Posts by glenster

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I know there is NO GOD

by jam in

isis, plain and simple.

if there is a god there is no way he.

would allow this to occur (beheading of james foley).

That can certainly be a choice but it criticizes an all beneficent stipula-
tion one may require for it, not the basic definition. The Bible God comes with
various names and stipulations beyond the basic definition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil

61

I know there is NO GOD

by jam in

isis, plain and simple.

if there is a god there is no way he.

would allow this to occur (beheading of james foley).

glenster

Neither ISIS nor anything else proves the basic God or atheist definitions.
Bad things in the world only proves the stipulation they wouldn't happen isn't
a credible one to add.

Since the basic God idea (let alone with added names and interventions) is a
possibility, not a proven, you might hope for or not, there's an ethical reason
to not have harm: it would be arbitrary hurting and killing--sadism and murder.

The only points ISIS makes to me aren't about the basic definitions but that
you shouldn't be 'centric or intolerant about things that aren't character de-
terminants, and the basic definitions don't have them. By this view, Stalin's
atheism didn't hurt anyone--his 'centric intolerance about it did. Likewise
the Inquisitors--their 'centric intolerance about God belief hurt people.

I think of how this country has come a long way in the last generation or so
about LGBT people. It would be a lot quieter around here if we just killed all
the bigots about that back then. I think the spread of such information
described above caused the change, yet look at all the racism and conservative
misinformation still going on here (giving Jon Stewart a lot of material) let
alone bigotry over there.

There's a lot of conservatism let alone extremism over there. If police or
even army are needed at times, the bigger change would come about there as
mentioned as happening here.

74

Robin Williams passes

by designs in

don't know quite what to say.

just stunned at the news.

comic genius and actor.. share your favorite robin williams moments.. .

glenster

HST and coke
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/hunter-s-thompsons-harrowing-chemical-fueled-daily-routine.html

"known for his lifelong use of alcohol and illegal drugs"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson

I won't go into personal reasons, things that happened to loved ones and my-
self, a beloved friend who talked suicide when they did coke, etc., why I know
you should never give money to organized crime. They're about money no matter
what--extortion, hurting, murdering--and they don't care. They have all the
empathy of a serial killer. It's like they're watching it on TV--they're just
thinking about the money they're coming into. You never give those SOBs money.
You want to feel different or get your dopey damn dumb d**k hard, do it some
other way, but you never give those guys money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_cartel

You can hear hours of these things talked about on talk shows and nobody ever
mentions it. It should be mentioned occasionally when I read about problems
exasperated by harder drugs you could only buy from them and things like this
happen.

"Artist-collaborator and friend Ralph Steadman wrote: '... He told me 25 years
ago that he would feel real trapped if he didn't know that he could commit sui-
cide at any moment. I don't know if that is brave or stupid or what, but it was
inevitable.'"

"While suffering a bout of health problems, Thompson committed suicide at the
age of 67." "...resulting from his many painful and chronic medical conditions,
which included a hip replacement."

His loved ones still loved him and accepted it, everything considered, but had
no idea he was going to do it when it happened let alone did he ask for their
blessing to do it at the time. He and HST did it off away from everyone--one of
the ways a court decides if someone knew right from wrong when they did some-
thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson

RW and Koko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GorgFtCqPEs

74

Robin Williams passes

by designs in

don't know quite what to say.

just stunned at the news.

comic genius and actor.. share your favorite robin williams moments.. .

glenster

Robin. Already? GTFOH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM-gZintWDc

31

Will someone, please, stop ISIS?

by skeeter1 in

will anyone stop isis?by josh levs, cnnupdated 2:07 pm edt, thu august 7, 2014(cnn) -- if you're following the news about isis, which now calls itself the islamic state, you might think you've mistakenly clicked on a historical story about barbarians from millennia ago.. in a matter of months, the group seized territory in both iraq and syria and declared an islamic caliphate, celebrating its own shocking slaughter along the way.. "i don't see any attention from the rest of the world," a member of the yazidi minority in iraq told the new yorker.

"in one day, they killed more than two thousand yazidi in sinjar, and the whole world says, 'save gaza, save gaza.'".

in syria, the group hoisted some of its victims severed heads on poles.

glenster

Airstrikes undertaken as US re-engages in Iraq

http://news.yahoo.com/airstrikes-undertaken-us-engages-iraq-132111436--politics.html

7

And the bear will lay down with the... Crow!

by Dis-Member in

cool bear saves not so smart crow from drowning.... .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_3bn0m7s8#t=64.

glenster

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140117-top-ten-smart-animals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_cognition

7

Sharknado 2

by keyser soze in

has anyone, yet, had a chance to watch this glorious epic?

it is truly a flawless work of art.. i know what you're thinking: it couldn't possibly pack the punch of the original, or surpass it in scope or magnitude.

but you would be wrong.

glenster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-79_mEo8cM0

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AN ALTERNATIVE CONVERSATION WITH A NEIGHBOR - Watchtower, October 2014

by AnnOMaly in

the contrived and unrealistic conversation that one of jehovahs witnesses imagined having with a neighbor in the october 2014 watchtower will not be reproduced here.

instead let us imagine another conversation another witness named andre (ahem, sorry) cameron has at the home of another man who is also named jon.keep searching for a suckercameron: jon, ive really enjoyed the regular discussions weve been having about the bible.

* the last time we spoke, you raised a question about gods kingdom.