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82 Comments
Throbbinsays...Everything about that guy says "smug deluded virgin mama's boy".
I'm just sayin.
manadrensays...Somehow I doubt the "i53 broadcasting corporation" got the rights to use the most enjoyable part of this video... which is Aphex Twin's track "Flim".
But yeah, I'm throwing this into the catagory of "I don't understand how science works, and therefore I'm using that as proof god exists."
MINKsays...THOU SHALT NOT STEAL (background music or anything else)
ObsidianStormsays...So let me see if I got this straight...
I can't PROVE that cause and effect, gravitation, laws of thermodynamics, etc will continue to operate in the future as in the past ad infinitum,
THEREFORE,
Every idiotic claim you make is true....
Hmmm.
I'm not sure I see quite how that works exactly...
12028says...Some dude named Cornelius signed it so it must be true. He even signed it in 'cursive' so that's like extra for true.
therealblankmansays...I'll take your Cthulhu and raise you a Flying Spaghetti Monster.
All bow before FSM!
spoco2says...What insane bullcrap is he spouting? Scientists have no reason to know that the sun will rise tomorrow? Um... how about the earth is spinning at a (for purposes) constant speed and showing no signs of slowing, rotating at a constant speed around the sun with no signs of slowing, the sun is continuing to burn in ways that are completely predicted by science...
WHAT THE HELL DOES HE THINK HE'S SAYING? I mean really? I just... I just can't even begin to argue with a patently moronic idiot like this because he doesn't even BEGIN to make sense.
We can expect the things such as gravity, cause and effect and entropy to continue to act in the way that they do tomorrow because our OBSERVATIONS over a long, long long period of time have shown them to continue to act as we would expect. We do not see anything changing that would cause us to believe or surmise that they will cease to act in this way, so we BELIEVE that they will continue to do so.
Saying that we BELIEVE in something does not somehow mean that religious folk right... we believe based on evidence. They believe based on... well, sweet FA.
spoco2says...Also, I quite like this video response: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=8G3osI7Nrw4
Although in it he says that he doesn't believe that the sun will come every day, in fact he's always skeptical it will. Which is fine and all in regards to getting the point across, but also is a little silly. Once you get to a certain point of having gathered enough data, and seen something fit a model perfectly for a long time, I think it's pretty reasonable to assume and be comfortable with assuming that said sun is going to rise at the prescribed time the next day.
nickreal03says...one million dollars to whoever can prove that Jesus is not gay.
imstellar28says...the inability to disprove a negative is as mythical as jesus himself.
HadouKen24says...Ye gods, followers of Van Til. The most annoying and self-deluded of all Christian apologists.
For the record, though, he's not asking atheists to prove a negative. That's a complete misunderstanding of his position. Rather, he's asking for atheists to solve the problem of induction--which is a strange question, given that the theist has no adequate solution, either.
gypsyroversays...The production value of this video combined with the ridiculousness of that guy's face made me think it was some elaborate parody.
ObsidianStormsays...If it is parody, it's brilliant.
gwiz665says...This is just too stupid. Where is that *stupid channel?
Oatmealsays...How about the number Pi asshole? When you measure the circuference of a circle and divide by the diameter, you get pi. You can't change that. It just is. There is no posible way for it to be different within this plane of existance. Same with other mathematical constants. Like 4. 4 is 4. You cant change 4. And all of those Scientific Theories are all, when it comes down to it, based around mathematical constants. Theres no invoking God. We can say the sun will rise with as much certainty as adding 2 + 2. It's 4. And it always will be. And nobody, not even a god, can change that.
Zonbiesays...i53network is a Christian Broadcasting Network, and I want him to stop using the advances of Science to bash science.
Mr Tripplehorn is Not very nice"/a>"
syncronsays...Did his mom drop when he was little? I sure think so, because he sounds retarded as hell.
Sageoussays...Wouldn't the problem of induction, in the way they are misusing it, work against the video's case just as equally? For example - just because god (presuming to exist here for a moment) existed yesterday, is holding the universe up yesterday, was almighty yesterday, etc, etc...doesn't mean he will tomorrow.
chilaxesays...>> ^Zonbie:
i53network is a Christian Broadcasting Network, and I want him to stop using the advances of Science to bash science.
Mr Tripplehorn is Not very nice"/a>"
This guy should give lessons on how to break up with someone in a way that honors their inner light.
From the link:
Shepppardsays...I find the question to be loaded.
There's nothing anybody can do to prove the sun will come out tomorrow, Atheist or Christian.
There's always the possibility that the sun can supernova and that would A) First off, make it not come out the next day because there's no sun
and B)Not make it come out tomorrow because we just exploded.
There's the possibility that the earth can have an axis shift, in which case we'd almost all die anyway. For us, the sun wouldn't come out tomorrow, we'd be dead.
The REASON you can't win this bet, is because every time you say "And then the suns gravitational pull continues to keep earth revolving around the sun at a constant speed which therefore allows the sun to "rise""
they just say "And where did the sun come from?" When you say that it's not possible to prove, they go "God" laugh at you, and then send you away, without 1000$ in your pocket.
braindonutsays...@Zonbie>> ^Zonbie:
i53network is a Christian Broadcasting Network, and I want him to stop using the advances of Science to bash science.
Mr Tripplehorn is Not very nice"/a>"
Slight correction: He WASN'T very nice http://www.legacy.com/DFW/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=120813856
charliemsays...I think this kid has mixed up certainty and probability.
Show me a scientist worth his salt, who when pressed on the issue of extrapolating the future, that will make a claim with absolute certainty, and ill pay you a thousand bucks.
When it comes down to it, anything and everything is possible, even god is a possibility, as is the FSM...but how low on the probability scale to they rank when shown in comparison to accepted scientific theory ?
Agnosticism and Atheism are not philosophies of absolute disbelief, they merely put a benevolent creator at the very very very bottom of the plausibility list. So far down that its not even a consideration in anything that has ever happened, or ever will happen in terms of understanding how the universe works.
sirexsays...not upvoting or downvoting, or even watching. Religion isnt worthy of my time, and my time is nearly worthless.
Floodsays...edit: nevermind.
ponceleonsays...My head almost exploded watching this fucking idiot.
BicycleRepairMansays...God is not involved, any idiot knows that leprechauns holds physics in check. Now pay up, you fool. An none of that leprechaun gold, please.
BicycleRepairMansays...Just for shits and giggles, I checked their website, and the prize money is now $5300, and the list of rules for the competition is so long and complicated its absolutely ridiculous, plus youll actually have to pay to get in, and you must limit yourself to 400 words. Hilarious
http://i53network.org/5300Challenge.html
honkeytonk73says...Oh no, I'm going to hell!
So.. which bus to I need to get on? Where is it 'actually' located? Underground? Well.. I better start digging a hole right now.
MaxWildersays...Actually the sun didn't come up this morning.
It's quite overcast here in LA.
13439says...Show of hands, please?
Any Christians who are wincing right now in abject pain?
StukaFoxsays...Somewhere, Zombie David Hume is tearing out his own liver in rage . . .
davidrainesays...*raises hand*
Yeah, this guy's an idiot.
ShakeyMcBonessays...Yikes.
joedirtsays...God doesn't agree. Or at least God decided to take him up to heaven early.
Anyone read this total bullsh-t challenge? What kind of coward makes these bold claims of reward to anyone who can answer the questions and then does this:
Ok, so your contest will never be "official".. bravo.
1. To receive the $5,300, you must answer the question(s) without contradicting yourself.
define "contradict".
6. All responses cost $1.00. This cost is not to generate revenue but rather to curb excessive and superfluous responses.
Ok, nice challenge. Surely they will receive thousands of entries to their bullsh-t challenge. So they aren't even putting up their own money. BUt I agree it is helpful to limit entries especially if people have to read them.
11. Only one $5,300 prize will be allotted. This prize will go to the first individual who can answer the question(s) below without contradicting him or herself.
Ok, again is it first one submitted? First one submitted after the contest becomes "official". What lying cowards.
8. At the top of your response, please state your ultimate epistemological authority... You must be extremely specific when stating your ultimate epistemological authority. That is, you will need to explicitly tell us the one religious text or the one living person that you consider to be ultimately authoritative.
How is this a challenge to atheists or agnostics??? Also, the rules state:
If in your submission, you give ultimate authority to any other living person other than yourself, your submission will be automatically invalidated, and you will lose your $1.00.
So by definition of the contest you must state the ONE religious text you follow. What kind of morons are these? Note that the "Bible" is not in fact one religious text even.
Now the questions immediately invalidate the contest because you cannot answer them all by definition without contradiction. They only apply to different belief systems.
Question 1 & 2
These two questions are for the atheist, postmodernist, or any individual who thinks that man constructs his truth rather than discovers a transcendent truth outside of himself.
Question 3
This next question is for the agnostic, for anyone who does not hold to a formal system of thought, for anyone who holds himself to be ultimately authoritative, or for any non-Christian who believes that truth is discovered rather than constructed ... Please note that this question pertains to all individuals who believe in a god, but their belief stems from their own mind, rather than from some divinely revealed text.
Question 4
This question is for the Hindu, the Buddhist, or any adherent of an (eastern) religion that denies the existence of propositional truth on an ultimate level.
Question 5
This next question is for any adherent of Islam, Roman Catholicism, Judaism, Mormonism, Jehovah Witness, or any monotheistic religion which possesses an authoritative text (or revelation) that claims its (infinite) God has characteristics of justice and mercy.
This is the biggest joke and exercise in mental masturbation. By the contest's own rules even the Christian author of the challenge has failed and cannot collect the money. I'm glad God decided to smote this charlatan
BillOreillysays...another reason that atheism is like alcohol-- they both kill brain cells
centosays...Wow...
What a smug little cock.
>> ^joedirt:
God doesn't agree. Or at least God decided to take him up to heaven early.
God didn't decide anything.
Apparently Mr Tripplehorn did us all a favor and removed himself from the equation BEFORE gracing us with any little Tripplehorns. This post certainly earned its EIA tag.
I wonder how suicide ranks in his religious views...
JiggaJonsonsays...^
"Dear, BillO the clown,
I am so sick of reading your stupid bullshit on this site."
Sincerely,
JiggaJonson's cat Zero
p.s. fuck you
Psychologicsays...Science doesn't say that gravity will exist tomorrow, it only seeks to explain why and how it exists now and has existed in the past. Science doesn't say that the sun will definitely come up tomorrow, only that past trends indicate the it probably will. If something changes and the sun doesn't come up tomorrow then science will attempt to understand and explain why.
... but hey, if he's happy with his explanation of the world then I'm happy for him.
13191says...It appears the Paul Kelly Tripplehorn, Jr. (the President of i53, and the speaker in this video clip) passed away yesterday.
The obituary was linked from a post on his website here (http://www.legacy.com/DFW/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=120813856).
His life was apparently turned upside down after he made news in 2003 for an email scandal that played out while he was interning at a Senator's office in DC.
bareboardssays...I'm upvoting not for the stupid video, but because of the (generally) intelligent responses to it. I learn so much from this site. Thanks guys.
13757says...Is the word "agnostic" that hard to say? "Ang... ang... an andgos... an antoaster... an agnostic!" Go, diploma-boy!
The basis of science is exactly not to be certain that what is true today will stand true tomorrow. Believing that a demonstrated fact (in past and present) is going to continue intact tomorrow is dogmatic and counter-scientific to say the least. In science there's no place for belief. Putting a theory to the test is always about checking if all given factors involved in that theory are at the moment as they were.
In practical terms the fact that the day begun means the sun is pretty much the same, so there isn't even a real concern there. If such elementar characteristics of the World would suddenly change, scientists would've to figure out why and not go "Hey, it's God's caprice..." which is exactly what this little man is implying when assuming nothing of science can be proven without recurring to God.
In fact, this elementar characteristics do change but in a slow rate for the span of a human life-time. And it's the work of scientists always checking if these characteristics are as they were that aknowledge that in fact they aren't. If these scientists believed in the cycle of the sun (to save time for pray perhaps, lazy christians?) this knowledge would never be. Way to go, amateur, relgious-driven science.
And to wrap it up, they ask mean ole not-god-guided creatures to stand before such task of proving religulous-sciencers wrong, with a money reward. Isn't this a suculent prize, MONEY, oh fellow imoral, no-goddy humans?
bluecliffsays...he is basically stating (for all events and purposes) that for the non theist the world could have been created 5 minutes ago. With all of its history, physical laws etc.
"There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago."
Bertrand Russell
bluecliffsays...Although he is wrong on one thing. we wont go to hell. we're already there. Thats the only way to explains all the cat videos, and people who like Madonna.
Fjnbksays...The problem of induction is simply that absolute certainty can never be established for ANYTHING not deduced. So the theory of relativity, the theory of evolution, etc. could all be disproved by one tiny piece of evidence.
Of course, the same problem applies to God.
>> ^StukaFox:
Somewhere, Zombie David Hume is tearing out his own liver in rage . . .
And Karl Popper. C. S. Lewis would be laughing his head off.
vairetubesays...as it has been pointed out, he had mental problems and is now dead. i would wish there was a god if i was him too.
for postertity and conveinence, i'll paste his e-mail that got him fired:
The Original Email
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:11 PM
To: NAME_WITHHELD@aol.com
Subject: you suck
Well, as of this afternoon, I was planning on ruining your career by making phone calls to all of my parents friends and have you blackballed from the workplace as well as every prestigous law school in the country, but then (lucky for you) I decided not to do that because you are a sad sad person and I will just let your life self destruct right before my eyes....
NAME_WITHHELD I am sorry, I don't care how big of sadistic fucked up crush you have on me but people like me simple don't date people like you. You are too competitive with me and you just simply will never be better than me. I will always have more friends than you just because I don't care about beating people and lying to get to the top. (You are an absolute hipocrit in everything that you do, I am not going to go into details why you are because that would be a waste of my time and yours but I can assure you if you were to ever meet yourself you would hate your twin) I have told most all of the staff about our situation now and they already knew you were really messed you. They said when you were talking to them about me, they all told me you had "serious issues" and that every word you said sounded scripted and they knew without a doubt that you were lying. I have noticed that people who you think are your good friends actually really dislike you but unlike me, they will not tell you to your face because they would rather be fake nice to you than be your enemy. ....
Now talking about how I am obsessed with money, I simply am not. You are. You always are trying to impress me by how much money you have and I don't care. The difference is though I talk about it but it is never about bragging and it is never directly about money, it is always directly about the conversation.
For instance, someone will ask, what are you doing for july 4rth. And then I will say I am going to aspen. It is a simple fact that I am but since you don't have a house in aspen, you get offended because of your competitive nature. When you talk about money you will say something like UT's tuition is 5% of your family's income, thus my tuition would be 125,000. Yea,
NAME_WITHHELD you are right, I brag too much about what I have.... Well I am just going to stop writing because you are just absolutely beneath me. I have heard that you try to undermine people all t! he time that are better than you and every single time it does not work because people can see through such shallowness and that is why as I have heard so many times, Most "everyone at UT absolutely hates you." For instance even the people that you thought were your friends FRIENDSNAMEWITHHELD or that girl you met at espn, they hate you, they just never say anything. Everyone knows you are a pathetic social climber who will go to any discusting means to move up the ladder.
But guess what NAME_WITHHELD, you will never move up the ladder because I am at the top and people like me hate people like you. You might be able to trick people like me for maybe a month or so but your true personality comes through after a while and it is vile, if that. You have sooooo many people that absolutely hate you and you will never know it because they will never say anything to your face. You will not succeed in life and even the staff thinks that also, after I told them about the things that you do. You suck!
and good luck being miserable for the rest of your life. I do not even know why I wasted my time typing this for suck slime. Everyone tells me that you are so beneath me (which you are) and I should not get worked up over suck trifles.
By the end of the day if I wanted to, I could make a phone call and have your life absolutely ruined but there is no need because you are falling fast enough towards failure without me. In the end, all I can say is that people love me and people hate you. You should observe me and take a few notes on how to make real friends. Other than you tieing this one other person, I have never had such little respect for a human being in my life. I don't even have to tell you why because in my very accurate analysis that most everyone else agrees with, if you were to agree with my analysis that most everyone else agrees with, if you were to agree with my analyis about your character than my whole entire analysis would be wrong.
Your inflamed ego has left you so blind and so impotent that you can nto even recognize the most obvious flaws in yourself. All your old roommates absolutely hated you and you still think the problem is with them, not you. Well I talked to your roommates and I thought they nice normal girls. So naturally, you would not fit in with them because you are so intellectually above them all. Right? You suck at life and you need to figure out why or you will be miserable for the rest of your life.
Once again from your intellectual, moral, social, and emotional superior,
Paul Kelly Tripplehorn, Jr.
Shepppardsays...^Any more back story on that?
I think its the guy in the video that was chewing someone out, but I've got no idea why.
edit:
You’re probably asking, “Who?” Kelly Tripplehorn was an intern for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, and got his fifteen minutes of internet fame by sending a very nasty email (from his tripplehorny@aol.com email addy, natch) to a fellow intern with whom he had a brief relationship.
“Michele, I am sorry, I don’t care how big of a sadistic fucked up crush you have on me but people like me simply don’t date people like you.” Is a typical line from the infamous email that got Tripplehorn dismissed from his internship.
Mi1lersays...So when he says invoking god, does that mean any god or just the christian god, for instance if i account for it all thanks to the flying spaghetti monster do i get a $1000?
budzossays...If heaven is full of idiots like this guy, send my ass to hell please.
Edit: I see he killed himself. Guess he's in hell and I'm still free to go to heaven. haha what a fucknut, good riddance.
Ryjkyjsays...^WOW^
burdturglersays...Why would you celebrate the loss of any human life? Because he thinks or believes differently than you? How revolting. That has to be one of the most thoughtless comments I've ever seen posted here. What a disgusting thing to say.
>> ^budzos:
If heaven is full of idiots like this guy, send my ass to hell please.
Edit: I see he killed himself. Guess he's in hell and I'm still free to go to heaven. haha what a fucknut, good riddance.
MaxWildersays...Suicide is always a tragedy. It is a failure on the level of society, that we were not there when somebody needed us. Bipolar disorder is treatable, and I've seen people get their lives straightened out after dealing with it.
I sincerely hope there is something after death, for all of us, but especially for people who died without living a fulfilling life.
But perhaps some good can come out of this, if his suicide makes people more critical of his religious opinions, and look harder at their own choices.
budzossays...No, not for his beliefs, but because I look at this guy and see an evil piece of shit ready to go out and spread a lot of hurt in the world. He saw it too. As if this guy wasn't going to wantonly rape, molest, and embezzle should he have gotten the power he so obviously craved. He did the world a favour.
burdturglersays...You're going to have a hard time standing on whatever moral ground you think you have if you think it's OK to look down and not only laugh about a person who committed suicide, but find any joy in it. You're entitled to think whatever you want about this guy. He's stupid. He's wrong. Whatever. But celebrating his suicide makes you the sick one imo. I'm not defending his position on religion. I'm voicing my disgust over your wanton carelessness for human life and complete disregard for it. The way you make it sound it would be OK if you murdered him yourself.
>> ^budzos:
No, not for his beliefs, but because I look at this guy and see an evil piece of shit ready to go out and spread a lot of hurt in the world. He saw it too. As if this guy wasn't going to wantonly rape, molest, and embezzle should he have gotten the power he so obviously craved. He did the world a favour.
13409says...This is just sad. No serious theologian or thinker of any sect would prattle on like this.
But he's wishing an eternity of pain beyond imagining on the vast majority of human life. He's saying to me that he thinks I'm going to burn in a lake of fire, and he's smiling when he says it. Think about that.
He's horrible, hateful, and weak. Removing him from the gene pool is a net positive for the species, so for that reason I can take some pleasure in the fact of his death. The great worth of human life is one of the biggest lies we tell ourselves.
budzossays...>> ^burdturgler:
You're going to have a hard time standing on whatever moral ground you think you have if you think it's OK to look down and not only laugh about a person who committed suicide, but find any joy in it. You're entitled to think whatever you want about this guy. He's stupid. He's wrong. Whatever. But celebrating his suicide makes you the sick one imo. I'm not defending his position on religion. I'm voicing my disgust over your wanton carelessness for human life and complete disregard for it. The way you make it sound it would be OK if you murdered him yourself.
Every sperm is not sacred. Good riddance!
Razorsays...How is this EIA?
9619says...hahahahha, this is fucking brilliant. Should be tagged with funny or somehting - I avoided it cos I didnt want to be fuming. but it was so lame, and hilarous.
blankfistsays...The sun won't "come up" tomorrow, because the Earth isn't the center of the universe. The Earth will most likely continue its rotation around the sun giving the illusion of the sun "rising", but that doesn't prove or disprove a god.
cybrbeastsays...>> ^Shepppard:
I find the question to be loaded.
There's nothing anybody can do to prove the sun will come out tomorrow, Atheist or Christian.
There's always the possibility that the sun can supernova and that would A) First off, make it not come out the next day because there's no sun
and B)Not make it come out tomorrow because we just exploded.
Actually, no, our sun can never go supernova because it simply doesn't have the mass to go supernova. It will go red giant during its final stages, but that can only happen when it burns up a certain percentage of its fuel. And we know this won't happen soon because we can deduce at which stage our sun is.
dannym3141says...>> ^spoco2:
Also, I quite like this video response: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=8G3osI7Nrw4
Although in it he says that he doesn't believe that the sun will come every day, in fact he's always skeptical it will. Which is fine and all in regards to getting the point across, but also is a little silly. Once you get to a certain point of having gathered enough data, and seen something fit a model perfectly for a long time, I think it's pretty reasonable to assume and be comfortable with assuming that said sun is going to rise at the prescribed time the next day.
It's 50/50. My dad is a physicist and has high qualifications in astrophysics which i won't go into detail about, but as i was growing up and gaining a healthy interest in physics he told me once that, as a scientist, he had to accept that he may wake up tomorrow and gravity had taken a holiday. I think all scientists get the point there. He was trying to get across to my adolescent mind a point about science.
It's not saying that it's likely or even that it will somehow come as justification for his skepticism. It's trying to say that science is about testing, testing, testing, retesting, and observing the results. When you see enough of the same result, you make a hypothesis, you stick to that hypothesis for as long as you continue to see the same result. You should always go into the experiment (in this case waking up, seeing if you're subject to gravity) without expectations, in case you screw your observations up.
So you're right that you can be safe and comfortable and reasonable to assume the things we know to be true will continue to be true, but you should always be skeptical for science.
And to the above poster, who is to say that the nature of mass and energy won't change to allow smaller mass stars to go supernova? We can't know! This is the point!
13643says.....does any one know where the music came from?
Lethinsays...i will solve the problem of induction right here: Christians edit their books also, so that it more relates to what Science has discovered. early writings of the good book did not mention dinosaurs, they mentioned mythological creatures that were crude descriptions(at best) of most folk tale monsters. as well, who would forget to ad a thing like dinos and humans living together, was it just left out of the book as a "to be put back in later"? the bible is crumbling, and they're struggling to keep it literal. people in larger numbers are getting smarter, and as such are question what they've been told to believe earlier in life.
i have friends at work that throw this at me on an almost daily basis. the best answer: prove to me that we are wrong on more then 50% of scientific theories and i will come to church.
i have yet gone to church.
It's OK to be wrong the right way, not right the wrong way.
centosays...>> ^Razor:
How is this EIA?
Well, the person in the video did kill himself a few days ago before spawning any kids, so we don't need to worry about the ignorance he is spewing in this video to carried along in a family line...
Just sayin'.
qruelsays...^upvote for the discussion
joedirtsays...*burning *in *purgatory
13435says...Hmm... Reading the contest details for non-Evangelist Christians...
Answer this question without contradicting yourself and take home $5,300
Is the God that has revealed Himself in your religious text infinitely just and infinitely merciful? Yes or No. Please justify your answer from the text on which you consider to be ultimately authoritative (Koran, Torah, Book of Mormon, Council of Trent manuscripts, etc.).
Hints: For all of you who believe in purgatory and think that this helps your case, you are very mistaken. For if your God is infinitely merciful, then there would be no need for purgatory since all of your sins have already been forgiven. If you are working off your sins in purgatory, as some individuals interpret it, then you have not received infinite mercy. For if you had received infinite mercy, then there would be nothing for you to work off.
It looks like the hint tells you exactly how to win the $5300. Simply answer 'no', find a passage regarding purgatory and copy-paste the hint.
lavollsays...so he is basically a guy who knows he has all the answers and that he is a superhuman compared to the rest of humanity. a christian politician.
13439says...The producers for "The Office" called. Dwight needs a stand-in.
nibiyabisays...*lies
siftbotsays...Adding video to channels (Lies) - requested by nibiyabi.
Psychologicsays...Suicide is always a tragedy.
No. In many cases it is, but not in every case. I don't know why people in today's society feel that a person's life is not their own. If I get a horrifying terminal disease and have nothing to look forward to but a slow painful death then it will be my decision when it is my time to die. If I feel that I have lived long enough then it is not your job to make that decision for me.
In this case perhaps he was dealing with avoidable emotional issues, but his life was his own and if he wanted to end it then that was his choice and no one else's.
JAPRsays...They youtube video has been made private, but the video is apparently also on Godtube:
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=8eac64eb46ea47490279
xxovercastxxsays...*dead
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Javinsays...burdturgler said: "You're going to have a hard time standing on whatever moral ground you think you have if you think it's OK to look down and not only laugh about a person who committed suicide, but find any joy in it. You're entitled to think whatever you want about this guy ... celebrating his suicide makes you the sick one imo. ... I'm voicing my disgust over your wanton carelessness for human life and complete disregard for it..."
I can't begin to describe how many things are wrong with this argument. First, the guy was a piece of filth. Always was, and always will be. His "non-profit" organization that he was attempting to establish was set up to "donate 10% of profits" (what?) to other "charities" such as Billy Graham. (ie: Other vultures.)
I would absolutely love nothing more than to hear Billy Graham committed suicide. That man is responsible for the fleecing if literal MILLIONS of dollars from uneducated and ignorant Christians over several decades. This piece of filth, who got his first 15 minutes of fame by attempting to completely devastate a girl that had dumped him (which ultimately she got the last laugh, in forwarding his E-Mail ending with him getting fired) and now he's wanting to set up his own evangelical "network" so he can try and cash in on the Billy Graham fame? An obvious failure at his political career he decided to find another way to fleece money.
Just in case his evangelism didn't bring in money from the Christians, let's also set up a completely fake and impossibly rigged "competition" to see if we can get some cash from the athiests/agnostics while we're at it, huh? And how about this:
"[At UVA], I spent the greater part of my free time evangelizing to the lost. I ... regularly attended UVA’s Atheist Club as the only Christian represented in attendance."
So now, not even clubs SPECIFICALLY FORMED to get AWAY from his specific kind of douchebaggery are safe. He just couldn't leave people alone.
It's specifically people such as him that are what's wrong with the entire world as a whole today. Nobody can be content with just allowing other people to live their lives. They want to FORCE everyone to live the life *THEY* want them to live. This guy was a shining example of this, and I thank whatever God may exist that he never had the chance to reproduce and continue spawning more douchelings to screw up this world even further.
Yes, I would dance on his grave.
I do not believe for a minute that he had "Bi-Polar" syndrome. I believe this is what his equally as fundamentalist parents have had to convince themselves of because the guy was a prick, and he KNEW he was a prick. His "bi-polar" was nothing more than him having to pretend to be someone he wasn't half the time. It's a shame that his family would even use this crutch when there are people out there that ACTUALLY HAVE BI POLAR SYNDROME. I do, however, believe that there must have been some form of mental disorder, particularly any severe mental retardation, if he does actually believe any of what he says.
He was a failure. He was a failure to himself, he was a failure to his parents, he was a failure to all of his false friends, and he was a failure to humanity. Obviously, he finally got smart and realized it.
Yes, I celebrate the deaths of people like this. When Billy Graham finally goes, I will do a little dance. Every time a person like this dies, a small little part of me that they previously killed comes back to life.
Javinsays..."It looks like the hint tells you exactly how to win the $5300. Simply answer 'no', find a passage regarding purgatory and copy-paste the hint."
This also wouldn't work, as Purgatory simply didn't exist until the Crusades. There's nothing about anything even resembling it in any book of the bible (to include the few dozen that have been dropped throughout history when they became too complicated to make people believe in.) Purgatory was an invention of the church used to fund their Crusade to kill anyone that refused to believe in Christianity. "Your family members aren't quite to heaven yet. Pay us to pray them out."
way12gosays...I proved that gods can't exist and here is my proof http://sagargorijala.blogspot.com/
When will I get the dollars?
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