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Some of you may find this site offensive. Some of you may find it refreshing. You have been warned.

 

It is an interesting site but a lot of the "proofs" they cite fall victim to very faulty logic. you could be generous and say that it is intentional (holding a mirror up) but my first impulse isn't to be generous.

I wish they had taken more time to develop better arguments and put less straw men forward.

GE

 

That was a pretty sad site (get the pun? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif )
I feel you gotta stand for something or you'll fall for anything. But that's just me, a sinner trying to "get right" with something greater than myself, juno? /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif

While we're on offensive subject matter, here's a vid so fucked up that it's actually kinda funny.
The description reads "A Japaneses family acting black."
For the record, I dont think that this behavior is "black".
Anyway, enjoy (or look on with puzzled disgust) at the "Japanese Niggah" family:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-19ioGniZ88&mode=related&search=

 

Not everyone can be like Harris or Dawkins.

OMG, WW3!

I understand what you mean, but to think an Atheist doesn't stand for something is quite a generalization.

For the most part, we (or just me) prefer to be called Humanists. lolz

------Vid for the thread------
This vid kicks ass. (starring 2 of my personal heroes)

 

Want fun? Visit #vfhome on IRC at random times of the day. You could witness (and participate in) conversations like this.

 

News article. This is like straight out of a horror film:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20726968/

This is in remembrance of 9/11:
http://www.iwo.com/never.htm

And this was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary. Something to ponder:

"My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away .

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.
My Best Regards .
Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein""

In light of the many jokes we share with one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.
She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"

In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. Maybe all of this madness has something to do with when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Maybe it's all a big coincidence or maybe there's a connection. It might have to do a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says . Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

 

I like Ben Stein -- I think he is a funny man and he seems very sharp -- but to say that the national/global tragedies of the last decade were caused by the absence of God is just patently absurd.

There has always been a great deal of tragedy in this world; there has always been war, genocide, hatred, bigotry, murder, devastating catastrophic events, even back when people were praying to Baal or Vishnu or the sun, even before modern humans existed. It's intellectually irresponsible for him to imply that God's absence in America contributed to these disasters; frankly, it's embarrassing.

My .02,
sweep

 

I live in Europe, but I don't think that it makes any difference when discussing world tragedies.
I agree with you sweep that God, whether he exists or not (honestly, I don't believe in Him), has anything to do with what the world looks like. The world is dominated by ppl, so it's mostly us, who shape its reality, it's us who change it for worse or better every day.

As far as some good moral code would help many of us decide whether what we do is right or wrong, I don't think it has to be provided by God or Bible. Therefore, just as sweep wrote, the absence of God doesn't change anything.

I would even go further to state that it is us, believing in God, or anything godly, that makes us depending too much on what we believe in... therefore making us weaker and more vulnerable to manipulation.... like puppets.
What I believe in are People, Human Beings. Maybe they (us) are not as merciful and all-loving as God, but at least they can try, and I know they exist.

This is my opinion, and mine alone, so please don't feel offended by it /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

 

Yo, mista Stein, show me how this happens.

"Omg we're an oppressed majority." Sounds like a talking point of the crazy reactionary conservatives.

Stein: you're obviously making a dumbass statement. First off, anyone who says the founding fathers were atheists is a retard. Conversely, anyone who says the founding fathers were Christian are also retarded.

They were, for the most part, deists (look up "Thomas Jefferson Quotes Christianity" on google). The "God" that created everyone equal was not the same God Ted Haggert talks about. The deist God made everything but and left it be, kinda like a father who wherever he puts his hat down, "he makes a home and family." The God that the Born-Again worship is a call back to the dark ages, bringing damnation to "sin."

Okay, I'll do my best.

I find this funny.

How? "We're all in trouble because we kicked witch-craft out of our schools! We have no to go for our Omens, and we will starve because we can't predict the next rainy season!"

Different belief system, some result. Because the Christian God is "the only true God," speak of witch-craft or even the "evil-eye" sounds retarded to many, but like your own they are beliefs.

Fuck, for all we know we are experiencing the blow-back from a vengeful God for killing off his chosen people, like the Crow Indians.

Come on, crazy shit happens all the time. The "end of the world" has been occurring for at least a 1000 years now.

Parenting styles always differ and there is no absolute "correct" answer.

Yeah, it is so wide spread. pfft

Um.

 

Sorry Sebo. Didn't mean to get you all riled up buddy. I know that religion is a touchy subject to a lot of people so let's just move on to a lighter subject: politics.
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Just kidding, just kidding.

Back on topic, here's a funny clip of some kids playing soccer:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2025174654

An awesome martial arts demo where a kid breaks 3 boards with a 540 kick!
I wish Lei-Fei had this kick /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif It's really fast so dont blink
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1390911118

A tiger creeps up on some elephant riders. Notice how you cant even see him until it's almost too late. Tiger style! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2039137955

 

Sebo, he is saying that no where does it say this country must be aetheist in the consitution. There is no reference to the founding fathers at all. I agree, this country isn't supposed to be aetheist/100% secular. It's supposed to be simply tolerant of differing opinions/beliefs within the boundries of the law.

 

Hehe, I'm not riled up at all.

Politics and Religion are far from "touchy" subjects in my family.

He was also blowing things out of proportion. I took the stand to show both his point (I've never heard before) and the converse (one made by the conservatives) are both incorrect assumptions.

Why did I take this tact? Watch C-Span and observe as history being rewritten.

First off, the constitution is so vaguely written it can be interpreted in a million ways; as a result, there is no absolute "rule" to how to run the nation on that <u>undemocratic piece of paper</u> (woot, new debate topic).

Secondly, I agree this nation should be based upon tolerance of all faiths, but I don't see that practiced anyway. There are "favorites," and if a T.V. preacher has more authority over a woman's body, then it must be said: something is really fucked up (and then these same preachers are advisers to our pResident).

The only solution is to model ourselves like Western Europe and re-balance the power, or remain the same and continue to be seen as the "backward-leading nation."

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I'm sooooo waiting to see this.

I critqued this video (check the comments).

 

Russians take the day off to make babies

http://euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=442337&lng=1

 

...finds a new job that takes advantage of his 3-d modeling skillz!

 

Ben Stein is a super-conservative dick. He used to be a speech writer for the criminal Richard Nixon.