"So, you think it's okay to kill people because some iron-age goat-herder said it was evil?"Cunt wrote:There was a kindly looking old man peddling papers for Jeebus in the mall once awhile ago. I asked him questions, mainly about homosexuality. He was glad to expound on his ignorance and bigotry - in a very gay area. As he answered my questions he realized that there was a crowd gathering, staring at him gayly.
He left. I felt like a winner. (though he simply would have looked for more vulnerable 'marks', I feel sure)
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Haha.... brilliant.Cunt wrote:There was a kindly looking old man peddling papers for Jeebus in the mall once awhile ago. I asked him questions, mainly about homosexuality. He was glad to expound on his ignorance and bigotry - in a very gay area. As he answered my questions he realized that there was a crowd gathering, staring at him gayly.
He left. I felt like a winner. (though he simply would have looked for more vulnerable 'marks', I feel sure)
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if you feel deprived, try the corner of swanston and bourke streets,just near the annoying prick who dresses like an astronaut and makes weird noises, those guys get rather angry in their preaching, my missus has banned me from going near them incase they attack,me or some suchi'm sad the radom drunks dont do everyone a favour and drive them away....or at least vomit on their holy shoes...JimC wrote:Very rare to have loony public preachers in Melbourne. We just have random drunks...
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You handed her the tools (skepticism, working explanations and ideas) and yet she still wanted you to work it out for her? Lazy. I'd mention that to her, I think.The Dawktor wrote:Last night I met a woman at a dinner party- who told me that she attended a spiritualist church.
I asked her if she was aware that the 2 founders of spiritualism had announced that they had made it all up but it was too late to stop the cash-cow of the church they had started.
I talked to her about cold-reading, lack of repeatable evidence, and other techniques used by 'psychics' and the fact that at the church people knew lots of personal details about each other. I talked to her about credulity and that people who believed in X often believed in A-Q as well. I talked about horoscopes and Randi etc.
In the end she said to me- "But- HOW could the preacher possibly have known that I have blue in my wallpaper?"
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Dude, I wasn't even TRYING to set up the questions...I was asking to get an idea which type of nonsense he believed (JW, SA etc) when the subject rather quickly turned to homosexuality.Gawdzilla wrote:"So, you think it's okay to kill people because some iron-age goat-herder said it was evil?"Cunt wrote:There was a kindly looking old man peddling papers for Jeebus in the mall once awhile ago. I asked him questions, mainly about homosexuality. He was glad to expound on his ignorance and bigotry - in a very gay area. As he answered my questions he realized that there was a crowd gathering, staring at him gayly.
He left. I felt like a winner. (though he simply would have looked for more vulnerable 'marks', I feel sure)
I simply asked reasonable questions about it and he was more than happy to raise his voice righteously...til he saw who was watching.
But if I WAS trying to, that would make a doozy!
I sometimes like asking them if they want to be a righteous man - just like Lot. Now I have TWO praggling questions.

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We get some preachers at my uni in the spring and summer, the atheist group I am a part of, the pagan group and the gay straight alliance get together and preach back at them. Most recently we had people dressed at pirates preaching FSM, a guy dressed up as a gorilla preaching evolution, superman, Harry Potter, the invisible pink unicorn, and gays and lesbians making out. FSM won with Harry Potter in a close second.
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And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life

And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
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Talk about hitting 'em from a multitude of directions!Twoflower wrote:We get some preachers at my uni in the spring and summer, the atheist group I am a part of, the pagan group and the gay straight alliance get together and preach back at them. Most recently we had people dressed at pirates preaching FSM, a guy dressed up as a gorilla preaching evolution, superman, Harry Potter, the invisible pink unicorn, and gays and lesbians making out. FSM won with Harry Potter in a close second.

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Sounds like heaven.Twoflower wrote:We get some preachers at my uni in the spring and summer, the atheist group I am a part of, the pagan group and the gay straight alliance get together and preach back at them. Most recently we had people dressed at pirates preaching FSM, a guy dressed up as a gorilla preaching evolution, superman, Harry Potter, the invisible pink unicorn, and gays and lesbians making out. FSM won with Harry Potter in a close second.

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Its really fun. After a while the real preachers just give up.Pappa wrote:Sounds like heaven.Twoflower wrote:We get some preachers at my uni in the spring and summer, the atheist group I am a part of, the pagan group and the gay straight alliance get together and preach back at them. Most recently we had people dressed at pirates preaching FSM, a guy dressed up as a gorilla preaching evolution, superman, Harry Potter, the invisible pink unicorn, and gays and lesbians making out. FSM won with Harry Potter in a close second.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life

And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life

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And go home, dejected, with eyes sad and downcast. Nobody takes them seriously and treats them like a joke.Twoflower wrote:Its really fun. After a while the real preachers just give up.Pappa wrote:Sounds like heaven.Twoflower wrote:We get some preachers at my uni in the spring and summer, the atheist group I am a part of, the pagan group and the gay straight alliance get together and preach back at them. Most recently we had people dressed at pirates preaching FSM, a guy dressed up as a gorilla preaching evolution, superman, Harry Potter, the invisible pink unicorn, and gays and lesbians making out. FSM won with Harry Potter in a close second.

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I would almost feel bad for them if they weren't bringing their small children with them to hold signs that say stuff like fags are gong to hell.Pappa wrote:And go home, dejected, with eyes sad and downcast. Nobody takes them seriously and treats them like a joke.Twoflower wrote:Its really fun. After a while the real preachers just give up.Pappa wrote:Sounds like heaven.Twoflower wrote:We get some preachers at my uni in the spring and summer, the atheist group I am a part of, the pagan group and the gay straight alliance get together and preach back at them. Most recently we had people dressed at pirates preaching FSM, a guy dressed up as a gorilla preaching evolution, superman, Harry Potter, the invisible pink unicorn, and gays and lesbians making out. FSM won with Harry Potter in a close second.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life

And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life

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Some may in fact go home with the buzz of being a martyr for god's cause, albeit in a somewhat safer way than martyrs in ancient Rome...Pappa wrote:And go home, dejected, with eyes sad and downcast. Nobody takes them seriously and treats them like a joke.Twoflower wrote:Its really fun. After a while the real preachers just give up.Pappa wrote:Sounds like heaven.Twoflower wrote:We get some preachers at my uni in the spring and summer, the atheist group I am a part of, the pagan group and the gay straight alliance get together and preach back at them. Most recently we had people dressed at pirates preaching FSM, a guy dressed up as a gorilla preaching evolution, superman, Harry Potter, the invisible pink unicorn, and gays and lesbians making out. FSM won with Harry Potter in a close second.
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I was thinking about Christians and Rome the other day when I reading a Toontown post. Does anybody remember the name they gave to coating someone in tar and using them as a torch to light their parties? Google has failed me.JimC wrote:Some may in fact go home with the buzz of being a martyr for god's cause, albeit in a somewhat safer way than martyrs in ancient Rome...

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Ew.... those ones.Twoflower wrote:I would almost feel bad for them if they weren't bringing their small children with them to hold signs that say stuff like fags are gong to hell.

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