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I saw the gods last night...

by EntirelyPossible in

the gods of metal!

big 4, yankee stadium, metallica, megadeth, slayer, anthrax.

eight hours of show with some of the greatest thrash metal bands to have ever existed playing their best to an utterly packed crowed at yankees stadium, finishing off with all off the big 4 playing overkill, a tribute to lemmy and his band motorhead, one of the original metal gods.. .

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The gods of METAL! Big 4, Yankee Stadium, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax. Eight hours of show with some of the greatest thrash metal bands to have ever existed playing their best to an utterly packed crowed at Yankees Stadium, finishing off with all off the Big 4 playing Overkill, a tribute to Lemmy and his band Motorhead, one of the original metal gods.

Oh, and some guy was out front yelling at us as we went in that we could rule with Jesus or serve in hell. I told him I already had my ticket to hell.

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Are You a Psychopath?

by sizemik in

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psychopath test.

read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result.

this is not a trick question it is as it reads.. .

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EP, does that mean you answered correctly :P

I did, but that doesn't mean I am a psychopath. I do rate pretty high on a lot of the tendencies, though I tend to view them more as abilities ;)

I totally fail at the inability to form attachements and lack of empathy. I form very few attachements with people, but the ones I do run deep. Ironically, I rate VERY high on emotional detachment and an imability to understand other peoples emotions, particularly sadness.

and I rate super high as a liar, but, I chalk that up to living a double life as a JW all those years (like starting at 6 and having to lie to elders about eating a cookie for someone's birthday at school. it's a cookie. I was six. give me a break...). In addition, I have resolved and mostly done a good job about stopping lying all the time. something about getting DF'ed and not having the need to do that helped a lot...

I rate extremely low on not accepting responsibility for my actions, I pretty much always own up to something if I dropped the ball on it. Also fail on the grandiose sense of self worth. I do have an ego, don't get me wrong, but underneath is a frail, fightened little boy that still feels like he's not good enough for anything. and will kick your ass if you wanna make something of it ;)

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Are You a Psychopath?

by sizemik in

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psychopath test.

read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result.

this is not a trick question it is as it reads.. .

EntirelyPossible

To a degree we all have psychopathic tendencies. It's more of a sliding scales of many attributes rather just being able to answer a single question correctly. One of the primary traits of a psychopaths is a specific inability to form long term or meaning ful relationships, primarily due to an ability to geel genuine emotion. Emotional detachment, lying, even without purpose, risk taking...all traits, none a sure indicator.

we ALL rate on some psychopathic tendendcies.

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"Putting on and taking off the flesh" in more scientific terms ;)

by tec in

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i would like to share some understanding i received today, and i would like to share the understanding first and then the scientific understanding.

as the faithful understand, we are spirit 'underneath' our flesh.

i put underneath in quotations because that's not quite the right word.

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As you probably know, the Spherical Standing Wave theory is one of great interest to me at present and, while still "emergent", is scientifically sound.

I am curious, in what way is it sound? Standing waves are nothing new. Everything I can find on standing wave theory or speherical standing wave theory (which, BTW, is at BEST a hypothesis, not a theory) starts with a simple explanation of standing waves and then proceeds to get allo metaphysical on my ass with a LOT of stuff that is asserted that is simple metaphysical ideas without any scientific backing behind them.

Am I missing something?

Or I could have just gone with a pun? "In what way is it sound? The waves are STANDING!!!". Yeah, that pun sucked.

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The Hubble, Yahweh, the Bible, and faith.

by Nickolas in

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there have been several threads in which the views of the universe provided by the hubble space telescope have been discussed.

i guess this will be another one.

there's a new series being broadcast here in canada on the oasis hd nature channel entitled hubble's canvas.

EntirelyPossible

Pray.

Get down on the floor (or the best you can) lay flat down or simply on your knees (it's about respect). Confess everything to Jesus that you have said on this thread. Admit your lack of faith based upon your own reasoning. Pour your heart out, mean every word of it.

So talk to an invisible person you don't believe exists and he will suddenly give a mysterious sign from someone else and hope you see it? No wonder Jesus people get elected to office so often, selling bullshit in their stock and trade.

Thank you for the kind advice Awen . . . but I have done this very thing hundreds of times and occasionally still do so.

Come by my house just before Halloween. I am making a skeleton jesus on a cross for the front yard.

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For the board atheists....

by Jack C. in

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this is a personal observation and certainly not representative of all atheists.

i enjoy discussions with folks of this persuasion; in general they appear well read and somewhat more educated than many believers.

as a group most atheists cringe and become insensed when discussing the existence of a deity with believers especially fundamentalists.

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You're not looking at HIM at all.

Then HE needs to get better material out there. The same is true with the Jesus. Just looking at what some guys wrote. Need to fix that.

So this guy Jesus says, hey, God... move over, I'm in and you're out?

I wasn't there, I don't know how it went down. Perhaps it was a peaceful transition of power. Given God's propensity to kill the ever loving shit out of anyone that had to audacity to live in the wrong place be descended from the wrong humans, it may have been a little more conflicted.

They are not new truths at all. (so not new management)

So yes it is. God was the management, killing everything and loving forskins was his product. Jesus came along as new management and loving everything was his product. New mangement AND new product, at least for him. It was a ripped off product from others, but new to him.

So there is a contradiction. A prophet is trying to correct a false belief of the Israelites (they're even arguing with him about this).

So which belief was false?

That kinda covers it. Then there is also the way HE treated women.

I know. He couldn't even mention it. Words matter too. All that time talking and not even one sentence. Must not have been that important to him.

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The Hubble, Yahweh, the Bible, and faith.

by Nickolas in

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there have been several threads in which the views of the universe provided by the hubble space telescope have been discussed.

i guess this will be another one.

there's a new series being broadcast here in canada on the oasis hd nature channel entitled hubble's canvas.

EntirelyPossible

Wow, such anger and hatred.

Not at all. It's quite simply an utter and complete lack of tolerance for willful ignorance, particularly when it hurt us all as a society.

I'm sorry you were hurt by the WTBTS (as we all were).

Me too. But this has nothing to do with that.

No need to take it out on me.

There is no need. You could, for instance, educate yourself. You have all the tools you need.

I have been very polite and kind in my remarks in seeking to understand what many here already know

No, you haven't at ALL. You aren't seeking to understand anything, you are willfully ignorant and attempting to spread it and promote it.

Too bad you're unable to be.

I AM unable to be polite to willful ignorance. It hurts us all as a people. I would just as soon be kind to a harmful virus. Kind and polite to you? Certainly. Kind and polite to the ignorance and agenda you seek to spread? Not at all.

No problem, I'm used to it.

You can easily fix the reason why. The power is within you.

In Psychology it's called Cognitive Dissonance. Think about it.

Cognitive dissonance has nothing to do with this. Perhaps you should read that link, learn what it is and get back to me. Think about it. Then think some more. Then take a class. Then open your mind. Then take the class again. Then learn something. THEN get back to me.

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The Hubble, Yahweh, the Bible, and faith.

by Nickolas in

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there have been several threads in which the views of the universe provided by the hubble space telescope have been discussed.

i guess this will be another one.

there's a new series being broadcast here in canada on the oasis hd nature channel entitled hubble's canvas.

EntirelyPossible

Yes it is reasonable. Four billion years is a very long time. How long do scientists think a lifeform needs to evolve?

Translation: Science hard and praying is easy. I think I'll stay uneducated!

Seriously, at least learn something about the stuff you are trying to trashtalk about. At this point you are so uneducated and wrong you might as well be complaining about the lack of homerun stats in the NFL.

Why can the components of transitional evolution simply be dug out of the ground?

Because Jesus hates science and is actively removing them. Or fossilization is actually a rare event and both manmade and geologic changes often destroy what fossils there are. Pick one. But remember, Jesus hates those goddamn fossils, so choose wisely.

Also I think you may have missed my point about: "Where is the bird with a small stub of a wing? Or a half-developed wing? They don't exist."

No, in order for him to have missed a point you had to have made one. Try again. Jesus hates birds with stubs wings, use that on your next try.

What I was getting at (I'm having trouble putting my thoughts into clearly understood words) is that we have examples in our modern day of flightless birds and how their wings are constructed, yet seemingly no fossil evidence that shows previous generations with a gradual continual shortening of wings (over 4 billion years worth).

It's called read a goddamn biology book. Or turn on the Discovery channel for once. Seriously, your lack of even trying to educate yourself is now making baby Jesus sad.

Again though no fossil record connection.

See above. Baby Jesus hates ignorance.

I can go to my local junkyard and trace Buicks back to the 1930's yet in 4 Billion years we can't trace one species of bird. We have a bird with wings and then one without with no transition in between. ?????

since junked cars are not rare and fossilization is, that's not suprising. And you know where to look. Since baby Jesus has blessed you with this knowledge, can you call up the world science department and tell them where all the fossils are? I mean, you know where a junkyard is so you clearly must know where fossils are. Unless... oh no, baby Jesus didn't bless you with this knowledge? Why doesn't he love you? Why oh why has he ignored you and left you to wallow only in the shallow knowldge of how to use google maps to find a junkyard? How did you displease him?

Oh and perhaps you could be so kind as to post links backing up what you have said (as I have) because so far I seem to be just getting your opinion.

It's called read a goddamn biology book. Or turn on the Discovery channel for once. Baby Jesus hates laziness. He gave you that brain for a reason. Oh, maybe THAT'S what you are doing to displease him. The lord helps those that help themselves and aren't too lazy to turn on the discovery channel.

While it may be good enough for you I'm somewhat skeptical of anything I cannot experience personally.

Are you skeptical than man went to the moon? Or that two men went into the Marianas trench in a submarine in the 60's? Or that your parents had sex to to conceive you? Or that certain types of radiation will kill you? All of those are things you haven't personally experienced.

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For the board atheists....

by Jack C. in

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this is a personal observation and certainly not representative of all atheists.

i enjoy discussions with folks of this persuasion; in general they appear well read and somewhat more educated than many believers.

as a group most atheists cringe and become insensed when discussing the existence of a deity with believers especially fundamentalists.

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But this is backwards. I'm not tryin to argue, but it IS backward.

Not in the least. If I want to know if a guy is a total dick or not, I don't look at what his son does, I look at what HE does.

If everything in the old laws, behavior, understanding was correct... then why would Christ need to have come to show the Truth?

Under new management, so to speak. As far as the Jesus guys truths, well, he only said the same thing the buddha was saying 500 years before him and the Bablyonians were saying 1500 years before that, don't be a dick to people. Hardly revolutionary or a new truth.

That God did NOT punish the son for the sin of his father.

Exodus 20:5, he shall punish the children for the sins of the father, to the third and fourth generation. What a dick.

Christ corrected a lot of misunderstanding

I really like the parts where he said slavery was bad or that women weren't property or don't kill gay people. Oh, wait, human rights wasn't on his agenda...what did he correct again? Don't kill birds to his dad?

I can't imagine how long it would take for him to correct every detail of what was misunderstood in the past.

Seriously. The three I picked would have been good ones to start with. Instead it was "don't sacrifice animals"? Really? That was higher on his list than "women aren't property, they are people"? I mean, I know it's not reasonable for him to fix every detail, but it seems like slavery and other basic human rights might be worth mentioning if he was so awesome.

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For the board atheists....

by Jack C. in

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this is a personal observation and certainly not representative of all atheists.

i enjoy discussions with folks of this persuasion; in general they appear well read and somewhat more educated than many believers.

as a group most atheists cringe and become insensed when discussing the existence of a deity with believers especially fundamentalists.

EntirelyPossible

Leaving , time dialation (time travel) has been proven. The theory of special relativity predicted it and time dialation must be compensated for every day with global positioning satelites.

Time is real. It happens every day to every person. We all travel forwards through time.

However, what you refer to is time dialation, not time travel. If you refer to being able to skip forwards or backwards in time or change the direction of the arrow of time then no, that has NOT been proven. It always amuses me when fundies try to talk science and get it consistently wrong.