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25 Dec 2005, 12:01 am

There are few agnostics that I would call "true agnostics". These are the ones that remain steadfast of their uncertainty and neutral position, but study the subject closely and form all angles. Most other people who call themselves agnostics are just lazy atheists who are afraid of sounding close-minded.


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25 Dec 2005, 12:06 am

Thagomizer wrote:
anyone who finds anything of interest or value in the Bible must be a brainwashed sheep. Truly, you are overflowing with original thought.


Thanks, i feel i am enlightening people every day. I have came to the conclusions i have myself as i used to be religious once but i would be lying if i said that i havent agreed with biblical innacuricies that others have pointed out but this was only after i started to question and doubt the bible. I have also read many pro-religious books (yes including the bible, not in the one sit-down though).

As i have already pointed out i used to be a christian and have came to a different position myself through questioning my beliefs. Where you ever an atheist and have you ever seriously considered their position with a fairly open mind?



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25 Dec 2005, 12:12 am

[quote="eamonn"]Agnostics are non-commital on the matter and atheists believe that there isnt and are skeptical. What are you trying to say anarkhos. You could say everyone was fooling themselves but that in itself means nothing, you need to explain why if you expect to be taken seriously.[/quote]

I don't even know how to parse what you've typed. Here is my best try:

"Agnostics are non-commital on the matter<b>,</b> and atheists believe that there isn<b>'</b>t <i>[something missing]</i> and are skeptical."

"What are you trying to say anarkhos<b>?</b>"

"You could say everyone was fooling themselves<b>,</b> but that in itself means nothing<b>.</b> <b>Y</b>ou need to explain why <i>[something missing]</i> if you expect to be taken seriously."

Fortunately for me, <b>Thagomizer</b> pretty much summed it up in the next post.



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25 Dec 2005, 12:23 am

Yes, take the piss you silly thing as you clearly have nothing to say that means anything. Your obviously upset that i have proved your BS non-points to be exactly that.



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25 Dec 2005, 1:34 am

Well, seriously, I wouldn't expect anything more or less from the 700 club on this subject.... :roll:



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25 Dec 2005, 1:41 am

Not wanting to stir things up....but,

Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? :lol:

Oh! And Happy Yuletide (it's 6:41am in U.K)
whatever your celebrating today have fun.


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25 Dec 2005, 5:59 pm

We will never know if there ever was an Adam or an Eve, nor will we know if they have navels if they existed.


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25 Dec 2005, 7:29 pm

so wot do u think of healing?


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25 Dec 2005, 7:46 pm

adam and eve never exicted


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25 Dec 2005, 9:20 pm

I was attempting to be humorous.

A bit like god saying, "Don't touch those apples".
Then hid behind a bush and waited...


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12 Jan 2006, 1:49 am

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12 Jan 2006, 3:46 am

(everything i do) i do it for you. 8)



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12 Jan 2006, 4:29 am

Pixel8 wrote:
In order to spawn (I love that word) the next generation did Caine and Abel sleep with their mum or did they have sisters to get off with? :lol:

They got wives from the Other People :-).


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12 Jan 2006, 8:30 pm

Pixel8 and grayson

Cain and Abel married their sisters. Since Eve had sons and daughters. If they where the only people on Earth they would have to married their sisters in the end.


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13 Jan 2006, 1:34 am

He has not been cured. He has progress to High functioning autism or Aspergers. It's rare but happens.



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13 Jan 2006, 12:14 pm

Kicking and hitting her child. Too bad William wasn't taken away from his family. Ah, the uneducatedness of it all.

I think William was punished with Autism because his mother sneezed once while she was pregnant with him and nobody said "Bless you". (This was sarcasm in case it was missed.)

I feel sorry for his family that they didn't know better. It angers me that a culture produces such families. I feel sorry for William to have had to bear the pain of his family's ignorance.


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He has not been cured. He has progress to High functioning autism or Aspergers. It's rare but happens.


It's not too rare. I don't know how accurate the current statistics are (I've heard the HFA percentage is higher than it's given credit) but about 1/4 of kids with Autistic Disorder will eventually be labeled as "high-functioning".


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