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Kanthulhu posted:Believing in bullshit is neither cool nor good, OP. If cultures (most cultures) did not benefit from religious belief, they would not use it. It is a memetic symbiote.* More precisely: Cultures using religion are more fit than cultures that do not, and the latter fail to successfully compete and are absorbed or displaced. The Hand of Darwin works on all systems (not all can respond). So God is due to Darwinan forces. Heh. Hows that for irony? * Sometimes the symbiote can get out of control or become malignant. Do you really need examples? E: Sometimes bullshit is useful. Sometimes there is little else. i.e. "In politics, there's always something better than the truth." zimboe fucked around with this message at 14:40 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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God committed suicide when it realized it was nothing more than an eternally incompetent gently caress up, whose greatest accomplishment was creating us. God is dead, and hopefully the human race will extinguish itself relatively soon. God bless this mess.
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AnemicChipmunk posted:God committed suicide when it realized it was nothing more than an eternally incompetent gently caress up, whose greatest accomplishment was creating us. Well now, who shall we start with? E: Christians often ask "What would Jesus do?" Jesus would punch you. zimboe fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Oct 24, 2014 |
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Oct 24, 2014 14:42
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zimboe posted:Well now, who shall we start with? You first. I'll be at the end of the line.
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Oct 24, 2014 14:43
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God didn't commit suicide. He just got fired for slacking off on the job.
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Oct 24, 2014 14:47
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AnemicChipmunk posted:God committed suicide when it realized it was nothing more than an eternally incompetent gently caress up, whose greatest accomplishment was creating us. You know how after US marines finish their service the reality of all the war crimes they committed sinks in and they realize they're inhuman monsters who can repent only by taking their own life? That's what happened to OT God. Unfortunately humanity still isn't free because God managed to reproduce before offing himself and now Jesus is running the show
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Oct 24, 2014 15:01
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spooky girlfriend posted:yeah I bet, I wish I believed in a higher power too so I didn't have to be afraid of death This but unironically.
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Oct 24, 2014 15:02
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Kanthulhu posted:Believing in bullshit is neither cool nor good, OP. I don't, I believe in the truth and great creator that is the Lord.
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Oct 24, 2014 15:52
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little late but yes i technically exist.
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Oct 24, 2014 16:13
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All the other gods exist, it's just your one that doesn't.
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Oct 24, 2014 17:24
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It seems that if you get rid of Jesus altogether, light and energy will slowly fade from the world, causing humans to become sick and ill, their artificial creations to break and decay, plants and animals to wither and rot, and the skies to become grey and overcast until the world becomes some sort of post apocalyptic purgatory. However if you agree to keep Jesus around then he'll impose his will on humanity and force everyone to live like it's the Middle Ages complete with kings and poo poo. The only solution is to trap Jesus in a large battery and siphon off his power so the world can still function while humans have freedom to grow and evolve into better beings *starts construction on the Golden Throne*
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Hail Satan
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Nov 9, 2014 02:43
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Priest caste made up Yahweh to convince Hebrew tribals to wash their hands and not eat rotten meat and not kill their own babies and such. Its FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKING boring to keep hearing about Yahweh.
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Nov 9, 2014 03:18
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Can't we talk about Brahman for once?
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Nov 9, 2014 03:21
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The biblical god invented by Israelites was an amalgamation of previous gods in civilizations that died out before Israelites even existed. Yahweh was invented by humans from two previous gods merged together for political and cultural use. There are older religions and gods that existed before Yahweh and are therefore closer to the beginning and therefore more true. Everything after are falsehoods and lies.
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Nov 9, 2014 03:23
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deism is pretty cool imo organized religion is awful awful awful though
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Nov 9, 2014 03:25
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So when a bunch Australopithecines cowered together in the night, vaguely suspecting that the thunder and lightening were a Very Angry Alpha Male, they were closest to the truth? Edit - The God of the Gaps is literally the oldest and original god. Disconnecticus fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Nov 9, 2014 |
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CodeJanitor posted:The biblical god invented by Israelites was an amalgamation of previous gods in civilizations that died out before Israelites even existed. Yahweh was invented by humans from two previous gods merged together for political and cultural use. There are older religions and gods that existed before Yahweh and are therefore closer to the beginning and therefore more true. Everything after are falsehoods and lies. Ha, I knew it was Raven who raised the land from the great waters and not plate tectonics! Now given Raven some god drat fries.
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:Ha, I knew it was Raven who raised the land from the great waters and not plate tectonics! Now given Raven some god drat fries. All of the earliest religions were defined as a pantheon of gods, lead and controlled by female Earth goddesses. Everything else and since is an affront of the true gods that created the Earth, created by evil and only spread through vile behavior, murder, and warfare. As an example, Mohammad was a pedophile, greedy, lying, murdering, war-monger only matched by the most infamous vile leaders in modern history.
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Nov 9, 2014 03:31
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CodeJanitor posted:All of the earliest religions were defined as a pantheon of gods, lead and controlled by female Earth goddesses. Everything else and since is an affront of the true gods that created the Earth, created by evil and only spread through vile behavior, murder, and warfare. I know Coyote is kind of the new kid in the pantheon, but at his worst the trickster who is easily fooled is at most a mild libertarian.
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The Most Epic Lifehack: Prayer.
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