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25 Mar 2005 08:24:12 AM |
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God is ... |
... planning to set up a web site for us.
I'm told that he is getting rather fed up that so many of you are taking his name in vain.
So - in future, rather than praying, he wants you to go to his website.
Don't expect him to be kind to you -
His job is to tell you where you're going wrong.
That's what Gods are for.
No doubt God will inform you when the website's up and running
In the meanitime ... maybe you could practice not praying ... and use the time to reflect
on what you're doing wrong.
Anyway. I'm told it won't be long
No more praying, anywhere, on Planet Earth
New technology will revolutionise the world of religion
GOD IS PLANNING TO SET UP WEB SITE
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| User: "Woden" |
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26 Mar 2005 01:19:20 AM |
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"me" <here@now.com> wrote in
news:4243c95c$0$53145$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com:
.... stupid fucking mythology.
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Woden
"religion is a socio-political system for controlling people's thoughts,
lives and actions based on ancient myths and superstitions, perpetrated
through generations of subtle yet pervasive brainwashing."
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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25 Mar 2005 02:46:53 PM |
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"me" <here@now.com> wrote in message
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GOD IS PLANNING TO SET UP WEB SITE
Ooooooooookay..................Who has the butterfly net?
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
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| User: "Icebreaker" |
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25 Mar 2005 01:11:44 PM |
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"me" <here@now.com> wrote in message
news:4243c95c$0$53145$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
.. planning to set up a web site for us.
I'm told that he is getting rather fed up that so many of you are taking
his name in vain.
So - in future, rather than praying, he wants you to go to his website.
Don't expect him to be kind to you -
His job is to tell you where you're going wrong.
That's what Gods are for.
No doubt God will inform you when the website's up and running
In the meanitime ... maybe you could practice not praying ... and use the
time to reflect
on what you're doing wrong.
Anyway. I'm told it won't be long
No more praying, anywhere, on Planet Earth
New technology will revolutionise the world of religion
GOD IS PLANNING TO SET UP WEB SITE
God has yet to master the art of HTML.
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| User: "Jez" |
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25 Mar 2005 02:50:15 PM |
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Icebreaker wrote:
"me" <here@now.com> wrote in message
news:4243c95c$0$53145$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
.. planning to set up a web site for us.
I'm told that he is getting rather fed up that so many of you are taking
his name in vain.
So - in future, rather than praying, he wants you to go to his website.
Don't expect him to be kind to you -
His job is to tell you where you're going wrong.
That's what Gods are for.
No doubt God will inform you when the website's up and running
In the meanitime ... maybe you could practice not praying ... and use the
time to reflect
on what you're doing wrong.
Anyway. I'm told it won't be long
No more praying, anywhere, on Planet Earth
New technology will revolutionise the world of religion
GOD IS PLANNING TO SET UP WEB SITE
God has yet to master the art of HTML.
Or even the quite simple task of existing.
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Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
NFS Underground2, Americas Army And MOH-PA
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| User: "TCS" |
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25 Mar 2005 02:52:46 PM |
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:11:44 -0500, Icebreaker <raventalisman@gmail.com> wrote:
"me" <here@now.com> wrote in message
news:4243c95c$0$53145$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
.. planning to set up a web site for us.
I'm told that he is getting rather fed up that so many of you are taking
his name in vain.
So - in future, rather than praying, he wants you to go to his website.
Don't expect him to be kind to you -
His job is to tell you where you're going wrong.
That's what Gods are for.
No doubt God will inform you when the website's up and running
In the meanitime ... maybe you could practice not praying ... and use the
time to reflect
on what you're doing wrong.
Anyway. I'm told it won't be long
No more praying, anywhere, on Planet Earth
New technology will revolutionise the world of religion
GOD IS PLANNING TO SET UP WEB SITE
God has yet to master the art of HTML.
What does god need with a web site? <ripping off Star Trek V>
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| User: "Kenny Leong" |
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04 Apr 2005 08:59:51 PM |
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"me" <here@now.com> wrote in message news:<4243c95c$0$53145$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>...
.. planning to set up a web site for us.
I'm told that he is getting rather fed up that so many of you are taking his name in vain.
So - in future, rather than praying, he wants you to go to his website.
Don't expect him to be kind to you -
His job is to tell you where you're going wrong.
That's what Gods are for.
No doubt God will inform you when the website's up and running
In the meanitime ... maybe you could practice not praying ... and use the time to reflect
on what you're doing wrong.
Anyway. I'm told it won't be long
No more praying, anywhere, on Planet Earth
New technology will revolutionise the world of religion
GOD IS PLANNING TO SET UP WEB SITE
We're still waiting for god to make a rock so heavy that he/she/it can't lift.
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| User: "rj" |
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25 Mar 2005 11:07:48 AM |
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"me" <here@now.com> wrote in news:4243c95c$0$53145$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com:
.. planning to set up a web site for us.
GOD IS PLANNING TO SET UP WEB SITE
That's nice. It sure is taking a while. Can make the entire unvese in 6
days but it takes him more than a few minutes to create a website?
Something is wrong here.
rj
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| User: "Rally" |
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25 Mar 2005 01:08:24 PM |
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"rj" <rj@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9624342F16999bvzxrpl@10.232.1.1...
"me" <here@now.com> wrote in
news:4243c95c$0$53145$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com:
.. planning to set up a web site for us.
GOD IS PLANNING TO SET UP WEB SITE
That's nice. It sure is taking a while. Can make the entire unvese in 6
days but it takes him more than a few minutes to create a website?
Something is wrong here.
rj
Would *you want to be his ISP?
I wonder if he will use FrontPage, something else, or code it himself.
He must have outsourced the 3000+ banners he will need to spam his
website with all of the religions in the world.
Will there be a feedback form?
Gee, the list could go on and on...
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| User: "MarkA" |
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25 Mar 2005 01:13:56 PM |
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:07:48 +0000, rj wrote:
"me" <here@now.com> wrote in
news:4243c95c$0$53145$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com:
.. planning to set up a web site for us.
GOD IS PLANNING TO SET UP WEB SITE
That's nice. It sure is taking a while. Can make the entire unvese in 6
days but it takes him more than a few minutes to create a website?
Something is wrong here.
rj
Perhaps He is having trouble learning Javascript?
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "Sweet Ol Bob SOB" |
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03 Apr 2005 12:22:15 AM |
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:48:22 +0800, bob young
<alaspectrum@netvigator.com> wrote:
A M Y T H
Your God is a myth, but mine is not.
--
Million Mom March For Gun Confiscation
http://home.houston.rr.com/rkba/mmm.html
"If you build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day. If you
set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life."
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| User: "Barry OGrady" |
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13 Apr 2005 12:15:11 PM |
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On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 00:22:15 GMT, (Sweet Ol' Bob (SOB)) wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:48:22 +0800, bob young
<alaspectrum@netvigator.com> wrote:
A M Y T H
Your God is a myth, but mine is not.
There are no exceptions.
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Barry
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| User: "wcb" |
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03 Apr 2005 03:21:38 AM |
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Sweet Ol' Bob (SOB wrote:
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:48:22 +0800, bob young
<alaspectrum@netvigator.com> wrote:
A M Y T H
Your God is a myth, but mine is not.
Yes, and a ***** poor myth at that.
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God Disproven - Part 2
There are several concepts of god that are meant
when that word is used. One is the philosophers'
god derived from ancient Greek concepts, the god
that is omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent.
But we also have the biblical god, the god of
the old testament, Yahweh, El, the god of Genesis
Exodus and the other books of the bible. This god
is a historical god, not a philosphical god.
His nature and existance are said to be found in
the Torah, the old testament.
At the turn of the 19th century archeology saw
the establishment of so called biblical archaeology,
archaeology mostly of an American origin dedicated
optimistically to showing that the bible was true.
Instead, over a century, it showed the opposite.
Biblical archaeology never really existed as a
seperate 'discipline', it was an aspect of Near
Eastern Archaeology.
It is now established that much of the bible is in
no way history nor true. There was no Egyptian
captivity, no exodus, no 40 years wandering, no bloody
invasion of Canaan lead by Moses and Joshua. With
that faux history debunked, so goes the theological
concepts embedded in this this faux history.
God here is understood to have been an entity that
at certain specific times did certain specific things
at certain specific places involving certain specific
persons. But if these places and persons did not exist,
this god likewise does not exist, they are all just
characters in a novel masquerding as history.
Archaeology has found and excavated the cities
supposedly destroyed by Joshua and the Israelites
and found they were ruins long before any Israelite
could have been in the area.
Several excavations have looked for the 36 year
long encampments of the Israelites at Kadesh Barnea
and failed.
Egyptologists find names of numerous foreigners
and their gods attested to in Egyptian literture,
tombs and other sources, but no Israelite names,
no mention of Yahweh can be found. Odd for a people
that supposedly were in Egypt for 430 years starting
70 persons.
Despite that, Israel show little Egyptianisms,
not in language, architecture, pottery, writing systems,
literary traditions, clothing or other things you'd
expect from a people who starting with 70 people
spent 430 years in Egypt, growing to a massive presence
there from biblical accounts.
And these bible tall tales are replete with errors,
anachronisms and other signs it is not history.
Thus archaeology and historians and bible scholars
have concluded that from Genesis to Judges, the bible
is most certainly not history.
Rather in recent decades, archaeologists have discovered
the true facts about Israel. They were typical Canaanites
who peacefully spread throught the hill country as peaceful
farmers in unfortified hilltop farms. This population of
farmers later developed into Israel, Judah, Moab, Ammon,
Edom andother similar states in that area of the world.
There was no invasion as per Joshua. No Moses on the mount,
no god leading the Israelites as a pillar of smoke or fire,
no plagues of Egypt, no genocides ordered by god.
This god and all these happenings are fantasies. The god
attached to these tall tales did not and does not exist
anymore than did Winnie the Pooh in his Hundred Acre Woods.
Both are mere characters in novels, the only difference is
most people don't realize the bible is just a bad novel
pieced together from ancient myths long ago. They have
no idea archaeologists and historians have abandoned
all of this as being in any way history or being true.
But this god, that did certain things in certain places
at certain times with certain people is in fact, dead
and gone. Disproven, debunked and gone.
Because these places and times and people have been
disproven as having never existed and god disappears with
these now debunked tales.
A few quotes from the experts:
"The Rise of Ancient Israel"
A Symposium at the Smithsonian Institute
October 26, 1991
Biblical Archaeology Society 1992
Herschel Schanks
"Well archaeology is no longer a crutch in
this classic sense of a conquest model. We
simply can no longer posit a series of destructions
in Canann that can be rationally identified as the
result of the Israelite conquest. Recently our
archaeological methodology has improved, we can date
levels more securely, and more sites have been excavated.
As a result we can no longer say that archeology
supports what we call the conquest model of Israel's
emergence in Canaan."
William G. Dever
"The conquest model is not subsribed to by most
biblical scholars today - certainly no one in the
mainstream of scholarship - and that's been true
for some time. Moreover, there isn't a single
reputable professional archaeologist in the world
whoespouses the conquest model in Israel, Europe,
or America. We don't need to say anymore about
the conquest model. That's that. (Laughter)
Not to be dogmatic about it or anything, but..
(Laughter)"
"From Nomadism to Monarchy
- Archaeological and Historical Aspects
of Early Israel"
Edited by Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman.
Biblical Archaeology Society 1994
Israel Finkelstein and Nadav Na'aman
Introduction Page 13
"Combination of archeological and historical
research demonstrates that the biblical account
of the conquest and occupation of Canaan is
entirely divorced from historical reality.
Instead, it proves the correctness of the
literary-critical approach to the biblical text.
The biblical descriptions of the origin and early
history of the people of Israel are not disimilar
from narratives on the origins of other peoples,
which likewise do not withstand the test of
historical criticism."
Nadav Na'aman Page 249
"It is commonly accepted today that the majority
of conquest stories in the book of Joshua are devoid
of historical reality."
"What Did The Biblical Writers Know & When
Did They Know It?"
- William G. Dever
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
2001
Page 121
"Now let us turn to the biblical data. If we look
at the biblical texts describing the the origins
of Israel, we see at once that the traditional
account contained from Genesis to Joshua cannot be
reconciled with the picture derived from
archaeological investigation.The whole
"Exodus-Conquest" cycle of stories must now be set
aside as largely mythical, but in the proper sense
of the word myth: perhaps "historical fiction"
but tales told primarily to validate religous
beliefs."
Page 282
"Here we must confront squarely the essential
dilemma of the modern reader of the Hebrew Bible.
a dilemma that nearly all writers of today acknowledge.
Does critical study of the bible undermine religous
faith, perhaps more importantly diminish the value
of the Bible as a basis for cultural and moral
values? For the fundamentalists, or for many
conservative Christians, Jews an others, the answer
is: Yes. These folk must then reject modern literary
other critical methods, although I have assumed here
that such methods are to be taken for granted by any
well-informed reader in the modern world. There is
irony here. In North America and in places in Europe
archaeology is accepted, even enthusiastically embraced,
because it is mistakenly thought it will after all,
"prove the Bible is true".
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When I shake my killfile, I can hear them buzzing!
Cheerful Charlie
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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26 Mar 2005 02:10:04 AM |
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rj <rj@yahoo.com> wrote in news:Xns9624342F16999bvzxrpl@10.232.1.1:
"me" <here@now.com> wrote in
news:4243c95c$0$53145$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com:
.. planning to set up a web site for us.
GOD IS PLANNING TO SET UP WEB SITE
That's nice. It sure is taking a while. Can make the entire unvese
in 6 days but it takes him more than a few minutes to create a
website?
Something is wrong here.
JavaScript's a *****, but it's probably the CSS that's got him stumped.
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Dr. Smartass -- BAAWA Knight of Heckling -- a.a. #1939
Never use a weapon you don't like the taste of.
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| User: "todd" |
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08 Nov 2005 12:18:09 AM |
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Isn't it true that the term 'god' refers to something purely hypothetical
(theist 'might be' conjecture)? If you do not agree, if you are convinced
(believe) there really IS a god, will you please describe it so that others can
check your observations?
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