Should we bring back "witch burning"?

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31 May 2008, 1:14 am

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nah, you're wrong. that wasn't the kind of martrydom i had in mind. thanks for playing, though. i was more trying to illustrate the want of persecution or to die in the name of your god is perverted no matter what the religion is or what the circumstances are.

You don't necessarily have to be a martyr for a god. Martin Luther King was a martyr for equal rights. Galileo was arguably a martyr for science.

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31 May 2008, 7:12 am

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Is there anything beyond yourself you'd be willing to die for, ska? Do you have that kind of courage and depth of character? That kind of commitment?

now you're just baiting. courage? depth of character? dying takes none of these and there is nothing glorious about dying...ever.

Oh, I disagree. Spoken like a true atheist, ska.

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31 May 2008, 8:56 am

I think thread like this attention seeking and manipulative. I noticed you mellowed out for a while, but now you are back with this kind of nonsense. The Obama thread was particularly poor. I encourage anyone to read it, and form their own opinion. Somehow I don't think anyone is going to recruit you for their dirty tricks dept. anytime soon.

You don't hold the moral high ground, there isn't one. You will have your contradictory natures. It particularly prone in human nature to overlook things that are clearly at odds with your views.

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31 May 2008, 9:05 am

There were many gospels including a gospels of Mary (Magdalene) and Judus. They can vastly vary in their accounts. There is no know gospel that was written in the time of Jesus.

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31 May 2008, 2:06 pm

slowmutant wrote:

skafather84 wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

Is there anything beyond yourself you'd be willing to die for, ska? Do you have that kind of courage and depth of character? That kind of commitment?

now you're just baiting. courage? depth of character? dying takes none of these and there is nothing glorious about dying...ever.

Oh, I disagree. Spoken like a true atheist, ska.

yeah, i value life more than you: what a surprise.

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31 May 2008, 11:16 pm

Time to end (or at least suspend) the flamewar and possibly start a new one...

Instead of performing witch-burning, we should perform bitch-burning. That's "b***h" as Maddox defines it in one of his articles:

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A miserable person who sucks all joy and happiness out of life, and makes life a little less worth living by her consistently sh***y attitude. When not complaining, her drama and gossip will fill the void. He or she (but usually she) refuses to do something with a group, and will forego hanging out with said group unless they're doing something she wants to do. She will put her interest ahead of others every single time, just for the sake of being a b***h. A b***h hates fun.

Think about it before you call me a misogynist... the women that are left would be intelligent enough to choose to mate with non-jerks, leaving the male jerk population to die out. We wouldn't have annoying chick flicks on all the time, people would judge based on more than just the clothes you wear, and 99% of the world would be capable of making decisions based on some amount of rational thought. (That's not to say that emotion would be eliminated from the decision-making process entirely, but at least it wouldn't dominate it)...

Then the world would be a better place...

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01 Jun 2008, 12:03 am

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Chick flicks will never die out! You will be force to live with them for all time! Mwa-hahahahahahqah!! :twisted:

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01 Jun 2008, 12:07 am

Quatermass wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

Is there anything beyond yourself you'd be willing to die for, ska? Do you have that kind of courage and depth of character? That kind of commitment?

I probably don't. It's easy to die, though. It's harder to go on living.

There might be a rare few instances where I would lay down my life, but I raise a glass to you, Quatermass. Well said.

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02 Jun 2008, 2:01 am

Burning Rags is much more fun. Throw a few Xians on for kindling. Oily Rags tend to burn quicker, and there's one around that I can see that would go up in a nano-second......

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The_Chosen_One wrote:

Burning Rags is much more fun. Throw a few Xians on for kindling. Oily Rags tend to burn quicker, and there's one around that I can see that would go up in a nano-second......

you do realize that your statement only empowers them and vindicates them, right?

especially depicting a nice martyr image for them.

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02 Jun 2008, 2:22 am

Karma. After what they did to us during the Inquisition. Only thing is, you'd want to spray some Glen 20 to get rid of the smell.

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02 Jun 2008, 2:24 am

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After what they did to us during the Inquisition.

you're a gnostic?

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02 Jun 2008, 2:29 am

No, pagan. Bordering on Wiccan.

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02 Jun 2008, 2:32 am

ah, there were lots of people of many religions slaughtered in droves during that time...so i thought i'd take a shot in the dark.

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02 Jun 2008, 4:41 am

A wiccan (unnamed pagan ) mentioning Karma.

Is there anything you guys wont steal?

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02 Jun 2008, 6:03 am

If you want to talk about stealing, Christianity stole Yule and Ostara from us and called them Christmas and Easter. They stole the idea of Jesus being the son of God and the resurrection from at least 16 other instances (including Buddha and Crishna), they stole and destroyed our temples and worshipped their false god on those sites, and also stole their calandar and ages directly from the Mesopotamian and Greek astrological systems. Pagans were around a long time before Xians, it's just that the flavour of the month happened to get adopted by the Romans and spread from there.

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