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Rahvin
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Message 2 of 150 (667238)
07-04-2012 9:18 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Buzsaw
07-04-2012 9:01 PM


That America is being pounded with disaster after disaster is, imo, just another evidence that he does, indeed, exist and is to be feared and acknowledge by man, whom he created in his image.
I observe that the level of "disasters" befalling America today is not significantly different from before gays were accepted in the military, or society in general.
If your God "cursing" the nation looks identical to him not "cursing" it, I find no particular reason to care about what your deity thinks.
Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, hail, earthquakes, volcanoes have all happened regardless of the political landscape throughout human history. Can you show any evidence for the claim that America is "being cursed?"
I mean, we all know that your deity disapproves of decent moral character. The Bible makes it abundantly clear that witches and homosexuals and disobedient children are all taboo such that they should all be killed. I agree completely that your deity, should he exist, would disapprove of social progress in the direction of greater acceptance and increasing moral decency toward each other and our mutual rights to be different from each other.
But I don't feel particularly cursed. And I don't see any difference whatsoever in the nation from before the acceptance of gays and after in terms of natural disasters or wars or other great negatives. It looks to me like your deity is pretty powerless, considering his spite affects me not one bit. Or, you know...like he doesn't actually exist outside of your imagination.
Either way, I'm glad the US military is finally accepting open homosexuals. It was morally abhorrent that we should ask young men and women to risk their lives or even die for our nation, yet rejected who they were and forced them to always live in hiding. I applaud the open acceptance of homosexuals in the United States. After all, I'm heterosexual, but I very much enjoy the occasional sodomy. Maybe you and your god should give it a try some time?

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
- Francis Bacon
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus
"...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds of
variously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the
outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." Barash, David 1995.

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Rahvin
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Message 14 of 150 (667257)
07-05-2012 4:13 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by Buzsaw
07-04-2012 9:55 PM


Re: Disasters
How old are you? If you're old enough, your head is in the sand if you can't discern an increased variety and rapidity of national, I say national disaster.
Others have beaten me to it. The evidence provided in the posts above details an extensive and objective account of the real didasters that have befallen the US over the years...
...and there is absolutely no correlation between the frequency of disaster and the political climate of the nation, at lease with regards to Israel or homosexuality.
It would seem, Buz, that your memory, while longer than mine, is more selective.
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Add the "/" to the quote closing "[qs]".

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
- Francis Bacon
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus
"...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds of
variously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the
outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." Barash, David 1995.

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Rahvin
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Message 55 of 150 (667329)
07-05-2012 10:48 PM
Reply to: Message 54 by Buzsaw
07-05-2012 10:43 PM


Re: Re
Uh huh. There were no blowjobs or buttsex until those damned homos stopped pretending to not exist.
Riiiiiight.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
- Francis Bacon
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus
"...the pious hope that by combining numerous little turds of
variously tainted data, one can obtain a valuable result; but in fact, the
outcome is merely a larger than average pile of shit." Barash, David 1995.

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