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Post by DeadpanDoubter on May 28, 2011 15:07:49 GMT -5
Yes, let's kill all the theists!
...welp, that's half the forum gone.
Idiot.
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Post by sugarfreejazz on May 28, 2011 15:07:55 GMT -5
You're right, one person does make an entire group the same thing. I can find nothing wrong with this sound logic. Kind of like how the WBC represents all of Christianity am i right? /sarcasm Or how the actions of one black/white/hispanic man make a whole race violent.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on May 28, 2011 15:38:40 GMT -5
Dude, half the forum members here are theists. And awesome. Why would we want to kill the awesome? That's not awesome.
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Post by Caitshidhe on May 28, 2011 15:46:57 GMT -5
The SANDMAN is a theist. I would weep bitter tears if he were lost.
We're ont 'bitter anti-theists' here. We're all very open-minded people and yes, half of us ARE theists. We're against the lunacy, hate, bigotry, ignorance, and superstitious nonsense that are often encouraged or mandated by fundamentalist branches of religion. Our beef is with the people who use religion for bad things, not with all religious people or religions themselves.
Also,thanks MN and Shane, but I'm still as dumb as a brick. Everyone knows why Rome fell. It tripped on its caligae.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on May 28, 2011 16:09:23 GMT -5
Theists, like atheists, can be awesome. Atheists, like theists, can be not awesome. Chagen, you are not awesome; get your awesomeness level up to Super Awesome, and then you'll be awesome.
The word 'awesome' has just lost all meaning for me. Am I even spelling it right?
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Post by Caitshidhe on May 28, 2011 16:10:51 GMT -5
No, it's spelled 'ossum' so it can be paired with the word 'possum'.
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Post by MaybeNever on May 28, 2011 16:33:30 GMT -5
Consider the alternative: China developed more or less like Rome probably would have, with periodic fragmentation and unification, but it grew so heavily bureaucratized and insular that it basically stagnated for six hundred years. China had no close neighboring cultures that could compete with it. That was the main thing that caused them to isolate themselves from the outside influences and stop putting resources in developing their society. Since all the cultures they could compare themselves to were "barbaric" compared to them they thought they had already achieved the greatest society on Earth. Rome/Byzantine on the other hand had the Muslim world to compete with them and to exchange innovations with. This prevented them from having any such illusions as China had. This is a valid point. There are certainly differences in circumstances and mentality that would change things. But a united Roman Empire may well have prevented the rise of Islam, and in any case while there was Sassanid Persia to shape conceptions of diplomacy and international competition as we think of it (and I'd argue that it is in fact here, not at Islam, that any Roman "middle kingdom" thinking would die), the reality is that a unified Roman Empire would almost certainly have been far less vigorous in its technological and social innovations than the multitude of successor states across Europe. An immense, highly bureaucratized state tends to be less robust in these areas, after all. Also,thanks MN and Shane, but I'm still as dumb as a brick. Everyone knows why Rome fell. It tripped on its caligae. You're doing it again!
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on May 28, 2011 16:43:30 GMT -5
No, it's spelled 'ossum' so it can be paired with the word 'possum'. Ossum possum?
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Post by Shane for Wax on May 28, 2011 17:00:29 GMT -5
The SANDMAN is a theist. I would weep bitter tears if he were lost. We're ont 'bitter anti-theists' here. We're all very open-minded people and yes, half of us ARE theists. We're against the lunacy, hate, bigotry, ignorance, and superstitious nonsense that are often encouraged or mandated by fundamentalist branches of religion. Our beef is with the people who use religion for bad things, not with all religious people or religions themselves. Also,thanks MN and Shane, but I'm still as dumb as a brick. Everyone knows why Rome fell. It tripped on its caligae. Honey we talked about this. No calling yourself dumb. I demand it.
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Post by Caitshidhe on May 28, 2011 17:15:04 GMT -5
No, it's spelled 'ossum' so it can be paired with the word 'possum'. Ossum possum? Yes. It is the way to describe something unfathomably awesome. It then becomes Ossum Possum. This makes sense to me because I am nuts.
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Post by bfdd on May 28, 2011 17:37:46 GMT -5
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Post by Smurfette Principle on May 28, 2011 17:51:57 GMT -5
Am I the only one here that wants to bum a ride on the TARDIS, go back, and stop this Christer bullshit before it even starts? (By which I mean assassinating Constantine AND the entire "council" of Nicea...) And this site keeps trying to convince me that it's members aren't insane anti-theists. Uh-huh. Right. I mean, it's not like anyone jumped on WMDkitty for saying exactly what you quoted. Oh, and that was sarcasm. Just in case you couldn't figure it out from my tone.
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Post by Art Vandelay on May 29, 2011 1:35:10 GMT -5
Also,thanks MN and Shane, but I'm still as dumb as a brick. Everyone knows why Rome fell. It tripped on its caligae. Cait, we all love you, really. But please, for the love of fuck, stop fishing for compliments. Or at the very least, try to be subtle about it.
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Post by dakotabob on May 29, 2011 18:37:37 GMT -5
Am I the only one here that wants to bum a ride on the TARDIS, go back, and stop this Christer bullshit before it even starts? (By which I mean assassinating Constantine AND the entire "council" of Nicea...) And this site keeps trying to convince me that it's members aren't insane anti-theists. Uh-huh. Why are you still here?
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Post by davedan on May 29, 2011 20:15:29 GMT -5
The huns, the goths, the visi-goths and the vandals had nothing to do with it.
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