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Loopywafflehead ([info]loopywafflehead) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-05-01 20:22:00
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We're sorry you're not as good as us :(
Thank you to the anonymouse on wank_report for this one.

This post on [info]thequestionclub has [info]dream_king asserting (among other things) that one cannot be a mother and pro-choice, and that it’s up to women to deal with the problems of sex, i.e. pregnancy. It gets posted to stupid_free.

[info]pester is a stupid_free member who also likes being patronising, often with emoticons. It turns out that her husband is dream_king.

The result is lots of fun for everyone, including bonus gossip about the happy couple!

A few choice links:

Abortions yay!

Why would anyone live in a trailer let alone an unheated one?

Penises yay!

You're not a real Jew!

What say you, Canadians?

Very important question! Would you choose Jews or circumcision?

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Re: Of course!
[info]t_boy
2007-05-02 01:59 am UTC (link)

Huh. I agree with a great number of atheist arguments and for some reason I don’t think God will be pissed off with me.

Which arguments, by the way?

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Re: Of course!
[info]rimrunner
2007-05-02 02:02 am UTC (link)
You and me both. Or, well, I have many gods, so the pissed-off-ness can be spread around.

Is that Angkor Wat in your icon? I was there in January. Totally awesome.

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Re: Of course!
[info]t_boy
2007-05-02 02:12 am UTC (link)

Yeah, it is. Haven’t been there, though.

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Re: Of course!
[info]chaimonkey
2007-05-02 10:11 am UTC (link)
Seconded. I believe God expects me to explore my faith. If we're not doubting, we're not believing.

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Re: Of course!
[info]t_boy
2007-05-02 11:20 am UTC (link)

I don’t know what God wants of me, really. I mean, he’s God and he hasn’t said anything. About my personal performance, I mean.

Me, I generally find that after all the rational arguments and philosophical treatises, I basically face a choice — am I a Muslim or not?

Answer seems to be “Yes,” so far. Mind you, not a good Muslim, but them’s the breaks.

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Re: Of course!
[info]chaimonkey
2007-05-02 07:24 pm UTC (link)
Eh. Who can seriously say they're "good" at their religion anyway? We're all human.

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Re: Of course!
[info]snarkivist
2007-05-04 09:47 pm UTC (link)
[info]pester. Duh.

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Re: Of course!
[info]fionnabhair
2007-05-02 05:29 pm UTC (link)
Abelard: "By doubting we come to enquiry, by enquiry we come to truth."

I'm not actually especially religious myself, but Abelard's idea always sounded pretty intelligent to me.

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Re: Of course!
[info]chaimonkey
2007-05-02 07:23 pm UTC (link)
And the great thing about spiritual growth is the little tag at the end: rinse, wash, repeat.

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Re: Of course!
[info]vanilla_tiger
2007-05-02 10:46 am UTC (link)
Well, to be fair, I generally think God's not too happy with me no matter what I do. My brain decided to mix up all its crazy into the God-fearing part, so probably the problem's more with me than with anything else.

No specific arguments come to mind. It's more whenever I talk to atheists I can't think of a decent counterargument. I try out atheism and feel pretty good until the "oh crap. God." moment.

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Re: Of course!
[info]t_boy
2007-05-02 11:17 am UTC (link)

Then you’re not ready to let go. I dunno. I don’t generally get far with atheistic arguments, other than the fact that I’m pretty happy believing in a transcendent reality.

Mind you, my impression of a lot of atheistic arguments seems to be more that they’re geared for Christianity itself, not them other world religions. YMMV, of course.

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Re: Of course!
[info]antimatterspork
2007-05-03 07:34 pm UTC (link)
That's because (especially in the US) the religious folks that the Atheists are arguing with are are all Christians.

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Re: Of course!
[info]bluenakedlady
2007-05-02 07:23 pm UTC (link)
I had the same thing. I was a Christian for a few years and, I'm sad to say, not one who kept it to herself. I was all too happy to spread The Word. I lapsed (or jumped, while cackling madly) and it took me years to get rid of "Oh shit. God."

Been a buddhist for 5 years and I still have the occasional "Oh bugger, God's going to be so pissed off at me...If he exists." Unfortunately, Budda's silent on that subject.

Apparently I'm supposed to question everything. So I do, with distressing regularity, and every so often I miss that certainty of knowing there was a god who loved me no matter what. Because it really is rather hard to sit there and go "Er...Buddha? Little help here?" and all the bugger does is smile at you mysteriously.

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