The Nickman wrote: ↑May 9, 2018, 12:32 pm
Timothy 2:11 reads:
"I permit no woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to keep silent."
Keen to know your thoughts on this one, dubs. Seeing as you believe people who engage in homosexual sex are going to hell, what are your thoughts on women teachers, police officers or politicians? I reckon you'd be dead against them!
*raiderskater responds to this Timothy jerkass by shouting profanities at him*
Frankly, I think the world would be a better place without all organised religion.
And to all the people who doubted me, hello to them as well. - Mark Webber, Raiders Ballboy and Unluckiest F1 Driver Ever
I'm attacking in the right way, instead of just...attacking in the general direction. - Max Aaron (also eerily apropos for the Green Machine)
There are parts of the bible you cannot take literally. Some parts are poetry, others hyperbole.
Look, let me give you an example of where you went wrong:
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
The Nickman wrote: ↑May 9, 2018, 12:34 pm
Mark 12:19 reads:
"Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother."
So what do you say, dubs? If you pass away, you're more than fine with your brother "taking" your wife? It's God's word after all!
Here.
You grab a scripture where I think it was a bunch of Sadduccees try and trick Jesus by grabbing a teaching Moses handed down.
The Law concerning the Levirate marriage is found in Deuteronomy 25:5. It was ordained for the preservation of families, that if a man died without male issue, his brother should marry his widow, and that the firstborn son should be held in the registers to be the son of the dead brother.
But, you don't include the whole story!
Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife; and dying, he left no offspring. 21 And the second took her, and he died; nor did he leave any offspring. And the third likewise. 22 So the seven had her and left no offspring. Last of all the woman died also. 23 Therefore, in the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For all seven had her as wife.”
24 Jesus answered and said to them, “Are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God? 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Dude. ... This random thing you quoted is just....random.
Some old Levite teaching to preserve a families genealogy and future. Weird!!
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
Son, we live in a world that has forums, and those forums have to be guarded by Mods. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Nickman? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Lucy, and you curse GE. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know -- that GE’s moderation, while tragic, probably saved lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, keeps threads on track and under the appropriately sized, highlighted green headings.
You want moderation because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that forum -- you need me on that forum. We use words like "stay on topic," "use the appropriate forum," "please delete." We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very moderation that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather that you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you get a green handle and edit a post. Either way, I don't give a DAMN what you think about moderation.
dubby wrote:There are parts of the bible you cannot take literally. Some parts are poetry, others hyperbole.
Look, let me give you an example of where you went wrong:
So who decides which parts you can take literally which parts you can’t? YOU, based on your own disgusting discriminatory beliefs??
I dunno man, that sounds like a massive cop out to me.
If god is all-loving, I’m pretty sure the part where he sends people who HE MADE GAY to hell are the parts which you don’t need to be taken literally
When Jesus said that you should cut off your hand or pluck out your eye if they cause you to sin, I'm sure that's an exaggeration.
And Nick? I'm getting very sick of you saying my beliefs are disgusting.
If you want to continue trying to have a adult conversation, fine. If you want to insert insults into it, I'm not partaking any further.
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
Schifty wrote: ↑May 9, 2018, 7:20 pm
BTW $243 Million for chaplains in public schools is a disgrace.
Hopefully ACT continues their previous policy of not accepting the cash so the program doesn't get funded.
Yep I saw the teachers union is fighting it at least.
Being a secular country how about we drop chaplains and have actual counselors doing the job, or at the very least give the schools the option rather than being forced to fill up the religious pockets even more.
I bow down to thee oh great Nickman, the wisest of the wise, your political adroitness is unsurpassed, your sagacity is unmatched, your wisdom shines through on this forum amongst us mere mortals as bright as your scalp under the light of a full moon, never shall I doubt your analytical prowess again. You are my hero, my lord, my savior, may you accept my offerings so you continue to bless us with your genius.
dubby wrote:There are parts of the bible you cannot take literally. Some parts are poetry, others hyperbole.
Look, let me give you an example of where you went wrong:
This is very honest question dubby... if you can ignore certain parts of the bible, because they are horrible and unacceptable in the 21st century... isn’t it the same in relation to gay people? You aren’t campaigning against adulterers or people who eat crayfish or whatever you’re not supposed to eat. Shouldn’t you also reject the horrible parts of the bible, the frankly silly parts of the bible, that relate to gay people? Simply because the bible was written during times of horrible prejudice, thousands of years ago?
Gina Riley: Oh, come on, John. That’s a bit old hat, the corrupt IOC delegate. John Clarke: Old hat? Gina, in the scientific world when they see that something is happening again and again and again, repeatedly, they don’t call it old hat. They call it a pattern.
Well I’m getting genuinely sick of you sitting on your high horse telling us all that friends of mine are going to hell simply because of the way they were born, and something they have no control over, because you’ve cherry picked a few passages from a book while ignoring the countless bat **** crazy Bull that litters the pages
It strikes me at a personal level and I’m not joking when I say I’m genuinely offended by you constantly sprouting hateful and insulting garbage about close friends of mine and hiding behind your **** outdated kiddy-fiddling religion while you do it
So don’t cry to me about being “jack of it”, pal. Pull your head in and move into the 21st century
dubby wrote:There are parts of the bible you cannot take literally. Some parts are poetry, others hyperbole.
Look, let me give you an example of where you went wrong:
This is very honest question dubby... if you can ignore certain parts of the bible, because they are horrible and unacceptable in the 21st century... isn’t it the same in relation to gay people? You aren’t campaigning against adulterers or people who eat crayfish or whatever you’re not supposed to eat. Shouldn’t you also reject the horrible parts of the bible, the frankly silly parts of the bible, that relate to gay people? Simply because the bible was written during times of horrible prejudice, thousands of years ago?
It absolutely is. Dubby just picks and chooses the bits of the bible that support his deeply offensive views while saying “oh, don’t worry about that” to the rest of the horrible, crazy stuff
And he’s just failing to admit it, and it’s infuriating that he either can’t see this, or blatantly chooses to ignore it
You talk about your cognitive dissonance, I’ve never seen more evidence of it
Nickman, where did you learn big words like cognitive dissonance from?
Gina Riley: Oh, come on, John. That’s a bit old hat, the corrupt IOC delegate. John Clarke: Old hat? Gina, in the scientific world when they see that something is happening again and again and again, repeatedly, they don’t call it old hat. They call it a pattern.
dubby wrote: ↑May 9, 2018, 7:44 pm
There are parts of the bible you cannot take literally. Some parts are poetry, others hyperbole.
Look, let me give you an example of where you went wrong:
Dubs the more we learn the less of it Christians take literally, at what point do we simply say none of it should be taken literally?
Who decides what to take literally, is it only stuff we’ve proven is wrong, the stuff that doesn’t fit in with our morality, Christians will also disagree on what parts to take literally.
I bow down to thee oh great Nickman, the wisest of the wise, your political adroitness is unsurpassed, your sagacity is unmatched, your wisdom shines through on this forum amongst us mere mortals as bright as your scalp under the light of a full moon, never shall I doubt your analytical prowess again. You are my hero, my lord, my savior, may you accept my offerings so you continue to bless us with your genius.
That’s what it comes down to for me, the Bible was written by men to fit the knowledge and morality of the time hence a lot of the abhorrent morality we know is no longer acceptable like killing certain people, the homophobia, misogyny and endorsing slavery.
Morality thankfully evolves with society and while religions are generally slow to catch up they do generally get there, it won’t be long till the homosexuality is another bit that will be ignored as it already is by a lot of Christians.
I bow down to thee oh great Nickman, the wisest of the wise, your political adroitness is unsurpassed, your sagacity is unmatched, your wisdom shines through on this forum amongst us mere mortals as bright as your scalp under the light of a full moon, never shall I doubt your analytical prowess again. You are my hero, my lord, my savior, may you accept my offerings so you continue to bless us with your genius.
reptar wrote:Nickman, where did you learn big words like cognitive dissonance from?
Straight out of GE’s playbook, isn’t it?
Yes, it's the kind of stuff he'd whip out after a few red wines and a couple of cheese platters.
Gina Riley: Oh, come on, John. That’s a bit old hat, the corrupt IOC delegate. John Clarke: Old hat? Gina, in the scientific world when they see that something is happening again and again and again, repeatedly, they don’t call it old hat. They call it a pattern.
That’s what it comes down to for me, the Bible was written by men to fit the knowledge and morality of the time hence a lot of the abhorrent morality we know is no longer acceptable like killing certain people, the homophobia, misogyny and endorsing slavery.
Morality thankfully evolves with society and while religions are generally slow to catch up they do generally get there, it won’t be long till the homosexuality is another bit that will be ignored as it already is by a lot of Christians.
And that’s just it, isn’t it? In twenty years time they’ll be saying “oh you don’t take the homosexuality stuff literally” like they do now about the deeply misogynistic stuff or about cutting off hands or stoning people to death, and the views of people like Israel Folau and dubby will be consigned to the dark ages of history where they belong
What’s worse, having beliefs ridiculed or being punished for not sharing them? Essentially that is what Christians believe will happen, whether a literal hell, a separation from god or ceasing to exist, if you believe in god you’ll be rewarded no matter your actions and if you don’t too bad you’ll be punished. Being punished for a lack of belief is so much worse than mere words.
I bow down to thee oh great Nickman, the wisest of the wise, your political adroitness is unsurpassed, your sagacity is unmatched, your wisdom shines through on this forum amongst us mere mortals as bright as your scalp under the light of a full moon, never shall I doubt your analytical prowess again. You are my hero, my lord, my savior, may you accept my offerings so you continue to bless us with your genius.
dubby wrote:There are parts of the bible you cannot take literally. Some parts are poetry, others hyperbole.
Look, let me give you an example of where you went wrong:
This is very honest question dubby... if you can ignore certain parts of the bible, because they are horrible and unacceptable in the 21st century... isn’t it the same in relation to gay people? You aren’t campaigning against adulterers or people who eat crayfish or whatever you’re not supposed to eat. Shouldn’t you also reject the horrible parts of the bible, the frankly silly parts of the bible, that relate to gay people? Simply because the bible was written during times of horrible prejudice, thousands of years ago?
I think this argument extends to rejecting religion altogether.
If the Bible is the word of God and it has blatantly horrible pieces of morality, then how can it be real? There’s no need for God to subscribe to the morality of the times in teaching us his ways.
You can’t just say it’s written by men and they make errors. If God has little power over his own advertising material he’s not a very powerful God.
That combined with no new releases in 2000 years.
Plus God having no better ways of revealing himself and having a true relationship with people than an old book?
That’s at the essence of why Christian religion is unfathomable to me.
dubby wrote:There are parts of the bible you cannot take literally. Some parts are poetry, others hyperbole.
Look, let me give you an example of where you went wrong:
This is very honest question dubby... if you can ignore certain parts of the bible, because they are horrible and unacceptable in the 21st century... isn’t it the same in relation to gay people? You aren’t campaigning against adulterers or people who eat crayfish or whatever you’re not supposed to eat. Shouldn’t you also reject the horrible parts of the bible, the frankly silly parts of the bible, that relate to gay people? Simply because the bible was written during times of horrible prejudice, thousands of years ago?
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
dubby wrote:There are parts of the bible you cannot take literally. Some parts are poetry, others hyperbole.
Look, let me give you an example of where you went wrong:
This is very honest question dubby... if you can ignore certain parts of the bible, because they are horrible and unacceptable in the 21st century... isn’t it the same in relation to gay people? You aren’t campaigning against adulterers or people who eat crayfish or whatever you’re not supposed to eat. Shouldn’t you also reject the horrible parts of the bible, the frankly silly parts of the bible, that relate to gay people? Simply because the bible was written during times of horrible prejudice, thousands of years ago?
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
dubby wrote:There are parts of the bible you cannot take literally. Some parts are poetry, others hyperbole.
Look, let me give you an example of where you went wrong:
This is very honest question dubby... if you can ignore certain parts of the bible, because they are horrible and unacceptable in the 21st century... isn’t it the same in relation to gay people? You aren’t campaigning against adulterers or people who eat crayfish or whatever you’re not supposed to eat. Shouldn’t you also reject the horrible parts of the bible, the frankly silly parts of the bible, that relate to gay people? Simply because the bible was written during times of horrible prejudice, thousands of years ago?
So hell is reserved for murderers, adulterers, rapists, and people who were born attracted to the same sex as them and choose to have intercourse with them??
Yeah righto, dubs. Wake up to yourself.
I genuinely find your statements like "it's not solely gays" to be deeply offensive.
dubby wrote:There are parts of the bible you cannot take literally. Some parts are poetry, others hyperbole.
Look, let me give you an example of where you went wrong:
This is very honest question dubby... if you can ignore certain parts of the bible, because they are horrible and unacceptable in the 21st century... isn’t it the same in relation to gay people? You aren’t campaigning against adulterers or people who eat crayfish or whatever you’re not supposed to eat. Shouldn’t you also reject the horrible parts of the bible, the frankly silly parts of the bible, that relate to gay people? Simply because the bible was written during times of horrible prejudice, thousands of years ago?
I think this argument extends to rejecting religion altogether.
If the Bible is the word of God and it has blatantly horrible pieces of morality, then how can it be real? There’s no need for God to subscribe to the morality of the times in teaching us his ways.
You can’t just say it’s written by men and they make errors. If God has little power over his own advertising material he’s not a very powerful God.
That combined with no new releases in 2000 years.
Plus God having no better ways of revealing himself and having a true relationship with people than an old book?
That’s at the essence of why Christian religion is unfathomable to me.
This is what drew me so heavily towards Buddhism in the first place. Although it's probably more of a philosophy than a religion, Buddhism attempts to understand the universe and one of the important facets is to not believe anything unless you can prove it for yourself. And once something has been disproven by science, then stop believing in it.
The Abrahamic religions, on the other hand, believe in a bunch of crazy **** in 2000 year old books which were relevent back when you could cut off people's hands, stone people to death, own slaves and rape women... yet still try to pick and choose the bits of said book that are still relevant today.
I say none of it's relevant. If you have a mate who never pays you back money, you stop lending it to him. If someone keeps telling you lies about everything you stop believing them. The same should apply to 2000 year old books that tell you women should be stoned to death if they have intercourse outside of marriage.
2 Now early[a] in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. 3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, 4 they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses, in the law, commanded[c] us that such should be stoned.[d] But what do You say?”[e] 6 This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear.[f]
7 So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up[g] and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.” 8 And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. 9 Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience,[h] went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, “Woman, where are those accusers of yours?[j] Has no one condemned you?”
11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.”
Nick, you've got no idea what you're talking about. Twice now I'm shown you how loose and poor your attempted use of scripture is. Just stop.
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
And sadly Nick, you don't believe the act of homosexuality is a sin. It is.
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.