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Kubrath
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Founded: Feb 23, 2011
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Kubrath » Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:08 am

Cronatian wrote:Well, I guess someone might take advantage of this one day and ban religion as a whole. It feels bad when I sit here and look at the comments of some people around this forum. At a time I thought people could be reasonable with toning down religion, but it sounds like some of you want to start a bonfire and burn some Talmuds, Bibles, and Qurans' while singing deeply rooted hate songs and plan on lynching the kids from the Sunday school the moment they get out. Not that people actually want to do that, but its just the vibe I'm getting. You know?


It also feels bad when people tell me "You will burn in hell!" or something along the lines of what torture my soul will encounter after I die.
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If your commanders are surprised every time they lose a squad, they probably die several minutes into a campaign due to being critically over-gasped.

North Valinka: What kind of an oxymoron is "Libertarian Police State"?
Petroviya: It arrests law makers.

Phocidaea wrote:Maybe democracy isn't the way?

Of course democracy is the way, dammit! There is no such thing as too much democracy!

Fuckin' dictatorships.

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New New Capston
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Founded: Jan 08, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby New New Capston » Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:12 am

Catan wrote:http://www.pewforum.org/Unaffiliated/nones-on-the-rise.aspx#utm_source=footer&utm_medium=internal&utm_campaign=PPFooter More and more people have no religious affiliation at all. As an agnostic, I find this to be good news, that people are moving away from Dogma. So NSG, what I want to ask is this: have you ever doubted the existence of god, and if so what caused you to doubt it? If you have never doubted it, why not?

I knew that there was no god from the beginning.

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Samuraikoku
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Founded: May 13, 2011
Ex-Nation

Postby Samuraikoku » Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:27 am

Catan wrote:If you have never doubted it, why not?


Simple.

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Hurdegaryp
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Ex-Nation

Postby Hurdegaryp » Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:19 pm

I'm more a Greater Good guy myself. Humanity is way too xenophobic in the WH40K universe, which explains why the Empire has not had any real progress for thousands and thousands of years. Hell, even the Orks managed to better (using a rather loose definition of the term) themselves during the last few dozen centuries or so.
CVT Temp wrote:I mean, we can actually create a mathematical definition for evolution in terms of the evolutionary algorithm and then write code to deal with abstract instances of evolution, which basically equates to mathematical proof that evolution works. All that remains is to show that biological systems replicate in such a way as to satisfy the minimal criteria required for evolution to apply to them, something which has already been adequately shown time and again. At this point, we've pretty much proven that not only can evolution happen, it pretty much must happen since it's basically impossible to prevent it from happening.

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The Armed Republic of Carcenia
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Founded: Aug 25, 2012
Ex-Nation

Postby The Armed Republic of Carcenia » Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:09 am

I feel that NSG is way too hateful. All I can think of when I see threads like this is video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKULc8W7lM
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Divair
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Founded: May 06, 2009
Ex-Nation

Postby Divair » Sat Nov 17, 2012 7:11 am

The Armed Republic of Carcenia wrote:I feel that NSG is way too hateful. All I can think of when I see threads like this is video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKULc8W7lM

There was no need to bump a dead thread to post this.

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Kubrath
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Founded: Feb 23, 2011
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Kubrath » Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:18 pm

The Armed Republic of Carcenia wrote:I feel that NSG is way too hateful. All I can think of when I see threads like this is video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKULc8W7lM


Don't confuse hateful, with not-gonna-take-anymore-bullshit-ful.
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If your commanders are surprised every time they lose a squad, they probably die several minutes into a campaign due to being critically over-gasped.

North Valinka: What kind of an oxymoron is "Libertarian Police State"?
Petroviya: It arrests law makers.

Phocidaea wrote:Maybe democracy isn't the way?

Of course democracy is the way, dammit! There is no such thing as too much democracy!

Fuckin' dictatorships.

Sociobiology wrote:This is the problem with trying to understand the universe with a brain evolved to find ripe fruit and scream defiance at the ape in the next tree.

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Ermarian
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Ermarian » Sat Nov 17, 2012 1:10 pm

I was raised more or less Christian with a side order of agnosticism. I might have believed in God at some point, but that was at the age when I also believed in Santa Claus. After I had learned to take for granted that contemporary Christians adhered to a metaphorical interpretation of most stuff in the Bible, it came as a shock to me that there were still people literally believing in creationism and a 6000-year-old Earth.

Spent some more years entertaining all kinds of ridiculous ideas (ancient aliens, Great Old Ones, conspiracy theories, magical rituals) but it gradually became more of an entertainment and less of a serious consideration.
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