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I am happy to find this group, as I often find myself very apathetic to the whole notion of religion. I get worried when religion influences political systems. So, I have not attained 100% apathy with God-related questions. But I am working on it.
"Because I'm all good enough, all knowledgeable enough, and doggone it, people fear me!" - Jesus Smiley
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Tue, December 23, 2003 - 5:00 PMHere are some religious influences I'd like to take root in our society, though...
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Tue, December 23, 2003 - 9:09 PMwell, y'know... this is the "apatheist" tribe, so good luck selling that O:) in other news, joecartoon.com/pages/socket/ (stay to the end, you'll see why it's at least vaguely apt.)
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Mon, December 29, 2003 - 2:21 PMi have to admit... it made me laugh... especially the bits about the gerbil's grandma... *sigh*
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Mon, December 29, 2003 - 2:57 PMI think I am well on my way to achieving apathy. I no longer try to argue with religious people, even buddhists (who are at least funny). Now I just try to fall asleep when they are rambling on with their nonsense.
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Mon, January 5, 2004 - 12:02 PMi disagree. without god, how could we go about answering tough questions such as:
- is it ok to buy alcohol on sundays?
- is masturbation immoral?
- when is one country justified in bombing another country?
- why is my uncle gay, and will he go to hell?
believe me, i've had discussions about these questions and many like them, and the existential vertigo intellectual overwhelmedness i feel can only be mitigated by reference to a biblical passage.
i, for one, have no stomach for doubt of any kind, and to rest sturdily on my arbitrary convictions gives me a peace of mind unattainable by other means. -
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Wed, January 7, 2004 - 4:14 AMReligion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx
--A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right -
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Wed, January 7, 2004 - 8:30 AMI wonder if Prozac is the new "opiate of the masses". -
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Wed, January 7, 2004 - 10:18 AM(off topic...)
sometimes if think that if terrorists blew up all of our television stations and distilleries, this country would tear itself apart in a matter of days. i think that real sobriety would kill us all. -
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Wed, January 7, 2004 - 10:23 AMIt's certainly worth a try. -
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Wed, January 7, 2004 - 11:35 AMI've definitely wondered what would happen as a 'tough love' measure if I pulled every church and liquor store out of 'socially disadvantaged' neighborhoods and replaced them with real grocery stores (which, in my experience, are typically a multi-bus hike from the hood)... -
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Mon, January 12, 2004 - 8:53 AMSeriously, dude. We cant have poor people eating, it might lead to regular development and intelligence, and then they would stop going to church. -
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Wed, January 14, 2004 - 10:14 AMThis tribe really is apathetic. I just called poor people stupid and no one said anything. I love you guys. -
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Wed, January 14, 2004 - 7:08 PMIgnorance is bliss!
I've begged for a lobotomy, but the best anyone has offered me is an ice pick to the forehead.
Those damn HMOs!
P.S. Do you think anyone cared enough to read your post?
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Re: Thank God that God is irrelevant
Mon, January 19, 2004 - 3:47 PMshit, jake, it's too true for anyone to object...
take any standard double-Alpha genome, feed it government cheese and Yoo-hoo for a decade or two, give it all the worst education no funding can't buy, and you've got yourself one peppy Gamma-minus Wal-mart employee!...
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