This continuous rat-race: The Omnipotent skylord dogs are inferior meltdown

[Radical Plato]

While it's true that you have not personally attacked MOS in this thread in the way SF and da vinci has, the hostility and condescending tone in your posts are palatable. And that is disrespectful and therefore insulting on it's on merits.

MOS is always unreasonably respectful

If given a choice, whom would you rather have as a neighbor? MOS and his family? Or another family you know absolutely nothing about?

I'll take number two thanks Larry.

And was just checking back in to this thread to see if Pellius was still melting down hard. Suspicion confirmed.

[The Ugly]

While it's true that you have not personally attacked MOS in this thread in the way SF and da vinci has, the hostility and condescending tone in your posts are palatable. And that is disrespectful and therefore insulting on it's on merits.

MOS is always unreasonably respectful

If given a choice, whom would you rather have as a neighbor? MOS and his family? Or another family you know absolutely nothing about?

Always.

I'd love to take him for beers and shush the Jeesusness when chicks approach.

[pellius]

Well to be clear I actually use the words "insults" and "potshots" the majority of the time.    Not that I haven't used the term "personal attack" before, but that isn't the issue I'm having.  Personal attacks are certainly more aggressive and if I posted that recently I did so inappropriately.

I have been personally attacked on these boards before.  I've been threatened.  My wife and daughter were threatened to be raped because my faith wasn't approved of.  

You certainly aren't doing that.  No one is currently doing that kind of stuff thank goodness.  

After years and years of discussions and being charitable in my demeanor the constant insults, potshots and digs in every other post from folks and sometimes every single post has worn me out and I won't tolerate it anymore.  I can't tell the number of folks that have contacted me privately and/or publically telling me to stop taking the abuse.  Now, I won't retaliate, but I won't take it anymore (sounds like a Twisted Sister lyric).  

I have a list of apologists and street preachers that have drawn a line in the sand as well on this issue.  We except some ridicule and mockery because that is expected no matter what....we're gonna get it.  There's an end to that level of tolerance though.  Some have decades of experience with this stuff and are either so completely immune and or simply won't tolerate a word of it.  I'm immune to the jabs themselves....that stuff is meaningless to me.  But yet I won't tolerate it in the discussion anymore...people are gonna have to earn the discussion and all they gotta do is act right.  I'm gonna give folks a warning (maybe two) and then they're done for the day.  If they come another time and are acting right then we're good.  

See, I'm not a punching bag meant for people's amusement; still, I often wonder "would these same folks say this stuff to my face?"  Don't know.  I've seen plenty of bold folks in person.

SF is an exception because his methods are unfortunately relentless and kind of "stalker-ish" (forgive me for lack of a better word).  

I really tried with him and I was approached by at least 6-7 people privately warning me to abandon ship with him over a period of a year.  I persisted for a time, but had a enough one day.  He crossed a line with comments about my family and I just had enough.   Were his comments horrific?  No.  I had just had enough and that did it for me.  His little insults added up to a mountain of insults....enough was enough.

Be comforted in the fact that of all the men of faith on this board, you are the most respected. There are more of you on this board than you know. They are just too cowardly to speak out. When I think of how people in the past would choose to be fed to the lions than renounce their faith, even today the Christians in the Mid East
are murdered by ISIS for not renouncing their faith. But the cowards here remain silent when their faith is attacked or challenged.

And of course they are too busy. They already put in their hour last Sunday. That should be enough.

[The Ugly]

Be comforted in the fact that of all the men of faith on this board, you are the most respected. There are more of you on this board than you know. They are just too cowardly to speak out. When I think of how people in the past would choose to be fed to the lions than renounce their faith, even today the Christians in the Mid East
are murdered by ISIS for not renouncing their faith. But the cowards here remain silent when their faith is attacked or challenged.

And of course they are too busy. They already put in their hour last Sunday. That should be enough.

Good comparison, facing the emperor/ISIS vs. Getbig.

F'n cowards, huh?

[pellius]

I'll take number two thanks Larry.

And was just checking back in to this thread to see if Pellius was still melting down hard. Suspicion confirmed.

Who is Larry?

So not only do you disagree with MOS' world view. You believe, that compared to the average the person, MOS is a worse human being?

And, yes, I do take some things very, very seriously. This is one of them.

Not everybody is, or wants to be, as shallow as you are.

BTW, I did show your post to my econ professor friend. Though she did not laugh like I did. She did shake her head and ask, "How old is this person?" She also wondered if stupid people realize how stupid they are.

So how old are you and what level of formal education do you have?

[pellius]

Always.

I'd love to take him for beers and shush the Jeesusness when chicks approach.

LOL!

He is definitely one of the few I would like to meet in real life.

It would be a pleasure and an honor.

I wish I could be more like him.

[pellius]

Good comparison, facing the Emperor/ISIS vs. Getbig.

F'n cowards, huh?

No, you misinterpreted what I said but understandingly so.

I would never expect, nor do I think would God, a person to be fed to the lions or be executed rather than renounce their faith. God is not going to condemn them for speaking words he knows they do not mean. He knows how they behave and he knows their heart.

But those that do get a "Wow" from me and knowing that there are some who would do that gives me pause. It's like, if they can make such a sacrifice maybe I can do a bit more. I don't mean that I have to nail myself to the cross and start trudging down a dirt trail reciting the Lord's Prayerlike they do in the Philipines during Easter, but maybe I can be stronger in my faith. That to stand up and defend when it's being challenges and/or attacked.

A person who considers himself a devout Christian sits on this board and reads MOS standing alone he/she should speak up. Don't just remain silent as another brother stands alone.

Of course, from my experience, this board is primarily secular -- actually anti-religious. bigmc's comment I think represents the typical feelings and positions concerning religion. Europeans are overwhelmingly non religious and their society and culture is reaping the results.

So maybe it's not that they are cowards, maybe there are just not there as they seems to be so few of us.

[The Ugly]

No, you misinterpreted what I said but understandingly so.

I would never expect, nor do I think would God, a person to be fed to the lions or be executed rather than renounce their faith. God is not going to condemn them for speaking words he knows they do not mean. He knows how they behave and he knows their heart.

But those that do get a "Wow" from me and knowing that there are some who would do that gives me pause. It's like, if they can make such a sacrifice maybe I can do a bit more. I don't mean that I have to nail myself to the cross and start trudging down a dirt trail reciting the Lord's Prayerlike they do in the Philipines during Easter, but maybe I can be stronger in my faith. That to stand up and defend when it's being challenges and/or attacked.

A person who considers himself a devout Christian sits on this board and reads MOS standing alone he/she should speak up. Don't just remain silent as another brother stands alone.

Of course, from my experience, this board is primarily secular -- actually anti-religious. bigmc's comment I think represents the typical feelings and positions concerning religion. Europeans are overwhelmingly non religious and their society and culture is reaping the results.

So maybe it's not that they are cowards, maybe there are just not there as they seems to be so few of us.

I sense you disagree. MUUUUUUUCH too long, so didn't read, but we both like MoS ...

There's that, right?

[pellius]

I sense you disagree. MUUUUUUUCH too long, so didn't read, but we both like MoS ...

There's that, right?

No, actually I admitted why you would say that. I didn't say it in a way that translate into the written word.

The point being that if someone can make the ultimate sacrifice, something that I believe God, nor myself, would expect. Then I can do a bit more as a champion of my faith.

[Radical Plato]

I sense you disagree. MUUUUUUUCH too long, so didn't read, but we both like MoS ...

There's that, right?

Everyone loves MOS, I mean how can you not.  It's like hating on Flanders from the Simpsons.

[OB1]

Everyone loves MOS, I mean how can you not.  It's like hating on Flanders from the Simpsons.

LOL.

[Raymondo]

Everyone loves MOS, I mean how can you not.  It's like hating on Flanders from the Simpsons.

 

[10pints]

No, you misinterpreted what I said but understandingly so.

I would never expect, nor do I think would God, a person to be fed to the lions or be executed rather than renounce their faith. God is not going to condemn them for speaking words he knows they do not mean. He knows how they behave and he knows their heart.

But those that do get a "Wow" from me and knowing that there are some who would do that gives me pause. It's like, if they can make such a sacrifice maybe I can do a bit more. I don't mean that I have to nail myself to the cross and start trudging down a dirt trail reciting the Lord's Prayerlike they do in the Philipines during Easter, but maybe I can be stronger in my faith. That to stand up and defend when it's being challenges and/or attacked.

A person who considers himself a devout Christian sits on this board and reads MOS standing alone he/she should speak up. Don't just remain silent as another brother stands alone.

Of course, from my experience, this board is primarily secular -- actually anti-religious. bigmc's comment I think represents the typical feelings and positions concerning religion. Europeans are overwhelmingly non religious and their society and culture is reaping the results.

So maybe it's not that they are cowards, maybe there are just not there as they seems to be so few of us.

Just a little FYI, God is dead.

[Radical Plato]

Just a little FYI, God is dead.

Hi Nietzsche

[mazrim]

A person who considers himself a devout Christian sits on this board and reads MOS standing alone he/she should speak up. Don't just remain silent as another brother stands alone.

He's not the only one and I consider him to be infinitely more patient with those such as Plato and Da Vinci then I could ever be.

[Raymondo]

Just a little FYI, God is dead.

For something to have died it must have first existed. Nietzsche's quip is metaphorical and he was not the first to say it. I think Hegel said it before him. Already in the late 1800s it was becoming apparent to men that the concept of God was becoming irrelevant to their lives.

[Radical Plato]

For something to have died it must have first existed. Nietzsche's quip is metaphorical and he was not the first to say it. I think Hegel said it before him. Already in the late 1800s it was becoming apparent to men that the concept of God was becoming irrelevant to their lives.

Yeah, and the problem still persists: what to replace God with?

[OB1]

Yeah, and the problem still persists: what to replace God with?

No need to replace something that doesn't exist.
 

[Radical Plato]

No need to replace something that doesn't exist.
 

Nietzsche meant it as the concept of God, not an actual being. Nietzsche recognised the important role religion and god had played up until now and wondered what would become of humanity unless they could move beyond it.

[OB1]

Nietzsche meant it as the concept of God, not an actual being. Nietzsche recognised the important role religion and god had played up until now and wondered what would become of humanity unless they could move beyond it.

Yes, I know.
I probably read your post out of context.

[10pints]

Yeah, and the problem still persists: what to replace God with?

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

[Radical Plato]

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Bodybuilders are the modern day equivalent of Sisyphus, just ask Ronnie Coleman.

[Raymondo]

Yeah, and the problem still persists: what to replace God with?

You mean philosophically speaking? Nietzsche was constantly grappling with that. He came of age in the 1860s. One of the most turbulent times in the history of humanity.

I think the question of what to replace God with is preceded by the question of is there a need for God. So really, it becomes a question about human nature. Do we need the concept God anymore? As individuals? As families? As communities? As countries? As a species?

[10pints]

You mean philosophically speaking? Nietzsche was constantly grappling with that. He came of age in the 1860s. One of the most turbulent times in the history of humanity.

I think the question of what to replace God with is preceded by the question of is there a need for God. So really, it becomes a question about human nature. Do we need the concept God anymore? As individuals? As families? As communities? As countries? As a species?

God = philosophical suicide

[Thin Lizzy]

You mean philosophically speaking? Nietzsche was constantly grappling with that. He came of age in the 1860s. One of the most turbulent times in the history of humanity.

I think the question of what to replace God with is preceded by the question of is there a need for God. So really, it becomes a question about human nature. Do we need the concept God anymore? As individuals? As families? As communities? As countries? As a species?

The data suggests that some do and some don't.