there is no g-d

[FlyerInHi]

If you believe in some made up God, Christians will tell you that you’re crazy. According to them, the only god you’re not crazy to believe in is Jesus Christ.

So Christians are not really for religion. The are only for their own religion.

[zk]

[quote=FlyerInHi]If you believe in some made up God, Christians will tell you that you’re crazy. According to them, the only god you’re not crazy to believe in is Jesus Christ.

So Christians are not really for religion. The are only for their own religion.[/quote]

That goes for almost all religions/religious people.

[FlyerInHi]

I believe in Feng shui.
Some years ago a friend who is very reapectable, honorable and honest gave me a cutting of a jade plant (money plant). I tended to the plant which has flowered. Ever since, prosperity has been coming my way. There is too much coincidence for there not to be some kind of special energy.

I was told that if you buy your own plant or if a bad person gives you a plant, then there will not be the same auspicious effect.

[zk]

[quote=FlyerInHi]I believe in Feng shui.
Some years ago a friend who is very reapectable, honorable and honest gave me a cutting of a jade plant (money plant). I tended to the plant which has flowered. Ever since, prosperity has been coming my way. There is too much coincidence for there not to be some kind of special energy.

I was told that if you buy your own plant or if a bad person gives you a plant, then there will not be the same auspicious effect.[/quote]

What a pathetic load of nonsense.

If you believe the above, you can’t criticize or mock religious people (or those who believe in astrology, for that matter) for their beliefs without being extraordinarily hypocritical.

[FlyerInHi]

Haha. I was being facetious. It is non-sense, but it makes a nice story, doesn’t it?

I told the story and I had friends request cuttings from me, except that I am not a good enough person to transmit auspiciousness. But a friend swears that after a long dry spell, she made a profitable sale after receiving my plant.

[scaredyclassic]

I believe in lots of things that probably aren’t true.

I believe that kindness ultimately pays off.

I believe in fish oil.

I believe that a good sleep cures or wards off serious illness.

I believe doing nothing is usually the right strategy.

I believe that caring for the planet is extremely important.

I believe the United States is full of crap on many issues.

I believe on the whole, people across the globe generally suck.

I believe that the world’s problems could probably be solved with bicycles.

I believe that alcohol is good for you.

I believe in the value of a dollar.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=scaredyclassic]I believe in lots of things that probably aren’t true.

I believe that kindness ultimately pays off.

I believe in fish oil.

I believe that a good sleep cures or wards off serious illness.

I believe doing nothing is usually the right strategy.

I believe that caring for the planet is extremely important.

I believe the United States is full of crap on many issues.

I believe on the whole, people across the globe generally suck.

I believe that the world’s problems could probably be solved with bicycles.

I believe that alcohol is good for you.

I believe in the value of a dollar.[/quote]

I would follow your religion. I agree on everything except the alcohol part, but that’s ok.

On the USA as full of crap, if I remember well, Immanuel Kant said that something is moral/just only if it is universal. We do so many unjust things but no rational unbiased person could support. For example, we are now criticizing CPTPP countries for moving ahead with TPP that we spent a decade negotiating only to pull out at the last minute.

We only fair and sportsmanlike when we win.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/trump-left-our-allies-at-the-altar-now-hes-mad-theyre-moving-on/2019/04/22/fbccc7e8-653b-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html

[ocrenter]

Religion was a very necessary human creation that helped us as we moved from hunters and gatherers to an agrarian society and beyond. I find all religions were created and centered along the line of some form of mediative practice to help one deal with human suffering and also to aid in the need to explain the unexplainable.

Religions are the Proza and Zoloft and Lexapro of human societies before the advent of modern psychology and psychiatric practices. Unfortunately some folks are so into their “brand” of “SSRI” that they find the need to pray for others on other brands of “SSRI.”

Would recommend all to read the following book, it was quite enlightening:

[flyer]

Obviously, we all have the option of believing or not believing. To each his or her own. Guess we’ll all find out when we take our last breath–for which there is no option.

[Coronita]

Walter. Pretty much everyone is an asshole. The only difference is where the assholeness is directed to.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=ocrenter]

Would recommend all to read the following book, it was quite enlightening:

[/quote]

Love Yuval Harari. I second the recommendation.

[Coronita]

Brian, if you can’t distinguished between calling an individual crazy because of or her viewpoint on public policy versus generalizing to an entire group of people , you are beyond help.

I am not surprised you immediately bring up the race card in talking about AOC why people don’t like her. it’s what “progressives” like you do when you can’t argue over policy and have to bring race or gender into the equation. after all, it’s far easier to shut down the other side by side by throwing out the race card or gender card versus actually disagreeing based on what the individual says. I would have brought up an equal disdain for Warren but you would bring you her gender as the reason for why someone would dislike her… And if I were to bring up Bernie, you would probably bring up age discrimination as the reason why people do t like him….Always use whatever means to win an argument, play the race and victimcard. Nice. Not surprised at all.

Buy hey Brian, I threw you a bone. Now you can spend the next 2 weeks commenting on this thread and turning it into a left versus right slapfest that you’ve been trying but unsuccessfully doing on the other threads you try to resurrect from ages ago for that purpose. Most of us have figured this out already, which is why there is usually 0 responses.

[FlyerInHi]

What gender?

I was talking about you calling the idea of social democracy crazy. Or you calling a person crazy for having such ideas. .
There are plenty of examples where those ideas when put in practice work very well. Not crazy at all.

The idea of God however is by definition crazy.

[SDNative2]

The irony in this string is that–like many of you– Jesus was quite the contrarian…

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=SDNative2]The irony in this string is that–like many of you– Jesus was quite the contrarian…[/quote]

true. and quite the jewish business innovator. imagine the royalties ifvhe couldve franchised or monetized the whole church concept.

wait.. i think he did…

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