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Postby Farnhamia » Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:51 am

Norway wrote:
Sardine World wrote:When Ronald Reagan said this at the Brandenburg gate:

"Mister Gorbachev, Tear down this wall!"

Annoyingly overrated... It's not like several presidents before hand didn't make speeches denouncing the Berlin walls presence hell even David Hasselhoff did.

I thought Reagan's "Win one for the Gipper" a much better line.
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Postby High Nalograd » Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:55 am

Seperates wrote:Sure... despite the fact that humans had been spread out 'across the corners of the Earth' (Spheres don't have corners... but whatever)


It's an expression. Besides, round earth is nothing more than a theory. A popular one at that, but unless we actually personally go out into space and see the earth from a distance it is not something we know. Instead it is something we believe based on faith.
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Postby Nazis in Space » Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:57 am

High Nalograd wrote:
Seperates wrote:Sure... despite the fact that humans had been spread out 'across the corners of the Earth' (Spheres don't have corners... but whatever)


It's an expression. Besides, round earth is nothing more than a theory. A popular one at that, but unless we actually personally go out into space and see the earth from a distance it is not something we know. Instead it is something we believe based on faith.
I've always maintained that Earth is a spiral.

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Postby Seperates » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:00 am

High Nalograd wrote:
Seperates wrote:Sure... despite the fact that humans had been spread out 'across the corners of the Earth' (Spheres don't have corners... but whatever)


It's an expression. Besides, round earth is nothing more than a theory. A popular one at that, but unless we actually personally go out into space and see the earth from a distance it is not something we know. Instead it is something we believe based on faith.

I know it is, but it's an inaccurate and stupid expression.

Well... we have gone out and seen it... and you can even discern it but doing measurments based on triangulation... So I don't see how faith is involved.
This Debate is simply an exercise in Rhetoric. Truth is a fickle being with no intentions of showing itself today.

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Postby Delanshar » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:00 am

High Nalograd wrote:Besides, round earth is nothing more than a theory.

You've GOT to be kidding me
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Postby The Kangaroo Republic » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:09 am

High Nalograd wrote:
Seperates wrote:Sure... despite the fact that humans had been spread out 'across the corners of the Earth' (Spheres don't have corners... but whatever)


It's an expression. Besides, round earth is nothing more than a theory. A popular one at that, but unless we actually personally go out into space and see the earth from a distance it is not something we know. Instead it is something we believe based on faith.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
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Postby High Nalograd » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:11 am

Seperates wrote:
High Nalograd wrote:
It's an expression. Besides, round earth is nothing more than a theory. A popular one at that, but unless we actually personally go out into space and see the earth from a distance it is not something we know. Instead it is something we believe based on faith.

I know it is, but it's an inaccurate and stupid expression.

Well... we have gone out and seen it... and you can even discern it but doing measurments based on triangulation... So I don't see how faith is involved.


So you believe more in some numbers than in the word of god?
The Bible states the truth.

Job 38:13
13 That it might take hold of the ENDS OF THE EARTH, that the wicked might be shaken out of it


Now tell me, how does something have "ends" if it's not flat?
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Postby Seperates » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:14 am

High Nalograd wrote:
Seperates wrote:I know it is, but it's an inaccurate and stupid expression.

Well... we have gone out and seen it... and you can even discern it but doing measurments based on triangulation... So I don't see how faith is involved.


So you believe more in some numbers than in the word of god?
The Bible states the truth.

Job 38:13
13 That it might take hold of the ENDS OF THE EARTH, that the wicked might be shaken out of it


Now tell me, how does something have "ends" if it's not flat?

Now, I would call you a poe, but that would be troll-naming... and I'm not supposed to do that.

Yes, I think mathematics and science are better ways of observing reality than reading about it in a book.

But you are right, that's also a stupid expression.
This Debate is simply an exercise in Rhetoric. Truth is a fickle being with no intentions of showing itself today.

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Postby Alyekra » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:14 am

High Nalograd wrote:
Seperates wrote:I know it is, but it's an inaccurate and stupid expression.

Well... we have gone out and seen it... and you can even discern it but doing measurments based on triangulation... So I don't see how faith is involved.


So you believe more in some numbers than in the word of god?
The Bible states the truth.

Job 38:13
13 That it might take hold of the ENDS OF THE EARTH, that the wicked might be shaken out of it


Now tell me, how does something have "ends" if it's not flat?


It's an idiom.
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Postby The Kangaroo Republic » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:15 am

High Nalograd wrote:
Seperates wrote:I know it is, but it's an inaccurate and stupid expression.

Well... we have gone out and seen it... and you can even discern it but doing measurments based on triangulation... So I don't see how faith is involved.


So you believe more in some numbers than in the word of god?
The Bible states the truth.

Job 38:13
13 That it might take hold of the ENDS OF THE EARTH, that the wicked might be shaken out of it


Now tell me, how does something have "ends" if it's not flat?

If the world is flat, then please tell me why this is possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation
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Postby High Nalograd » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:52 am

The Kangaroo Republic wrote:
High Nalograd wrote:
So you believe more in some numbers than in the word of god?
The Bible states the truth.

Job 38:13
13 That it might take hold of the ENDS OF THE EARTH, that the wicked might be shaken out of it


Now tell me, how does something have "ends" if it's not flat?

If the world is flat, then please tell me why this is possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation


All I can say is God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps he makes the world seem and feel round to help with modern navigation. Or maybe at some point in the past few thousand years the world stopped being flat and he peacefully made it into a sphere.

I don't know. Nobody does. Except God, and those who follow him.

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Postby The God-Realm » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:56 am

High Nalograd wrote:
The Kangaroo Republic wrote:If the world is flat, then please tell me why this is possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation


All I can say is God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps he makes the world seem and feel round to help with modern navigation. Or maybe at some point in the past few thousand years the world stopped being flat and he peacefully made it into a sphere.

I don't know. Nobody does. Except God, and those who follow him.

God is dead, foolish man.
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The God-Realm wrote:No

people who qq over losing a gf over a small penis size are insecure and need to check themselves

Before they wreck themselves?

Or their ex' car.

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Postby The God-Realm » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:58 am

High Nalograd wrote:
Czechanada wrote:
He destroyed Sodom and Gommorah, and destroyed the Tower of Babel and divided the humans that were building them by destroying their language and expelling them to different corners of the Earth.


Sodom and Gommorah were places of liberal government and fun orgies. Their fate was deserved. God's Judgement works in mysterious ways but we must always follow and trust him.

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Esternial wrote:
The God-Realm wrote:No

people who qq over losing a gf over a small penis size are insecure and need to check themselves

Before they wreck themselves?

Or their ex' car.

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Postby Greater Nilfgaard » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:58 am

The God-Realm wrote:
High Nalograd wrote:
All I can say is God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps he makes the world seem and feel round to help with modern navigation. Or maybe at some point in the past few thousand years the world stopped being flat and he peacefully made it into a sphere.

I don't know. Nobody does. Except God, and those who follow him.

God is dead, foolish man.


No. Death implies he was once alive.
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Postby The God-Realm » Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:59 am

Greater Nilfgaard wrote:
The God-Realm wrote:God is dead, foolish man.


No. Death implies he was once alive.

I'm saying it in a figurative sense.
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Esternial wrote:
The God-Realm wrote:No

people who qq over losing a gf over a small penis size are insecure and need to check themselves

Before they wreck themselves?

Or their ex' car.

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Postby High Nalograd » Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:02 pm

The God-Realm wrote:
High Nalograd wrote:
All I can say is God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps he makes the world seem and feel round to help with modern navigation. Or maybe at some point in the past few thousand years the world stopped being flat and he peacefully made it into a sphere.

I don't know. Nobody does. Except God, and those who follow him.

God is dead, foolish man.


God is eternal

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Postby The God-Realm » Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:03 pm

High Nalograd wrote:
The God-Realm wrote:God is dead, foolish man.


God is eternal

God sucked my dick.
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Esternial wrote:
The God-Realm wrote:No

people who qq over losing a gf over a small penis size are insecure and need to check themselves

Before they wreck themselves?

Or their ex' car.

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Postby High Nalograd » Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:05 pm

The God-Realm wrote:
High Nalograd wrote:
God is eternal

God sucked my dick.

This is HERESY!
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Postby Delanshar » Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:06 pm

High Nalograd wrote:
The God-Realm wrote:God sucked my dick.

This is HERESY!


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Postby The God-Realm » Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:07 pm

High Nalograd wrote:
The God-Realm wrote:God sucked my dick.

This is HERESY!

I'm a Satanist, deal with it bible humper<3
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Esternial wrote:
The God-Realm wrote:No

people who qq over losing a gf over a small penis size are insecure and need to check themselves

Before they wreck themselves?

Or their ex' car.

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Postby New England and The Maritimes » Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:08 pm

Ratateague wrote:Wait.. I'm having second thoughts..
now I am considering John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

That, the million man march, and many others. There are a lot of inspiring moments that don't relate to the worst people statism has to offer(Presidents, military men, kings,).
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Postby North Defese » Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:12 pm

When the Library of Alexandria was burnt down.

I couldn't pick which instance, they're all my favourite.
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Postby High Nalograd » Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:14 pm

The God-Realm wrote:
High Nalograd wrote:This is HERESY!

I'm a Satanist, deal with it bible humper<3


Why do you willingly reject the Gospel and our holy father. Why embrace the devil?

Turning their backs on God is what caused Sodom and Gomorrah to be destroyed. Is that what you want for America?

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Postby Genivaria » Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:57 pm

Melas wrote:
Czechanada wrote:
He destroyed Sodom and Gommorah, and destroyed the Tower of Babel and divided the humans that were building them by destroying their language and expelling them to different corners of the Earth.


Sodom and Gommorah had it coming,do not say they were not warned.Also if it was not for the division of humans we would not have expanded in all corners of the earth

Congratulations you are now defending genocide.

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Postby Genivaria » Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:58 pm

High Nalograd wrote:
The God-Realm wrote:I'm a Satanist, deal with it bible humper<3


Why do you willingly reject the Gospel and our holy father. Why embrace the devil?

Turning their backs on God is what caused Sodom and Gomorrah to be destroyed. Is that what you want for America?

Your god is kind of an asshole if he'd murder 300 million people because of a few who don't accept him.

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