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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
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 Posted - 07/07/2002 : 01:03:10 [Permalink]
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Hey all, back after my wayward hyatus of working days and not being able to keep my schedule.
Really Six, you think your threat from a book that can't even agree with itself is worth consideration as to the existence of your middle eastern sky monster? Please, I need much more reason than that to turn around and deface myself before your xian god thing. Where's the definitive proof of your god? Can we test him? Can he come down here and introduce himself? And if he does come down and introduce himself, how can I be sure it's not a mass hallucination?
Anyway, good to be back.
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gezzam
SFN Regular
Australia
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Posted - 07/07/2002 : 06:29:40 [Permalink]
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Getting off the subject above, my favourite billboard was :
"You can smoke a thousand bongs or sing a thousand songs, what will make you feel better?"
Former or latter guys?????
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James
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2002 : 09:00:32 [Permalink]
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Anyway, good to be back.
I'm just glad to see you posting. Have fun in SD this month.
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PhDreamer
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2002 : 20:36:33 [Permalink]
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Getting off the subject above, my favourite billboard was :
"You can smoke a thousand bongs or sing a thousand songs, what will make you feel better?"
Former or latter guys?????
Depends. Do I hafta do them all at once?
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
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Hobbes
New Member
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2002 : 20:50:48 [Permalink]
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Sixdays, so it was written by J.R.R. Tolkien, "If you really wish to treat with me, go away then come back when you are sober..." -Saruman, The Two Towers
If you don't have anything remotely intelligent to say, then shut the hell up. Your response is a waste of a few precious bytes of SFN's server space. And tell your god if he really wants to put butts in the pews, then he really needs some new marketing tactics.
And Newton said, "y'= lim h->0 of [f(x+h)-f(x)]/[(x+h)-x], thus, Calculus was born, and Newton saw that it was good. |
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2002 : 22:41:58 [Permalink]
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Anyway, good to be back.
I'm just glad to see you posting. Have fun in SD this month.
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Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.
Two more years...Two more years...Two more years...Two more years...Two more years...
*whine*
I'll certainly try that. I do need some 'fun' in my otherwise mundane life.
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...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young |
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2002 : 22:52:15 [Permalink]
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Oh, Trish and I will have fun. She's gonna hold my hand while I get my next tattoo.
Trish, those billboards have started showing up here too. Up to a "midnight raid"?
j/k
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2002 : 23:14:56 [Permalink]
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Ooooh sounds fun. Yeah, those nasty billboards have shown up around here a couple places.
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Hobbes
New Member
USA
34 Posts |
Posted - 07/09/2002 : 02:52:47 [Permalink]
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You know, it would almost be fun to start putting up trite little sayings by Bertrand Russel or Thomas Paine to couter these goof-ass advertisements, but trying to reduce either of these guys' ideas to sound bytes sounds futile to me. For example, how do you fit Bertrand Russel's quote "Religion, as organized in its churches, is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world today" onto a billboard?
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/09/2002 : 12:07:34 [Permalink]
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ROM 14:11 It is written: "' As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.'"..........Even the skeptics.
Six days
Lord? Which Lord? I like the Goddess! Example: http://www.screensavershot.com/persons2/bardot.jpg(But I guess I just like to "Ma Ma'd".)
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Lars_H
SFN Regular
Germany
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Posted - 07/09/2002 : 12:21:33 [Permalink]
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You know, it would almost be fun to start putting up trite little sayings by Bertrand Russel or Thomas Paine to couter these goof-ass advertisements, but trying to reduce either of these guys' ideas to sound bytes sounds futile to me. For example, how do you fit Bertrand Russel's quote "Religion, as organized in its churches, is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world today" onto a billboard?
How about: GOD IS DEAD! - Nietzsche ?
It is short and there are no big hard to comprehend words in it. On the downside somebody somebody would probably completly miss the point and write 'Nietzsche is dead - God' under it.
Another idea would be quoting Allah, God and Jehova saying that they are Jealous or prone to punish people who believe in gods other then themselves. And then something like "Do you feel lucky punk?"
But then again, I think that witty sayings or logic would not work very well on most people. Emotions and comfortable delusions work better on most people and atheism just can't give as much of those.
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Xev
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 07/09/2002 : 13:36:15 [Permalink]
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How about: GOD IS DEAD! - Nietzsche ?
Freddy N had some great sayings about religion. I'll dig out a couple:
Which is it? Is man God's greatest mistake or God man's greatest mistake?
A belief may be a necessary condition of life and yet be false.
Why a beyond if not as a means of befouling the Here-and-Now?
One should not let oneself be misled: great intellects are skeptics. Zarathrusra is a skeptic. The vigour of a mind, its freedom through strength and superior strength, is proved by scepticism.
It is all over with priests and gods when man becomes scientific.
Moral: Science is the forbidden as such -- it alone is forbidden.
Science is the first sin, seed of all sin, the original sin.
This alone is morality. "Thou shalt not know" the rest follows.
When Zarathustra was alone, however, he said to his heart: "Could it
be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it,
that God is dead!"
There are also these: Humanistic adductions:
http://www.clwilliamson.net/human.htm
"Why be born again, when you can just grow up?"
"One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles."
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/09/2002 : 16:09:17 [Permalink]
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"Why be born again, when you can just grow up?"
oooooh, I like!
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@tomic
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 07/09/2002 : 21:32:38 [Permalink]
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Another idea would be quoting Allah, God and Jehova saying that they are Jealous or prone to punish people who believe in gods other then themselves. And then something like "Do you feel lucky punk?"
That sounds like the beginning of a joke. Yaweh, Allah and God walk into a bar....
 @tomic
Gravity, not just a good idea...it's the law! |
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
1447 Posts |
Posted - 07/27/2002 : 11:06:11 [Permalink]
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Ok, finally got that film developed. This is on I-65 just north of Montgomery, AL.
http://home.mchsi.com/~cnjbrown/billboard.jpg
I take it inline images are disabled? How can I get it to display?
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You can tell she's hydrolic...
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