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Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Geno - 4th March 2005
Hey, Reggie! Is that rhinocerous around?!
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - A Black Falcon - 4th March 2005
I added Baha'i (a few days ago) because I also thought I remembred OB1 saying he was one...
As for Star Wars, it definitely is true that the Old Republic Jedi had really harsh rules. Unnecessarially so. Episode III definitely should help explain that and why it changed...
As for 'the new jedi' though, I'd take that as a referece to the New Jedi Order book series, set many years after the RotJ... and that series kind of does change how the (recreated, Luke-led) Jedi order operates. I can't say exactly how it ends up though because I haven't read the last two books (of a 20 or so book series)...
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Great Rumbler - 4th March 2005
Quote:I added Baha'i (a few days ago) because I also thought I remembred OB1 saying he was one...
I don't know about specifics, but it seems like I remember OB1 saying that he was part of a religion other than what some might call "the norm".
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Darunia - 4th March 2005
Well---uh, hi, my name is DARUNIA, and I'm an atheist.
ALL: Hi, Darunia!
Yea, there's like... no God, and stuff. Any takers?
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Geno - 4th March 2005
Darunia: There's no God.
Geno: Yeah there is.
Darunia: No there isn't.
OB1: Yeah there is.
Darunia: No there isn't.
GR: Yeah there is.
Darunia: No there isn't.
ASM: Yeah their IZ!
Darunia: No there isn't.
Ryan: Yeah there is.
Darunia: No there isn't.
EM: Yeah there is.
Darunia: No there isn't.
God: Yeah there is.
Darunia: No there isn't.
God: No, Darunia... I am God.
Darunia: No you're not.
ABF: *opens mouth in preparation to speak*
OB1: Shut up, ABF, you don't have an opinion.
GR: Neither do you.
OB1: Yeah I do!
God: No you don't.
OB1: Dammit!
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - A Black Falcon - 4th March 2005
:)
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Great Rumbler - 4th March 2005
That's pretty much accurate.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - A Black Falcon - 4th March 2005
Definitely.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - deanna - 5th March 2005
that was good Geno
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - OB1 - 5th March 2005
If there's one thing I try to never do, it's argue about religion. It's all about belief, right? So what right do I have to tell something that they're wrong about not believing what I believe in? It's perfectly alright if ABF and Darunia don't believe in God.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Geno - 5th March 2005
OB1 Wrote:If there's one thing I try to never do, it's argue about religion. It's all about belief, right? So what right do I have to tell something that they're wrong about not believing what I believe in? It's perfectly alright if ABF and Darunia don't believe in God.
Agreed.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Great Rumbler - 5th March 2005
You guys are no fun at all. :)
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Geno - 6th March 2005
It's something we try not to do, but sometimes we (or I, anyway) get caught up in it anyway.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Darunia - 6th March 2005
I don't want to fight over stupid things like religion; let's all jsut be friends!
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Great Rumbler - 6th March 2005
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Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Weltall - 6th March 2005
Darunia Wrote:I don't want to fight over stupid things like religion; let's all jsut be friends!
Who are you and what have you done with Darunia?
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Geno - 7th March 2005
Are you saying you miss the old Darunia? :D
It shows you really do care. :)
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Darunia - 8th March 2005
We don't need no education.
--Pink Floyd
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Great Rumbler - 9th March 2005
Or dark sarcasm!
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Geno - 9th March 2005
Pink Floyd kicks so much ass.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Great Rumbler - 9th March 2005
Yeah, they're pretty cool. *has Echoes and Dark Side of the Moon*
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Weltall - 9th March 2005
"Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd smiling"
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - OB1 - 9th March 2005
I like their earlier stuff more.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Great Rumbler - 10th March 2005
Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Geno - 10th March 2005
I have Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, and Wish You Were Here. Those last two CDs only have five songs each, but they're all, like... 15 minutes long. :D
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Great Rumbler - 10th March 2005
Echoes has about 32 songs, it's a "best of" collection.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Weltall - 22nd February 2013
Eight years later:
My quest to fortify my relationship with Christ has sort of gone wrong. Over the last three years, I slid from liberal Christianity to true 50/50 agnosticism to soft atheism to full-on anti-theism in the style of Christopher Hitchens.
In almost all ways, if I could debate myself from eight, nine years ago, I would destroy myself savagely.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Great Rumbler - 22nd February 2013
You post a lot of stuff on Facebook, Weltall.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Fittisize - 24th February 2013
8 years ago when this thread was created I'd probably identify myself as a Catholic and today I'd more properly sum myself up as "Catholic but in an I don't give a shit kind-of-way." I have zero faith in God and by no means am I a practicing Catholic, but it's still a part of my being and I don't think I'll ever shed that part of me.
But I've been doing a lot of tinkering over the years. I'm starting to dig astrology and voodoo and all kinds of spiritual practices. I believe in ghosts. There's all kinds of life forces out there.
I've also been doing a lot of reading and research from an academic perspective. I'm still in school after all these years and in the past few it's been the topic of freedom of religion that's interested me most. I've spent a great many hours and a great many pages shed about the Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada and the United States, and the many many Supreme Court battles and prolonged efforts of civil disobedience in the face of widespread persecution in order to affirm the right to practice their religion freely. Do you wonder why they can just come onto your property, knock on your door, and spread the good news of God? Because that specific practice has been given constitutional protection. Stuff like that I find tremendously inspiring, so when I see Christopher Hitches-style militant atheism I'm sort of left conflicted because, freedom of speech on one hand, it's sometimes seriously denigrating towards a civil right of paramount importance, a right that some groups have fought with unbridled bravery and determination to protect. I sometimes wish that atheists would stop appointing themselves the magistrates of logic and reason and understanding as if people of faith, even those with fundamentalist convictions, are incapable of having those qualities. Why can't we all just love one another.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Dark Jaguar - 24th February 2013
I've heard that from former Catholics in that they still somehow consider themselves catholic even after shedding pretty much every single aspect that makes them a catholic. That's not a bad thing, it's your choice, but it is weird that so many former Catholics hold onto the label. It's not something you see from most other religions. I've not heard of former protestants who keep the title of "christian" or former scientologists who still consider themselves scientologists after abandoning everything else, or former jedi who still call themselves jedi. Well actually come to think of it a lot of former Jewish people (Jewish faith, I should make that distinction) still call themselves Jewish, even if they don't actually believe anything that would make them Jewish any more. It is an odd peculiarity I have a hard time wrapping my head around. I understand the "entire identity wrapped up in faith" thing mind you, as mine was once upon a time, but when I finally decided to go all the way to "6 out of 7" on the atheism scale, I had no desire whatsoever to keep ANY part of that, title and all, in my life.
I'm not saying you can't call yourself whatever you want to call yourself, but it does defy understanding by someone on the outside. Is part of it a community thing?
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - A Black Falcon - 24th February 2013
Maybe some more so than others, but I'm sure we all said things back then that we would now disagree with, on this or plenty of other subjects...
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Sacred Jellybean - 24th February 2013
For instance, I identified as a buddhist. What pretentious nonsense.
Otherwise, us athiests would have won the Christian vs Athiest tug-of-war (tied now at 4). Sorry for dropping the ball dudes.
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - etoven - 13th March 2013
I suck porpoise bung hole and call it faith. I'm not seeing that option in your survey?
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - Weltall - 17th March 2013
You just missed it, it's "Islam".
Controversy! Arguementation! Choose your religion!! [With poll] - alien space marine - 1st January 2014
I've gone from being a bible pushing door knocker , to a godless heathen.