In response to our declining christain morality
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Give me a break. I'm telling you right now. When you die there is 0% chance that the after life (if there is one) is as described in the bible. There is flat out no chance that you will be in heaven with Jesus and I will spend eternity rotting in hell. As if I will concisously suffer for Billions of years because I chose to use my brain instead of blindly following a book full of non-sensical contradictions that don't apply to modern life. Much of biblical morality was needed in a society without birth control. The Bible was a great framework for creation of a stable society. But times change, and Christianity is becoming increasingly more irrelevant. I would argue that increasing "social anomie" - Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals - is a major part of our problem. Since our victory in World War II, Americans do lack purpose. No matter how money you make, you're still gonna die, so what's the point? The solution is not to find Jesus, but rather for all of us to use our god given intelligence, imagination and technology to figure out why the hell we are here in the first place. IMHO, the purpose of humanity might just be to figure out the purpose of humanity. Once we figure that out, perhaps we can start living for each other instead of living in a state of purposelessness and these murders / suicides will decrease.
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Give me a break. I'm telling you right now. When you die there is 0% chance that the after life (if there is one) is as described in the bible. There is flat out no chance that you will be in heaven with Jesus and I will spend eternity rotting in hell. As if I will concisously suffer for Billions of years because I chose to use my brain instead of blindly following a book full of non-sensical contradictions that don't apply to modern life. Much of biblical morality was needed in a society without birth control. The Bible was a great framework for creation of a stable society. But times change, and Christianity is becoming increasingly more irrelevant. I would argue that increasing "social anomie" - Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals - is a major part of our problem. Since our victory in World War II, Americans do lack purpose. No matter how money you make, you're still gonna die, so what's the point? The solution is not to find Jesus, but rather for all of us to use our god given intelligence, imagination and technology to figure out why the hell we are here in the first place. IMHO, the purpose of humanity might just be to figure out the purpose of humanity. Once we figure that out, perhaps we can start living for each other instead of living in a state of purposelessness and these murders / suicides will decrease.
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
Give me a break. I'm telling you right now. When you die there is 0% chance that the after life (if there is one) is as described in the bible. There is flat out no chance that you will be in heaven with Jesus and I will spend eternity rotting in hell.
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
I chose to use my brain instead of blindly following a book
Can you explain how you used your brain to come to this very quantified conclusion?
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Give me a break. I'm telling you right now. When you die there is 0% chance that the after life (if there is one) is as described in the bible. There is flat out no chance that you will be in heaven with Jesus and I will spend eternity rotting in hell. As if I will concisously suffer for Billions of years because I chose to use my brain instead of blindly following a book full of non-sensical contradictions that don't apply to modern life. Much of biblical morality was needed in a society without birth control. The Bible was a great framework for creation of a stable society. But times change, and Christianity is becoming increasingly more irrelevant. I would argue that increasing "social anomie" - Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals - is a major part of our problem. Since our victory in World War II, Americans do lack purpose. No matter how money you make, you're still gonna die, so what's the point? The solution is not to find Jesus, but rather for all of us to use our god given intelligence, imagination and technology to figure out why the hell we are here in the first place. IMHO, the purpose of humanity might just be to figure out the purpose of humanity. Once we figure that out, perhaps we can start living for each other instead of living in a state of purposelessness and these murders / suicides will decrease.
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Give me a break. I'm telling you right now. When you die there is 0% chance that the after life (if there is one) is as described in the bible. There is flat out no chance that you will be in heaven with Jesus and I will spend eternity rotting in hell. As if I will concisously suffer for Billions of years because I chose to use my brain instead of blindly following a book full of non-sensical contradictions that don't apply to modern life. Much of biblical morality was needed in a society without birth control. The Bible was a great framework for creation of a stable society. But times change, and Christianity is becoming increasingly more irrelevant. I would argue that increasing "social anomie" - Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals - is a major part of our problem. Since our victory in World War II, Americans do lack purpose. No matter how money you make, you're still gonna die, so what's the point? The solution is not to find Jesus, but rather for all of us to use our god given intelligence, imagination and technology to figure out why the hell we are here in the first place. IMHO, the purpose of humanity might just be to figure out the purpose of humanity. Once we figure that out, perhaps we can start living for each other instead of living in a state of purposelessness and these murders / suicides will decrease.
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I hope you know that my post in the lounge that you replied to then moved your response here was a joke.
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. - John Adams
I didn't, I thought you were serious. But that makes me feel better.
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Give me a break. I'm telling you right now. When you die there is 0% chance that the after life (if there is one) is as described in the bible. There is flat out no chance that you will be in heaven with Jesus and I will spend eternity rotting in hell. As if I will concisously suffer for Billions of years because I chose to use my brain instead of blindly following a book full of non-sensical contradictions that don't apply to modern life. Much of biblical morality was needed in a society without birth control. The Bible was a great framework for creation of a stable society. But times change, and Christianity is becoming increasingly more irrelevant. I would argue that increasing "social anomie" - Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals - is a major part of our problem. Since our victory in World War II, Americans do lack purpose. No matter how money you make, you're still gonna die, so what's the point? The solution is not to find Jesus, but rather for all of us to use our god given intelligence, imagination and technology to figure out why the hell we are here in the first place. IMHO, the purpose of humanity might just be to figure out the purpose of humanity. Once we figure that out, perhaps we can start living for each other instead of living in a state of purposelessness and these murders / suicides will decrease.
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
Christianity is becoming increasingly more irrelevant
yeee haw !! let's organize a fucking jihad.
Mike The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.
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I didn't, I thought you were serious. But that makes me feel better.
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
I thought you were serious
Were you serious about the odds you calculating regarding the probability of an afterlife? I'd like to see the mathematical proof.
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ToddHileHoffer wrote:
Give me a break. I'm telling you right now. When you die there is 0% chance that the after life (if there is one) is as described in the bible. There is flat out no chance that you will be in heaven with Jesus and I will spend eternity rotting in hell.
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
I chose to use my brain instead of blindly following a book
Can you explain how you used your brain to come to this very quantified conclusion?
Red Stateler wrote:
Can you explain how you used your brain to come to this very quantified conclusion?
Simple. Because if you look at religion outside of the context of the religion itself you can see how it has been molded / modified by man and not by an omnipotent being. Why would God give people the ability to reason only to ask them to disregard their reason in favor of blind faith. I grew up with some friends who came from a Muslim nation. People in that nation are indoctrinated into Islam just Christians are indoctrinated here. It's not God that is controlling these people, it is other people.
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I didn't, I thought you were serious. But that makes me feel better.
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Give me a break. I'm telling you right now. When you die there is 0% chance that the after life (if there is one) is as described in the bible. There is flat out no chance that you will be in heaven with Jesus and I will spend eternity rotting in hell. As if I will concisously suffer for Billions of years because I chose to use my brain instead of blindly following a book full of non-sensical contradictions that don't apply to modern life. Much of biblical morality was needed in a society without birth control. The Bible was a great framework for creation of a stable society. But times change, and Christianity is becoming increasingly more irrelevant. I would argue that increasing "social anomie" - Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals - is a major part of our problem. Since our victory in World War II, Americans do lack purpose. No matter how money you make, you're still gonna die, so what's the point? The solution is not to find Jesus, but rather for all of us to use our god given intelligence, imagination and technology to figure out why the hell we are here in the first place. IMHO, the purpose of humanity might just be to figure out the purpose of humanity. Once we figure that out, perhaps we can start living for each other instead of living in a state of purposelessness and these murders / suicides will decrease.
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
use our god given intelligence, imagination and technology
Geez man - I don't need this kind of help. :rolleyes: "Red" has his "Matthew Faithfull", I apparently have my "ToddHileHoffer". Maybe the Buddhists are onto something with this Ying-Yang stuff... :^)
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ToddHileHoffer wrote:
Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
use our god given intelligence, imagination and technology
Geez man - I don't need this kind of help. :rolleyes: "Red" has his "Matthew Faithfull", I apparently have my "ToddHileHoffer". Maybe the Buddhists are onto something with this Ying-Yang stuff... :^)
I'm sure Buddhism is great. I just don't know enough about it, nor do I have time to meditate. I got bills to pay. ;P
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Red Stateler wrote:
Can you explain how you used your brain to come to this very quantified conclusion?
Simple. Because if you look at religion outside of the context of the religion itself you can see how it has been molded / modified by man and not by an omnipotent being. Why would God give people the ability to reason only to ask them to disregard their reason in favor of blind faith. I grew up with some friends who came from a Muslim nation. People in that nation are indoctrinated into Islam just Christians are indoctrinated here. It's not God that is controlling these people, it is other people.
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
Simple. Because if you look at religion outside of the context of the religion itself you can see how it has been molded / modified by man and not by an omnipotent being. Why would God give people the ability to reason only to ask them to disregard their reason in favor of blind faith.
Your premise is flawed since it assumes that reason is abandoned with religion. As I pointed out yesterday, reason and science actually sprouted from the religious. Secondly, how is the Bible "blind faith"? As I also recently pointed out, it's a historical text written by witnesses. If your belief system requires that historical texts be disregarded, then I'd have to say that yours is based on a lack of reason.
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
I grew up with some friends who came from a Muslim nation. People in that nation are indoctrinated into Islam just Christians are indoctrinated here. It's not God that is controlling these people, it is other people.
Or like atheists are indoctrinated in our school system or in Europe or in communist nations. Once again, your belief system depends on the opposite of reason as it assumes that you have a special monopoly on it and Christians simply have no access to it. That is backwards and a fundamentalist belief shared by Muslims. Also, Christians are not coerced into Christianity here as Muslims are in the Middle East, so your "reasoned" comparison is lacking. Oh yeah, and you failed to answer my question. Exactly how did you logically calculate the odds of an afterlife?
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ToddHileHoffer wrote:
Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
use our god given intelligence, imagination and technology
Geez man - I don't need this kind of help. :rolleyes: "Red" has his "Matthew Faithfull", I apparently have my "ToddHileHoffer". Maybe the Buddhists are onto something with this Ying-Yang stuff... :^)
73Zeppelin wrote:
Geez man - I don't need this kind of help. "Red" has his "Matthew Faithfull", I apparently have my "ToddHileHoffer". Maybe the Buddhists are onto something with this Ying-Yang stuff...
:laugh: When I read it, I thought "Whew! Somebody to counteract the devestating effects of Matthew Faithful!"
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Give me a break. I'm telling you right now. When you die there is 0% chance that the after life (if there is one) is as described in the bible. There is flat out no chance that you will be in heaven with Jesus and I will spend eternity rotting in hell. As if I will concisously suffer for Billions of years because I chose to use my brain instead of blindly following a book full of non-sensical contradictions that don't apply to modern life. Much of biblical morality was needed in a society without birth control. The Bible was a great framework for creation of a stable society. But times change, and Christianity is becoming increasingly more irrelevant. I would argue that increasing "social anomie" - Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals - is a major part of our problem. Since our victory in World War II, Americans do lack purpose. No matter how money you make, you're still gonna die, so what's the point? The solution is not to find Jesus, but rather for all of us to use our god given intelligence, imagination and technology to figure out why the hell we are here in the first place. IMHO, the purpose of humanity might just be to figure out the purpose of humanity. Once we figure that out, perhaps we can start living for each other instead of living in a state of purposelessness and these murders / suicides will decrease.
One thing that you get when you distance yourself from religion: Free thinking.
----- Formerly MP(2) If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby. -- Unknown
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I'm sure Buddhism is great. I just don't know enough about it, nor do I have time to meditate. I got bills to pay. ;P
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
I'm sure Buddhism is great. I just don't know enough about it, nor do I have time to meditate. I got bills to pay.
Yeah, so do I... I think you missed the point. I happen to be amongst the stronger critics of religion in the SoapBox. You're kind of stepping on my territory here and not doing a very thorough job of it. I mean you rant about how the Bible is wrong and there is no God and then you go off about "values" and "ideals" and "God-given" this and that. I mean, it's not really helpful to me; as a result you're kind of undermining my position. Red is amongst the more vocal proponents of Christianity, but occasionally this Matthew Faithfull dude does the same thing to Red as you just did to me - the "undermining" bit... So it's like a balance, you see. The Yin and Yang - so I suggested that perhaps both Red and I were wrong in our respective positions and the Bhuddists were maybe right... Anyways, I give your rant about 6.5 out of 10. Why? You've internally contradicted yourself and have done nothing to strengthen my position.
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ToddHileHoffer wrote:
Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards, values, or ideals
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
use our god given intelligence, imagination and technology
Geez man - I don't need this kind of help. :rolleyes: "Red" has his "Matthew Faithfull", I apparently have my "ToddHileHoffer". Maybe the Buddhists are onto something with this Ying-Yang stuff... :^)
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ToddHileHoffer wrote:
I'm sure Buddhism is great. I just don't know enough about it, nor do I have time to meditate. I got bills to pay.
Yeah, so do I... I think you missed the point. I happen to be amongst the stronger critics of religion in the SoapBox. You're kind of stepping on my territory here and not doing a very thorough job of it. I mean you rant about how the Bible is wrong and there is no God and then you go off about "values" and "ideals" and "God-given" this and that. I mean, it's not really helpful to me; as a result you're kind of undermining my position. Red is amongst the more vocal proponents of Christianity, but occasionally this Matthew Faithfull dude does the same thing to Red as you just did to me - the "undermining" bit... So it's like a balance, you see. The Yin and Yang - so I suggested that perhaps both Red and I were wrong in our respective positions and the Bhuddists were maybe right... Anyways, I give your rant about 6.5 out of 10. Why? You've internally contradicted yourself and have done nothing to strengthen my position.
73Zeppelin wrote:
I mean you rant about how the Bible is wrong and there is no God and then you go off about "values" and "ideals" and "God-given" this and that. I mean, it's not really helpful to me; as a result you're kind of undermining my position.
Or, more specifically, he announces that his atheist beliefs are a matter of faith by asserting that they are true, despite the fact that he has no solid evidence upon which to base his belief. In other words, it's a fine example of my central tenet that atheism is itself a religion.
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Quote: Geez man - I don't need this kind of help I am pretty sure he didn't have you in mind when he posted that you self absorbed asshole.
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. - John Adams
string name = "" wrote: I am pretty sure he didn't have you in mind when he posted that you self absorbed a**hole. What's it to you, pencil-dick? Instead of acting like an idiot, why don't you fuck off and do something useful like shooting yourself in the foot.
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string name = "" wrote: I am pretty sure he didn't have you in mind when he posted that you self absorbed a**hole. What's it to you, pencil-dick? Instead of acting like an idiot, why don't you fuck off and do something useful like shooting yourself in the foot.
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73Zeppelin wrote:
Geez man - I don't need this kind of help. "Red" has his "Matthew Faithfull", I apparently have my "ToddHileHoffer". Maybe the Buddhists are onto something with this Ying-Yang stuff...
:laugh: When I read it, I thought "Whew! Somebody to counteract the devestating effects of Matthew Faithful!"
Red Stateler wrote:
When I read it, I thought "Whew! Somebody to counteract the devestating effects of Matthew Faithful!"
Yeah, I thought: "aw, shit, where did this one come from?" What's that Eastern philosphy thingy? Karma or something? I mean, what the hell?