Author Topic: I'm converting.  (Read 14712 times)

What is the point of working hard to sustain life if you know that everyone is going to die eventually?

Why not? You're living and you might as well make the most of it before you loving die. We're more animal than we seem, if we go around not respecting our life we'd have gone extinct. We have genetic urges to sustain life, we can't change that.

If this thread is serious I'm going to kill somebody. The guy died because somebody else wasn't paying attention. Maybe he wasn't paying attention because he was talking on the phone, or maybe he was drunk. Maybe he was a murderer or something, but it seems unlikely. That's the reason he died. Not everything needs to have a deep purpose. Science exists to find out why, it isn't there to answer philosophical questions like "why did he deserve to die", because there isn't a reason. It's simply a number of circumstances that lead to his death. It's an insignificant death anyway, since he's a homeless member of an overpopulated species on a tiny rock planet circling a ho-humm star, in a normal-ish arm of a typical spiral galaxy in an unremarkable section of the universe. It doesn't matter.

Whether you're trolling or not, this is low. I suggest you gtfo.

Inv3rted, congratulations. You made my day.

Your story is actually a lot like Saul of Tarsus'. He was a great persecutor of Christians in the years after Jesus' death and resurrection. One day, as he was traveling to Damascus to persecute Christians more, Jesus spoke to him from Heaven saying "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?". Saul is told to go to Damascus to be baptized, in the meantime he is blind. When is he baptized, he receives his sight and actually goes onto become pretty much the second most important person in the New Testament of the Bible, writing most of its books.

You don't mirror it exactly, but there are some definite similarities. Either way, welcome and congratulations.

You two.

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He said he got the name from an Atheist project he was doing with his friends or something.

Oh, this is gold.
I, for one, would at most become agnostic if something compelled me to believe in a god.

All of our religions suck, but the idea of a god has some weight to it.  Like if they were aliens and we, as ancients, interpreted them as gods.

Lol, thank you History Channel.

An interesting point. The reason to work hard to sustain life is that it earns you more time to live on Earth. I find that explanation very solid.

I always thought of it that way aswell, and to make next generations' lives simpler.

dkamm, your avatar is turning me on in ways that confuse me. I usually hate asian chicks.

my wiener feels funny, i am 12 and wat iz this?

She's gott hott.


He said he got the name from an Atheist project he was doing with his friends or something.

Oh.

He said he got the name from an Atheist project he was doing with his friends or something.
rofl

I think a lot of people that are Atheists have more of a problem with religion than they do with the idea of God. They're two completely different things, and it saddens me when people get so mad at religion that they also give up on God.

Whether you're trolling or not, this is low. I suggest you gtfo.

Why should he, it's his life, he told us, if you don't like it, don't post.

I think a lot of people that are Atheists have more of a problem with religion than they do with the idea of God. They're two completely different things, and it saddens me when people get so mad at religion that they also give up on God.

Exactly.

I think a lot of people that are Atheists have more of a problem with religion than they do with the idea of God. They're two completely different things, and it saddens me when people get so mad at religion that they also give up on God.
Well, our religions are based on stories, and the idea of a god to me seems a little far-fetched.
It just so happens that religion and gods go hand in hand.

If this thread is serious I'm going to kill somebody. The guy died because somebody else wasn't paying attention. Maybe he wasn't paying attention because he was talking on the phone, or maybe he was drunk. Maybe he was a murderer or something, but it seems unlikely. That's the reason he died. Not everything needs to have a deep purpose.
did the hobo deserve it though?

i actually don't know whether to believe him or not, sure he was a devout athiest, but people convert all the time :/

I think a lot of people that are Atheists have more of a problem with religion than they do with the idea of God. They're two completely different things, and it saddens me when people get so mad at religion that they also give up on God.

Atheists don't care about religion or the idea of god at all, they just know handicaps can't handle it so would rather it not exist.

are you still a liberal :o?

Well, our religions are based on stories, and the idea of a god to me seems a little far-fetched.
It just so happens that religion and gods go hand in hand.
Religion and God are two completely separate things.

You seemed to give up, Inverted. You should not change your beliefs for a community of teenagers/handful of adults. I got grilled hundreds of times at school everyday for being athiest. I tell them all the same thing.

"It's America. My beliefs are my own, I have no problem with yours."

It's your life, do as you please. It just seems to me you have converted for other reasons. I wish you all the luck in Christianity. I hope you don't become a radical like the nasty children in my high school trying to convert non-believers by cursing and through profanity.

Edit: The hobo died because he went out in the street and got hit by a car. There happened to be a car speeding down the street.
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