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Post by Sandmaster on Sept 11, 2009 16:21:47 GMT -5
Well, generally rebellions are based on ethics. If the world circulated around science, rebellion isn't that important.
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Post by SilentWaves on Sept 13, 2009 18:58:35 GMT -5
wow this is getting close to having 1337 posts....
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Post by Sandmaster on Sept 15, 2009 15:52:09 GMT -5
I'm slowly losing my hope for humanity, and I think that religion is playing a major role in this.
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Post by V.I.R.O.S. on Sept 15, 2009 16:06:56 GMT -5
Simply put, religion is justifying. Mass murdering people can give you quite a conscience.... unless you have God in your camp. Take the Crusades for a perfect (if somewhat over done) example. Millions of Turks died protecting the land which rightfully belonged to them, but was apparently "promised to the English Church".
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Post by The Dark Master on Sept 15, 2009 16:10:16 GMT -5
To both religions it was a 'holy land'. Perfect excuse to start a war....
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Post by Angel on Sept 15, 2009 18:23:09 GMT -5
I really think there is no God. There's no proof.
Secondly, the only reason a so-called God exists is because people can't handle all the painful facts of life, so they have to refer to God to make themselves feel better. This is the same case with 'Heave' and 'Hell': People can't accept the inevitability of death so they made some moron concept that if you're "good and pure, you'll go to a beautiful place called Heaven. But if you're bad, you'll go to an evil place called Hell." If you ask me, it's just a load of bull.
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Post by KuraiOorora on Sept 17, 2009 17:15:10 GMT -5
Ignoring ArchZero's comment, if you didn't notice there seems to be a link with most or perhaps all world religions.....
Take the book of Revelation for example: It tells of a time in which the world ends and those faithful will be saved. There are also other religions that talk about the world coming to an end.
Whether that is significant or not, it is somehow linked to the end of the Mayan calendar, which ends December 21st, 2012.
Is it possible that all world religions based themselves off of this occurring that is now labeled as the Nostradamus Effect?
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Post by Sandmaster on Sept 17, 2009 17:30:45 GMT -5
...which is complete bull.
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Post by The Dark Master on Sept 18, 2009 9:49:03 GMT -5
KO, every religion tells of a time the world will end, natter natter, and people automatically link that with the end of the 'Mayan calender'. Saying the world will end at the end of the Mayan calender is like saying the world will end every 21st of December. People say that a 'Galactic Alignment' will cause our poles to bugger up, but that's as ridiculous as saying don't drive at sunset otherwise you'll hit the sun. People believed that the world would end in 2000, It didn't. They believed it would end in 2004. It didn't. Now lets all relax...oh bugger, now they're making a movie about 2012...just perfect.
Do you actually believe this bollocks?
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Post by Qwerty on Sept 18, 2009 14:54:50 GMT -5
I highly doubt the people making that movie seriously believe it. They are trying to make money off fear caused by ignorance.
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Post by Sandmaster on Sept 18, 2009 15:19:19 GMT -5
Lol, reminds me of 'Fatal Contact' which is about avian flu killing 7 million people (by the 1st half).
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Post by KuraiOorora on Sept 18, 2009 16:40:33 GMT -5
What I meant was that perhaps all world religions could be linked by one occurring. And it's not 'complete bull'. If you would even look at what the Nostradamus Effect is about. People said it was bollocks, but what was thought to of happened is beginning to happen. The economy started to fail, the world has been warming up. People knew these things were going to happen before they did. Explain that to me.
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Post by Qwerty on Sept 19, 2009 13:46:08 GMT -5
You explain where you got your information. I saw that documentary, too. Almost all of Nostradamus' prophecies are incredibly vague and can be applied to just about anything. People say he predicted WWII. The same prophecy could also be applied to two children on a beach throwing stuff from rock to rock.
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Post by The Dark Master on Sept 19, 2009 14:58:12 GMT -5
Yah. KO, bad things have always been going on through history, but it's now that people link it to the 'Nostradamus effect' because it's near the end of the Mayan Calender.
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Post by Angel on Sept 19, 2009 15:06:28 GMT -5
Ignoring ArchZero's comment What?! You shall be punished! D:< Anyway, I still stick to my previous post. |
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Post by Paradox on Sept 19, 2009 15:32:34 GMT -5
I'm not completely sure. . .
Post #1336!
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Post by The Dark Master on Sept 19, 2009 15:39:33 GMT -5
For tis I who made the 1337th post!
Anyway, it doesn't really count as a post if it doesn't have anything useful in it...
And KO, we did not know the recession was going to happen. If we did, we would have saved up money. And if we knew about global warming earlier, we wouldn't have cars...
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Post by Sandmaster on Sept 19, 2009 22:48:16 GMT -5
1338!
Off topic much?
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Post by Qwerty on Sept 20, 2009 3:48:19 GMT -5
I wonder how I'm gonna measure time once the calendar dies... Hey, I'm old-fashioned like that.
...anywho. Any similarities between religions are probably because most religions are blatant rip-offs of other religions, and at least three major religions started from the same person.
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Post by FoxtrotZero on Oct 4, 2009 3:36:29 GMT -5
I've likely mentioned it before.
Think back to England. Who was in charge? Thats right, The King! Why? Because God apparantley spoke through him. Well if i know anything about most religions, its that something like that doesn't happen. But people believed him. It was a ploy to give the king power.
Now lets go back to the time of Jesus, when it all started. Is it not possible, that in this age where man was not educated in science, that this good man invented a religion to provide morals to abide by? Thats what the Bible is. Stories that teach morals. Good morals. Morals that improve the life of humanity? And just the same, it was picked up, changed, modified, augumented for reasons. Such as the King's ruling of england.
It really just adds up, when you do the math. And when you get down to it from an athiest point of view, why else does it matter? If you debunk something's beginnings, you debunk the entire thing.
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