logic-is-overrated

I wouldn't wish for anything. The wish granter could be a spiteful fluffer like the one on x-files and screw me over. And since I only have 1 wish, I wouldn't be able to change it.

I wouldn't wish for anything. The wish granter could be a spiteful fluffer like the one on x-files and screw me over. And since I only have 1 wish, I wouldn't be able to change it.

I wouldn't wish for anything. The wish granter could be a spiteful fluffer like the one on x-files and screw me over. And since I only have 1 wish, I wouldn't be able to change it.

I wouldn't wish for anything. The wish granter could be a spiteful fluffer like the one on x-files and screw me over. And since I only have 1 wish, I wouldn't be able to change it.

Ever since that marathon pic, whenever I think of you, I think of speedo.

Being too old to play games is like being too old to trick or treat. And nobody is ever too old for free candy.

That's usually what I think. I spell your name-lock.

Forums: Generally ignored since I usually don't have anything interesting/useful/intelligent to say. Real life: Total nerd/really weird. <--I just can't help it.

Do you have 1 or 2? I have bipolar 1. I usually use a combination of anti-depressants, lightboxes, and exercise for depressive episodes.

It's only been 2 hours since his last post.

umm alright.... are you calling girls animals?... Humans are animals.

Humans. Particularly of the female persuasion.

You could paint a U.S. flag on your stomach and run naked across the field.

But we're number 1 at fighting terrorism, and that's kind of like a sport.

If this is in response to this: Which I'm assuming it is, because of the numbering, then quite simply-no. That has no relevance to anything. And what I've been asking is, where did this certainty come from? Is it because you were brought up in the church and therefore indoctrinated? If so, then it's pointless because you're not any different than any other person indoctrinated into any other religion. Is it because you blindly accept what you are taught? If so, then no. Living according to a belief on blind faith is ignorant. Is it because you've made some attempt to exam your belief system through a rational thought process and have been convinced that christianity is true? If so, then that is what I want to know. Why are you so convinced? I want to reiterate that I'm not trying to attack christianity or any person in particular. I really do want to know why you believe the things you believe.

I don't agree with this. I am not an atheist because I'm selfish, abhor authority, or want to live a carefree life. I am an atheist because I research, and I research, and I read, and I study and the more I learn, the more absurd Christianity seems to me and the harder it gets for me to believe it. I understand all religion takes a leap of faith, everything does. I just have yet to find any reason to take that leap. If you believe hell is simply being "cut off from God", okay, I could probably find that understandable. But the overwhelming majority of christians I know, have ever known, haven't ever known but heard them talk about it, believe hell is literal punishment; and it was to those people. *edit*: What I'm having a hard time with is this: as an imperfect human with a finite mind, I can't even comprehend how long infinity is. I think about a million, billion, trillion years and that is an incredibly long time. Yet infinity is a million, billion, trillion times that and more. I can't even comprehend the punishment that I'm "supposedly" choosing yet somehow I deserve it. Again, I think you guys have a skewed perception of atheists. I reject God, not because I hate him or because I'm selfish, but because I find no reason not too. To the christian, maybe that counts as the same thing, but I don't think it is.

I'm assuming the answer you want is, he can't. So okay-he can't. That still doesn't answer this question: Infinite punishment for finite sins-why? Are you telling me the only way to deal with sinners is to torture them for all eternity?

I have questions about hell. First off, why? As humans we are only capable of finite sins. Yet, we will receive infinite punishment. To quote ebonmusings (a favorite website of mine): I just cannot see how any positive attribute can be applied to something that will punish its creations for ever, and ever, and ever, and ever; especially when they're only alive for 50-80 years. Infinite punishment for finite sins-why? Another question. Do all people who go to hell receive the same sort of punishment? I'm not just talking about people who were "worse" or more "morally corrupt". I'm talking about the fact that some people just have more reason to believe. Take for example, the people who lived with Jesus while he walked the Earth and other people in the Bible. They supposedly saw people raised from the dead, severed limbs magically healed, blind people being able to see, leprosy healed, fireballs raining from the sky destroying cities, entire seas being magically separated, the various plagues, etc. Today, we have a book that is thousands of years old, plagued by various copy and translation errors and I personally have not heard of any varifiable miracles occuring any time recently (if you have please point me to them). My question is, does somebody who saw Jesus healing severed limbs and raising the dead and yet still denied him, suffer the same punishment as somebody now who denies him even though the amount of evidence for the two is completely lopsided? How about a missionary who goes to visit a friend in Africa for a week. While in Africa he meets somebody who has never heard the word of God. For the week he's there he tries to convince the African to believe and the African says no (which he more than likely would since somebody he has never met is trying to convince him to believe in something he has never heard of). Now, that African has been exposed to the gospel, has been offered the choice to accept Jesus, and refused. Is he going to hell? Even though he has been exposed to it for only a week and he has had no prior knowledge of it?

At this moment, I don't think I actually hate anything.

Call him Mojo. I lost my Mojo. Have you seen my Mojo? etc. -Completely lame yet slightly amusing at the same time. Either that or just call him kitty. I call my cat kitty.

I watched it, chuckled slightly, and found no virus on my computer. You must need more leet points.

I think this is the most important thing about getting a job. I worked at CVS for awhile and hardly had to do anything and got paid pretty well. But it was boring. Now I do physical labor, moving bricks, and other construction type things, get paid minimum wage. But I love the exercise, the people I work with, etc.. and even though I'm working almost ten times as hard as I did at CVS, the days seem to go almost ten times faster.

I saw a video of a tiny person riding a pony. That freaks me out.

*edit* ^^He said it.^^

I think discipline used in moderation at proper times is seriously beneficial. Of course it's not for all children and I think it is the job of the parent or other gaurdian to learn how their child reacts to different sorts of punishments and figure out what is the most effective and beneficial.