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Well that's not the religion, it's just people (ab)using it in the wrong way. But I'm all ears if you care to explain exactly how god is different to those things. Other than the slightly grander claims about his abilities, of course.
Why should you show something respect when you think it's ridiculous? When discussing the factual merits of a particular set of claims, what people believe they get from their beliefs is of absolutely no concern whatsoever. Furthermore, were never encouraged to think about the feelings of people when discussing any other firmly held belief. We aren't encouraged to respect those who believe they were abducted by aliens, or claim to have spoken to the dead, but religious beliefs seem to be a special case for reasons that aren't entirely apparent to me.
Take a pill dude. Pastafarianism was brought up in response to the question of what our religious beliefs are. It expressed that posters attitude towards religion, which, after reading the info on the FSM website is hardly showing any serious disrespect to the idea of religion. The internet is full of assholes, just because you've had a few bad run-ins with a couple of them who referenced FSM is no reason to raise you hackles.
On a completely unrelated note it is nice to have some fresh blood in the P&D.
Made up religion
An eye for an eye makes the world blind. You cant seriously expect me to believe you just justified your actions "because she/he started it"
Grow up.
If your clan are all knowing and mighty, then rise above circumstance, stop trying to pick arguments, accept criticism of your views and understand that just because you think it is so, doesnt make it right.
Above all have some consideration for others, just because some of your clan misguidedly think its ok to call someone a nigger, most other people dont. They dont have to justify why, they just find it offensive. Add that to a multitude of other instances where its not as much your viewpoints that we find offensive, but the fact that because you have them, means we cant have our own legitimate ones.
Now im ready for the barrage of abuse im going to get, all I have done here is not be nasty, but point out what I think to be your failings.
That is the point of Pastafarianism. you can't refute it - in just the same way you can't refute other religious beliefs.
Nobody can prove a thing to me about any religion. Apart from things like "this man is the pope, that man is a bishop, lots of religious issues in northern ireland"
Absolutely - far more convincing than retarded design.
Take the eye for example - <whatever> is capable of developing really great eyes - look at the squid, the hawk, the dragonfly - and then look at the pile of shit mammals (including humans) ended up with.
The point was that we're being accused of starting shit when all we do is respond to other people who start in on us themselves. You've never once responded to someone?
And when did any of us claim to be "all-knowing and mighty"? The "clan" thing was just for giggles in the introduction, we don't actually consider ourselves as some little clique of elite people--you made that assumption on your own. We've had this discussion several times already, but you don't seem to remember that. Could you just, I dunno, not criticize us at every turn and not be determined to find reasons why we're the enemy? I'm sick of this spreading into every thread one of us posts in.
See below
And if you really want me to go and find the quote where a user effectively said that if someone takes offence at being called a nigger, then it is all their fault, and the person saying "nigger" is not at fault at all?
BTW, Squidbillies is awesome
Thanks for quoting a single person and making comments on about six people based on it. Also, I still fail to see where we said we were better than anyone else or somehow all-mighty?
That one person again.
Yeah perhaps I was a bit wrong lumping you all together, but you didnt exactly help matters with the whole clan theme and the barrage of posting between one another.
Anyways, its early hours of the morning in the UK here, you guys will have to talk amongst yourselves for the remainder of the evening.
What exactly do you mean by "respect religion?" What aspects of religion? The scripture? Every line? The supernatural claims? The underlying moral philosophy? Which religions? All of them? The concept of religion?
Understanding why something exists and why people follow it is not a prerequisite to respecting it. I understand why people visit psychics and mediums, but that does nothing to increase my respect for it. In fact, in those two examples, it actually reduces my respect for anyone who practices it considerably.
Fallacious argument.
What, specifically, has been us trolling? Point out the post.
I hope you realize that one does not have to have a troll account to attempt to troll someone. I caught onto katralla's little game very early; which was essentially to troll us until we get so annoyed that we leave.
Yet you make no effort to point out where she's wrong. Ha.
So, basically, "If we say you're wrong, accept it without question"? I dunno where you're garnering this nonsense about benig all mighty and such though.
The clearest way of knowing someone is desperate is when they completely skew their opponent's position on a subject. If you read anything I said, you'd know I never said that it was okay to call someone a nigger. I even said that one should try to be nice lest they end up lonely, but that the recipient of the insult makes a conscience choice in whether to be offended or not.
I'm not sure the case you're making in favor of abiogenesis.
The examples you gave were in a back-and-forth.
Well, he does think he's the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I don't recall him making some "I AM ALL-MIGHTY AND YOU ALL SHOW BOW DOWN AT MY FEET" announcement. xD
As for all posting together, we live in similar time zones (minus the Durk, who is in Slovenia, and the Prancing Teabag who is a Brit but hasn't bothered to post since the intro). We're online at similar times, so we post at similar times. It happens. *shrugs*
Glad to see you're calming down, though, and that we're starting to come to some sort of understanding. I was getting pretty sick of this back-and-forth, truth be told.
Actually, Wicca was made up in the 20th Century.
So were denominations of Christianity. Wicca is just a branch off witchcraft and Witchcraft has been around for hundreds of years.
Let me explain what I meant by one of them. You're one of the people that are here to judge us before you know us. It doesn't matter what I post from now on because you'll always be on the opposite side of it. You think that by debating us and constantly showing your intelligence is going to win you cool points. We could get along if you took the time out to try and get to know me but I doubt that would happen anytime soon.
You come here, start contentious threads, and then act shocked when people are upset. Fuck off the lot of you.
And er... we've only been here two days.
I actually only made a few posts my first day here then disappeared until today. So you were judging me before you knew me. Also we've only been participating in the forums like we're suppose to. Now if you're just afraid that we are just going to take over this place then I'm sorry that you feel that way because we're only here for fun and to make new friends. It's your loss though we could have been sou lmates.