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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 12:15 | |||
After coughing up most of the cash for my daughter's wedding I'm still reeling from the discovery that in England you have to pay the vicar to perform the marriage ceremony, and pay another vicar to read out the banns in another church near where the groom lives. Admittedly the local vicar put on a pretty good show on the day, but for what she charged us for 30 minutes work I was expecting the Vicar of Dibley.
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Raff
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 12:19 | |||
I'd like to know what threads Micky has been starting in recent times, or if he's ever started anything comparable to Condor's threads. He hasn't visited the forum in days, and in any case I don't believe he deserves to be treated as a nuisance. |
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emigre80
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 25 2015 Location: kentucky Status: Offline Points: 2223 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 12:31 | |||
I have no complaint about either Mickey or any threads he starts, so please don't lump me with Triceratopsoil on this.
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Raff
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 13:19 | |||
I wasn't, and apologize for making it look like that. I probably should have looked for his original post, but somewhat ended up replying to your post instead. |
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Polymorphia
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 06 2012 Location: here Status: Offline Points: 8856 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 13:26 | |||
I like how they get the forum going. But one thread a day is good enough. Icarium and Mickey don't normally post that many threads, and Ica's don't get enough replies for me to even see them most of the time.
Sventonio's offense is only partially the amount of threads he makes. The other part is that they're all bandcamp suggestions.
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emigre80
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 25 2015 Location: kentucky Status: Offline Points: 2223 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 13:36 | |||
No worries, I just wanted to make it clear that I wasn't taking issue, the other guy was.
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sublime220
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 21 2015 Location: Willow Farm Status: Offline Points: 1563 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 13:45 | |||
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There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
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Triceratopsoil
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18016 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 14:59 | |||
He just goes on kicks where he posts 45 prog polls in 1 day, completely flooding every other thread out of view Edited by Triceratopsoil - October 16 2015 at 15:00 |
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CosmicVibration
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 26 2014 Location: Milky Way Status: Offline Points: 1382 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 16:23 | |||
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When she was very young my daughter came home from school very distraught because she had been told by a teacher that I would go to hell for not believing in god. I quietly explained to her that I couldn't go somewhere I didn't believe existed. When she asked where I would go when I died I replied that I didn't know, but as long as there weren't teachers, schools and homework I'd be more than happy. [/QUOTE]I went to Catholic school from 1st - 8th grade and it's a
shame how youngsters are indoctrinated by half truths. I was lucky to
conclude by the 4th grade that the nuns as well as "grownups" just
didn't know. I determined this by the answers I received to my questions as
well as the behaviors i witnessed. Some of the nuns were unjust, unfair
and just plain evil. Instead of educators presenting matters as fact, they should present the material as; this is what we know so far, we’re not sure if its right, decide for yourselves, the ball is in your hands. I really wonder how much of our science is completely wrong. And how much is actually right. Question everything, even the basics. There is no such thing as an isolated system in nature so why should the strong force be any different? Maybe there’s something else going on there? |
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CosmicVibration
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 26 2014 Location: Milky Way Status: Offline Points: 1382 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 16:25 | |||
I suggested that it can or may, not necessarily that it will. The future is not certain. As far as if the planet would be better off without religion this is also somewhat uncertain. If the masters such as Jesus, Muhammad, Krishna, Lau Tzu, the Buddha’s, etc. never roamed the earth would this world really be better off today? |
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20193 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 16:47 | |||
Those two are my tops on this list, though Monogamy and Capitalism are really close behind But Dean's answer on all choices, I can easily endorse, with maybe a tad of a shade about private school... I just wish that public schooling was as good (in terms or results) as those bloody private things. Edited by Sean Trane - October 16 2015 at 16:57 |
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Smurph
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 11 2012 Location: Columbus&NYC Status: Offline Points: 3167 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 18:27 | |||
If we got rid of the idea of God completely, humanity would suck just as much.
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Smurph
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 11 2012 Location: Columbus&NYC Status: Offline Points: 3167 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 18:27 | |||
If we got rid of the idea of God completely, humanity would suck just as much.
Edited by Smurph - October 17 2015 at 00:47 |
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rogerthat
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2006 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 9869 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 19:49 | |||
Yeah....evidently, seeing as it's we who have invented the concept of a God. I do not mean to offend believers and I am a believer who dislikes organised religion really....but God is as much a man made creation as aeroplanes and cars if we look at it from a cold, hard, scientific perspective. Only, like a great writer's work, God resides in our imagination, whereas we can see, feel and touch aeroplanes and cars. So, yeah, I do not subscribe to the atheist myth that eliminating the concept of God would miraculously make the world a better place. Communist Russia is proof enough. My state of origin in India has been under the rule of a party that claims to be atheist and they are no less corrupt than the ones that appeal to religion. Ironically, both parties are equally as likely to look askance if right wing fringe groups kill rationalists who dared to venture too far in questioning superstition and rituals.
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Polymorphia
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 06 2012 Location: here Status: Offline Points: 8856 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 21:22 | |||
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Dayvenkirq
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 25 2011 Location: Los Angeles, CA Status: Offline Points: 10970 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 22:04 | |||
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emigre80
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 25 2015 Location: kentucky Status: Offline Points: 2223 |
Posted: October 16 2015 at 22:24 | |||
I just realized I hadn't seen him in a while, and then he turned up in the thread about Jon Anderson's new album.
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 20193 |
Posted: October 17 2015 at 02:59 | |||
as a confirmed atheist, I can understand that some (more fragile) people need the reassurance of a "universe creator" and some kind of "sense of life" and the "existence of an afterlife", so I can admit that they have some legit needs to believe in (and therfore invent some kind of "god" (such is not my case, I prefer the reverse: a dog). Some this "god" is a human invention (other forms of animals don't invent such things)... and in itself, this invention is not "evil"... Where "god" become "evil" is when another (much more evil) invention comes in this plan: religion (organized or not)... Indeed, that you admit there is some kind of creator, ok (but only slightly) ... that you wonder how things go about this "thing" , almost "normal"... That you want to communicate (talking to it) with , that's a bit limit looney That one pretends that they received an answer from this non-entity, one should start consulting that one starts wanting to spread this nonsense is dangerous that one wants to create a "followship" and a fellowship to spread the nonsense is disgusting that one uses his influence and tries to enforce the nonsense to their advantage is criminal |
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rogerthat
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2006 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 9869 |
Posted: October 17 2015 at 05:44 | |||
Yeah, organised religion is the problem. Again, I don't distinguish between organised religion and something like communist Russia. There's no difference, loony, headlong and blindfolded belief in an idea that is supposed to have the cure for all ills. And if we are hoping for an atheist, rational, enlightened society, maybe that is simply too much to ask of the human race, sorry to say so. There's nothing that indicates that creating such a civilisation is possible, practically speaking.
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: October 17 2015 at 05:49 | |||
There is no God.
I also believe that nation states will eventually go, but we are a century away from that at least - and I don't support the idea, I just believe it will happen. People will be pursauded of the need to do away with borders, over time and through careful programing in the media, peddled by neo liberal governments. I've always beeved monogamy is important as is the family unit, although I don't believe that allowing same sex couples to adopt etc is part of some kind of plan to 'destroy the family' Rolls eyes... |
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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