Interesting article re life on other planets and ramifications thereof

WeR138

WeR138

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I guess I answered my own question! It was an epic fail in the sarcastic department.

Shawn and Stubert: Did you not find it a little odd that I insulted a group of people and then threatened to \"string them up\" in the name of TOLERANCE? See what I did there?

Obviously, you can\'t string people up in the name of tolerance. Tolerance means that you respect all people\'s opinions, even if you don\'t agree with them. And in a post that was becoming extremely insulting to those of the Christian faith, I hoped that by exaggerating the tone of the thread through sarcasm, maybe some people who didn\'t realize how insulting they were being would rethink their posts.
 
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stubert

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Originally posted by WeR138
I guess I answered my own question! It was an epic fail in the sarcastic department.

Shawn and Stubert: Did you not find it a little odd that I insulted a group of people and then threatened to \"string them up\" in the name of TOLERANCE? See what I did there?

Obviously, you can\'t string people up in the name of tolerance. Tolerance means that you respect all people\'s opinions, even if you don\'t agree with them. And in a post that was becoming extremely insulting to those of the Christian faith, I hoped that by exaggerating the tone of the thread through sarcasm, maybe some people who didn\'t realize how insulting they were being would rethink their posts.
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My apologies WeR138. Think Ill go to bed now before I take someone elses coment in the wrong way :yawn:.....stu.....
 
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hestan101

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people this going to go badly wrong. maybe we should step back to life on other planets, not religion (im not saying i havent made my share of supposedly dissagreeable comments, but i reckon people are going to start getting seriously offeneded sooner or later)
 
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stubert

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Originally posted by hestan101
people this going to go badly wrong. maybe we should step back to life on other planets, not religion (im not saying i havent made my share of supposedly dissagreeable comments, but i reckon people are going to start getting seriously offeneded sooner or later)
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My thorts as well, my granddad allways said never argue about religion or pollatics :yes:.....stu.....

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Infidel Castro

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Can\'t understand how they missed the sarcasm bit. It was very well broadcasted. A bit like missing an elephant under one\'s nose!
 
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supervike

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Originally posted by stubert

...and I dont understand why catholics are perceived to be the same as Christians, but thats something totally differnt,
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Maybe because Catholics ARE Christian?

Even in trying to defend religion, you are finding a way to segregate...
 
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daddyo

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funny how a question of life on other planets (even triggered by a quote from a \'person of the cloth\') got triggered into a discussion of faith.

with all the stars in the sky (\"billions and billions,\" thanks dr. Carl)- then figured only 1% have planets capable of harboring life _as we know it_, and then maybe 1% of those actually developing life, that\'s still millions of chances for life. As for _intelligent_ life, I haven\'t seen any on this rock.

Isn\'t it arrogant to think that this is the only speck of dust that has life on it?

Arthur C. Clarke said \"The presence or lack of extra-terrestrial life is equally frightening.\" (yes, I paraphrased him. sue me.)

It is more likely that any visitors we get are going to be simply hungry, looking for a quick snack.

dgms

I\'m trying to lay off the deep stuff for awhile.

Y\'all play nice. And act like ya gots some smarts. Don\'t make me come down there.
 
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Prophet

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Life on other planets holds no religious ramification. Anyone who\'s read Genesis knows God sucks at biology. It\'s not news. Even Mary knew this. How do you think she, a jewish girl, convinced God, a black man, that He was the father of her white baby, Jesus?
 
Infidel Castro

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There\'s a lot of hypothesis and conjecture in the above post, but I for one haven\'t got the wherewithal to refute the statement.

Amen brother!
 
freakinacage

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Originally posted by daddyo
funny how a question of life on other planets (even triggered by a quote from a \'person of the cloth\') got triggered into a discussion of faith.

It is more likely that any visitors we get are going to be simply hungry, looking for a quick snack.
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first off i would say it shot to religious depths due to rev intro

as for them being hungry, lets hope not. it rather depends on how they get their knowledge, ie ethical and moral testing to get to a level of technology whereby interstallar travel isn\'t too much of a problem. or whether they use our more shady science as shown during world wars, as someone once said, necessity is the mother of invention.

Originally posted by Prophet
Life on other planets holds no religious ramification. Anyone who\'s read Genesis knows God sucks at biology. It\'s not news. Even Mary knew this. How do you think she, a jewish girl, convinced God, a black man, that He was the father of her white baby, Jesus?
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you can\'t say god is black, he\'s god - he\'s prolly all glowy! also the oldest mitochondrial rna comes from africa so eve is probably black. as said, mary and jesus were both jews. it\'s a bit mad really..
 
Shawn R. L.

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Probably a more accurate picture of Jesus.
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treide

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Another lyric appropriate to this discussion, from Muse \"Knights of Cydonia\":

Come ride with me
Through the veins of history
I\'ll show you how god
Falls asleep on the job


That\'s my biggest problem with religion - if there is a God who is omnipotent and omniscient, how could it have allowed its creation mankind to turn out so terribly flawed?

The only answers that make sense to me are:

1. There is no God, and we are just animals getting by the best we can like the rest of them.

2. God sparked all of creation, and then proceeded to move on to bigger and better things, having no active interest in directing how things turned out.
 
Shawn R. L.

Shawn R. L.

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Originally posted by treide
That\'s my biggest problem with religion - if there is a God who is omnipotent and omniscient, how could it have allowed its creation mankind to turn out so terribly flawed?
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Free will. Without that, we\'re just automatons. Love would be just a hardwired response, not genuine.

10 as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one;There is none that seeketh after God; There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;
12 They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good, no, not, so much as one................ 21 But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction; 23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith,

 
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