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Smashingpmkns
10/08/21 8:02:57 PM
#103:


MushroomMuncher posted...
The belief that everything you do in this mortal plane has no meaning and when you croak you'll never amount to anything again is nihilistic, there's no other way to look at it. I also imagine your idea of a "good" person is your own personal views (That i imagine are in no way biased whatsoever) since what a good person is, is incredibly subjective

You're the only person that's saying that our actions while we're alive have no meaning. They have incredibly meaning, we live through it every single day lol

Morality is objective. Our understanding of morality is what changes over time. Again, philosophy 101 stuff.
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bladegash
10/08/21 8:03:04 PM
#104:


MushroomMuncher posted...
I know about that phenomenon. But there's just as many cases of people describing otherworldly phenomenon and near death experiences under the same circumstances, so the two are basically equal in that regard and cancel each other out with which one is the "right" answer.

no there isn't just as many.

there are outliers from crackpots.

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_HayleyWilliams
10/08/21 8:05:42 PM
#105:


DogOfPeace posted...
why not?

I mentioned a bunch of religions, so I am not singling out any religion either, unlike tc.

why did you find exception to this one specifically @_HayleyWilliams ?
You said why Christianity. So I just picked another. How is Vishnu any different?

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Ving_Rhames
10/08/21 8:06:41 PM
#106:


It's not

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MushroomMuncher
10/08/21 8:06:45 PM
#107:


Smashingpmkns posted...
You're the only person that's saying that our actions while we're alive have no meaning.
Oh no, you're still saying it. You're just not saying it "out loud" because its not a good look for you

bladegash posted...
there are outliers from crackpots
ok so if they didn't see a deep dark void of nothingness like you believe in they're crazy?
Well now you just sound like me

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Xethuminra
10/08/21 8:08:18 PM
#108:


Lol....
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Smashingpmkns
10/08/21 8:09:16 PM
#109:


MushroomMuncher posted...
Oh no, you're still saying it. You're just not saying it "out loud" because its not a good look for you

Just because you don't get a banana sticker when you die doesn't mean what you did while you were alive didn't have any meaning. Dunno why this is so hard to grasp.
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DrizztLink
10/08/21 8:11:19 PM
#110:


MushroomMuncher posted...
Oh no, you're still saying it. You're just not saying it "out loud" because its not a good look for you
Oh, this is why this topic has 100 posts.

Y'all are feeding a moron.

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MushroomMuncher
10/08/21 8:13:33 PM
#111:


Smashingpmkns posted...
Just because you don't get a banana sticker when you die doesn't mean what you did while you were alive didn't have any meaning. Dunno why this is so hard to grasp.
A lot of good and meaning that life experience has in the supposed dark void of nothingness i'm going to

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Smashingpmkns
10/08/21 8:19:16 PM
#112:


MushroomMuncher posted...
A lot of good and meaning that life experience has in the supposed dark void of nothingness i'm going to

This mindset stems from never growing out of the reward system that adults used to make kids act appropriately. Doing a good thing, or being a good person, doesn't have to have a higher meaning than the simple fact that a good deed might make someone's life better.
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MushroomMuncher
10/08/21 8:24:35 PM
#113:


Smashingpmkns posted...
This mindset stems from never growing out of the reward system that adults used to make kids act appropriately. Doing a good thing, or being a good person, doesn't have to have a higher meaning than the simple fact that a good deed might make someone's life better.
Until they die, but let's not mention that because nobody likes to think about that. Here today gone tomorrow, that's the motto here.

Listen to Drizzt's potshot, he's got the right idea here

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DogOfPeace
10/08/21 9:06:55 PM
#114:


_HayleyWilliams posted...
You said why Christianity. So I just picked another. How is Vishnu any different?

exactly. How is he any different? Why is TC targeting one but not the other?

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DrizztLink
10/08/21 9:09:10 PM
#115:


DogOfPeace posted...
exactly. How is he any different? Why is TC targeting one but not the other?
Because TC presumably sees dozens if not hundreds of Christians every day and almost never a Hindu person?

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zado19
10/08/21 9:19:36 PM
#116:


SilvosForever posted...
Christians explain why YOUR religion is the ONLY correct one.
as a Christian, it isnt...

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_HayleyWilliams
10/08/21 9:22:01 PM
#117:


zado19 posted...
as a Christian, it isnt...

/topic
Then why do you believe it? It might be wrong. What do you gain from operating on an unknown? It could even damn you if there is a deity and he is vengeful

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Zikten
10/08/21 9:26:04 PM
#118:


_HayleyWilliams posted...

Then why do you believe it? It might be wrong. What do you gain from operating on an unknown? It could even damn you if there is a deity and he is vengeful

Good point. I'm reading a series of fantasy novels where the world ends in a pagan apocalypse. Nearly every pagan god from history turns out to be real and returns to the mortal world. Only religions that apparently false is Christianity and Islam. (Old Testament Jewish god apparently is around)

The old gods are pissed at Christians and Muslims

First book is called The Glooming for anyone interested. It's pretty cool. Book goes all over the planet. Shit is happening in every nation on earth
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zado19
10/08/21 9:31:41 PM
#119:


_HayleyWilliams posted...
It might be wrong.
but i believe its right... thats all need to worry about

_HayleyWilliams posted...
What do you gain from operating on an unknown?
What do you gain from questioning by belief?

I have really have trouble understanding this concept...
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greggreggreg2000
10/08/21 10:20:53 PM
#120:


divot1338 posted...
I worship the Sky Turtle because he carries the entire world on his back.

It looks like the world is on the back of the elephants. The elephants should be worshipped, not the turtle

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TendoDRM
10/08/21 10:22:44 PM
#121:


greggreggreg2000 posted...
It looks like the world is on the back of the elephants. The elephants should be worshipped, not the turtle
Turtle is carrying the world and the elephants, though.

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DrizztLink
10/08/21 10:23:03 PM
#122:


greggreggreg2000 posted...
It looks like the world is on the back of the elephants. The elephants should be worshipped, not the turtle
They just have to hold the world.

The turtle has to hold the elephants AND the world.

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Xethuminra
10/08/21 10:26:32 PM
#124:


Zeus is literally Santa. The Christian God has become a complex collection of metaphysical ideas on par with Buddhism.
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Zeus
10/08/21 10:33:53 PM
#125:


I'm standing right here, my dudes.

And I golfed with Yahweh like two weeks ago. Man, what's up with these edgelord topics?

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Ancient User Since: May 2005Karma: 2648Active Posts: 33

33 AMP? You know what? I'm just not going to believe in you, buddy. See how you like it!

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Xethuminra
10/08/21 10:42:36 PM
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TheSavageDragon
10/08/21 10:49:24 PM
#127:


Smashingpmkns posted...
It's very different tbh. The Abrahamic god is fucking lame compared to Greek gods and the fact that people decided to believe in the Abrahamic god instead of actual cool gods just shows how lame we are as a species.

It's not so much "decided to believe" as it was centuries of murder, torture, forced assimilation and conquest in the name of the Catholic Church
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Ilishe
10/08/21 11:00:18 PM
#128:


You think Zeus ain't real? Then where does the lightning come from?

Checkmate, atheist

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synth_real
10/08/21 11:01:21 PM
#129:


pegusus123456 posted...
Christians don't have to live in fear that Yahweh will come down, turn into a swan, and fuck their wives and sons.
It's canon that Yahweh did that at least once

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Stagmar
10/08/21 11:03:29 PM
#130:


Xethuminra posted...
Zeus is literally Santa.
No its Odin who is Santa.

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Zeus
10/08/21 11:05:15 PM
#131:


Ilishe posted...
You think Zeus ain't real? Then where does the lightning come from?

Whoa!! That's not all me! You have to blame Thor for some of that. And some of the other guys.

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Ilishe
10/08/21 11:06:12 PM
#132:


Zeus posted...
Whoa!! That's not all me! You have to blame Thor for some of that. And some of the other guys.

Topic over, divine proof right here

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DrizztLink
10/08/21 11:08:29 PM
#133:


Zeus posted...
Whoa!! That's not all me! You have to blame Thor for some of that. And some of the other guys.
Do you guys divvy up by geography, or by concentration of worshippers?

Like you clearly handle Mount Olympus weather but would you handle it in, like, a Greek neighborhood in Memphis?

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Xethuminra
10/08/21 11:08:53 PM
#134:


ITT: people taking problems with their ministers up with god, but also taking problems with god to their ministers

sound familiar?
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DrizztLink
10/08/21 11:10:21 PM
#135:


Xethuminra posted...
ITT: people taking problems with their ministers up with god, but also taking problems with god to their ministers

sound familiar?
wait so is @Zeus my god or my minister

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Xethuminra
10/08/21 11:13:59 PM
#136:


DrizztLink posted...
wait so is @Zeus my god or my minister
Well, at moment I am regarding him as both entertainment & a low blow finisher on this whole Zeus Worship thing

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Ilishe
10/08/21 11:28:52 PM
#137:


You guys need to calm down and go sacrifice a goat to Zeus.

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pegusus123456
10/08/21 11:30:02 PM
#138:


Ilishe posted...
You guys need to calm down and go sacrifice a goat to Zeus.
I won't be a party to goat sex

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DrizztLink
10/08/21 11:32:07 PM
#139:


pegusus123456 posted...
I won't be a party to goat sex
Does this mean you also disapprove of goat sex parties or are you still coming to my birthday?

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emblem boy
10/08/21 11:34:00 PM
#140:


SilvosForever posted...

So you're saying people are basing most of their day to day lives as well as their moral compasses and personal politics on something that has no real proof?


Bro, that's life and everyone, religious or not
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Prestoff
10/08/21 11:51:15 PM
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ReignFury
10/09/21 12:03:59 AM
#142:


Christianity is not real, it's mythology. Islam too.

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Lil_Bit83
10/09/21 12:13:07 AM
#143:


It's not any different, aside from being a different religion.

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TheMikh
10/09/21 12:17:49 AM
#144:


zeus is just the hellenic version of the hindu deity indra

few know this

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The Catgirl Fondler
10/09/21 12:28:24 AM
#145:


pegusus123456 posted...
You sound way more nihilistic than any of the atheists ITT


Glad I'm not the only one who noticed, lol.
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TendoDRM posted...
Turtle is carrying the world and the elephants, though.


But, what if that turtle was just, like, on the back of a bigger turtle and ...oh shit... what if it's, like, turtles all the way down!

Whoa.
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DrizztLink
10/09/21 12:29:56 AM
#146:


The Catgirl Fondler posted...
But, what if that turtle was just, like, on the back of a bigger turtle and ...oh shit... what if it's, like, turtles all the way down!

Whoa.
Good news, the Large Hadron Collider discovered the fundamental particle.

Bad news, they're turtles

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ElatedVenusaur
10/09/21 12:30:52 AM
#147:


DrizztLink posted...
Good news, the Large Hadron Collider discovered the fundamental particle.

Bad news, they're turtles
Everything is turtles.

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Zeus
10/09/21 1:14:58 AM
#148:


DrizztLink posted...
Do you guys divvy up by geography, or by concentration of worshippers?

Like you clearly handle Mount Olympus weather but would you handle it in, like, a Greek neighborhood in Memphis?

The territory days are over. Global brands saw that to that.

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General-Secura
10/09/21 2:14:01 AM
#149:


deoxxys posted...
I'm not really here to argue but it sounds silly too pick Greek gods versus Christianity.

For one thing most historians will actually agree a lot of the people in the Bible actually existed.
And so did many of the people in Greek myths and tales.
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St0rmFury
10/09/21 2:34:20 AM
#150:


Fyi Easter & Christmas aren't part of Christianity.
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TrollTrace
10/09/21 2:56:31 AM
#151:


SilvosForever posted...
Christians explain why YOUR religion is the ONLY correct one.

That is easy to prove through an experiment. Pray to zeus and live according to the greek teachings and record how your life goes. Then pray to jesus and live according to the teachings of the bible and record how your life goes.

I think you will find that the christian god will bless you way more than the greek gods if you live according to the bible. The problem lies in education, a lot of folks who spout the kind of nonsense this thread incites are folks with undiagnosed behavioral disorders who suffer from substance abuse and who have weak resolves. Seldomly do you get someone who actually has their wits about them who is silly enough to argue against organized religion considering how much positive work they bring for their communities.

People against god are honestly a part of the problem. You are free to say what you want but until i see you and a group of people helping improve your community through genuine altruism the christian god will continue to thrive and the teachings of jesus christ will live on. The christian mindset brings beautiful cultural values that enrich the lives of everyone close to them. The only reason i would see to go against organized religion is if you were seeking personal gains to improve your life by sacrificing the values of christianity so that you can be more "free" even though if you just follow the bible(i doubt you have actually read it) you will not have problems that you will need to sacrifice the integrity of the teachings of christ.
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pauIie
10/09/21 3:29:07 AM
#152:


main difference is people believe in god today and live according to their interpretation of god. zeus and them is considered a myth now.

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