"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious, gossips, without self control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God." (2 Tim. 3:1-4).
The attitudes in this thread make me feel absolutely sick. It is clearer to me now more than ever that the sinful nature of man is absolutely real. No one here is concerned with compassion, nor selflessness, nor righteousness, nor forgiveness, nor peace, nor justice, nor truth or wisdom, nor establishing goodwill. No, the people here are more concerned with hateful intolerance, greed, selfish desire and the consumption of chocolate easter eggs. Yes let's all gorge ourselves on chocolate in celebration of our pitifully self-centered and greed driven consumer culture. Well done. Apparently these are the more important things in life. So utterly lost and misguided...
Humanity is doomed.
Disgusting is all I can say. One of my biggest dislikes of christianity is that you assume that every man by nature is evil and god is the only way of leading a good life.
I believe the opposite.
I'll lead a good life, be good to my friends have a family and lovingly raise a few wee ones. If i die and find there is a heaven and I'm not allowed in because of my beliefs, even though I led a good life, then I want nothing to do with this god anyway.
I met a 14 year old girl on the internet. She was clever, funny, flirty and s3xy, so I suggested we meet up. She turned out to be an undercover detective. How cool is that at her age?!
I just saw that Harry Potter film. A bit unrealistic if you ask me. I mean, a ginger kid, with two friends?
A family is driving behind a garbage truck when a d!ldo flies out and thumps against the windscreen. Embarrassed, and to spare her young son's innocence, the mother turns around and says, "Don't worry; that was an insect." To which, her son replies, "I'm surprised it could get off the ground with a c0ck like that."
I had a mate who was suicidal. He was really depressed, so I pushed him in front of a steam train. He was chuffed to bits.
When I got divorced, my wife said she would fight for custody of the kids. Took her out with one punch.
My granddad gave me some sound advice on his deathbed. "It's worth spending money on good speakers," he told me.
A woman brings eight-year-old Johnny home and tells his mother that he was caught playing doctors and nurses with Mary, her eight-year-old daughter. Johnny's mother says, "Let's not be too harsh on them.... they are bound to be curious about 5ex at that age." "Curious about 5ex?" replies Mary's mother. "He's taken her appendix out!"
I was walking in a cemetery this morning and seen a bloke hiding behind a gravestone. I said "morning." He replied, "No, just having a sh!t."
Disabled toilets. Ironically, the only toilets big enough to run around in.
I was reading in the paper today about this dwarf that got pick pocketed. How could anyone stoop so low?
I was walking down the road when I saw an Afghan bloke standing on a fifth floor balcony shaking a carpet. I shouted up to him, "What's up Abdul, won't it start?"
Dave came home from the pub late one Friday evening stinking drunk, as he often did, and crept into bed beside his wife who was already asleep. He gave her a peck on the cheek and fell asleep.
When he awoke he found a strange man standing at the end of his bed wearing a long flowing white Robe.
'Who the hell are you?' demanded Dave, 'and what are you doing in my bedroom?'
The mysterious man answered 'This isn't your bedroom and I'm St Peter.'
Dave was stunned 'You mean I'm dead!?!! That can't be, I have so much to live for, I haven't said goodbye to my family. . . you've got to send me back straight away.'
St Peter replied 'Yes, you can be reincarnated but there is a catch. We can only send you back as a dog or a hen.'
Dave was devastated, but knowing there was a farm not far from his house, he asked to be sent back as a hen. A flash of light later he was covered in feathers and clucking around pecking the ground.
'This ain't so bad' he thought until he felt this strange feeling welling up inside him.
The farmyard rooster strolled over and said 'So you're the new hen, how are you enjoying your first day here?'
'It's not so bad' replies Dave, 'but I have this strange feeling inside like I'm about to explode.'
'You're ovulating' explained the rooster, 'don't tell me you've never laid an egg before?'
'Never!' replies Dave.
'Well just relax and let it happen'
So he did and after a few uncomfortable seconds later, an egg pops out from under his tail. An immense feeling of relief swept over him and his emotions got the better of him as he experienced motherhood for the first time. When he laid his second egg, the feeling of happiness was overwhelming and he knew that being reincarnated as a hen was the best thing that ever happened to him . . . Ever!!!
The joy kept coming and as he was just about to lay his third egg he felt an enormous smack on the back of his head and heard his wife shouting...
'Dave, wake up you drunken bastard, you've shit the bed!’
I once read a book about mythical heroes and the common characteristics they all share, things like: Mother was a virgin, fathers a god etc and returns to claim kingdom after obscure teenage years and various other things (22 common points in all). Of these 22 points jesus ranks 2nd in the number fulfilled (20 out of the 22).
Most of the heroes in this book pre-date jesus (mostly greek and roman heroes) and I think this just goes to show that jesus is just another mythical hero that was constructed based on all the heroes before him
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." ~ Marcus Aurelius
^ This is my take on the whole religion thing.
Im a strong atheist, havent believed in god since i reached the age of reasonable intelligence (7 or 8 ). I truly believe that religion is nothing but a means to earn money and a means to control the population cause basically its all about that top 0.1% of the population trying to control the rest of us.
My bad if I've just re-itterated previous thoughts but I only just found this thread and there 200 freaking pages of it.
Has anyone played that game "The witcher"? Im thinking of getting it. Trailer looks bad but i hear good things.
Its an ok game, just try get the newer release because the older ones got some pretty crappy translations. Something funny about the main characters constantly calling the female characters bitches and such.
). I truly believe that religion is nothing but a means to earn money and a means to control the population cause basically its all about that top 0.1% of the population trying to control the rest of us. 