Atheists... Your life is pointless

Like I have said before, this is what I feel is a great problem in this country. Not standing up for the things that are right in this world!

I suppose if you were missing an arm or a leg or were missing a leg you would let someone laugh at that?

Common courtesy ~ gone.

Dys. I believe that people should not be laughed for their failings, but you are clearly the exception. I suspect Diane agrees; she seems so reasonable.

Well yeah, if they were also a christian, wore a Stetson, had a beard and hailed from New Mexico, you bet I would.

MA, I have lost count of how many threads have been derailed while you climb your cross to play the persecuted Christian. It really does get old. It is enough to make even us atheists say unkind things. For that I apologize, but sometimes it needs to be said.

dys,

You are such a nut! You know what I mean. Where do you draw the line on what is ok and not okay to laugh at about others?

Personally, I love your hat. I think your beard is pretty cool, and you are so far from being an idiot in any sense of the word it isn't funny!

Well it's true MA, I was actually born in southern colorado in a very small village. My current project is to learn to read and write cursive.

Dys
I know Dys very well. He is an idiot.

He has a nice dog, though.

BBB

BBB
If Dys is a world class idiot, does that make his dog, Sally, an idiot, too, for hanging around him too much and being contimated?

Remind me to ask dlowan if wabbits can become idiots, too?

BBB

I've met Dys only once--I'm still getting over it--and found him to be a very smart "idiot". I'll get another chance soon to confirm this impression.

JLN, I agree: dys is one of the smartest idiots I've had the pleasure to meet. If you let him, he'll verse your ears off. LOL

If God dropped acid, would he see people? -- George Carlin

JN


Did any of Dys' idiocy rub off on you? If so, I've heard that tomato juice made of tomatoes from Dys' garden will cleanse you of the idiocy.

BBB

Chrissakes , here we go again. we cant even be good blasphemers without being competitive.

Anyway, village idiot role is comfortably retired by none other than George (momma they makin funame) Bush

Even Snocroft came out against...

I suppose I should admit I'm lurkin'.

I wrote a long post starting with admiration for a view of JLN's and going on about the naturalness of mocking those who disagree with one, sometimes with good reason - for example, when goaded with a thread title. Primarilily I'd rather read debate about issues, but... that would be dry, wouldn't it.

Then I saw the Carlin quote and nearly drowned my keyboard.

To understand why I put idiot in quotes, with reference to Dys, one must read The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevski.
Thanks, Osso.

BBB, I hope so. As his neighbor, have you benefitted from his "influence"?

Farmer, Bush W is our nation idiot.

Er, I meant Scowcroft..

Re: Atheists... Your life is pointless

You are painting with an awfully broad brush. My own father's parents were 100% Nazis, with all the macho baggage that this ideology brought with it. My father taught his parents that he wanted to be as much unlike them as he could, and succeeded. If you surf around in A2K's "relationships and marriage" forum, you will find that experiences along these lines are fairly common.


In a word, experience. Experience with what behavior will in practice make people happy or sad, and what behavior will in practice get yourself in trouble. In part this will be experiences they have made themselves, in part experiences that their parents, siblings, and friends have passed on to them. This body of collective knowledge is no one persons's standard -- but then again, neither is Christianity.


I agree that these people are a problem. But they are a problem whether they believe in god or not. In my daily life, I see no evidence that Christians without a conscience tend to behave better than atheists without a conscience, or vice versa. Do you?