I know you have been wondering where your search for truth should begin. I have the answer for you, even you Jeff. The whole truth and nothing else is to be found in the bible. Every other book is fiction. And wait, this is big. In fact, we can prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that every word in the Bible is true. I want proof that the ass spoke with Balaam. Barry, like you, I wonder if these people believe what they write.
I didn’t know Imagine by the Beatles is Atheist National Anthem- that is, I didn’t know there is a nation of Atheists. But it does seem some unhinged fellow took umbrage with the song because a version of it was played at the Japan 2020 Olympics Opening ceremony. Even the comments on that site are unhinged.
Americans must be at a loss where there is polarization at home. I got the answer. It is in sex/ sexuality. The nation has accepted the atheist view of sexuality and it is wrecking havoc. You should adopt the Mormon view or the Islamic view. This will help heal the rifts in the nation sooner than you can say sex.
But the best is this 2013 article from AIG on the flood. The good fellows at AIG say of the gods in the Epic of Gilgamesh that they are
capricious, cowardly, and dependent upon humans for either worship or nourishment. Because the gods cannot “tune out” human noise, they have to seek ways to reduce human population
forgetting that the god of the bible destroys the tower of Babel because it can’t tune out human noise, chases the first family out of Eden because they have become like the gods, and is dependent on human worship. There are laws/ commands and punishments for worshiping other gods among other things. Maybe the good fellow didn’t read those parts.
They tell us the story of Noah bears internal consistency. How many pairs of birds boarded the Ark? I will wait.
I like how the writers dismiss the similarities between the Epic of Gilgamesh and Noah’s flood by saying the 300 year gap between when they were written means they were all written close to the actual flood.
The best part is this
Moreover, the rest of Scripture considers the events of Genesis 6–9 to be factual history. For example, the writer of 1 Chronicles records Noah as being the ancestor of Abraham (1 Chronicles 1:4, 1:27). Jesus mentions Noah as a real historical person and the Flood as a real historical event (Matthew 24:37–39). Luke includes Noah in the genealogy of Christ (Luke 3:36), while Peter twice mentions that Noah built the Ark and was one of only eight people saved (1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5).
How do you know the bible is true? Because the bible says in this part that it’s claim in an earlier chapter is true. Jesus whose historicity is doubtful is called upon to support Noah whose historicity is even more doubtful. I love these fellows at AIG.
Have a great week everyone.
Again, this is why I’m a devout Muslim. The Quran says in the Quran that “This book is not to be doubted.” I mean, COME ON!!!!! How much more empirical evidence for truth does one need!!?? $Amen$
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Here, my friend, it has been said all other religious books, including the Torah are all fakes. Man-made books. You are better of believing in the bible
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Yeah, but MY book is THE right book cause it says so IN the book!!!! When, oh, when has something like that EVER been wrong?!
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This other book says whatever is in other books, even where it copied most of its material is wrong. So your book has no legs to stand on, I guess
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Yeah, but MY book is THE right book cause that’s what I’ve been indoctrinated to believe!!! So, there!!!
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I am sorry but you have to adopt a new book
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Harry Potter maybe.
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That’s how you will hurry to hell
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$Amen$
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According to some “activists” among The Woke, the authoress of the Harry Potter novels is the She Queen of Hell itself. 🙂 Choose another!
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Today I was reading some article where she is accused of doing it again- that is- injuring the feelings of transwomen
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Waaa! Waaa! She’s not woke enough! Waaa! Those woke fuckers! Waaa! I hate em! Waaa! A world of whining babies!
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She is unwoke
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Waaa!! Are you mocking my feelings about woke people! Waaa! You’re mean! You must be woke yourself, you sjw you! Waaa!
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Hahaha. I will create a safe space for your feelings
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Where I can mock sjws and woke fuckers and cry about them without impunity?
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Yes.
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Awesome! Just don’t talk poorly of my making fun of woke people because I’m very sensitive to that sort of thing.
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Haha. The space will be safe for your sensitive feelings. We don’t want you to feel pain from our words
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Injuring the feelings of trans women is really a non-issue. She is campaigning against the rights of transgendered and gender diverse people. That is a totally different issue. If she was actively campaigning against the rights of racial minorities or non-heterosexual people, would you write off her actions as just injuring the feelings of those affected?
If you’re wondering why I feel so strongly on this matter, it is because the rights of trans-gendered folk are dismissed in much the same way as the rights of neuro-diverse folk (such as myself) are dismissed. We’re both tiny minorities. In the case of neuro-diverse, we’re around 1 – 2% of the population, while transgendered and gender diverse make up less than 1%.
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Well said!
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You could be right about all this Barry but the post I referred to doesn’t allude to any such thing, rather that she replied to a tweet https://aninjusticemag.com/jk-rowling-again-2ead61294ba6
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That article doesn’t refer to “injured feelings” at all. It refers to Rowling’s transphobia and the many links on the page provide evidence that her rhetoric does more than merely hurt feelings.
By the way the tweet that started it all was was a refutation that obstetric violence happens specifically to women. It doesn’t. It happens specifically to females. It happens to people who do not identify as women – trans-men for example.
Irrespective of whether or not a person (trans or cis) found a specific tweet hurtful, it needs to be taken in context of the tweeter’s other public comments. When that’s done, you’ll see her comments are harmful rather than hurtful.
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I hear you.
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I’m too sleepy to ever be fully woke, though I do consider those who insist on using that word to be bigger whiners and pains in the ass than those they intend to mock. We live in a country of friggin whining babies.
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You must always start your comments by a trigger warning. You know we must create safe spaces
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Waaa! I hate woke people! Waaa! Waaa! They’re stepping on my rights! Waaa! They annoy me! Waaa!
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Haha. Do you know words can physically hurt?
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I hope my words hurt those evil nasty woke fuckers who make me cry myself to sleep each night. Waaa! Waaa!
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Haha. You will be cancelled for causing injury by your words
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Those nasty she’s! They really hurt my unwoke little sensitive feelings!
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You should be careful, they might call the Nobel committee and threaten your chances of the peace prize and other prizes due to you
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Talk about woke; those Nobel bastards are all sjws! Some of those bastards actually believe in science! The woke fucks!
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I see you have thrown caution to the wind and don’t care about Nobel anymore. Woke people will be after you
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Bastards!
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It is good to see, you have found your calling in the business of writing pieces of parody.
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Having once been a believer, I am intrigued by the things people believe and write about what they believe and I think that while sarcasm or parody may not be the best weapon it allows one to look at the ridiculousness of some claims
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I’m darn sure that the writers you have linked to believe exactly what they wrote. What puzzles me is why they should interpret ancient texts as literal “Truth” when there is much evidence to suggest that those texts weren’t written with that intent in mind.
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You and me both. That they believe these texts to be literally true is beyond me
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Barry: There are CLAIMS she is “actively campaigning against the rights of trans women” but I think those claims are very exaggerated. I would note that the death threats and fantasies of violence by trans activists against the Dame are not exaggerated but readily apparent in social media. Funny…which sex enjoys fantasizing about violence against women more on the whole? (And acting on such fantasies. Sure…let’s put convicted sexual predators who now identify as women in women’s prisons!)
The whole tempest started when she (correctly) observed that men cannot be women by definition. Even if they really feel deep down inside. So we are having women’s health clinics changing terminology to “people who give birth” rather than “women”. For God’s sake, there are even references to “people who menstruate”. As some bloggers note, these activists are erasing women.
It is simply shocking to me that people who otherwise pride themselves on being “skeptical” are all in on this issue. Where does it start? The otherkin community includes members who really believe deep down inside they are wolves…or dragons. Should my insurer pay for scales and fur and wings because I KNOW I am a dragon?
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You know Brian what I find disturbing is the need to erase *woman* from the vocabulary.
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I wanna erase all vocabulary from the vocabulary. Let’s see THEN what people’ll have to say about it!!!
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You like going nuclear
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Grunt!
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HEY!!!! I was a “grunt” in the Army! Are you mocking my grunthood? We grunts have feelings, ya know!!! WAAAA!!! WAAAA!!! You hurt my feelings!!! WAAA!!!
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What should we do as reparation for your hurt feelings
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Well, just make sure to keep on whining about as many things as you can and pay me a million dollars to help me repair my hurt feelings. That’ll do.
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Your feelings are expensive. Maybe you need to take insurance for feelings
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Good plan!
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I can be your insurer
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Well…I recently found myself wandering through the Woods of Wikipedia and started reading about the Anarchoprimitivist “movement”. THEY think we think too much and too abstractly. We just need to “Be” in the woods or whatever (until a bear eat us, I guess). So, if one is an anarchoprimitivist, one replaces vocabulary with primal grunts!!!!
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I should join them, I think
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Someone needs to go up to those people and whack ’em upside the head while shouting, “Knock that shit off, goddammit!”
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People have feelings, don’t you know and they need a safe space and your comment threatens that
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Well, you threaten me, you big bully you!!! WAAAA!!! WAAA!! You must be a woke sjw!!! WAAAA!!! You meany!!!
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You can cancel me if you must
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I actually do wonder if humanity made a big mistake 6/10,000 years ago when we became sedentary agriculturalists. That, to me, may actually be the source of the Garden of Eden story. Of course, civilization with all its ills means that humanity is more “successful” as a species…there are eight billion of us now! But at what cost?
O well…with climate change and ecosystem collapse we will return to the good ol’ days. Mad Max ahead!
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Our great folly makes most of us faced with this prospect of a different and worse climate think it will not happen to us
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