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« Reply #60 on: August 22, 2016, 06:53:24 AM »
I will concede that I was wrong in calling Pundit homophobic based on the use of 'cocksucker' as an insult. Other than that my points still stand. Pundit, you are a n aggressive, ignorant bigot. Your politics are objectivist drivel no matter how many times you try and label yourself a libertarian, you are arrogant and intolerant in your relationships with others , that being in religious, politicial or rpg discussions. You can write as many blog entries as you want, you will never be Hunter S Thompson, only a second rate Glenn Beck.

And you know nothing about Denmark or Danes in general other than what you have gleaned from the first four words on Wikipedia before you got too tired of its 'leftist bias' and went for the Stormfront forum to get your information.

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« Reply #61 on: August 22, 2016, 09:47:29 AM »
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Popes say "you must believe".

I say "try it and see for yourself".


Fair enough, I don't have much use for popes myself but they work for a whole lot more other people than either of our belief structures, and some of them are very intelligent and well educated people at that.

Not that numbers are proof as such but they do lend a certain amount of acceptability to a belief structure.  If there were as many people who believed they were wolf spirits as there are Catholics I expect they'd be taken a great deal more seriously.
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« Reply #62 on: August 22, 2016, 10:06:36 AM »
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Fair enough, I don't have much use for popes myself but they work for a whole lot more other people than either of our belief structures, and some of them are very intelligent and well educated people at that.

Not that numbers are proof as such but they do lend a certain amount of acceptability to a belief structure.  If there were as many people who believed they were wolf spirits as there are Catholics I expect they'd be taken a great deal more seriously.

Well, there were.....

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« Reply #63 on: August 23, 2016, 01:59:38 AM »
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I will concede that I was wrong in calling Pundit homophobic based on the use of 'cocksucker' as an insult. Other than that my points still stand. Pundit, you are a n aggressive, ignorant bigot. Your politics are objectivist drivel no matter how many times you try and label yourself a libertarian, you are arrogant and intolerant in your relationships with others , that being in religious, politicial or rpg discussions. You can write as many blog entries as you want, you will never be Hunter S Thompson, only a second rate Glenn Beck.

And you know nothing about Denmark or Danes in general other than what you have gleaned from the first four words on Wikipedia before you got too tired of its 'leftist bias' and went for the Stormfront forum to get your information.


So now you're trying to accuse me of being a neo-nazi, bitch?

You have one chance to apologize.
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« Reply #64 on: August 23, 2016, 02:04:29 AM »
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Fair enough, I don't have much use for popes myself but they work for a whole lot more other people than either of our belief structures, and some of them are very intelligent and well educated people at that.

Not that numbers are proof as such but they do lend a certain amount of acceptability to a belief structure.  If there were as many people who believed they were wolf spirits as there are Catholics I expect they'd be taken a great deal more seriously.


The right mix of belief, requiring people to do just the right amount of things without having to do anything else, to have to dedicate just enough work to feel 'spiritual' without having to risk any chance whatsoever at self-transformation, to have to give up just right amount of autonomy, to have just the right range of ritual and trappings without being too much work, is indeed a winning formula for creating world religions.

It "works for" people in the sense that the vast majority of people don't actually want to transform themselves, which requires work. Most people just want to feel vaguely religious without having to do too much about it. It's way easier to believe something someone tells you or you read somewhere, be it Dawkins or Falwell or Francis, than to have to engage in a spiritual regimen of your own.

That's why esoteric schools have always been the minority. When they stop being a minority movement, it's because they've been co-opted, stripped of almost all actual spiritual use, and turned into a Religion.

Religions are made from the rotted corpses of true spiritual systems.
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« Reply #65 on: August 23, 2016, 02:55:36 AM »
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So now you're trying to accuse me of being a neo-nazi, bitch?

You have one chance to apologize.

No, I'm making a joke on your rejection of mainstream media: You think everything mainstream is leftist propaganda and so go to the extremes of the political spectrum for 'unbiased' information.

Also, you act like a crybaby. "Fuck you, you and your people are all totalitarians! You call me a nazi, boo ho, apologize for hurting my feelings in my safe space!"

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« Reply #66 on: August 23, 2016, 03:02:33 AM »
I can only speak for my country so I will say this.  Hell yes the mainstream media is fucking leftists.  They fully support Hillary any chance they get.  Hell Fox News fires people who are too conservative.

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« Reply #67 on: August 23, 2016, 03:22:03 AM »
Whereas in Australia we look at US media and see it as uniformly right-wing.

It's a bit the way when I lived in NZ I walked around in t-shirt and shorts when it was 15C because usually it was 0C, now in Melbourne I wear a jumper and jeans in 15C because usually it's 22C. The temperature is still 15C, that hasn't changed - but my body is used to it being colder all the time, or hotter all the time. You just get used things being a certain way and assume anything else is bizzarrely deviant.

If you really want to know what your country is like, ask a foreigner. A fish can't see the water.
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« Reply #68 on: August 23, 2016, 03:30:52 AM »
A fish can certainly see where the parent company of said news channel is going to pay for Hillary's president campaign and all the favorable reports she gets from said news channel.

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« Reply #69 on: August 23, 2016, 03:55:59 AM »
Yeah, like I said, hard to have perspective.
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« Reply #70 on: August 23, 2016, 05:33:13 AM »
If you think mainstream media are leftist, especially US ones, you may just be beyond the proverbial Wall to the right. Remind me, which TV station condemned Iraq's invasion as an illegal act of aggression performed despite UN Security Council veto?
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« Reply #71 on: August 23, 2016, 06:53:25 AM »
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If you really want to know what your country is like, ask a foreigner. A fish can't see the water.

I would add that voluntarily leaving your country for an extended period is often a great way to gain a better perspective on political goings on back home. The converse, fleeing or being exiled, tends to turn people into raving lunatics - as can be seen by trying to have a rational discussion about Vietnamese, Cambodian, Iraqi or Russian politics with overseas members of those communities.
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« Reply #72 on: August 23, 2016, 12:14:28 PM »
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Yeah, like I said, hard to have perspective.


Some never bothered to look at the Democrat Nomination Committee scandal that is all over in Wiki Leaks.

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« Reply #73 on: August 23, 2016, 02:01:20 PM »
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Religions are made from the rotted corpses of true spiritual systems.


I think that's mostly just human nature at work.  I expect you could look within most religions (including mine to be sure) and find only a minority are really making the effort to truly live the teachings involved.  In fact I would expect the only exceptions would be the religions that require next to nothing of their members.

People are basically lazy.
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« Reply #74 on: August 23, 2016, 03:20:34 PM »
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Some never bothered to look at the Democrat Nomination Committee scandal that is all over in Wiki Leaks.

Or the several that proceeded it, or the fact that the head of the DNC at the time had an aid the died along with the guy that served the DNC with legal papers over said scandal.  I don't know if the three are connected, but Julien Assange's lawyer just pushed himself in front of a train a few days ago, and he was certainly making a lot of noise about the DNC and Clinton before hand.