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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on September 17, 2012 at 8:32pm

Hey, Diz - it's been a long while - how have you been?

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Permalink Reply by John Dodds on May 20, 2012 at 7:16pm

When people ask me "Why do you hate God"? I like to answer "I do not like Totalitarian Dictatorships", or Total Dic for short.

Totalitarianism: Form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of the individual’s life to the authority of the government (or leader).

Dictatorship: Form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations.

Close enough for me!!!

That is, if God existed.

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Permalink Reply by Ron V on September 17, 2012 at 8:25pm

I might say "I don't hate god. But define "god"" - imo, it all goes downhill to the valley of nonsense from there.

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Permalink Reply by Courtney Hammett on May 27, 2012 at 3:30am

Even though it helps people, I feel weird when people say they're here for a reason or their prayers were answered. They thank gods instead of doctors or scientists or farmers. And why should a god alter the balance of the entire world to give you the right conditions, like good weather or a sports team winning? Surely, someone else prayed for the other team or prayed for rain. Why didn't theirs get answered? 
I just don't think people are special enough to warrant changing the whole world. 

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Permalink Reply by John Jon on May 27, 2012 at 3:51pm

during Christmas when i had to do a project for my school about christmass and i put Xmass on the poster and the students got down on me for haveing an x when in the report i said that the x=Christ.

Christmas time when i say happy holidays instead of "Happy Christmas" but im referring to all of the celebrations of all religions to be respectful 

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Permalink Reply by Viktor Aldana on May 31, 2012 at 3:13am

It really irks me when people say "God willing" as if to imply that we have no choice in the matter of whether something happens or not.

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Permalink Reply by Ken Hughes on May 31, 2012 at 9:07am

I hear ya',  Most of the standard replies one hears, even in America, from people whose vocabulary is still mired in the 12th century disgusts me.  Consistent with declaring my atheism some 25-years ago, after being a life-long skeptic and agnostic, I started to clear my vocabulary of all such ancient BS and references to gods, God, or any of that mythology-based verbal feces.

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Permalink Reply by Hope on July 3, 2012 at 9:05am

I grow weary of people thanking their god for solving a problem that, if he existed, he could have prevented to begin with. We are in the middle of a drought and yesterday we got less than an inch of rain. Everyone I spoke to in person and tons of people on Facebook were thanking their god for this miniscule amount of rain that we so needed. It wasn't enough and we needed it weeks ago but hey, gawd is good for giving us this tiny bit of rain. Seriously?

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Permalink Reply by James Cox on July 3, 2012 at 3:49pm

'I will believe for you.'

'I will pray for you.'

'Read X passage, it will help.'

'There is a christian men's group, here's their number.'

'god said.....'

'Your brain will work better, if you believe in god.'

'Don't worry, god will cure me.'

'Would you like a copy of the Watch Tower?'

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Permalink Reply by James Cox on September 17, 2012 at 9:54pm

'We have desided that that is a settled truth!'

'You must be hard hearted to reject Christ!'

'Do you love your Mother? Yes! Prove it.'

 

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Permalink Reply by Grady Jean on September 13, 2012 at 2:51am

Wrap your head around this: I had a guy tell me that I had to believe in God to not believe in God. My brain broke. I was like "The fuck? Is this guy for real?" I went over some of his past convos and realized he had the intelligence of a friggin' Amoeba...

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Permalink Reply by archaeopteryx on September 13, 2012 at 9:57am

@Gabriela - I'm certainly not a New Ager, in fact, I'm not sure I fall into any particular pigeon hole, but I do think that there's more to the philosophy you speak of, than you realize.

Let me offer you two hastily constructed scenarios, one general, the other more personal. Let's say you have one person, just living life as it comes - various things happen to him/her that aren't taken advantage of, because he doesn't have a clear goal. A second person may say, "I want to own my own home by the time I'm 30," or, "One day, I want to stand at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris." From that point on, every opportunity that arises, that could bring that person closer to his goal, is noticed and acted upon, whereas the first person may well have not perceived the occasions as significant.

On a more personal level, we, of both sexes, give off subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) signals when we're interested in someone. There are women, and I'm sure you know at least one, who are attracted to "bad boys," for the excitement and unpredictability. Such a woman will bypass a half-dozen "nice guys," deemed too boring, to get to the "bad boy," who, being misogynistic, uses her, dumps her, and leaves her cursing all men for the treatment she received. A more positive attitude would have been more likely to send out a different set of signals to less abusive men, that could well have led to a much more satisfying relationship. In this case, the thoughts actually did attract a certain type of person, because they chose that type of person as their goal.

I guess what I'm trying to say, poorly, is that if you're clear as to what you want, you'll focus on that objective, by-pass blind alleys that lead in unproductive directions, and come closer to achieving your goal (whether that objective is good for you or not, is another issue entirely). That's what I would consider a positive attitude. The opposite of that would be, "Oh, I could never do that (or attract a person like that), so why even bother to try?"

"As if a child born in most extreme poverty thought about it before being born and then he attracted it..."

No, but as that child matures, his attitude will play a large part in whether or not he remains in extreme poverty.

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