|
Post by pim on Sept 3, 2019 10:22:22 GMT 10
So fucking what! Serves people like you right Trickles for supporting and voting for governments whose ideological stance towards public education and religious schools is to open the floodgates of taxpayer money so that rivers of $$$ of Amazon River dimensions flow into church schools while the public system descends deeper into poorly funded squalor. And all because of your precious franking credits. So when you hop on your religion bashing bandwagon to troll the Religion Board because some (generously taxpayer subsidised) Catholic school somewhere in the English speaking world did a spot of religious obscurantist book banning, and you do it here where everyone knows you for the bean counting advocate for private affluence and public squalor that you are, then the plop plop plop of your bullshit assumes elephantine proportions.
|
|
|
Post by pim on Sept 3, 2019 10:32:47 GMT 10
Ho hum Plop plop plop
|
|
|
Post by KTJ on Sept 3, 2019 11:19:39 GMT 10
Therefore you're no atheist. And what have I been telling you for years? That's right ... “I am NOT an atheist.” That is merely a label slapped on people who refuse to believe religionists' unproven bullshit. Religionists use that label because they feel inadequate at being called out for their bullshit.
|
|
|
Post by pim on Sept 3, 2019 12:48:21 GMT 10
Prickles, Prickles who do you think you’re kidding? Do you really think you come here to advance some sort of argument that has any integrity at all? Especially when you edit and cut and paste something that, when you post it , it means the opposite of what it originally meant? You really are Trump’s little acolyte on this board, arencha!
Now observe, gentle reader, as Trump-like, Prickles.doubles down and goes on brandishing his selective bowdlerised c&p as “proof” of whatever bullshit phony travesty that he’s seeking to perpetrate. And what’s that you ask? Prickles would have us “believe” (ahh, belief! He demands a leap of faith! In the end they all do!) that the term “atheist” is really a diabolical Christian conspiracy to slander those who demand empirical “proof” of the tenets of the Christian faith. He’s been on this obsession on this board for the past ten years even though it gets him nowhere. Which of course begs the question - a question which Prickles will never answer - when does he realise that he’s made whatever shallow point he’s been on about for the past ten years and move on, or is paleo atheist trolling all he has? Real atheism is respectable. Sir David Attenborough is an atheist. The late Christopher Hitchens was an atheist. Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir those three giants of post WW2 French existentialist literature and philosophy, were atheists. And many more. Atheism is a respectable intellectual position to hold and to argue from. So no Prickles under those standards you most definitely are no atheist. You see? Gentle reader? Watch as Prickles cuts the phrase that I’ve just typed: “You most definitely are no atheist” and reproduces it elsewhere taken completely out of its context and attributes it to me as some sort of endorsement by me of him. Nothing could be further from the truth. I repeat, atheism is respectable. You are not. What you are is a paleo atheist troll. And a dishonest paleo atheist troll at that.
|
|
|
Post by Occam's Spork on Sept 3, 2019 23:46:29 GMT 10
Therefore you're no atheist. And what have I been telling you for years? That's right ... “I am NOT an atheist.” That is merely a label slapped on people who refuse to believe religionists' unproven bullshit. Religionists use that label because they feel inadequate at being called out for their bullshit. That isn't any more convincing than the first dozen times you expressed it.
|
|
|
Post by Occam's Spork on Sept 3, 2019 23:51:17 GMT 10
PROVE your god exists. When you put up that proof, then you can legitimately claim your god created stuff, including labels for religionists to stick on skeptics, such as the atheists label. You got the talking down, just not the listening. How many times have I expressed that it isn't necessary to prove God's existence? I only need to show your premise: 'God does not exist', is false.
|
|
|
Post by KTJ on Sept 24, 2019 3:36:34 GMT 10
|
|
|
Post by Occam's Spork on Sept 25, 2019 23:58:13 GMT 10
|
|
|
Post by KTJ on Sept 26, 2019 12:35:45 GMT 10
Carlin died on June 22, 2008 at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, of heart failure at age 71. In other words ... he made it to the alloted three score and ten years, then got a year's bonus. Plenty of humans don't even make it to three score and ten years.
|
|
|
Post by Occam's Spork on Sept 26, 2019 13:07:55 GMT 10
Bottom line is he was struck dead. He never gave a deadline...lol
|
|
|
Post by pim on Oct 17, 2019 18:03:03 GMT 10
Takes a serious and grave issue, trivialises it into tacky soft porn, and proceeds to spam the Religion Board with it. Pathetic.
|
|
|
Post by KTJ on Oct 17, 2019 18:10:52 GMT 10
Hmmmmm … I fail to find anything offensive about a “Display Post” button.
|
|
|
Post by Occam's Spork on Oct 17, 2019 23:54:37 GMT 10
Hmmmmm … I fail to find anything offensive about a “Display Post” button. Yes... Someone ELSE was ignorant. So you are perfectly within your right to participate in their ignorance.
|
|
|
Post by fat on Oct 18, 2019 22:37:43 GMT 10
Harry Potter removed from Tennessee Catholic school librarySeptember 3, 2019 — 6.20 am Nashville: A Catholic school in the US state of Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school's priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure evil spirits.The Reverend Dan Reehil of Nashville's St Edward Catholic School said he consulted exorcists in the US and Rome who recommended removing the books, according to an email obtained by The Tennessean. Reehil wrote, "The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text." Catholic Diocese of Nashville superintendent Rebecca Hammel said Reehil has the final say at his school. Hammel said she thinks the books by J.K. Rowling are still on the shelves of other libraries in the diocese. AP www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/harry-potter-removed-from-tennessee-catholic-school-library-20190903-p52nav.html Given that the 'actual spells' in Harry Potter stories are simply the words written in Latin and given his Roman Catholic heritage ...
|
|
|
Post by Occam's Spork on Oct 18, 2019 23:45:06 GMT 10
Harry Potter removed from Tennessee Catholic school librarySeptember 3, 2019 — 6.20 am Nashville: A Catholic school in the US state of Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school's priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure evil spirits.The Reverend Dan Reehil of Nashville's St Edward Catholic School said he consulted exorcists in the US and Rome who recommended removing the books, according to an email obtained by The Tennessean. Reehil wrote, "The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text." Catholic Diocese of Nashville superintendent Rebecca Hammel said Reehil has the final say at his school. Hammel said she thinks the books by J.K. Rowling are still on the shelves of other libraries in the diocese. AP www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/harry-potter-removed-from-tennessee-catholic-school-library-20190903-p52nav.html Given that the 'actual spells' in Harry Potter stories are simply the words written in Latin and given his Roman Catholic heritage ... Similar claims have been made by Religious Ministers regarding incantations passed through the candy distributed on Halloween. By accepting them, you are inviting a curse upon your home. I have limited experience in the realms of the occult to say whether or not this is true. (I don't know if Austalia celebrates Halloween; I've certainly heard of countries that do not.) My eldest daughter was born on the 31st of October, and so it is a day we must observe regardless of our religious leanings. --But we use that day to celebrate her life, instead of the common trend of celebrating death that other people enjoy. I've never read the Harry Potter books, but I have seen the movies. Much to the consternation of other church members, I find it harmless fun on the surface. BTW: JK Rowling is a woman, fat. (The unfortunate suffix is not intended as a commentary on her girth.) lol
|
|
|
Post by Occam's Spork on Oct 19, 2019 0:50:45 GMT 10
Good to hear that you share the harmless fun view Ron! Speaking of which ... LOL When I was in Japan, that was how I inevitably had to introduce myself. I spoke to one gentleman there and told him my name was Ron. "...Like in Harry Potter!" said the man, trying very hard to grasp the concept of western names. Yes... like in Harry Potter. (Though undoubtedly I held the name for much longer than the character.)
|
|
|
Post by pim on Oct 19, 2019 7:18:36 GMT 10
Occam when I was a kid in Australia in the 1950s and early 1960s Halloween was something that Americans did, like their Thanksgiving, but it wasn't something we did Down Under. These days however you do get a bit of trick-or-treating. I find it a bit creepy but then I guess that's the point! I'm not sure I approve of kids knocking on neighbour's doors unsupervised.
I understand the pagan origins of Halloween and I'm ok with that. After all Halloween is no more pagan in origin than Christmas. It's the eve of All Hallows aka the eve of All Saints Day. I get it. In its context it's charming and traditional. But its context is your part of the world where it's autumn (or Fall as you call it), it's getting colder and the days are getting shorter. People put out their Jack-o-lanterns so rug up and go trick-or-treating. All very "folklorique" as the French say.
But here in Australia it's the opposite. It's springtime here. The days are getting longer and warmer. Did I just say warmer? Make that hotter. The bushfire season has started and, thank goodness, some welcome rain has just extinguished forest fires (we call them bushfires) in the north eastern part of the country. Rather than go trick-or-treating we have a prime minister who urges us to pray for rain as a solution to the worst drought in history and the water shortages that have some rural communities running out of water.
Halloween style trick-or-treating kinda feels wrong and out of place in this context. But some people still do it.
|
|
|
Post by fat on Oct 20, 2019 14:52:50 GMT 10
Ah! The 'his' was referring to the Reverend Dan Reehil. pim will know the correct word for the relationship.
|
|
|
Post by pim on Oct 20, 2019 15:38:18 GMT 10
Now now Fat, enough of that esoteric talk! You'll show me up as an ignoramus!
|
|
|
Post by fat on Oct 20, 2019 22:50:58 GMT 10
Not my job pim - and not yours either.
|
|
|
Post by Occam's Spork on Oct 22, 2019 23:29:16 GMT 10
Not my job pim - and not yours either. Well stated fat, if only such attitudes could become infectious on this board.
|
|
|
Post by KTJ on Oct 23, 2019 19:43:37 GMT 10
|
|
|
Post by fat on Oct 28, 2019 23:12:06 GMT 10
That is good Captain
|
|
|
Post by Gort on Apr 11, 2020 23:53:20 GMT 10
|
|
|
Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Apr 14, 2020 18:09:59 GMT 10
|
|