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1 year ago  ::  Mar 27, 2012 - 3:57PM #351
Ken
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Mar 27, 2012 -- 3:17PM, theinterpreter wrote:


Mar 27, 2012 -- 2:00AM, Namchuck wrote:

You Christians just love your wars of extermination, don't you?


And what's the point of it all again?


Yes, the bad guys will be exterminated as prophesied, and God's chosen  people will rule the earth in peace for a thousand years..



Everybody will be exterminated, including God's chosen people. The peace that follows will be the peace of death.


I'm a better prophet than you are.

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1 year ago  ::  Mar 27, 2012 - 4:14PM #352
LeahOne
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You guys are all such delightful rays of sunshine.........

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1 year ago  ::  Mar 27, 2012 - 4:55PM #353
mainecaptain
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Mar 27, 2012 -- 4:14PM, LeahOne wrote:


You guys are all such delightful rays of sunshine.........




Yes they are LOL.




But the world would be much more peaceful without people.

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1 year ago  ::  Mar 27, 2012 - 5:54PM #354
Tpaine
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Mar 26, 2012 -- 5:10PM, theinterpreter wrote:


Mar 25, 2012 -- 3:03PM, Tpaine wrote:


Mar 24, 2012 -- 3:58PM, theinterpreter wrote:


WW III is emminent. If you do not believe it, hide and watch.



We all know those right wing Christian can't wait for WWIII to happen because they think it will enable them to be with Jesus in the New Jerusalem. They really don't give a damn about the billions of people who will be killed in any such war. Fortunately, the intelligent majority of people realize that such a war would destroy pretty much all intelligent life on Earth much like the K-T Extinction Event did 65.5 million years ago. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) has kept such a war from happening and will continue to do so. It is far more likely that the world's governments will agree to eliminate nuclear weapons rater than use them.


I don't know about being with Jesus in the New Jerusalem (cause that happens a thousand yerars later, after WW IV). But yes, a lot of bad guys die in WW III.



There is no possible way a world war could be fought only a thousand after a nuclear winter extinction event. The few remaining humans would only be starting to reinstitute agriculture and society.

"When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast its constitution and its government." -- Thomas Paine: The Rights Of Man (1791)
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1 year ago  ::  Mar 27, 2012 - 6:11PM #355
allthegoodnamesweretaken
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Occasionally, I am reminded how glad I am that I don't buy into the messages of a middle eastern death cult. 



How it allows me to view the world in a different view.  One not of death and destruction. 



By the gods I am glad that I don't view the world through Christian colored glasses anymore. 

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1 year ago  ::  Mar 27, 2012 - 6:19PM #356
mainecaptain
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Yes ALL, My thought on that subject

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. Plato..
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1 year ago  ::  Mar 27, 2012 - 6:24PM #357
Tpaine
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Mar 27, 2012 -- 3:06PM, theinterpreter wrote:


Mar 26, 2012 -- 9:49PM, Ken wrote:


Mar 26, 2012 -- 5:10PM, theinterpreter wrote:


Mar 25, 2012 -- 3:03PM, Tpaine wrote:


Mar 24, 2012 -- 3:58PM, theinterpreter wrote:


WW III is emminent. If you do not believe it, hide and watch.



We all know those right wing Christian can't wait for WWIII to happen because they think it will enable them to be with Jesus in the New Jerusalem. They really don't give a damn about the billions of people who will be killed in any such war. Fortunately, the intelligent majority of people realize that such a war would destroy pretty much all intelligent life on Earth much like the K-T Extinction Event did 65.5 million years ago. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) has kept such a war from happening and will continue to do so. It is far more likely that the world's governments will agree to eliminate nuclear weapons rater than use them.


I don't know about being with Jesus in the New Jerusalem (cause that happens a thousand yerars later, after WW IV). But yes, a lot of bad guys die in WW III.


Everybody dies in World War III.


Wrong. That happens in WW IV, a thousand years from now. In WW III the bad guys die from giant 250 lb. "hailstones" ( or bombs). (And not necessarily nukes)



250 lb. bombs were obsolete after WWI. The military hasn't used them for almost 100 years. Even P-47 fighter bombers in WWII carried two 1000 lb. bombs.

"When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast its constitution and its government." -- Thomas Paine: The Rights Of Man (1791)
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1 year ago  ::  Mar 27, 2012 - 7:01PM #358
Tpaine
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Mar 27, 2012 -- 3:17PM, theinterpreter wrote:


Yes, the bad guys will be exterminated as prophesied, and God's chosen  people will rule the earth in peace for a thousand years..



The question is, what if the Christians are wrong? What if they chose the wrong book and the Qur'an, the Bhagavad-Gita, or the Tao-te-Ching was right and Muslims, Hindus, or Taoists are God's chosen people and the Christians are exterminated?

"When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast its constitution and its government." -- Thomas Paine: The Rights Of Man (1791)
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1 year ago  ::  Mar 28, 2012 - 3:40AM #359
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Mar 27, 2012 -- 6:11PM, allthegoodnamesweretaken wrote:


Occasionally, I am reminded how glad I am that I don't buy into the messages of a middle eastern death cult. 



How it allows me to view the world in a different view.  One not of death and destruction. 



By the gods I am glad that I don't view the world through Christian colored glasses anymore. 




I believe you are entirely right, ATGNWT!


Christianity, like most of the other religions of the 'Book', are essentially death cults. One only has to examine the misery and horror they have generated over millenniums, and the misery and horror they yet hope will engulf the planet.


One can ask any believer in this muck as to what the point of it all is only to find that they seem utterly unable to respond to such a simple question. The reluctance, I think, lies in the fact that they know in their heart of hearts that the answer would show up, not just the vacuousness of the whole charade, but their own latent narcissism.


Mark Twain, I think, summed it up nicely when he wrote: 'Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes that the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes, and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea?"






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1 year ago  ::  Mar 28, 2012 - 3:46AM #360
Namchuck
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Mar 27, 2012 -- 4:55PM, mainecaptain wrote:


Mar 27, 2012 -- 4:14PM, LeahOne wrote:


You guys are all such delightful rays of sunshine.........




Yes they are LOL.




But the world would be much more peaceful without people.




Or if the only religion was a religion along the lines of Jainism.

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