I have the solution to problems in the Middle East.

[druez]

Get the muslims to call a Jihad.

Get the christians to call a crusade.

Let them both cancel / wipe each other out.

Then the pagans and atheists i.e. (the intelligent free thinkers in life) can live in peace and harmony and have all the oil to ourselves.

[SirFozzie]

Jason, I know I called a truce with you..

but..

Why don't you insult the Jewish faith, and make sure you get EVERYBODY mad at you?

Not cool.

[Qwikshot]

Ah, God isn't the answer, atheists are!

[druez]

Jason, I know I called a truce with you..

but..

Why don't you insult the Jewish faith, and make sure you get EVERYBODY mad at you?

Not cool.

I didn't insult any faith. I just simply used terms that are part of those individual religions that deal with punishing heathens and reclaiming the holy lands or holy wars....

[Qwikshot]

I didn't insult any faith. I just simply used terms that are part of those individual religions that deal with punishing heathens and reclaiming the holy lands or holy wars....
Friday is a slow day.

[Maple Leafs]

Druez, it's a nice effort but your timing is off. It's a Friday afternoon in summer. People will be heading outside for the weekend. Not exactly prime time for this sort of thing.

Next time, try posting your wisdom around 10 a.m. on a Tuesday. A few well-timed bumps and you've got most of the week for everyone to get offended and fired up and start a big flamewar. You know, while you sit in front of your screen clicking "refresh" with a big smile and your hand down your pants.

Just some advice.

[SirFozzie]

No, you just stated that if you were Catholic or Muslim, you were neither a free-thinker, nor intelligent.

[druez]

Friday is a slow day.

aye it is and I'm trying to kill the last hour and a half of work....

[SirFozzie]

Druez, it's a nice effort but your timing is off. It's a Friday afternoon in summer. People will be heading outside for the weekend. Not exactly prime time for this sort of thing.

Next time, try posting your wisdom around 10 a.m. on a Tuesday. A few well-timed bumps and you've got most of the week for everyone to get offended and fired up and start a big flamewar. You know, while you sit in front of your screen clicking "refresh" with a big smile and your hand down your pants.

Just some advice.

Damnit. Are you reading my mind again?

(puts on tinfoil hat)

[druez]

No, you just stated that if you were Catholic or Muslim, you were neither a free-thinker, nor intelligent.

Not catholic, christians in general. What I actually said though was the pagans and atheists are the intellegent and free thinkers in life. That isn't saying that muslims or christians aren't intellegent or free thinkers.

I believe there are many intelligent christians and muslims, but then they aren't free thinkers. I also believe there are many christians and muslims that are free thinkers, but aren't intelligent.

[SirFozzie]

Let's try this again, druez..

can you try that again, WITHOUT contradicting yourself within 10 words?

[Ksyrup]

It's been a couple of months since the computer game review fiasco threads, and I desperately need more attention
At least you're being honest now.

[SirFozzie]

I don't think this thread has turned out the way he expected it.

[druez]

Let's try this again, druez..

can you try that again, WITHOUT contradicting yourself within 10 words?

Ok here is the problem. If you are intellegent and still believe in christianity or muslismism you can't be a free thinker.

If you are a free thinker but believe in christianity or muslimism then obviously you can't be intelligent to believe that the crusades and jihad are good things that god would of wanted of his people.

[EagleFan]

Get the muslims to call a Jihad.

Get the christians to call a crusade.

Let them both cancel / wipe each other out.

Then the pagans and atheists i.e. (the intelligent free thinkers in life) can live in peace and harmony and have all the oil to ourselves.


:rolleyes:

[Warhammer]

Interesting, if you are a christian or muslim you cannot be an intelligent free thinker! :rolleyes:

[GrantDawg]

I know pagans and athiest who are neither intellegent or freethinkers. Discuss.

[druez]

Interesting, if you are a christian or muslim you cannot be an intelligent free thinker! :rolleyes:


Now you are grasping the theory. You can be one or the other, but not both....

[The_herd]

While we're at it, lets take out everyone that starts a thread on a Text Sim message board dealing with religion.

[druez]

I want to be like Druez, hence the reason I worship him.

Sorry Ksyrup there can be only one

[Tom E]

Smoke another joint and go hug your pet tree...

[druez]

While we're at it, lets take out everyone that starts a thread on a Text Sim message board dealing with religion.

Yeah because all we ever do here is talk about text sims right?

[sabotai]

I don't have a pet tree, but I'll take the joint.

[Ksyrup]

Sorry Ksyrup there can be only one
Lying, desperate-for-attention, hate-monger?

You're right, I see that job is taken.

[The_herd]

Yeah because all we ever do here is talk about text sims right?

And all atheists are intelligent free thinkers?

I just figured I'd match you on unintelligent comments.

[Castlerock]

Don't feed the troll.

[SlapBone]

Druez works here in my office (8 feet from me) and I have to put up with this bullshit all day long. Interestingly enough he thinks this shit is real:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/12/captain_cyborg_conference/

Guess thats what he means by free-thinker.

Edited spelling

[druez]

And all atheists are intelligent free thinkers?

I just figured I'd match you on unintelligent comments.

No, but they have the ability to be both intelligent and free thinkers at the same time.

There are many atheists that are unintelligent and aren't free thinkers, but that isn't the point. The point is only atheists have the ability to be both at the same time.

Lets take my good friend Slapbone "we share an office at work" He is a devout christian. He is very intelligent but is not a free thinker. In his momments where he becomes a free thinker, his blind faith over-rides his intelligence.

[Ksyrup]

Druez works here in my office (8 feet from me)
I hope you work at ground level and are looking down.

[The_herd]

The point is only atheists have the ability to be both at the same time.



May God bless you for helping me see the light.

[druez]

Lying, desperate-for-attention, hate-monger?

You're right, I see that job is taken.

How about bored on a friday at work. Desperate for attention on a message board? Naaa don't think so.... Its a message board where I kill time.

Hate-monger? Now that is funny..... When was the last time an atheist declared a jihad or a crusade on another religion?

[druez]

May God bless you for helping me see the light.

You are welcome my child.

[SirFozzie]

Hmm.. the Pledge of Alleigance Brouhaha?

Slapbone, my condolences.

[Ksyrup]

Hate-monger? Now that is funny..... When was the last time an atheist declared a jihad or a crusade on another religion?

Let them both cancel / wipe each other out.
About 45 minutes ago.

[SFL Cat]

Ok here is the problem. If you are intellegent and still believe in christianity or muslismism you can't be a free thinker.

And if you are a pagan who worships elemental forces of nature or an athiest who doesn't really believe in anything supernatural, you're an empty thinker.

Might as well really get this thing rolling. :rolleyes:

[druez]

Do you watch the news or keep up on current events? The terror cells in the area have called a Jihad against us. A general in our military basically called this a holy war. If you can't see that this is slowly turning into a holy war you are kidding yourselves......

I find it INCREDIBLE that people can't look at christianity over the last 2000 years and see all the wars fought in its name. The same can be said of the muslims or just about any other religion you can pick....

[The_herd]

I think we all think too much.

[SlapBone]

Hmm.. the Pledge of Alleigance Brouhaha?

Slapbone, my condolences.


Yea, that why its been relatively silent lately. I let him out from under my desk and look what he does.

Next stop is surely the whole Yankee/South diatribe he likes to go off on.

[Ksyrup]

I think we all think too much.
Except one of us.

[druez]

Yea, that why its been relatively silent lately. I let him out from under my desk and look what he does.

Next stop is surely the whole Yankee/South diatribe he likes to go off on.

LOL

[Warhammer]

And all atheists are intelligent free thinkers?

Isn't this the atheist corrollary to Druez's Law?

[druez]

Druez, it's a nice effort but your timing is off. It's a Friday afternoon in summer. People will be heading outside for the weekend. Not exactly prime time for this sort of thing.

Next time, try posting your wisdom around 10 a.m. on a Tuesday. A few well-timed bumps and you've got most of the week for everyone to get offended and fired up and start a big flamewar. You know, while you sit in front of your screen clicking "refresh" with a big smile and your hand down your pants.

Just some advice.


Thanks for the advice. You were pretty much 100% on target with this, except for the hands down the pants thing. Thats slapbones job because in case you haven't figured it out yet he is my bitch.

[Warhammer]

You know what really cracks me up is when people say they believe in a single supreme being, but it is not God. Isn't that the definition of God?

[SlapBone]

42 posts in an hour. If there is one thing we count on Druez for, it's post count.

In case no one has noticed, I am really trying to hijack this thread without subtracting from it comedic value. The first post by Maple Leaf is probably the funniest.

[SunDancer]

And if you are a pagan who worships elemental forces of nature or an athiest who doesn't really believe in anything supernatural, you're an empty thinker.

Might as well really get this thing rolling. :rolleyes:


You were thinking what I was thinking. So if athesist have no beliefs, then how are they free thinkers if they only think they are the only thing in existence? So if attacking the Muslims and Christians, aren't you declaring a "holy war" on those faiths?

[Desnudo]

Yea, that why its been relatively silent lately. I let him out from under my desk and look what he does.

Next stop is surely the whole Yankee/South diatribe he likes to go off on.

I think we can all safely agree that all Yankees must die. So he has a point there (we are talking about the baseball team right?)

[JeeberD]

I thought druez's solution was going to be this...



http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/guts-se/graphics/end_credits/bomb.jpg

[Franklinnoble]

Hmm... I used to be an atheist, and it was my intelligent free-thinking that led me to the conclusion that there is indeed a God.

Learning to humble yourself before Him doesn't diminish your intelligence or free will at all.

[SlapBone]

I thought druez's solution was going to be this...



http://www.matthawkins.co.uk/guts-se/graphics/end_credits/bomb.jpg


Done Deal. Just put Druez in a room with "The Button" with a sign on it that says "Do not push this button". I think it's safe to assume that nuclear holocaust would follow.

[druez]

You were thinking what I was thinking. So if athesist have no beliefs, then how are they free thinkers if they only think they are the only thing in existence? So if attacking the Muslims and Christians, aren't you declaring a "holy war" on those faiths?

Actually athesists do have beliefs. They just don't believe there is some god listening or sitting in judgement of us. Nor do they think a god commands us to goto war against all the infidels or do we believe that we need to reclaim a holy land.



http://www.mwillett.org/atheism/atheism1.htm

good page if you are interested.....

[SlapBone]

Actually athesists do have beliefs. They just don't believe there is some god listening or sitting in judgement of us. Nor do they think a god commands us to goto war against all the infidels or do we believe that we need to reclaim a holy land.
On a more serious note wouldn't this HAVE to be the cornerstone of the "Atheist Faith". I mean, the first thing that an atheiest would have to contend with is that there is possibly a God sitting in judgement. Hell, This is what makes atheism so worth-while right?

[Ben E Lou]

Dang, Jason. I think you just became the first person to draw my attention to the very thread that got himself suspended by reporting a post to me from that thread. If you'd not alerted me to your trolling yourself, you might have gotten away with it. See ya next Friday! :p

This is an easy one, since he pretty much admitted to trolling right in the thread...

[Franklinnoble]

You should have banned him until Tuesday at 10 am...

[SlapBone]

See ya next Friday! :p



Can you come to Texas and ban him from my office? :)

[JonInMiddleGA]

Can you come to Texas and ban him from my office? :)

Methinks you're setting your sights too low ... if you're gonna ask anyway, why not go for the whole state?
;)

[SirFozzie]

Dang, Jason. I think you just became the first person to draw my attention to the very thread that got himself suspended by reporting a post to me from that thread. If you'd not alerted me to your trolling yourself, you might have gotten away with it. See ya next Friday! :p

This is an easy one, since he pretty much admitted to trolling right in the thread...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

He got penalty Boxed.. for a post he reported?

That's funny shit :D

(now granted, it wasn't his post.. but I think it's major style points to get suspended by his own tactics :D)

[SlapBone]

Methinks you're setting your sights too low ... if you're gonna ask anyway, why not go for the whole state?
;)


Ummm... he's gone now. You baiting me? :)

[EagleFan]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

He got penalty Boxed.. for a post he reported?

That's funny shit :D

(now granted, it wasn't his post.. but I think it's major style points to get suspended by his own tactics :D)

lol :D

Kind of blows a hole in his theory of "intelligent people like himself".

[The_herd]

Why do we hold the intelligent, free thinkers down?

[Noop]

It is because of religion the twin towers fell down. It is because of religion people are losing their lives in the middle east. It is because of religion alot of the worst things on earth are done. Get the theme? People would kill, riot and other wise go crazy for religion. But they won't help a fellow human being in the name of religion... In conclusion religion = seems to serve a mostly evil purpose.

*No offense... just my point of view*

[EagleFan]

That's the biggest flaming pile of horse crap that I've read since druez's initial post.

Replace religion with "Islamic fanatics" and it makes a little more sense.


It's because of something being MASKED AS RELIGION.


It was because of religion that I was aided by two different churches when I was havnig trouble finding work. It was because of religion that this country was formed. It was because of religion that we have numerous charities helping under-priviledged.

Try getting your head out of your ass before you say something so stupid.

[Qwikshot]

It is because of religion the twin towers fell down. It is because of religion people are losing their lives in the middle east. It is because of religion alot of the worst things on earth are done. Get the theme? People would kill, riot and other wise go crazy for religion. But they won't help a fellow human being in the name of religion... In conclusion religion = seems to serve a mostly evil purpose.

*No offense... just my point of view*
Partially true, partially wrong, it is oil and influence of power that is also the culprit. Bin Laden wants Saudi Arabia, why?, because it has the oil.

And secondly you can get rid of religion but it won't stop violence, people will replace religion with something else, like patriotism, nationalism, communism, facism, consumerism...etc.

[Noop]

That's the biggest flaming pile of horse crap that I've read since druez's initial post.

Replace religion with "Islamic fanatics" and it makes a little more sense.


It's because of something being MASKED AS RELIGION.


It was because of religion that I was aided by two different churches when I was havnig trouble finding work. It was because of religion that this country was formed. It was because of religion that we have numerous charities helping under-priviledged.

Try getting your head out of your ass before you say something so stupid.
So my opinion is stupid? Fine I can and will accept that. Religion is not masked at all we can go back to something such as slavery when the slave owners were supposed bible lovers. Again I respect your view without trying to attack you in anyway I would atleast like the same.

Qwikshot - I don't mean to do away with religion that is not my intent. Religion can help people get thru life for this I am glad it is here because it gives hope to those without it. However, religion has shown that it can rear its ugly head.

[Franklinnoble]

Just because men have often committed gross atrocities under the false pretense of divine motivation does not make religion bad.

Although I'd prefer to call myself spiritual, and not religious... I'm simply a non-denominational Christian who considers the Lord his only authority, not some man-made institution.

[randal7]

It is because of religion the twin towers fell down. It is because of religion people are losing their lives in the middle east. It is because of religion alot of the worst things on earth are done. Get the theme? People would kill, riot and other wise go crazy for religion. But they won't help a fellow human being in the name of religion... In conclusion religion = seems to serve a mostly evil purpose.

I don't know if you mean this the way I read it, but I firmly agree (except change the last sentence to "...seems to OFTEN serve..."). Religion is not the same as truly serving God. Religion divides us into groups bickering about interpretations when we should all consider ourselves part of the body of Christ. Many devoutly religious people would not know Jesus if he sat down beside them, and various religious beliefs have done great harm to Jesus' message over the years. Unfortunately, people tend to confuse what one particular religion believes with what Jesus himself says, and to paint all of Christianity with that brush.

[Leonidas]

It is because of religion the twin towers fell down. It is because of religion people are losing their lives in the middle east. It is because of religion alot of the worst things on earth are done. Get the theme? People would kill, riot and other wise go crazy for religion. But they won't help a fellow human being in the name of religion... In conclusion religion = seems to serve a mostly evil purpose.

*No offense... just my point of view*

If by religion you really mean a belief system wildly manipulated by a certain minority to achieve their own hidden agendas (usually to gain power, influence, or mainly financial advantage) using God as a recruitment tool, then I can probably agree with you.

[pennywisesb]

If you are a free thinker but believe in christianity or muslimism then obviously you can't be intelligent to believe that the crusades and jihad are good things that god would of wanted of his people.

Did anyone else find it interesting that a guy who thinks of himself as intelligent and a free thinker would refer to Islam as Muslimism? Oh Druez, you are too cute. :rolleyes: Sorry, I obviously got into this thread alittle late.

[SlapBone]

I'm simply a non-denominational Christian.

Like those people in Florida who stick themselves to the floor and bark like dogs non-denominational?

[Noop]

If by religion you really mean a belief system wildly manipulated by a certain minority to achieve their own hidden agendas (usually to gain power, influence, or mainly financial advantage) using God as a recruitment tool, then I can probably agree with you.
That is my point. Religion is not used as a way of serving God but their own agendas, and this has grown over the years to the point atleast in my opinion to make religion null invoid. I personally believe in God but religion that claim to love and serve got seem to be demonic in nature. Just my opinion....

[PsychoCop]

I think there is a big difference between Religion and Faith. Religion, being as Leonidas explained, with Faith being a deep personal belief that there is someone... or something governing everything. Doesn't matter if you're an aethist or a christian or a muslim... everyone has Faith. Faith in a supreme being... or faith in a specific set of physics that define our existence.

Religion has, and I probably think will always be used as a manupulatory tool.

Jihads and Crusades are called forth by Religious leaders, usually to forward a personal cause completely unrelated to the said religion... it is Religious fanaticism by the believers of said religions that fuels these Jihads and Crusades.

Seriously, when was the last time a Crusade was ever called? It's because people aren't the sheep they were back in the middle-ages.

As for Jihads... who calls Jihads? Religious Fanatics and Extremists. As a majority, most Moslems would rather have peace.

Crusades and Jihads, IMHO, have always been used as a tool... to serve a purely humane purpose and not a divine one... and to actually presume that Christians and Moslems are not free-thinkers nor intelligent... is absolutely absurd.

Remember, the foundations of the United States of America, and the freedom that it supposedly believes in and protects were built on mostly Christian values.