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Originally written by Gizmo:
I expect only to confirm what I already believe. If I find otherwise, I'll be sure to let you know.
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Why would you learn anything new when you are only looking for confirmation?
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I am not looking for confirmation, I expect confirmation. What I find is as of yet unknown. Just like you expect not to be swayed by any religous argument here but who can really tell how it will affect you?

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Because I asked God to give me wisdom and He told me to study. Just knowing the mechanics of other faiths will help me. But as I said before, I already have personal proof that tells me I'm already on the right track.

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Again this is the question, 'Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?' Only this time it is innocent people. All previous answers still apply. God did give us a purpose in life, He gave us at least five. But those are based on the Bible so I will not list them here. I will look at it in theoretical terms for your sake. [If} there is a God who has created us, then we [have] to have been made for a purpose. Even if it is only for his own sadistic pleasure to watch us fight over him. Since a purpose [has] to exsist [if] God exsists then it is up to us to discern what that purpose is. What resources exsist for us to discern this purpose? All holy books. Are all holy books true? No, they cannot be because some are exclusionary. Which are true? It is up to us to find out, thus why I plan to study them all. [If] God does not exsist then we [cannot] have a purpose because we are created by random chance and evolution. [If] we do not have a purpose, why do we want to find one? You yourself said that it would be cruel and sadistic to creat us without a purpose. Why if you believe we have no purpose anyway? Why is it cruel not to have a purpose?

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It is better for a drug addict to submit to Christ then to stop doing drugs. Once submitted he must continue to submit as the realization of what he is doing is wrong comes to him.

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Despite that I said nothing of the sort... Everything we have is God's. We are borrowing it from him. He can take it back at any time because it is his. You call it teasing, I call it simple property rights.

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God's justice is ultimately measured by rewards for the faithful and punishment for the unfaithful both in the afterlife.

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From the perspective of the woman wearing the bikini, it is submitting to sexism. She is deigning to wear an outfit which she KNOWS will have an effect on the men around her- halter tops are not worn for comfort, nor are bikinis, nor are thongs. If they are worn to get a rise out of men, it is women selling their dignities for palpable control, which is akin to selling one's self for intercourse for capital. In other words, whoredom.

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If women wear such garb for the purpose of getting laid, then it is often for gaining social standing. (For instance, statistics report that most women do not find pleasure in sex, especially after repeated instances.)

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I cannot describe to you how gut-wrenching it is dealing with masculine insecurity, although I would think that I wouldn't have to. (Posting on SW is a great way to advertise one's own impotency.) Being comparably unattractive has been a force of incredible isolation for me, and not having "gotten the girl" (as it is inevitably the man's position to be the power broker of coochies and cooters) torments me.

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But don't take my word for it. If you think that pornography leaves you unphased and that faceless sex and that women pandering into demands etc are all amoral activities, so be it- but also note your personal reactions to each of these things and how your doing them or others' doing them makes you think and feel.

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Originally written by Frozen feet:

Why to bother when we still have the real world? Besides, if I want to feel bullets that are shot at me, I'll just go out and play Airsoft with my friends.

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Imagine you're playing a game similar to Exile. You cast a fireball spell and you can actually feel the heat from the fire. Not to mention that I don't think you can cast fireball in the real world...

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Originally written by Gizmo:

I expect only to confirm what I already believe. If I find otherwise, I'll be sure to let you know.

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Because God is a personal God who will deal with people on an individual basis. Perhaps realizing that God is willing to help you with such a trivial task as finding your keys leads you to be grateful, so grateful that you decide to devote your life to foreign missions. So you move to a third world country where thousands of children starve to death every day and minister to them as you are able and you change their lives in doing so. I do not mourn very much for the child who starves to death. Let me tell you why before you call me heartless. That child will never suffer again, will never hunger again, will never thirst again, will never be cold or sick or alone ever again because s/he has a place prepared for him/her in Heaven. The table is already set with the feast they will now enjoy that they did not get to enjoy in life.

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You cannot be 'forced' to follow God, it is always your choice to do so. And if you choose to follow God 'only' because you want the rewards of Heaven (or to escape hell) it is at least a first step towards Christlikeness. If you 'really' follow God, you will discover on your journey that there are better reasons to follow him.

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