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Man, I didn't know I was supposed to be there. Besides, it was Friday night and I had things to do.

We've got a few coming from Seattle, too.

What is the proper pilot chute size for a Jedei 120? thanks, favaks

Friends get laid, don't they?

My problem is I keep running into the ones who are already taken favaks

The weather for Monday and Tuesday was beautiful. Prediction for today is mostly sunny, high in mid 60's. My Cobalt 120 demo arrived 2 hours ago. It's connected, packed, and ready to go. I look out side and it's all cloudy. favaks

That is so wrong. Aaaarrrggg!!! favaks

If such god exists, it's only a matter of time that he'll screw the believers. favaks

What if god got bored and self terminated?

2 hours a day, 5 days a week. Combination of cardio, anaerobic, isometric, and stretching. All that goes to waste over the weekend.

If you think manipulating a few genes and cells here and there is playing god, then you're really putting him down. God can do a lot better than that, I hope. favaks

Pascal's wager. This is a sound argument if there is only two choices of belief, your God, or none. But if God is infinitely incomprehensible, then there is possibly infinitely many theologies about God and each is equally probable. What make you think you're betting on the right one? What's the probability of chosing a right number from an infinite set? favaks

But is that really a just God? Aren't the children and women innocent? Do most Christians believe in this kind of God? favaks

So what is the intended context of the following passage? Deuteronomy 20 13 When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies favaks

I did cut and paste all that. I was not using the atheist sites as a reference, but just giving credits where it's due. favaks

I choose not to! A few Bible contradictions, taken from the American Atheists site and mbdojo.com/~rssl/biblical_problems.htm ON MORALITY Was it God, or the devil, who said: "I will strew your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your carcass. I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood..." Was it God, or the devil, who said: "Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of you and sons shall eat their fathers...I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they shall rob you of your children; pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring a sword upon you." Was it God, or the devil, who said: "Behold, I will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces..." Was it God, or the devil, who said: "Pass through the city after him, and smite; your eye shall not spare and you shall show no pity; slay old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women..." Was it God, or the devil, who said: "...I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the light of this sun." Was it god, or the devil, who said: "Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." Was it God, or the devil, who said: "Samar'ia shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open." Was it God, or the devil, who killed every man, woman, child and animal on earth because he lost his temper with them? Was it God, or the devil, who killed 50,000 of his children for merely looking into the ark of the covenant? Was it God, or the devil, who killed every firstborn child in Egypt for the deed of the Pharoah? ON SLAVERY In Luke 12:47, Jesus uses a metaphor involving slavery to impress upon his followers the nature of their relationship with God: "And that servant (Greek doulos = slave) who knew his master's will, but did not make ready or act according to his will, shall receive a severe beating." In Luke 12:37, Jesus says, "Blessed are those servants (slaves) whom the master finds awake when he comes..." In Luke 16:13, Jesus informs his disciples that "No servant (slave) can serve two masters..." Nowhere in the New Testament does Jesus Christ speak out against the institution of slavery, which pervaded the world during his time. ON VIOLENCE "And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them." Jer 13:14 ON THE PERMANENCY OF THE EARTH "... the earth abideth for ever." -- Ecclesiastes 1:4 "... the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." -- 2Peter 3:10 ON THE POWER OF GOD "... with God all things are possible." -- Matthew 19:26 "...The LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." -- Judges 1:19 ON DEALING WITH PERSONAL INJURY "...thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. " -- Exodus 21:23-25 "...ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." -- Matthew 5:39 ON CIRCUMCISION "This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised." -- Genesis 17:10 "...if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing." -- Galatians 5:2 ON INCEST "Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of this mother..." -- Deuteronomy 27:22 "And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter...it is a wicked thing...." -- Leviticus 20:17 [But what was god's reaction to Abraham, who married his sister -- his father's daughter?] See Genesis 20:11-12 "And God said unto Abraham, As for Sara thy wife...I bless her, and give thee a son also of her..." -- Genesis 17:15-16 ON PUNISHING CRIME "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father..." -- Ezekiel 18:20 "I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation..." -- Exodus 20:5 ON TEMPTATION "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man." -- James 1:13 "And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham..." -- Genesis 22:1 ON FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS "Honor thy father and thy mother..."-- Exodus 20:12 "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. " -- Luke 14:26 favaks

When does conception begin? When the sperm enters the egg? favaks

I'll be there to catch you

It is the concept of "I" that makes the world go around. I lean toward the more non-theistic sects. I like the quote a alot!

SpeedRacer, how do you go about extracting truths from a product that was compiled using primitive science? How do you ascribe attributes to God and his/her intention? favaks

LOST PRAIRIE! favaks

I was raised semi Buddhist, became a religous Christian at 13. Turned to Atheism at 17--I was searching for the meaning of life. Now I'm none of the above--just a skydiver

76.5% Damn, I'm not normal. favaks

This is what Spring is like in the North West favaks