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@Shila
That's why we have a Pope.
Someone's gotta wear the big hat.
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@yachilviveyachali
Did you just teleport from the 19th Century. Yachilviveyachali.
Or from another galaxy, with a name lie that.
Actually sounds a bit Uzbek...Are you an Uzbek?
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@AdaptableRatman
Albert was a bit of a lad then.
A bit of a clever lad.
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@n8nrgim
Albert was an agnostic then, a bit like myself.
Though Albert was more hirsute.
Deo is a common reference term for an agnostic principle of Universal meaning or purpose.
And not necessarily a reference term for a wild looking hirsute bloke in a dress and sandals.
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@FLRW
Have you donated to Jim's rescue appeal yet.
Though perhaps Donald could find him a job in the State Department for sexual equality.
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@FLRW
Thanks Stephen.
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@Shila
HaHa.
I just did a quick search and found that there were approximately 280 Elephants in Germany.
There are about 172 in the USA, 22 in Canada and 70 in the UK.
Fucking immigrants.
No doubt Trump will be deporting the big grey sponging bastards.
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@Shila
You still have 10% tariffs imposed by Trump on your exports to America.
Doesn't concern me...I export nothing to America.
10% of nothing is nothing.
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@Shila
The comparative, is relative to the brains tendency to develop an habitual response or dependency to certain stimuli, thereby producing a long term addiction.
We now have a generation or several generations addicted to smartphone connection...Which is no different to heroin, alcohol or nicotine addiction.
The nature of the stimuli might be different, but the effect is the same.
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@AdaptableRatman
If you check you dictionary, you will find that evangelical perfectly describes a zealot.
And I am an atheist 24/7, and have never been anything else.
Have you been a Catholic for 65 years?
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@Sir.Lancelot
Zealotry.
Good word.
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@AdaptableRatman
Well spotted.
A Hairy Fairy wears a rainbow hoodie, and sports a beard.
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@AdaptableRatman
I did hypothetical say a young woman, and not a young girl.
And "pedo" is a separate sound construct relative to a different set of circumstances.
And |I know from experience that somewhat more sexually progressive RC woman have been around for quite a while.
Where were you converted Ratman?..At some Catholic fundamentalist commune in the backwoods somewhere.
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@Sir.Lancelot
Ratman's joined the RC club and returned.
They are now vying for the role as head of the DebartArt Church of Modern Day Saints.
The worst type of evangelist is a newly converted one.
And yep, all that crusading and fighting and traipsing back and forth, sure were virtuous times...Laying the foundations for a lasting peace in the Holy Land.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Nope...French colonialism just like British colonialism, like all attempts at empire, just fuck up the lives of the common man.
It's the way it goes though.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I hang of the metalwork of the beacon held aloft by the goddess liberty.
I can picture you there.
I standby solitarily in the rural backwaters of the UK.
Should I be called to arms in the defence of liberty as my father was...I would not shirk.
Though I am forty years older than he was.
Trust no one were his watchwords...And so I don't.
Nonetheless, I still have a certain faith in the sensibilities of the British establishment, which allows me to sleep easy.
Nighty night.
Sweet dreams.
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@TheGreatSunGod
Yep they're a slick lot, who attract a slick following.
They build a lot of slick new Kingdom Halls and the upper ranks seem to have a propensity for slick cars.
I enjoy engaging on my door step with the foot soldiers (very politely I hasten to add) in theo-philosophical discussions.
They seem rigidly programmed with trite sound bites, which when challenged quite logically, they find difficult and perplexing to expand upon.
At which point they counter by opening their bibles at a pre-set page, pointing to and espousing some hairy fairy illogical waffle.
Further challenge is met with confused looks and retreat.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Well, I guessed it was either sarcasm or satire.
Though I don't know if you sit on the fence or to the left or to the right.
I still don't know.
I would suggest that the very purpose of a Department of Government Efficiency is to autocratically strip a governmental system of waste and inefficiency.
Though in the US's case, I'm not at all sure of the sincerity of the autocratic head.
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@AdaptableRatman
Fornication.
Is just another sound construct relative to recreational sexual activity.
Marriage is a sound construct applied to a business contract relative to the concepts of monogamy, polygamy pair bonding etc.
Procreation describes the fusing of male and female gametes after sexual activity.
Procreation does not necessarily require a marriage contract, and neither does recreational non-procreational intercourse.
Though some pious folk get into a sweat about it.
I don't think that the central character in the Mangod novels was married to Jesus's mum...Was he?
So rest easy and go have some fun.
So if a sassy young RC woman, suggested half an hour in the sack, would you lash your back with birch twigs?
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Nothing quite as autocratic as transparency lol.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Couldn't really get the gist of that statement.
Please clarify.
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Two more pages of utter bollocks, centred around the tenuous Middle Eastern mangod hypothesis.
Evolved organisms are compelled by innate messaging to procreate.
Then along came thinking organism, making up all sorts of conceptual stuff.
Like marriage and mortgages and fitted kitchens.
They also decided that sex could be fun.
Trouble is that some mangoddists with little dicks get jealous, and either try and spoil the party or fuck choirboys in the belfry.
Night Night
Sleep tight.
And don't have wet dreams and offend GOD.
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@TheGreatSunGod
Yep. Jehovah's have a slick business model.
Whereas Catholics just go for health resorts and bulk sales of tatty ornaments.
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@AdaptableRatman
Is there anything that can be categorized as non-sin?
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@Shila
Yes he tosses it in to the audience and leaves his G string on stage.
Ebuc is a multi-tasker.
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@Shila
I'm not sure that orange supremacy is particularly Aryan.
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@Shila
There are parallels to be drawn.
The brain has addictive tendencies that result in dependency.
The smartphone is another obvious example.
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@AdaptableRatman
Catholic Priests and Nuns were renowned for sinning at one time.
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@Shila
You've hit the nail on the head.
Though the Volkswagen Beetle had the boot in the front.
German though.
The Volkswagen beetle had the kofferraum in the front, like an Elephant.
I think that the German for Elephant is Elephant.
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@AdaptableRatman
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Probably one what?
You obviously dug out this thread just so that you could say "selfish atheists".
I'm not sure if their is evidence to suggest that an atheist is likely to be any more selfish that a theist.
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@AdaptableRatman
I come to a religion forum, and question the logic of the MANGOD hypothesis.
You come and discuss the comparative trivia of differing theistic organisations...Who wears the best hat and gown sort of thing.
It's the way it goes.
You have recently chosen to join a religious club and wear a badge...Which is no different to me joining a cycle club and wearing the jersey.
Whether or not you want to join my cycle club, is of no interest to me.
Though we both enjoy the freedom to trade ideas on religious and other forums.
And I'm guessing from your unease, that my comments actually scratch an itch of uncertainty.
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@FLRW
We.
Us or AI?
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@fauxlaw
I would differentiate between the temporarily elected ruling body, and established institutions that administer the organisations and processes of State.
Obviously, all come under the general umbrella of government.
Though the guy down the street who has worked for 40 years as an IRS auditor...Does he govern you, or does he just crunch numbers for a living?
In fact, in the US, almost 20 million people are employed by the State and local governments...Are they necessary, or just thieves who steal your money?
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@fauxlaw
For sure, I wouldn't disagree that we may/do possess abilities that have become largely redundant.
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@fauxlaw
#26...If you say so.
#27...My comment was a general reference to a very lengthy period of species evolution... I think that the cell is typical of all species.
And I'm pretty sure that a GOD didn't throw it all together in a jiffy, a few thousand years ago.
Though I never rule out the hypothesis, whereby a Super-intelligence seeded this planet with basic cellular lifeforms, thereby initiating the process of cellular evolution.
Nonetheless the question that still remains , is where and how did the very first universal cell come into existence.
The magic GOD hypothesis is no doubt convenient, but falls somewhat short of a logical explanation.
And of course a magic hypothesis, doesn't need a GOD anyway.
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@fauxlaw
Maybe.
When I was in the US, I had this dish called biscuits and gravy, what we would probably refer to as scones in white sauce.
Biscuits are generally sweet and crackers generally savoury and a wafer can be either, though all three are texturally different.
Crackers and certain biscuits and wafers are often served with cheese after a meal, generally known as cheese and biscuits.
Bonnet and hood have a certain connection, but I'm not sure why we refer to the trunk as the boot.
Though these days, the boot has largely been superseded by the hatch back.
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@Dr.Franklin
Hey Doc.
Empirical senses start and end within the human organic computer.
Just more viewing.
Yep...Light waves in, converted into an electro chemical signal and then into an internal image.
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@Dr.Franklin
Tradition, superstition and wonder.
Yep...Just about sums up every deistic, theistic, paganistic creation and existence idea that was ever made up. Doc.
And extreme is as extreme does...I've even seen numpties climbing mountains in Ireland on their hands and knees...D'oh.
If there was an Omni-sensible GOD, I'm sure he would tell them not to be so stupid.
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@Mall
The one that says who cares.
Is the one who knows that there is no answer to the question.
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@AdaptableRatman
You are not welcome in this thread.
Not for you to say Mein Fuhrer.
You revile dictators, and then proceed to dictate.
If you cannot tolerate satirical criticism, then perhaps you are suited to such discussions.
Maybe a nice bible class, with a hot drink and a biscuit would be more suitable.
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@AdaptableRatman
Why did God make sex?
Firstly, there is no known GOD, that is known to have made anything.
And sex is the process by which gametes become fused.
Recreational sexual behaviour developed as the species evolved physically and intellectually.
Just as sexual reproduction is an evolved form of asexual cellular division.
Why any of this occurred, and what the outcomes might be, is still anyone's guess.
The Catholic guess is now a bit old hat...But the general GOD principle is still a sound option.
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@Shila
Yep, to a large extent,
Cosmetics make people look different, but not necessarily any better.
Better is an acquired assumption.
To a smaller extent, for some with acquired disfigurements for example, cosmetics will undoubtedly improve wellbeing.
Though you will no doubt say that cosmetics, promote wellbeing in everyone who is now dependent on them...And this is perhaps true...But rather like saying that heroin promotes a temporary sense of wellbeing in heroin addicts.
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@Shila
For sure, Russians still seem to have the same mentality today, that they had back in the 1940's.
State and leader are all, and cannon fodder is plentiful and always compliant.
Not sure that Americans have quite the same mentality or overwhelming love for their Fuhrer.
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@ebuc
People who espouse anti-government rhetoric, just seem to think that everything they take for granted, which is everything that facilitates a 21st century existence, just sort of happens as if by magic.
And ask them what is their alternative to a structured governmental system, and they have no answer.
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