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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 1, 2002
12:50:27 AM
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What does LOL mean? -----------------------
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 1, 2002
11:30:01 PM
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OMG! I can't believe you didn't know what lol meant. Lol means laugh(ing) out loud. Here is a chart with some more:
AFK = Away From Keyboard
BAK = Back At Keyboard
BRB = Be Right Back
BTW = By The Way
GMTA = Great Minds Think Alike
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
LOL = Laugh Out Loud
OIC = Oh, I See
ROFL = Rolling On Floor, Laughing
WTG = Way To Go
OMG = Oh my God
Btw, I got this off AOL, so if you feel violated by the evil of it, sorry.
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 2, 2002
9:05:07 PM
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Well, I finally caught up on this one, and here's my opinion. First off, Jeshua Ben Joseph(Jesus Christ as he was later renamed) was a Jew, he lived a Jewish life, he taught from the Torah, and his last meal before crucifixation was Passover. Second, every ounce of proof I've ever seen for the bible was destroyed in one hour by my physics teacher. There has been no sustainable proof for a God existing, so until there is(for or against), there will always be people who have a need to believe, and people who don't. Raz, Sniper, and I are those who don't. We feel that nothing is really missing in our life just because there is no higher power guiding us(the dumbest thing I ever heard a Christian say(besides trying to argue physics against me) was,"you must feel so empty". The reason we don't believe is that we don't feel empty without it). So, since there is no sustainable evidence, how do you expect to convince either side of the other's point of view. So I say, since it's proven a pretty worthless waste of my time to argue with religious people before, let's just drop this, and let the accumulation of proof take it's toll. -----------------------
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 3, 2002
4:28:39 PM
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Well worded, thank you very much 
btw i'm studying physics atm and will be doing astrophysics at university. Instead of looking for a god around us, i feel it is more pointful to look whats out there to explain anything that needs explaining
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 4, 2002
8:06:02 AM
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I would very much like to hear your physic's teacher's arguments. -----------------------
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 4, 2002
10:19:35 AM
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lol, Argon. please please go and get your physics teachers views
and Jmac i asked you to prove your points! -----------------------
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 4, 2002
12:33:31 AM
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Raz, in my first few posts I presented the overview of my evidence. Could you please elaborate on which peices you would like me to go into further detail on? (By the way, this is JMac, I am just using my army nick right now.) |
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 4, 2002
4:17:49 PM
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D*mn, too bad I didn't get it today, I could've asked him... Okay, Fishman/JMac, here's my problem with your evidence. The entire thing is based on the assumption that whatever we don't understand was done by God, and the only real proof you have is the bible, which is also something you have to take on faith. Whereas, our evidence is based on proof that you can go into any laboratory in the world and prove. For example, the incidence of the moths in England(heard this one in Bio class two years ago...). Most of the moths were white because the trees were white and it hid them from birds. But then, during the Industrial Revolution, the coal smoke changed the trees black. For some reason, some guy noticed that the white moths were now mostly black, the color that hid in the trees. It wasn't anything mystical, it was just the principal of "survival of the fittest", the black moths survived to reproduce more, and so the population shifted. This was seen again when the coal burning stopped and the trees went back to being white. The moths followed suit. Too many people make the mistaken assumption that evolution is just a massive change, all at once. Evolution, in reality, is millions of small changes over long periods of time where species adapt to their environment, and eventually, they become so different as to be classified as another species. There I've laid down my proof for evolution. Please lay down your evidence against it. Later, we can dive into the Big Bang and the highly interesting realm of astrophysics -----------------------
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February 4, 2002
4:39:34 PM
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sorry which Prophecies have come true? -----------------------
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 6, 2002
12:25:17 AM
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There are thousands of individual prophesies in the bible. All of them have come true except those regarding the end of this world. Specific examples would include the holocaust, the fall of Jerusalem, the nation of Isreal, etc., etc. -----------------------
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 6, 2002
8:44:09 PM
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Can you quote those prophesies? No offense, but every prophesy I've seen in the bible is so vague that it would be almost impossible not to fulfill... -----------------------
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 8, 2002
8:01:59 AM
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Hello JMac, my recruiter....maybe i will be on your side.....i don't know...i will edit my post once i get home, and you're not looking over my shoulder! |
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 8, 2002
8:30:43 AM
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Most of the prophecies I've seen are so vague you can bend them to fit anything. -----------------------
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February 8, 2002
2:13:45 PM
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Ya know... it's pretty much pointless to try and prove your opinions to each other. Christians can come up with a way to refute it, no matter what. Even I could refute most of what goes on. And it's pointless to try and prove that the Bible is real and that Jesus Christ will come back and bring the end times. People just have to believe it. There really is no physical proof of anything. It is fruitless to try and force your opinion on people over the internet. You might as well save your poor fingers from getting sore and go find somebody to preech to in real life. In my opinion it's getting quite annoying reading you all bicker back and forth about what you believe and what is true and what is not. But of course, it's just my opinion and it doesn't matter to any of you. -----------------------
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 8, 2002
6:19:25 PM
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Wow... Epic said something intelligent... that's new. Well, I agree with him, I'm gonna stop bothering to debate here. -----------------------
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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February 24, 2002
3:27:17 AM
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It's a well known fact that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is in fact 42. However, as I have not yet read The meaning of Liff then um, I don't know. -----------------------
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February 24, 2002
9:47:07 AM
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/me takes a bow
I do in fact have a bit of brains, despite common belief. -----------------------
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February 24, 2002
8:38:00 PM
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Epic, the reason that's common belief is because of the way you act  Anyways, I found a nice little quote that the Athiests here are going to love.
"Anyone perfect must be lying" - Barenaked Laides
Not that I'm debating, I just thought this was amusing  -----------------------
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February 28, 2002
10:48:35 PM
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The whole prophecy thing is akin to people butchering Nostradamus' quotes to make a couple sentences talking about the world trade center. It's just intended to make americans feel nationalisticly violent so that they can call pacifists terrorists, and make no distinction between the two. The prophecy is just the Christian's way of recruiting people into their religion. And besides, the Bible was written by man, so why is it interpereted as the word of god? And a woman giving birth to god's child without being physically impregnated is biologically impossible. If Jesus was really as white as everyone proclaims him to be, he would've died from skin cancer rather than be crucified. I loved that "You must feel so empty" thing. Made me laugh pretty hard. |
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RE: The Meaning of Life
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March 1, 2002
7:51:05 PM
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/me chalks up another one for the athiest/agnostic/whatever side. Welcome to the group Ez -----------------------
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