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Silver
02-15-2005, 08:43 PM
http://www.family.org/teenguys/breakmag/departments/a0034694.html

I guess it makes sense though. If the answer is "ghosts aren't real, and your girlfriend is an idiot" you know what the next question is going to be...

Boo!
jaydee
02-15-2005, 09:41 PM
What a bunch of wack-jobs. And we think that the Stone Age tribes of some south Pacific islands have some primitive and superstitious beliefs.
$tinkle
02-16-2005, 09:15 AM
what about the holy ghost?

ok, let's see how far you go with this spirit stuff:
- do you believe you have a spririt dwelling within you?
- if so, do you believe this spirit can have a manifestation which interacts w/ your conscious?
- do you have spirit-based beliefs or un-beliefs based in what you would call evidence or fact?
N8
02-16-2005, 09:17 AM
http://www.family.org/teenguys/breakmag/departments/a0034694.html

I guess it makes sense though. If the answer is "ghosts aren't real, and your girlfriend is an idiot" you know what the next question is going to be...

Boo!


HAHAHA! Me thinks thou art a closet christian...

:p
Andyman_1970
02-16-2005, 09:53 AM
Andy sits back with his mid morning water bottle full of Gatorade and watches the discussion unfold........................
Silver
02-16-2005, 11:31 AM
HAHAHA! Me thinks thou art a closet christian...

:p

I was poking around looking for an unrelated press release, and that just happened to be on the front page.
Silver
02-16-2005, 11:34 AM
what about the holy ghost?

ok, let's see how far you go with this spirit stuff:
- do you believe you have a spririt dwelling within you?
- if so, do you believe this spirit can have a manifestation which interacts w/ your conscious?
- do you have spirit-based beliefs or un-beliefs based in what you would call evidence or fact?

1. No
2. N/A
3. Everything learned in cognitive science and biology. I can't prove a negative, but there is no evidence that evil spirits affect our bodies. We've come a long way from mental illness being caused by demons, thankfully.
$tinkle
02-16-2005, 12:08 PM
so what happens when you die?
Silver
02-16-2005, 12:10 PM
so what happens when you die?

Consciousness ends.

I get recycled.
$tinkle
02-16-2005, 12:23 PM
that's certainly verifiably accurate.

i don't know where to go with this now besides "will it have all been worth it?". i think i need to come up with some shocking non-sequitur to soon become ummbikes new sig.
lovebunny
02-17-2005, 07:40 PM
i dunno what to think about this, but i do know that i don't want to just end when i die. that seems kinda..... unfullfilling dont you think? i mean we work our asses off our whole lives and when we die, we get nothing? i seriously hope its not like that
Changleen
02-17-2005, 08:29 PM
1. Why Religion was invented: i dunno what to think about this, but i do know that i don't want to just end when i die. that seems kinda..... unfullfilling dont you think? i mean we work our asses off our whole lives and when we die, we get nothing? i seriously hope its not like that
$tinkle
02-17-2005, 09:30 PM
1. Why Religion was invented:don't you mean discovered?

...or marketed?
Silver
02-17-2005, 09:34 PM
don't you mean discovered?

...or marketed?

I'd actually say that is where spirituality came from.

Religion got invented when a medicine man realized he could do his schtick with the spirits for a living until statistics got invented.
mack
02-19-2005, 09:12 PM
Q."HEY MIKE! I’m not the most popular guy in school. Is there anything wrong with this?

—Name Withheld "



A."NO! In fact, playing the popularity game often does more harm than good, causing otherwise smart teens to make some pretty dumb choices: lowering standards, compromising values, hurting others, taking stupid risks."


BAH-HUMBUG... what a dork. :blah:
Changleen
02-20-2005, 01:32 AM
don't you mean discovered?

...or marketed?Definately NOT discovered - you can't discover something that doesn't exist.. Marketed - Yes.
TheInedibleHulk
02-20-2005, 09:31 PM
Dear Mike,

How did you become such a massive toolbox?
ummbikes
02-21-2005, 02:03 AM
that's certainly verifiably accurate.

i don't know where to go with this now besides "will it have all been worth it?". i think i need to come up with some shocking non-sequitur to soon become ummbikes new sig.

Good stuff here, subtle dig, defending your self with class.

Your sedition quote was more of a private joke, I had a professor in college who hated the Sedition Act with a passion.

If you CLICK (http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/dissent/description.htm)
here, third paragraph mentions the sedition Act.

You would enjoy arguing with Jose Gomez, he makes me look like a Neo-con.

In honor of the Sedition Act and you I'll quote your post for another day, then back to my standard sig.