10 Jun 2010, 10:35 pm
-Vizzini from The Princess Bride.
Actually, I consider the most strident atheistic to be Richard Dawkins, with the runner up being PZ Myers and in third place Sand. Awesomelyglorious is just good at politicking, but he's too reasonable to have the irrational anger necessary to be truly STRIDENT. Since this is false and God cannot speak falsehood, therefore God did not endorse Awesomelyglorious.
parakeet: have you not considered that he may be he who is? think about it.
"what if god was one of us?"
"god is awe somely glor i ous."
better than most conspiracy guessist evidence. =]
You know, there is a similarity between the boy who cried wolf and car alarms. Some things just get old fast.
Considering Christianity, not fast enough.
It's not going to either. Get over it.
Ahaa, an echo of an ancient Roman comment on Zeus.
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11 Jun 2010, 3:57 am
LMAO! Can I quote that in my sig?
I can't guarantee it's true. God is a wily character and obviously His mind wanders but it's OK with me. If God objects He'll strike you dead with lightning.
Or maybe drown you with oil? Quantum of Solace style?
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11 Jun 2010, 10:37 am
Lost shaker of salt topic
Sometimes we need a small amount of salt to make the truth taste better. But going over the limit can lead to hypertension.
I can understand to some extent that when people are confronted with their own death, they wonder if perhaps they just might live on after the demise of their bodies. 
Now I am going to be strident: Atheists know that when they die, they will have no recollection of this life because there will not be a free floating memory to let them know that they have departed their earthly shackles. This means we will have no awareness of our own death, and its existential moment. It will be left to others to remember us through memorials, funerals, legacies, wakes, and what have you. This saddens me somewhat to realize that I will have no inkling that I have ever lived, but I do hope that someone will remember me in a positive light, at least. 
And each of us gets one chance at life, so make the best of it, and then you will hopefully not be villifed after you are ashes and dust.
11 Jun 2010, 11:10 am
Sometimes we need a small amount of salt to make the truth taste better. But going over the limit can lead to hypertension.
I can understand to some extent that when people are confronted with their own death, they wonder if perhaps they just might live on after the demise of their bodies.
Now I am going to be strident: Atheists know that when they die, they will have no recollection of this life because there will not be a free floating memory to let them know that they have departed their earthly shackles. This means we will have no awareness of our own death, and its existential moment. It will be left to others to remember us through memorials, funerals, legacies, wakes, and what have you. This saddens me somewhat to realize that I will have no inkling that I have ever lived, but I do hope that someone will remember me in a positive light, at least.
And each of us gets one chance at life, so make the best of it, and then you will hopefully not be villifed after you are ashes and dust.These, of course, are the aspirations of someone who's whole mental stance rests upon what other people think. For one thing, a huge number of people don't think very well nor very much. Although it is good policy to take their reactions into consideration while one is alive, after one is dead they have very little or any consequence. Being alive is very much a matter of lonely experience and I do live to enhance my own and as many other lives, human and otherwise because, while alive I care about what occurs around me. After I'm dead there is no me to give a damn what people think of me.
