Would "the apocalypse of peter" have changed your mind about christianity?

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 28, 2020:

ha, im such an asshole, jesus lol

The bible god/Yahweh/Jesus is the greatest abortionist.

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 28, 2020:

:rolleyes so what ezackly is your point, professor

I want to say that I am an agnostic, and I don;t need/want anyone trying to tell me what I "really" ...

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 28, 2020:

"this is that and that is this, and fuck you if you have an opinion bc im right and youre not anyway, and Christianity and Islam wanna tell ppl how cows eat cabbage" lol, ok

The people who read the bible also believe that god wrote the bible! WRONG! Man wrote the bible! ...

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 28, 2020:

hmm, i read it, and i dont believe Yah wrote it. And fwiw i dont think anyone was trying to explain "who" created the earth, Adam and Eve are acknowledged by scholars to be "types" and not actual ppl, etc. Imo you are just too lazy to read for yourself lol

Here is a short description of "Iroquoian " Law.. and spirituality... not quite what you think?

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 28, 2020:

have you ever flown on a plane? Do you know how turbojet engines work? Yet you had no fear of not reaching your destination, right? You have not begun to understand what faith is, wadr. and, working down, *Test everything, and keep what is good Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. But you are a chosen race, A royal priesthood,* (that's anyone, Samaritans, Cyrenians, Whores, doesnt matter)* Do not pray like the pharisees No one has ever gone up to heaven If you dig a pit for others, you end up in it yourself* although for anyone who has actually taken to heart what Christian believers imagine about the Bible, and maybe it is no longer accessible to them for that reason? Imo Dao or the Iriquois way are hard to beat. But trust me you have not understood the Bible yet, no one has i guess *No Son of Man may die for another's sins;*

If you close your eyes it doesnt go away

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 28, 2020:

and what is the dilemma, unless that guy on the switch is the trolley owner?

If god needs to be protected - then god depends on the protector.

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 28, 2020:

i think that is why *the Unknown God* is contemplated in the Bible, fwiw

If god needs to be protected - then god depends on the protector.

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 28, 2020:

youre assuming that Yah needs protecting, i guess, when there is no "one" to protect. Yah is "spirit?"

If I say there is no god, you cannot prove me wrong.

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 28, 2020:

so, believe it or nt Yah does not "care" if you believe in a god, or God, or not!; there is no judgement for beliefs in the Bible. Only for works. refs on request

If god needs to be protected - then god depends on the protector.

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 29, 2020:

i guess this is covered in *idols made of wood* too btw. I mean you are like literally saying what Yah is saying in those passages. See we have forgotten the significance of "unpronounceable" and *Unknown God* now, any god whose name you can pronounce, and you can say you "know" enough to "love" (or hate) or accuse of "obvious mistakes" is a god made of wood, basically

It's interesting watching all the religious and new agey people quietly going about canceling their ...

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 30, 2020:

well, there are laws or at least very strong directives involved too though

I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no way in hell that a hail storm killed 25,000 to 300,000 battle ...

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 31, 2020:

not supposed to be taken literally anyway i guess

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bbyrd009 comments on Mar 31, 2020:

Bible says the same thing :)

My response God: I will unleash a virus that indiscriminately kills the old, the weak and frail.

bbyrd009 comments on Mar 31, 2020:

"indiscriminately" you think? I guess even 90 year olds with healthy immune systems will be fine. But really the weak you dont want in your gene pool anyway?

The MATHS OF SOCIAL DISTANCING . IMPORTANT FOR ALL FOR NEXT ?

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 1, 2020:

ok but dont forget "infected" = "immunized" for the 98%

A "How did we get here question".

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 3, 2020:

how's anarchy lookin' now? :D

We shouldn’t hate Christ as a person in spite of what his philosophy has done to humanity over the...

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 4, 2020:

*i know the wolves will rush in as soon as i leave, not sparing the flock*

If you really want to learn about religion without going to church or listening to a preacher then ...

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 6, 2020:

“The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible” Samuel Clemens

Why is this app called “Agnostic”?

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 6, 2020:

I guess the definition is kind of subjective, but agnostic might also mean “against knowledge “

Bible stories may not be factual - but they are nonetheless true

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 7, 2020:

Adam and Eve might also be contemplated as you, in thinking and emotions *two men in a bed two men in a field*, and *they were naked, and not ashamed* like babies? *eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge* then becomes a synopsis of growing up and losing innocence, etc

Life is full of ups and downs. How about you?

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 8, 2020:

two buttons and a chain maybe? :)

Here’s my conundrum about Easter and Passover.

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 9, 2020:

well, *No Son of Man may die for another's sins* is OT, yeh. And i guess the Bible Itself will tell us that It is not the Word of Yah, so imo men make that up...and Jesus did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it? supposedly? The law is said to be "inadequate," but that does not mean "useless" i dont think; the speed limit in a school zone might be 20, but if little kids are pplaying near the curb and one trips and falls into the street, i might need to slow down to 5 or something, eh? So, *after He destroys all dominion, authority, and power* sounds to me like getting rid of the *rulers,* not necessarily the rules? Anarchy iow--not chaos, which we are taught to conflate that with--and...1Sam8 and "easter" is a roman god, not in the Bible anywhere i guess

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bbyrd009 comments on Apr 9, 2020:

Not sure c19 is the best battle to pick though...

Two ER doctors in New York log what the rest of the world can't see

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 9, 2020:

w/a grain of salt if you dont mind, ladies i mean you aint watching no malaria deaths catalogued eh oh and i have a diff number to go with that too btw; 2,200,000,000,000

Two ER doctors in New York log what the rest of the world can't see

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 9, 2020:

dont be a sucker k

1918 Spanish Flu historical documentary [youtube.

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 10, 2020:

i guess the flu is still in the lead huh

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bbyrd009 comments on Apr 10, 2020:

wadr sounds like the Drs got to yall first--a terminal thing, imo--but fwiw, https://www.flowin.com/index.php?page=blog_post=79 and i say again, "dead doctors don't lie" ok "$16,000 a day"

Just looking at the death count for the United States and the World.

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 10, 2020:

our immunity is attacked from every direction though, chlorine, fluoride, thimerosal, aluminum, on and on

You know those good people that have it set in their heart, they are going to share their salvation ...

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 11, 2020:

the thing about beliefs is, they should be subject to change, right? So your strategy works well with those who usually reveal pretty quickly that they do not actually *have* beliefs, but rather Absolute Truths, that they of course cannot demonstrate, imo. Fwiw i think this is why believers are referred to in the Bible as *twice the sons of hell you* (pharisees) *are*, with *seven worse spirits*? *he who says he knows, does not yet know as he ought* and also *manna* is called *what is it?* not for nothing i guess

I see videos of people praying to god to end the coronavirus.

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 11, 2020:

thing is irl viruses are not eradicated, but assimilated, imo

I have to say that baby dedication ceremonies are by far on top of one of the most cultish aspects ...

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 11, 2020:

those are what the Bible calls *trees* or *camps,* and they are perfectly fine places to be *from* i guess, but i suggest that no one comes to Yah but by *leaving them,* as the Bible suggests; *test everything, and keep what is good, *etc

I'll never fathom out the way Christians think! I can understand how the Jewish establishment of ...

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 11, 2020:

so, this is all encoded in the Esau story, but in english i guess ppl have an enduring need to believe in a god that desires sacrifices in order to be appeased? *No Son of Man may die for another's sins;* you pretty much have to find on your own i guess

I was raised as a Christian and only recently became an atheist.

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 11, 2020:

"faith" as a noun, lol, yeh. First i would reflect a little, and understand you are not in the default position at all, but rather *forgot your first love* prolly, which after all, was never religion anyway, right? There is no judgement for beliefs in the Bible, is there?

I suppose that by now, just about everyone on the planet is aware of the COVID 19 Novel Coronavirus ...

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 11, 2020:

i guess this seems counterintuitive, but pandemics are actually good things prolly

I just read this statement and it made me think, Agnostic.

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 14, 2020:

briefly, "your account has been hacked" :)

Does anyone else have a memory of when they fully became what a Christian would call a "hard hearted...

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 14, 2020:

you say "not made for us," but in another common analogy we are deemed "gods," which is surely how animals perceive us? Oh and your little kid; i'm a bus driver :)

Is anyone here the daughter or son of a minister?

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 15, 2020:

some vv i doubt your father ever mentioned, for reflection; *you and your sons will be here with me No son of man may die for another's sins; No one has ever gone up to heaven There is only One Immortal He who seeks to save his soul will lose it* also, the desire for a God that would require a human Sacrifice is covered in the Esau story, but of course your father would not have wanted to contemplate himself as Esau, and so the story was lost on him, wadr, however, *Give me some of that red stew, for I am famished unto death!* see

So.

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 17, 2020:

"The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible" SClemens

It seems like with so many different beliefs and religions in the world it would be impractical if ...

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 17, 2020:

*you will not run out of towns before I come*

I was listening to this week's show of The Atheist Experience and Matt asked the co-host to define a...

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 22, 2020:

*He who digs a pit for others to fall into ends up in it himself*

Towards radical skepticism: Philosophically, I am a radical skeptic.

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 25, 2020:

*he who says he knows does not yet know as he ought what is it?* :D

Towards radical skepticism: Philosophically, I am a radical skeptic.

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 25, 2020:

pretty sure about change

When I die, as we all must, I hope for peace: maybe even a dreamless sleep as the Buddhist's yearn ...

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 26, 2020:

imo you are onto something, nothing is a really hard thing to get comfortable with, as meditating while fasting in a cave or i guess even a sensory deprivation experience would clarify. Most ppl can take about 15 minutes of "nothing" before they run screaming? Fwiw it usually takes 2-3 days to meet your "monster." Best of luck

What if no one thought to worship the imposable and no one invented religion.

bbyrd009 comments on Apr 26, 2020:

well, you are serving somebody right now i guess, or at least so goes the informed opinion. So wadr i think your Q is moot

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bbyrd009 comments on May 8, 2020:

am i believing we got robbed of a further $2.2Trillion and counting over a new strain of common cold bug? well duh

What would you have done differently had you been god?

bbyrd009 comments on May 12, 2020:

reminds me of some Jewish lore, wherein we are supposedly Yah's children in heaven in our previous life (or something), and we wanted to i dunno Do Stuff too or whatever, and Yah makes the universe for us to learn how, basically. Something like that. Anyway, "*I* (Yah) *said 'you *(you)* are elohim,'"* so might be worth contemplating yourself as a god

Young people attended a :coronavirus party in Kentucky, governor says.

bbyrd009 comments on May 18, 2020:

so iow at least one is immunized, right, with the overwhelming odds that they will be completely asymptomatic, maybe a cough for a few days. No offense to the Gov, but i mean it is Kentucky after all yo

Is it still a lie if you don't know it isn't true?

bbyrd009 comments on May 18, 2020:

of course you would be lying if you said something that was not true, whether you "believed" it or not? So fwiw ill tell you that *eat the manna* and manna is called *What is it?* not for nothing, and also not for why "believers" (*wise in their own eyes*) think prolly *he who says he knows does not yet know as he ought*

Believing without evidence is always morally wrong | Aeon Ideas

bbyrd009 comments on May 18, 2020:

*test everything, and keep what is good*

Second Amendment myths everyone should stop believing | TheHill

bbyrd009 comments on May 18, 2020:

your fear needs no name wadr, and all of your rules up there are not going to help your fear, either imo; plenty of other cultures swimming in guns, and no school shootings, right

Jesus loves you.

bbyrd009 comments on May 21, 2020:

"I think it just demonstrates that God should be on Zyprexa or some other anti-psychotic." ha i dunno why, the Bible does not condone that behavior, and It even says specifically that "wisdom is hidden from the wise?" "The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible" "The willingness of the faithful to excuse and justify the maniac behavior of their deity says a lot about their motive for believing: as long as they get to hold onto that fantasy of eternal life, they'll believe and/or excuse any other bullshit they have to." yet *No son of man may die for another's sins* is plainly written, twice even, so why is Yah getting blamed again, and what for exactly? They wanna believe a Mithraist fantasy about going to the Elysian Fields after they have died, meh, so let em i say, bc again the Bible is very plain there, *No one has ever gone up to heaven...*

[agnostic.

bbyrd009 comments on May 22, 2020:

ha you shoulda used the Bible on them imo, as it agrees with you :)

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bbyrd009 comments on May 29, 2020:

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I did something crazy today.

bbyrd009 comments on Jun 18, 2020:

"starts with a prayer to jeeezuz." "I have been polite all these years" lol, ok

You're wondering how God's love is the greatest?

bbyrd009 comments on Jun 18, 2020:

and what do those human shortcomings have to do with Yah's love?

With or without religion

bbyrd009 comments on Jun 22, 2020:

religion is roundly condemned in the Bible fwiw; politics *requires* "religion"

I did something crazy today.

bbyrd009 comments on Jun 23, 2020:

"A few months ago she said that I worship the devil" so, slander or defamation at least, id be getting myself a recorder, and did anyone else hear that said? Get a recorder, and bring that up again. And get paid

THERE ARE NOT TWO SIDES TO THE MASK ISSUE IN THE U.

bbyrd009 comments on Jun 29, 2020:

maybe we need a refresher in how laws are enacted in this country?

THERE ARE NOT TWO SIDES TO THE MASK ISSUE IN THE U.

bbyrd009 comments on Jun 29, 2020:

healthy people social distancing and wearing masks is retarded ok, it is suicide, and you are listening to the same ppl putting fluoride in your water lol. Of course there are two sides to the mask issue; those with healthy immune systems, and the at-risk. But let's mask up all the healthy ppl and allow the at-risk to mingle, by all means. Ya that makes sense

Whenever and wherever there is a religious group attempting to comingle their religious beliefs with...

bbyrd009 comments on Jul 13, 2020:

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IT'S NOT WHAT YOU GATHER, BUT WHAT YOU SCATTER A great story and well worth the read!! (sent ...

bbyrd009 comments on Jul 25, 2020:

word :)

Can't really argue with that logic.

bbyrd009 comments on Jul 27, 2020:

or just stay the hell out of that soul-sucking store, too

Jewish doctors in Nazi-occupied Poland stopped an epidemic in its tracks.

bbyrd009 comments on Jul 27, 2020:

um, typhoid is a bacteria? interesting though, that we call either one an "infection," hmm

Do all Christian denominations believe only they will go to heaven?

bbyrd009 comments on Aug 12, 2020:

*No one has ever gone up to heaven but He Who came down from it* so i guess they are have their heads up their...*Apollos*, lol; that is Mithraism, the belief that one might attain the Elysian fields *after death I came that you might have LIFE...*

Here’s a question.

bbyrd009 comments on Aug 30, 2020:

not sure why so many avowed atheists would find any value in an "agnostic" site anyway, but fwiw believers all think the world is going to hell in a handbasket, right, when in fact the world has never been better, by any measure you could name, than it is right now! And we have indices for this, "moralityindex.com" et al, "a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in"

God, just your brain making shit up and then pretending to believe in it when it suits you.

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 1, 2020:

problem with that theory is that most people come together on it, even if it gets distorted along the way, and we end up with an old white guy in a beard :)

What determines whether a person is a Christian or not?

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 1, 2020:

fwiw "Jesus of Nazareth" is likely a rabbi's way of saying "John Doe, from Nowhere"

Why do Atheist like to talk about God so much?

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 1, 2020:

the link between atheism and fundamentalism is pretty well documented i think. "Atheism" is at its core just another religion, a similar but diff group with "Gnossis," iow another bunch of ppl who believe they "know" something? *He who says he knows does not yet know as he ought* So really they are just "believers" of a diff stripe i think

Even as an atheist, I believe that evil exists.

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 5, 2020:

who is promoting an increase in pop?

Going to kinda free write this, and none of this will qualify as "required reading" so if anybody ...

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 5, 2020:

the *Unknown God* is the only way to go imo, as Jonah makes clear :)

Why isn't there a better word for "miracle" that doesn't have religious connotations?

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 7, 2020:

to be fair the Bible does go into how miracles are for the lost (believers, iow, although that is mostly obscured)

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bbyrd009 comments on Sep 7, 2020:

https://youtu.be/DZbVIOIXk9Y

Been deprogrammed from religion for about 3 1/2 years.

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 9, 2020:

yeh, that behavior is actually frowned upon in much of the rest of the world, and even outright illegal in some countries! Israel is i think one of them, believe it or not; proselytizing will at least get you deported lol. so, fwiw i found out this amazing thing, a few years ago; anything "the Bible says," the Bible also says the exact opposite of, somewhere else! one example, *No son of man may die for another's sins;* freaky huh

Here's an unresolved argument. Did Jesus really exist?

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 12, 2020:

to a rabbi at least, "Jesus of Nazareth" (actually Joshua, the most common male name then) might equate to "John Doe, from Nowhere"

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bbyrd009 comments on Sep 12, 2020:

hola! have they fixed the water there yet? Two humongous water treatment things were in prog when i left...

Non God Believer

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 14, 2020:

ha well wadr you might be looking for a "Lord" or "Baal" rather than Yah, i dunno, but it is said that the world suffers for a few reasons, and it might be noted that suffering is fairly subjective? Are you suffering right now? Believe it or not the world is most likely a better place, right now, than it ever has been in history, although i would understand your scepticism there :) we suffer bc we dislike entropy, for one thing; ppl reminisce about a past time they deem "perfect" and then spend the rest of their lives trying to get back there? but also we tend to emotionalize what we focus on, for instance if you watch the news, well naturally you will get the impression that the world is only evil, as "good" news does not equate to multiple viewers. Seek the good in the world, and make some yourself imo, and see that according to our definitions Yah does not "exist" anyway, nor does "He" try to! No "objective" evidence at all, right? You will not be judged for your belief, or lack thereof, of any "supreme being" ok, at least as far as the Bible goes; and we have several stories for that, the "Good" Samaritan, etc. strange but true :) you are going to be judged for your *works,* according to the Bible, just like everyone else

So,,,,,this "god" asshole has dropped covid on us, burned up a good chunk of the West Coast, put the...

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 14, 2020:

ha Yah gets blamed for all of our mistakes huh

How could Adam and Eve sin if they didn't know sin yet?

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 14, 2020:

the argument goes that they were told to not "eat" from that "tree" though, that was like basically the only thing they were forbidden to do. But imo dont make the mistake of reading literally, like believers; its a mythology, that contains valuable wisdom. you might ask yourself what "eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge" even means, practically speaking; the terms in there are symbolic, and the symbols are defined elsewhere in the Bible, if you have any trouble deciphering them, but really its just kinda common sense ok. "eating the fruit" would be something like "accepting a concept as viable, and utilizing it personally," a "tree" is "a certain school of thought" say, and etc

When someone says they are spiritual and also agnostic-atheist, I always wonder, "Do they believe ...

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 16, 2020:

it just may be that there is a way to in essence "have everything," even while actually owning nothing, that is maybe more in view? we tend to personify "spirits," but after all cant we create them at will, more or less?

When someone says they are spiritual and also agnostic-atheist, I always wonder, "Do they believe ...

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 16, 2020:

the diff in existing and living, maybe?

Atheist read the Bible, Christians go to church to have the Bible read to them...

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 18, 2020:

hmm. Found *No son of man may die for another's sins* yet? how bout "Jesus of Nazareth=John Doe, from Nowhere?"

Please raise your hand if you're an atheist AND antitheist.

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 19, 2020:

ah, there's a difference? hmm

Unsure if this has ever been posted before but here goes anyway.

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 23, 2020:

swear to God, many atheists are worse than fundies lol

A reminder for the religious...

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 29, 2020:

unfortunately it sure can be though

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bbyrd009 comments on Sep 29, 2020:

the Bible says that the end comes after all rulers, powers, and authorities have been destroyed, which i mention bc it seems to me that they are the ones working to basically avoid all that stuff you mention

You Say... God says...

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 29, 2020:

hopefully you get that there are other perspectives on most of those, that would likely go a ways toward reconciliation, *there are no male or female in the kingdom,* etc?

Here’s a thought for ya.

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 29, 2020:

fwiw "soul" and "life" are the same root word in the Bible--not to ruin a good yarn tho :)

I am my own priestess of atheism, and only for me not anyone else.

bbyrd009 comments on Sep 29, 2020:

*Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.*

What can an atheist say to a Christian to convince him.

bbyrd009 comments on Oct 2, 2020:

ah, easy--Gehenna is on earth, a trash dump outside of Jerusalem, and our Norse/Angle scribes just had no better analogy than their understanding of punishment in an "afterlife," which btw is not even in Hades' (a Greek god) mythology. The Bible--even a corrupted English version--is very clear, beginning with Samuel (accepted) to King Saul (rejected) *you and your sons will be here with me*, to the wisdom of Solomon, *No one knows where they go when they die, All go to the same place,* to various NT statements made by "Jesus," *No one has ever gone up to heaven, The kingdom of heaven is within you, There is only One Immortal* but i would caution you that all you will most likely do here is lose a friend ok. There are other vv that really bring the deception home, Esau (whom Yah "had hated") giving up his birthright for a bowl of "red stew" that he was so hungry for he was "about to die," and then apparently inheriting anyway, as it was Jacob (you, basically) who was more or less forced to leave, and in the OT *No son of man* (which is how Jesus referred to Himself)* may die for another's sins; the lifesoul that sins, dies,* but i would keep that one to yourself for now. Ppl who believe they are going up to heaven after they have died are in the Cult of Sol Invictus, descended from Mithraism (*Apollos waters*), but they are not going to appreciate being enlightened ok

Does being an agnostic mean that you’re on the wall or you lack acceptance?

bbyrd009 comments on Oct 2, 2020:

i guess the meaning has changed in the last hundred years, but a lot of the point initially revolved around "gnossis" or knowledge, agnostic (originally) meaning "against knowledge" which maybe sounds like a bad thing, but as you pointed out no one can prove Yah "exists," so it was that kind of "knowledge" that agnostics (and the Bible btw) were opposing i guess *test everything, and keep what is good*

Does being an agnostic mean that you’re on the wall or you lack acceptance?

bbyrd009 comments on Oct 2, 2020:

ah and while we're on the subject, dictionaries are bought by rich whores specifically in order to deceive ppl, "talent" used to mean "money" and never had anything to do with innate ability until about 400 years ago i guess, and there is even a thing "dictionary wars" which im pretty sure i didnt just make up...ya, there's a book with that title, but i bet it mostly obscures the real truth. Ppl die over definitions, and theres a reason the 1858 unabridged Webster's is so valuable i guess

IMO, humans came up with the idea of a soul and a life after death when we started becoming aware of...

bbyrd009 comments on Oct 5, 2020:

we form our ego at such a young age that i guess we more or less forget the process? Who remembers the day they first looked in a mirror and recognized their "self?" I guess that doesnt happen until somewhere around 18 months of age? Point being that it's likely our ego that seeks immortality; even though the Bible is quite plain on that subject, *There is only One Immortal,* etc

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bbyrd009 comments on Oct 7, 2020:

Epicurean--related--stuff is interesting, too; i forget why they were superseded now

The non-existing Jesus was an animal sacrifice to himself.

bbyrd009 comments on Oct 15, 2020:

it's the "everybody knows" part that is more likely being characterized in "tree of knowledge" so, more steps on that ladder iow; there is surely ego involved best of luck to you

To be the messiah, Jesus had to have descended from israel, right?

bbyrd009 comments on Oct 19, 2020:

*no son of man may die for another's sins* so "messiah"--which was one of the titles of *Caesar,* along with king of kings, lord of lords, etc--was apparently intentionally usurped to make a point, and is surely misunderstood today, mostly by ppl in the Cult of Sol Invictus who call themselves "Christian" also *My God, why have you forsaken Me?* then makes sense

Once I said to a dear Christian friend: “Suppose there really is no God, and suppose I had it ...

bbyrd009 comments on Oct 19, 2020:

it maybe depends upon how you are defining "God?" plus you have posited conditions that cannot possibly arise, so what is the point, if i may ask

Well, I guess my seat in Hell, IF there is even such a place, is most definitely booked after ...

bbyrd009 comments on Oct 26, 2020:

so, might be hard to believe at first, but there is a story in the Bible for sucker believers like him, Esau; and another story that he would not accept the proofs for, or practically speaking even be able to see, *No son of man may die for another's sins* but fwiw i guess you did the world a favor lol

I posted in the Health and Happiness [agnostic.

bbyrd009 comments on Nov 8, 2020:

gotta wonder why we are "counting cases" of covid anyway? Can you think of any other virus we are counting the positives of? Do you realize that "flatten the curve" implies absolutely no reduction in "positive cases," in the end, but merely stretching the timetable "so hospitals dont get overwhelmed?" Dont buy the hype, imo; all that has really happened is that 116k, or 128k whatever, no longer have to read this ridic bs every day, as like 98% of them are now immune. yes, 3k died, and that is tragic, but guess how many were going to die anyway! 3k

A few times I tried to point out the latent subconscious damage that religion has done that most ...

bbyrd009 comments on Nov 23, 2020:

ha well Jesus didnt kill anyone? But He sure gets blamed enough i guess lol

For those of you who went from being religious to atheist, have you noticed that philosophy has ...

bbyrd009 comments on Nov 24, 2020:

well, *No son of man may die for another's sins, No one has ever gone up to heaven, Who seeks to save his soul shall lose it,* on and on, but my response to the singularity theory is that we have various lore, Atlantis etc, that are cautionary tales to us, what to make of those