From: rbwinn on 12 Jul 2008 19:46 On Jul 12, 4:42 pm, "Steve O" <nospamh...(a)thanks.com> wrote: > "rbwinn" <rbwi...(a)juno.com> wrote in message > > news:ad7f65d3-3fa2-4bfd-81f6-5ed6a97ccb30(a)34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > > > > > > > On Jul 12, 8:25�am, Linda Fox <linda...(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:20:29 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...(a)juno.com> > >> wrote: > > >> >A two year old is learning to lie or tell the truth. �If a two year > >> >old sees its parents lie all the time, then the two year old is going > >> >to do the same thing. > > >> Ho-kayyyy - tell us please, because we'd love to know, how a > >> two-year-old can tell its parents are lying when it does not know the > >> truth itself. Unless it's by watching the nose grow longer and longer. > > >> Linda ff > > > A two year old is concerned about what works.  If the two year old > > sees that lying is more effective in getting results than telling the > > truth, then that is what the two year old is going to start doing. > > Atheists generally reward untruth. > > Robert B. Winn > > Clueless idiot. > > -- And atheists generally try to punish truth. Is that what you say to your two year old when he tells the truth? Robert B. Winn Robert B. Winn
From: Steve O on 12 Jul 2008 19:48 "rbwinn" <rbwinn3(a)juno.com> wrote in message news:e0417c27-033a-4ca8-87d9-a81f7e04025f(a)p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > On Jul 12, 4:42 pm, "Steve O" <nospamh...(a)thanks.com> wrote: >> "rbwinn" <rbwi...(a)juno.com> wrote in message >> >> news:ad7f65d3-3fa2-4bfd-81f6-5ed6a97ccb30(a)34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... >> >> >> >> >> >> > On Jul 12, 8:25�am, Linda Fox <linda...(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:20:29 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...(a)juno.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> >A two year old is learning to lie or tell the truth. �If a two year >> >> >old sees its parents lie all the time, then the two year old is going >> >> >to do the same thing. >> >> >> Ho-kayyyy - tell us please, because we'd love to know, how a >> >> two-year-old can tell its parents are lying when it does not know the >> >> truth itself. Unless it's by watching the nose grow longer and longer. >> >> >> Linda ff >> >> > A two year old is concerned about what works. If the two year old >> > sees that lying is more effective in getting results than telling the >> > truth, then that is what the two year old is going to start doing. >> > Atheists generally reward untruth. >> > Robert B. Winn >> >> Clueless idiot. >> >> -- > And atheists generally try to punish truth. Is that what you say to > your two year old when he tells the truth? > Robert B. Winn Is there any point in actually replying to you, you clueless fuckwit? No, I don't think so. -- Steve O a.a. #2240 (Apatheist Chapter) B.A.A.W.A. Convicted by Earthquack Exempt from purgatory by papal indulgence
From: rbwinn on 12 Jul 2008 19:49 On Jul 12, 4:36�pm, "Alex W." <ing...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > "rbwinn" <rbwi...(a)juno.com> wrote in message > > news:1c80751f-d62b-4476-9127-9f62df713eaa(a)a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... > > � If religion is such a bedtime story, why do so many religious people > get killed for their beliefs? > > ========= > > Whatever makes you think this is special to religious types? �Every day in > the newspaper, there are examples of people killing and dying for their > desires and beliefs, most of which have nothing to do with god. I never see much about any atheists being killed. Why is that? Robert B. Winn
From: Smiler on 12 Jul 2008 20:01 "rbwinn" <rbwinn3(a)juno.com> wrote in message news:1b978aa3-9206-4e7f-96e0-3fc23af80b9e(a)w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... On Jul 11, 8:03 pm, hhyaps...(a)gmail.com wrote: > On Jul 11, 12:24 pm, rbwinn <rbwi...(a)juno.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Jul 10, 8:39 pm, hhyaps...(a)gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Jul 11, 6:50 am, rbwinn <rbwi...(a)juno.com> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 10, 3:04 pm, James Burns <burns...(a)osu.edu> wrote: > > > > > > rbwinn wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 8, 1:20?pm, James Burns <burns...(a)osu.edu> wrote: > > > > > >>rbwinn wrote: > > > > > > >>>Well, all you are doing is saying that God is guilty of > > > > > >>>murder every time a natural death occurs. ?I do not > > > > > >>>think you will get far with that idea. > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > >>Assuming that you choose to clarify what you are trying to > > > > > >>say, thanks in advance. > > > > > > Well, according to the Bible, natural events are controlled > > > > > > by humans on the earth. > > > > > > If I take this as the clarification I asked for, of what > > > > > you mean by "natural death" (which I think most people > > > > > would consider a death that is not caused by humans, > > > > > not cause by diseases, not caused by anything identifiable), > > > > > then I suppose you are saying that no deaths are > > > > > natural deaths. Do I understand you properly? > > > > > > If this is what you mean, then you shouldn't be > > > > > surprised if others have difficulties understanding you. > > > > > > > If the people obey God's > > > > > > commandments, they prosper in the land, the elements are > > > > > > tempered in their favor, and their lives are safe an > > > > > > protected by heaven. This does not happen very often. > > > > > > We know that in the last days, wickedness on earth > > > > > > will be greater than at any other time in the history > > > > > > of earth. So we cannot expect favorable conditions. > > > > > > The choice to have things this way was not God's. > > > > > > It was made by men who reject God. If the people in > > > > > > Noah's day had listened to Noah, there would have been > > > > > > no flood. So how do you figure it was God's faullt? > > > > > > You seem to be arguing that God is not responsible for > > > > > anything. That seems to fit well with my own position, > > > > > although we do arrive there from very different > > > > > directions. > > > > > > Keep up the good work. We'll make an atheist of you yet. > > > > > > Just kidding. I don't really believe you're serious when > > > > > you argue this way. A few posts after you post how God > > > > > is responsible for nothing, you will post that God is > > > > > responsible for everything. > > > > > > There is no consistency in what you write, but maybe > > > > > you see no problem in that. Do you see logic as a trap for > > > > > the conscience? > > > > > > Jim Burns > > > > > Well, you atheists were the ones who were saying God should be > > > > indicted for murder because natural deaths occur. Which court do you > > > > plan to file that case in? > > > > Robert B. Winn > > > > Wait a minute, you only include natural death, what about the sins and > > > deaths caused by your god? > > > All must be filed in our human court, and you must drag your god to > > > the criminal court, OK?- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > It already happened. He was sentenced to death. So what do you > > think, you are going to do it again? > > Robert B. Winn > > Ah, so he was dead as a human, like modern criminal die of lethal > injection. > So, he was no god, right?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Wrong. He had power to lay down his life. He had power to take it up again. He was resurrected three days after he was crucified. ========================================= And Harry Potter can fly on a broomstick to play quiditch. Makes as much sense as your wholly babble stories. Smiler, The godless one a.a.# 2279
From: Smiler on 12 Jul 2008 20:41
"Alex W." <ingilt(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:6dr6phF409bjU1(a)mid.individual.net... > > "Smiler" <Smiler(a)Joe.King.com> wrote in message > news:bySdk.61505$7v1.7932(a)newsfe30.ams2... > > >> And the Harry Potter books tell us about Kings Cross station and London. >> Both the Harry Potter books and the bible are fiction. >> Get over it. > > One of my favourite Time Out "lies to tell tourists": > "yes, there is a platform 9 3/4". All London brothels display a _blue_ lamp. "Gerard Hofnung" Smiler, The godless one a.a.# 2279 |