tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post3562609264281808698..comments2024-03-29T11:20:48.180+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: Feel The Love.Rosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-89587837556499778232013-02-15T13:13:20.921+00:002013-02-15T13:13:20.921+00:00Hi Rosa, I re-read this piece, and I wanted to add...Hi Rosa, I re-read this piece, and I wanted to add, that when I began early on thinking for myself(10 yrs old, or so)(always will there be a need to get better at it, I'm sure)on religion and stuff from the Xian Wholly Babble or Buy-BULL, it seems Xians would come after me demanding to know why I chose evil(i.e., simply my proclamation that, "from what I can tell, there is no god"), which would become for them, a time for prosyletising and a discussion of god's love and of god's great gift, that of Free Will to choose good(choose to be more god-like)or to choose evil, the choices which, BTW, was never resolved exactly. <br />E.g., I proposed, that, if I have a choice between A and B, that is, between good and evil, either one being equal to the other,...uh...but wait a minute however, not so fast, and it's not so simple it seems, since they apparently, believe one side from the start is weighted and is by being incorrect, an 'of lesser judgment and so, the Free Will, good/evil choice, became problematic in a similar way to Palestinian's democratic elections, won by Hamas a few years back. Then, it seemed, Free Will was not what was important, as what was really important, was a specific choice or outcome of the supposed exercising of that free will(Bush did not want Hamas to lead the Palestinians, instead, he wanted a group more conducive to doing what Bush wanted(Fatah),a lukewarm group, closer to the Israeli normalising(which screws Palestinians)position. Hark! do I detect a rigged game here?Just like when god hardened the Pharoah's heart against letting the Israelites go(god, thereby, took back the Pharoah's Free Will), Besides, seems god says: "Here, you have now Free Will to choose, just be sure you choose the right way that I want you to, cuz' if you DON'T, I'll cast you into a lake of fire and brimstone, and burn yo' ass for all time, for eternity, even(it isn't clear to me how he/she is going to maintain the fuel supply, cuz' for fire to burn anything, you need oxygen, fuel, and a spark to start it all. <br />Personally, seems/seemed easy for people like Jerry Fallwell, Bryan Fischer, Kenneth Copeland, and all those Religioturd Tele-Bangelists to spew their disgusting and evil hatred of others who are not like them, hell, it's not even possible for me to startup, let alone maintain such hatred and negativity about others.<br />Keep up the good work, Rosa, and thnx for the forum space for me to share/enjoy my love of life, of those whom I meet, of my home, of the only planet Earth we all call home, and for all the animals, whether insects, creepy crawlers, reptiles, or even mammals. nash984954https://www.blogger.com/profile/06326427178626206143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-5522332391001643162012-12-22T01:30:49.467+00:002012-12-22T01:30:49.467+00:00The Holy Roman Church wiped out the Dualists and t...The Holy Roman Church wiped out the Dualists and then needed an enemy(witches were thought of as merely harmless kooks until this book)and so commissioned Kramer and his buddy to write the Malleus Maleficarum, or the handbook for prosecuting witches(who strangely enough many were the wealthy landowners and so after they were killed for witchcraft, their property went to...you guessed it...The Holy Roman Church!!)(During the time of the St Bartholew's Day Massacre, that killed tens of thousands of French Huguenots, or Reformed Xians, at the behest and hands of Catholics, half of France was owned by the church). Dualists were all about a stick with good on one end and evil on the other, or Satan versus god. What came of this idea after they were decimated was that you could not just have a belief in god and be done with it, you also had to believe in Satan to be considered the 'proper' Xian, possibly why there were so many Xians killed in religious wars in Europe.(100 million estimated by some), and all about a disagreement of whose god was THE god, the one, the only. So, The Holy Roman Church killed off the Dualists, only to adopt their idea of good and evil, Satan and god. Sheesh!! As when catholic Bishops say Evolution is true, but so is the virgin birth, too. Lest we forget, the Divine Comedy was also commissioned by the Catholic church, as the Pope looked around and saw the peasants weren't very afraid of the church and began to disregard its authority so they needed the HELL scared from them by creating a Satan fantasy of eternal damnation in HELL and hellfire if you didn't tow the church line.<br />Thnx Rosa. @jr_nash here posting as anonymous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-13593984094166476662012-12-22T01:04:37.771+00:002012-12-22T01:04:37.771+00:00"A person doesn't have to be wise; he doe..."A person doesn't have to be wise; he doesn't have to know what he's talking about; he merely has to appear to the ignorant to know more than the person who does know what he's talking about."-from Chaper 3 of "Nonsense'How to Overcome It'" by Robert J Gula<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-36675749372024482032012-08-24T01:26:30.594+01:002012-08-24T01:26:30.594+01:00Hi. Welcome to my blog.
Just going by the Pentat...Hi. Welcome to my blog.<br /><br />Just going by the Pentateuch it would be impossible for a sane person to argue that the god described is benign. It's merely a tribal god which demands obedience and rules by threats and promises.<br />Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-5706908802584794202012-08-24T00:53:42.822+01:002012-08-24T00:53:42.822+01:00If I may, my friend, this is Jaxzohn. The book of ...If I may, my friend, this is Jaxzohn. The book of Lev is from the old testament, which is to say that it is, for all intents and purposes, the Torah. Now one of my favorite arguements to have with our Christian friends is the fact that the concept of the devil and hell, were added by them. The Jews believed that the god of Abraham, Yahweh, is not the benevolent being the Christians portray. To the Jews, god is the alpha and the omega, both sides of the coin. That being said, their god can be the most gentle, but the greatest evil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-45064916335581953932012-02-07T23:40:50.630+00:002012-02-07T23:40:50.630+00:00Actually, I would think the main reason for going ...Actually, I would think the main reason for going to such extremes is that it was _hard_ to control people, because they would easily switch whom to follow. It was, by this presumption, a constant battle to be more convincing than the next demagogue. Leave people alone for ten minutes and they would switch leaders and worship those guys’ gods.Barry Schwartzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12817873613927688419noreply@blogger.com