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sportage

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God punishing?
Well....
CA had two quakes in the last week with zero casualties.
Southern bible states have had how many tornadoes in the past 12 months and with how many casualties?
So, who is punishing who?
I mean, if TV evangelists are going to use the god card then stick to the facts, Pat.
 
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Hayabusa Rider

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Jeebus on a bike. I thought we would immediately go politics and Trump with sanctuary cities and we'd start a fight over that. Nooo... Instead we're fighting over religion and the unanswerable question of the existence of God.

We never fail.
 
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brycejones

Lifer
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Jeebus on a bike. I thought we would immediately go politics and Trump with sanctuary cities and we'd start a fight over that. Nooo... Instead we're fighting over religion and the unanswerable question of the existence of God.

We never fail.

Sorry my post was 90% in jest. I feel bad about having started some shit.
 
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Moonbeam

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Oh, Moonie you should know my posting by now and should have realized I wasn't being serious just by how outlandish it sounds. The only one that is actually serious is the Yellowstone one and that is only because I really would rather not die in the initial blast and want to see the aftermath of it. Good thing I live in New Hampshire and am far away from it. I love to joke about how bad I think my luck is because I have been buying scratch tickets all my adult life and have never won more than $20. I won $100 on the Pick 4 once and that was 15 years ago.

As a side note, I have been broken (sociopath) basically my whole life as well as being on the spectrum and highly intelligent with an incredible long term memory not too much is repressed.
Somewhere years ago I saw a drawing comparing various ash cloud fall out patterns of various volcanic eruption in the US including St Helens and Yellowstone. I can’t remember the ash depth in New Hampshire but I am pretty sure you’re in the path.

As to your aside, I think that humor itself is closely bound up with repressed feelings and that there more than one way to remember things. To my great amazement and surprise an experience I had as a child that I knew happened and could consciously remember and which triggered little reaction thereby, turned out to be the source of tremendous emotional pain, a truth I was only able to confirm after an outpouring of in a group therapy session of tremendous rage. This seemingly nothing and insignificant event in my life bottled up and hidden behind tremendous rage, was in reality, emotional reality, an event that had caused me to suffer excruciating suffering and pain. At the end of this emotional reliving, I couldn’t stop laughing.

On the one hand what a relief, and, how the fuck could I have been so affected by that. Who I imagine myself to be and who I feel myself to be are completely different people. There are two kinds of knowing and two kinds of memory.
 

Muse

Lifer
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This is all the result of unconscious self hate and it it totally unnecessary. The cure is modesty. I used to think like that but realized I am just not important enough to cause a disaster. Trust me on that. The feeling we are disasters are all from a repressed past and were all lies. We were born joyous and full of life and wham.
Yeah, as Stevie Wonder so eloquently put forth, superstition ain't gonna cut it. Give it up.

But yeah, the scientists know, it's their business to know. Better believe them before you believe a parasite like Trump.
 

Moonbeam

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pcgeek wants you to prove a negative. Thats how dumb he is. I wonder if his 2 brain cells ever stopped to comprehend what existing for an eternity actually would mean?
Perhaps it might be important to know who you are before you can determine whether you can be immortal. It might help, for example, to know the relationship between time and unity of being.
 

pcgeek11

Lifer
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pcgeek wants you to prove a negative. Thats how dumb he is. I wonder if his 2 brain cells ever stopped to comprehend what existing for an eternity actually would mean?


And speaking of missing the point entirely.
 

ch33zw1z

Lifer
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pcgeek wants you to prove a negative. Thats how dumb he is. I wonder if his 2 brain cells ever stopped to comprehend what existing for an eternity actually would mean?

This is the religious persons conditioned response. For the most part, in my xp, they dont even realize their logic failings. I was the same way after 15 years of religion
 
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JSt0rm

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And speaking of missing the point entirely.

oh yeah youre the smart one pcgeek. As has been shown over and over again throughout the ages time immemorial.









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