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[Grenartia]

Then why continue to worship God?

Because I recognize that there is a higher power than myself, or the president, or any human.

Why not the Devil, seeing as how you figure you'll be sent to his domain anyhow?

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

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Which means we don't need to take you seriously. Got it.

Again, we're being rolled.

Gren, I'm aware.

[Valcouria]

It must be great to follow a religion where you can violate a great deal of the core commands and still be good as long as you say sorry to a man wearing a white collar.

Talk about an easy gig.

But if you dare be a good, decent guy without brown-nosing the sky fairy...oh, you stupid motherfucker...you're gonna get burned!

Yeah, easy gig.

Screw personal responsibility.

I have already stated my belief that I am bound for purgatory...your comments are superfluous and unnecessary.

[Ainin]

Then why continue to worship God?

Because I recognize that there is a higher power than myself, or the president, or any human.

Well I don't.

Neither does the law.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Again, I take this as a compliment from you.

"A mí me rebota y a vos the explota."

Hehe, this made me laugh.

[Valcouria]

I am here to show that there are people like me who, in the face of pressure, will not bow to popular pressure of the left.

But is that really considered productive for you? Standing your ground against the fury of the left isn't exactly going to further your cause . . .

I keep my integrity...which is something I value over being 'popular' or 'correct' to the left anyway.

[Liriena]

But if you dare be a good, decent guy without brown-nosing the sky fairy...oh, you stupid motherfucker...you're gonna get burned!

Yeah, easy gig.

Screw personal responsibility.

I have already stated my belief that I am bound for purgatory...your comments are superfluous and unnecessary.

The comment was not directed at you so...yeah. Take that bullshit elsewhere.

Again, we're being rolled.

Gren, I'm aware.

I'm still arguing...just in case he's actually serious.
You never know with some people. I've lived in Argentina long enough to know that people can have the most blatantly incoherent and immoral beliefs without suffering any sort of brain-frying cognitive dissonance.

[Grenartia]

I have already stated my belief that I am bound for purgatory...your comments are superfluous and unnecessary.

The comment was not directed at you so...yeah. Take that bullshit elsewhere.

Gren, I'm aware.

I'm still arguing...just in case he's actually serious.
You never know with some people. I've lived in Argentina long enough to know that people can have the most blatantly incoherent and immoral beliefs without suffering any sort of brain-frying cognitive dissonance.

I'm doing it to show the lurkers that its bad.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

I have already stated my belief that I am bound for purgatory...your comments are superfluous and unnecessary.

The comment was not directed at you so...yeah. Take that bullshit elsewhere.

Gren, I'm aware.

I'm still arguing...just in case he's actually serious.
You never know with some people. I've lived in Argentina long enough to know that people can have the most blatantly incoherent and immoral beliefs without suffering any sort of brain-frying cognitive dissonance.

Understandable. I've seen this in Spain too. No place is free of it.

[Liriena]

"A mí me rebota y a vos the explota."

Hehe, this made me laugh.

Arguing when we were children was so...easy...yet so tedious.

But is that really considered productive for you? Standing your ground against the fury of the left isn't exactly going to further your cause . . .

I keep my integrity...which is something I value over being 'popular' or 'correct' to the left anyway.

What integrity? You've pretty much admitted that you don't follow the rules of your own religion, that you believe in a government that does things that your own religion deems immoral.

[Liriena]

The comment was not directed at you so...yeah. Take that bullshit elsewhere.



I'm still arguing...just in case he's actually serious.
You never know with some people. I've lived in Argentina long enough to know that people can have the most blatantly incoherent and immoral beliefs without suffering any sort of brain-frying cognitive dissonance.

Understandable. I've seen this in Spain too. No place is free of it.

If a multimillionaire who owns five-star hotels can honestly claim to be a humble provincial middle-class woman who opposes the privileges of the urban middle class...then anyone can sincerely believe anything.

[Valcouria]

Because I recognize that there is a higher power than myself, or the president, or any human.

Well I don't.

Neither does the law.

Well, it should...after all, the concept of law comes from divine or divinely-inspired sources (depending on whether or not one counts ancient Babylonian rulers as 'gods', as they referred to themselves).

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Hehe, this made me laugh.

Arguing when we were children was so...easy...yet so tedious.

I keep my integrity...which is something I value over being 'popular' or 'correct' to the left anyway.

What integrity? You've pretty much admitted that you don't follow the rules of your own religion, that you believe in a government that does things that your own religion deems immoral.

"No me importa!"
"Come torta!"
"Tu mama la gorda!"

Yes, simple yet, tedious.

[Valcouria]

Hehe, this made me laugh.

Arguing when we were children was so...easy...yet so tedious.

I keep my integrity...which is something I value over being 'popular' or 'correct' to the left anyway.

What integrity? You've pretty much admitted that you don't follow the rules of your own religion, that you believe in a government that does things that your own religion deems immoral.

The integrity of keeping my beliefs pure and untainted by left-wing influence; if there is anything I pride myself in, it is this.

[Death Metal]

I'm not sure, but I won't be surprised if Texas legalizes it before Florida.

Really? Why?

Well, Texas is starting to turn blue. Florida is so gerrymandered to hell that it's never going to be blue on the state government level, because even though the blue cities are growing faster than the red ones, the establishment basically remaps the districts with impunity so that they'll remain in control.

Plus being a corrupt male WASP is kind of a prerequisite to being Governor. We have a criminal in our governor's mansion right now, everyone knew it during he election, but he still won.

[Vettrera]

I'd guess around a hundred, and twice as many Lord's Prayers. Plus an hour or two on your knees before the particularly scary cross in the church's side-chamber.

Sounds about right...maybe double...it would certainly be superior to learning about the disintegration of marriage, anyway.

I think marriage just got a hell of a lot better.

[Bralia]

But is that really considered productive for you? Standing your ground against the fury of the left isn't exactly going to further your cause . . .

I keep my integrity...which is something I value over being 'popular' or 'correct' to the left anyway.

But what is your integrity going to gain for you? Couldn't your integrity be put to better use among your allies, wherever they may be?

[Torcularis Septentrionalis]

Sounds about right...maybe double...it would certainly be superior to learning about the disintegration of marriage, anyway.

I think marriage just got a hell of a lot better.

indeed.

[Liriena]

Well I don't.

Neither does the law.

Well, it should...after all, the concept of law comes from divine or divinely-inspired sources (depending on whether or not one counts ancient Babylonian rulers as 'gods', as they referred to themselves).

Nope.

Go back to school.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Understandable. I've seen this in Spain too. No place is free of it.

If a multimillionaire who owns five-star hotels can honestly claim to be a humble provincial middle-class woman who opposes the privileges of the urban middle class...then anyone can sincerely believe anything.

I don't argue that. Anyone can believe anything, but online? More often than not, it's someone bored trying to get a rise out of others. But, carry on. Perhaps you end up teaching someone something worthwhile. What do I know?

[Grenartia]

Because I recognize that there is a higher power than myself, or the president, or any human.

Why not the Devil, seeing as how you figure you'll be sent to his domain anyhow?

Hell, there's got to be some religion that worships a deity that endorses the shit you believe in. If not Devil-worship (and to the Satanists reading this, I recognize a difference between the Satan in Levayan Satanism and the Devil of Christianity), why not one of them?

[Vettrera]

Arguing when we were children was so...easy...yet so tedious.



What integrity? You've pretty much admitted that you don't follow the rules of your own religion, that you believe in a government that does things that your own religion deems immoral.

The integrity of keeping my beliefs pure and untainted by left-wing influence; if there is anything I pride myself in, it is this.

So you basically have your own personal sect of Christianity that follows bits and pieces of God's word, choosing which biblical rules to follow & which to ignore. Therefore, you can still call yourself "pure"

[Liriena]

Arguing when we were children was so...easy...yet so tedious.



What integrity? You've pretty much admitted that you don't follow the rules of your own religion, that you believe in a government that does things that your own religion deems immoral.

"No me importa!"
"Come torta!"
"Tu mama la gorda!"

Yes, simple yet, tedious.

"Cuchillito que no corta!"

[AiliailiA]

Why? I'll tell you why. I fight for the status quo (and sometimes the status quo ante). I want to see the world as it was in the 1920s...which, to me, was the best time in world history; prosperity abounded, everyone was content, the market was free to do as it liked, and morality was strictly enforced. I want that again...not the immoral, vice-filled, shameless, pseudo-socialistic world that we live in today.

So you chose the roaring 20s?

I don't like the Sodom the world has become, I'm moving to Gomorrah.

I laughed.

Val would be stuck between the Great War and the Great Depression too. Possibly blind or missing a limb, and soon to be queuing for soup.

[Valcouria]

Sounds about right...maybe double...it would certainly be superior to learning about the disintegration of marriage, anyway.

I think marriage just got a hell of a lot better.

And I think you are o so very wrong...but then, you think I am wrong. An impasse.