01-22-2011, 01:24 PM
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I fucking hate Gervais. One trick pony that he is. Not sure if he is that keen on me either.
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Does he know you exist at all?
"So many gods, so many creeds! So many paths that wind and wind, when just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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01-22-2011, 03:00 PM
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I'm hated therefore I am!
"Those who most loudly proclaim their honesty are least likely to possess it."
"Atheism: rejecting all absurdity." S.H.
"Reality, the God alternative"
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01-23-2011, 11:46 AM
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I note the suggestion that atheists approaching death must have little joy and nothing to look forward to. Seems that for the religious only heaven exists and hell is, so to speak, well and truly on the back burner.
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01-23-2011, 11:55 AM
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Sartre said: "Hell is other people."
Christians say: "Hell is for other people."
a‧the‧ist (n): one who remains unconvinced.
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01-23-2011, 12:00 PM
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Broga wrote
I note the suggestion that atheists approaching death must have little joy and nothing to look forward to. Seems that for the religious only heaven exists and hell is, so to speak, well and truly on the back burner.
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Not saying they don't exist, but I've never met any joyful, dying Christians, either. The ones I've met who were dying and who eventually died did everything possible to forestall the inevitable, as if they had no faith at all that sentience (blissful or otherwise) was awaiting them on the other side of life.
"So many gods, so many creeds! So many paths that wind and wind, when just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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01-23-2011, 01:05 PM
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anthonyjfuchs wrote
Sartre said: "Hell is other people."
Christians say: "Hell is for other people."
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Some Christians also say "Hell is for anyone who does not believe in Hell".
"Those who most loudly proclaim their honesty are least likely to possess it."
"Atheism: rejecting all absurdity." S.H.
"Reality, the God alternative"
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01-23-2011, 01:18 PM
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Irreligious wrote
Not saying they don't exist, but I've never met any joyful, dying Christians, either. The ones I've met who were dying and who eventually died did everything possible to forestall the inevitable, as if they had no faith at all that sentience (blissful or otherwise) was awaiting them on the other side of life.
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If I am very lucky, lucid and not in great pain when I die, I expect to be satisfied with having done my little bit for the species instead of squandering my efforts and resources on a God who is not supposed to need anything. Of course, in that same condition of luck, I will also wish not to "Go Tango-Uniform" just yet.
Mark Twain said "If you can't reach 70 by a comfortable road, don't go."
I have stared over the edge of eternity and I can report that it is nowhere near as interesting as most folks think it will be.
"How much fun do you think it will be for you in a couple tens of trillion years when the only thing for company within 11.5 Billion light years is a single, very old, cranky and antisocial electron?"
"Those who most loudly proclaim their honesty are least likely to possess it."
"Atheism: rejecting all absurdity." S.H.
"Reality, the God alternative"
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01-24-2011, 02:45 AM
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Gervais was also in a movie called "The Invention of Lying." The deal is no one has ever lied before, so we see what kind of hi-jinks ensue when one guy (Gervais) learns how to lie.
An important piece of the plot is that because no one has ever lied, there's no religion and Gervais ends up inventing one. I rather enjoyed the movie, probably because I wasn't expecting it to make such an offensive (to some) implication.
Anyway, it's certainly worth a look. Even though it's actually a romantic comedy with Jennifer Garner as the love interest, it has its moments.
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01-24-2011, 03:57 PM
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I hope Piers Morgan interviews Christopher Hitchens.
Healthy genes act as team-players. They are teamish!
Their winning plays are salvations of an aliveness of which they are a part.
Only a fraction of genes are selfish/parasitic (and they parasitize teams).
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01-24-2011, 06:28 PM
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Irreligious wrote
Not saying they don't exist, but I've never met any joyful, dying Christians, either.
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It's startling the number of times I've heard old -- and to my knowledge, devout -- Christians say, upon being asked how they're doing: "I woke up on the right side of the dirt," or "every day I wake up is a good day."
Really? `Cause I thought the good stuff came after you shuffled loose this mortal coil. We've trampled this ground raw with Lily, but if Christians actually believed their afterlife nonsense, shouldn't they wake up each morning and think: "damn, another day away from Jesus. Maybe I'll get lucky and die this afternoon on the ride back from bingo."
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Noodle wrote
Gervais was also in a movie called "The Invention of Lying."
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Bought it at WalMart. Still have yet to watch it.
a‧the‧ist (n): one who remains unconvinced.
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01-25-2011, 07:08 AM
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Noodle wrote
Gervais was also in a movie called "The Invention of Lying."
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It was an entertaining movie, especially with all the digs at religion.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
George Bernard Shaw
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01-25-2011, 03:15 PM
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Well why don't you all and Gervais get a room if he is damn likeable? I hate him to death already.
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01-25-2011, 03:32 PM
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Why don't you fuck off out of this thread, if you hate him so much?
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
George Bernard Shaw
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01-25-2011, 03:50 PM
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ILOVEJESUS wrote
Well why don't you all and Gervais get a room if he is damn likeable? I hate him to death already.
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I tried that, apparently they (the police, his lawyer and the courts), considered that abduction and holding against him against his will.
Always question all authorities because the authority you don't question is the most dangerous... except me, never question me.
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01-25-2011, 04:48 PM
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This is our room with him. Why did you come into a thread titled "Ricky Gervais" if you hate him to death already? Did you expect to find him in here, personally, so that you could try to teabag him or something?
a‧the‧ist (n): one who remains unconvinced.
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