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Poll Question: Which most closely matches your beliefs?
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9 [18.75%]
10 [20.83%]
11 [22.92%]
18 [37.50%]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2012 at 18:55
Oh come on, it's not as if Epignosis ever follows people around criticising them for not using words correctly. "Do unto others" and all that, he lives by such credo.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2012 at 19:00
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

That's racist.
You have been manipulated by the media. 
 
You have been manipulated by your momma.
 
 
 
Actually who hasn't been? Not by your mom, by their own mom. Well maybe by your mom, I guess some people on here might know her, I don't know what she gets up to.
 
Wait, don't take it like that, I was just saying I don't know what she does, I'm not trying to offend. I mean, she could be dead this is unsalvagable.
 
At the comedy festival last night during Axis Of Awesome, the band said they were going to do an offensive song about religion but just to check, was anybody really religious there and if you love God/religion, MAKE SOME NOISE!
 
To my surprise, there was a total, dead, silence. After several seconds, literally two people (I could see them from my table) started clapping. The keyboardist said sneeringly "Well there's always a couple" and then they carried on.
 
But it made me think how much progress NZ is making regarding religion. Sure it was only a comedy audience (comedy fans tend to be less serious about things like religion for obvious reasons) of about 500 or maybe more. (It was a room in the town hall and it was full.) But the band could've done the same thing almost anywhere in America and gotten a huge roar.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2012 at 19:02
My head hurts a lot. I voted for E. I liked that one the best. Where's F? I love the idea of God, even if I don't believe in it. I want my mom to believe in God. She's calmer and happier when she does. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2012 at 19:57
Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

The people who use the internet are antisemantic


Oh, they are!  They make me so angry I literally stab myself in the face!
I can't find the link now but the same source you used yesterday in an article about politicians recently had one where it was said that you can definitely, totally, literally use 'literally' in the way you just used it and be correct in your use of the language. Wink


Yes, I read that Cracked article.  I'll post it so people can read it. 

It's mostly bullsh*t, sorry.  This author seems to think that just because people do something wrongly for a long period of time automatically makes the mistake right.  Historically, that's true sometimes.

Just because people misuse words for a long time doesn't make it proper- it only makes it proper in their linguistic milieu.  The author of that article took one form of English and said, "This is correct in all versions of English" and he is ridiculously wrong.  Grammar and usage is (supposed) to make communication as clear as possible; misusing words very often works against the communicator and the intended message.

The writer then made the Linguistics 101 black and white distinction between descriptivism and prescriptivism, which is stupid.  Both are right, but neither one absolutely.  Language is Silly Putty.  We can mold it as we like it, but we cannot turn it into a living bird or a stack of $100s.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2012 at 20:48

You can't put an s on the end of a number like that.

 
Honestly, some people.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2012 at 20:51
Originally posted by Failcore Failcore wrote:

A) You believe in a higher power and believe that it's nature.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2012 at 22:10
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

The people who use the internet are antisemantic


Oh, they are!  They make me so angry I literally stab myself in the face!
I can't find the link now but the same source you used yesterday in an article about politicians recently had one where it was said that you can definitely, totally, literally use 'literally' in the way you just used it and be correct in your use of the language. Wink


Yes, I read that Cracked article.  I'll post it so people can read it. 

It's mostly bullsh*t, sorry.  This author seems to think that just because people do something wrongly for a long period of time automatically makes the mistake right.  Historically, that's true sometimes.

Just because people misuse words for a long time doesn't make it proper- it only makes it proper in their linguistic milieu.  The author of that article took one form of English and said, "This is correct in all versions of English" and he is ridiculously wrong.  Grammar and usage is (supposed) to make communication as clear as possible; misusing words very often works against the communicator and the intended message.

The writer then made the Linguistics 101 black and white distinction between descriptivism and prescriptivism, which is stupid.  Both are right, but neither one absolutely.  Language is Silly Putty.  We can mold it as we like it, but we cannot turn it into a living bird or a stack of $100s.
I understand. Though remember English is my second language so you can be a little more forgiving of my silly waysTongue
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 03 2012 at 13:36
Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

That's racist.
You have been manipulated by the media. 
 
You have been manipulated by your momma.
 
 
 
Actually who hasn't been? Not by your mom, by their own mom. Well maybe by your mom, I guess some people on here might know her, I don't know what she gets up to.
 
Wait, don't take it like that, I was just saying I don't know what she does, I'm not trying to offend. I mean, she could be dead this is unsalvagable.
 
At the comedy festival last night during Axis Of Awesome, the band said they were going to do an offensive song about religion but just to check, was anybody really religious there and if you love God/religion, MAKE SOME NOISE!
 
To my surprise, there was a total, dead, silence. After several seconds, literally two people (I could see them from my table) started clapping. The keyboardist said sneeringly "Well there's always a couple" and then they carried on.
 
But it made me think how much progress NZ is making regarding religion. Sure it was only a comedy audience (comedy fans tend to be less serious about things like religion for obvious reasons) of about 500 or maybe more. (It was a room in the town hall and it was full.) But the band could've done the same thing almost anywhere in America and gotten a huge roar.
I doubt there would have been a roar in America, unless it was specifically a religious event. People are cowards and in general will not say what they believe if they think it will be met with hostility. Online, however.....LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 15 2012 at 10:34
Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

God exists. He speaks to me all the time.

Oh come on, me whispering things to you in your sleep does not make me a God.

I personally, voted C, though it's somewhere between C and D. According to MY rationality and logic, I don't see how the existence of higher deity makes sense. With that, I don't trust mine or anyone's rationality as a correct rationality. Moreover, I just don't care. I really really really really don't care. It's a useless question to ask, in the end.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 02:08
Originally posted by Failcore Failcore wrote:

These wouldn't fit in the poll choices, so I just used corresponding letters:

A) You believe in a higher power and believe that its nature and will can be discovered through religious texts or institutions.
 
This, although agnostics seem to be in the ascendency and atheists the biggest single group. No surprises there then Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 02:15
Originally posted by frippism frippism wrote:

Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

God exists. He speaks to me all the time.

Oh come on, me whispering things to you in your sleep does not make me a God.




LOL
You sure baby?

That is interesting though, I assume ACR means that as something symbolic, or god speaks to him all the time through prayer, or things he sees/feels.

Because if you mean literal talking to prophet type stuff, I'd say ACR you need to get your head checked, or we're in the presence of the savior of our time!



I still am completely unsure, I always am hovering in some gray area between agnostic and deist...the problem usually being semantics.
This is why I like to go with extreme agnostic. I ain't just unsure, I am 100% absolutely sure I am unsureWink

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 02:21
I vote for E.

If you have to ask the reason why, then the answer is already lost. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 02:22
I put it beside the keys how could you have already lost it?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 02:25
I don't like paraphrasing others (but I'll make an exception for Kafka); beliefs are like guillotines, just as heavy, just as light. 

It works both ways.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 02:42
I never had a good way with words on the topic, here's some cheery lads who do a far superior job


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 02:45
Brian empty your message inbox, it's full you sociable b*****d.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 02:48
At least you were the one who finally filled it up < 3



But suuuuummer is a coming and, arise. Ariiise.
But suuuuummer is a coming and, arise. Ariiise!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 02:50
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

At least you were the one who finally filled it up < 3

I <3 u 2 bby grl
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 24 2012 at 03:44
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