Glory.

Don't do it Lisa. You'll make the baby Buddha cry.

 

[sackett]

Re: Re: Fair enough, Lisa

. . 1inC . . . is an adult.

That's where we differ. If 1inChrissakes is an adult, then I'd be content to stay in short pants for the rest of my days.

But I only meant to describe what I -felt- reading this thread. Does this express it better? In my mind I saw an undersized, bewildered, dull-witted little boy in shabby clothes turning this way, then that way as a circle of gleeful children bedevil him, some of them throwing pebbles, others throwing taunts that he can only half-understand. It's not any kind of vision, it's a compilation of memories.

Others have expressed pity for 1inC. Mingled, of course, with scorn.

 

[Lisa Simpson]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Fair enough, Lisa

Don't do it Lisa. You'll make the baby Buddha cry.

Nah, I wouldn't. Baby Buddha knows I try really hard to follow the eightfold path, although sometimes with stupid, racist, homophobic people I briefly forget about 'right speech'. The nice thing about Buddhism is I always have a chance to make myself better.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Re: Re: Re: Fair enough, Lisa

So you want me to leave? Just because I spread His Word you want me banned? Do my words strike fear into your heart? YES THEY DO BECAUSE THE LORD'S WORD IS LIKE A SHARP ARROW! Now that you have felt the fear of the Almighty it's time to repent for your sins. Please step out of a sinful life and come to the side of Glory.

Oh, please don't leave. Next to Patrick, you're the second most entertaining kook around here.

 

[Lisa Simpson]

Re: Re: Re: Fair enough, Lisa

That's where we differ. If 1inChrissakes is an adult, then I'd be content to stay in short pants for the rest of my days.

He says he has college aged daughters. He has said he doesn't feel picked on. I am taking him at his word on this.

 

[1inChrist]

Buddha never existed and Jesus is eternal.

Who will you trust?

 

[Marquis de Carabas]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fair enough, Lisa

The nice thing about Buddhism is I always have a chance to make myself better.

[pathetic flattery]
As if you could be better than you are now.
[/pathetic flattery]

 

[RamblingOnwards]

They never departed. They communicated all the time even though not face to face that much. Also this certain passage is speaking of divorce, not about a wife going to do missionary work.

Huh? That passage very clearly states that the purpose of marraige is sexual union:

1 corinthians 7

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

It only incidentally forbids divorce if she is not fufilling her sexual duty.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Buddha never existed and Jesus is eternal.

Who will you trust?

I don't see why someone being eternal would make them automatically trustworthy.

 

[Yaotl]

Buddha never existed and Jesus is eternal.

Who will you trust?

You're kidding right?

 

[Lisa Simpson]

Buddha never existed and Jesus is eternal.

Who will you trust?

Buddha existed. And I trust his teachings. Just like I know Jesus had some good things to say. As long as I forget the mystic mumbo-jumbo surrounding his story, he was a pretty good preacher. Here's a really good book

MdC--flattery will get you everywhere

 

[Marquis de Carabas]

1inC,

Have you had time to give some thought to joining the Bastist religion?

 

[TruthSeeker]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fair enough, Lisa

Nah, I wouldn't. Baby Buddha knows I try really hard to follow the eightfold path, although sometimes with stupid, racist, homophobic people I briefly forget about 'right speech'. The nice thing about Buddhism is I always have a chance to make myself better.

Baby Buddha (why does that make me laugh?) is good that way, very understanding.

 

[RamblingOnwards]

I hope that he finds peace in his search, but I'm still going to call him to the carpet when he lies.

As you can see, I have very little patience for deliberate obtuseness no matter how sympathetic I feel, so I can hardly fault you!

 

[TruthSeeker]

Buddha never existed and Jesus is eternal.

Who will you trust?

Here's a task:
Compare the evidence for the historical existence of Buddha and Jesus.

Present evidence for the eternal nature of Jesus.

(Can't use the Bible)

 

[Stitch]

Re: Re: Re: Fair enough, Lisa

So you want me to leave?

Not at all...your posts are always good for a few yuks!

Just because I spread His Word you want me banned?

You wouldn't get banned on here for doing that, as long as you don't breach any of the forum rules in the process. By all means spread the word, just don't be surprised if people tell you are wrong, refuse to listen or ask you to prove yourself.

Do my words strike fear into your heart?

Not at all, I look forward to your posts, that somebody can have such a bizarre outlook on life always brings a smile to my face.

YES THEY DO BECAUSE THE LORD'S WORD IS LIKE A SHARP ARROW!

Noooo, a wet squib maybe.

Now that you have felt the fear of the Almighty it's time to repent for your sins. Please step out of a sinful life and come to the side of Glory.

No fear here, well not of a non existent being anyway. On the odd occasion that I do sin, I repent, but that's internal or to those whom I have effected, not to a deity.