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Bicyclists need to get on the sidewalk with the rest of the slow-moving pedestrians anyways.

And for god sakes, if you won't buy a real car for transportation, at least get a motorcycle or a scooter. Do it for your own safety and personal pride, at least. Nobody over the age of 16 in a developed nation should be riding a bicycle.

I resent that, I ride a bicycle! And I'm from a devel-

Oh, right.

Well, carry on then.

Oh. Man, people just don't mention these things. I signed up to help the poor and do good in this world. Then, I learned about the inquisition.

I feel so confused. Christianity as a religion can have a strange affect on its worshipers. The message of 'spread peace and tolerance' somehow got watered down to 'shove red hot pokers up the bottoms of those who look at you funny'. Seriously, it's like a drug except it has no side effect apart from those you create for yourself.

Take a look at Mark, Matthew, and Luke, for example. They contain some internal contradictions. For example, Luke has some stuff that Matthew doesn't, and vice versa, and both have a lot that Mark doesn't, especially the part about the virgin birth. As far as I'm concerned, Mark is the closest to what Jesus meant to say. (we don't count the gospel of John. That book is filled with self-aggrandizing inserts, courtesy of John. Also, he was apparently on mushrooms most of the time).

The thing is, I know a lot of atheists/agnostics who are a hell of a lot more Christian than some of the Christians I know are. These atheists help the needy, and feed the poor, not because they want to go to fluffy cloud heaven, but because it's the right thing to do.

tl;dr: people need to practice what they preach.

Quote from: Vester on August 25, 2009, 07:15:43 am

The Catholic perspective on the afterlife would be terrifying for most people.

"Ohhhh nooooo, I'm going to lose all my sense of self! But I like being me!"

Do I keep missing large parts of my own religion? I'm pretty sure I am. As I understood it, what was on offer was paradise for eternity. Still, I like to follow the Discworld idea of the afterlife is what you make it.

Ooooh, you're Catholic? Yay, I'm not alone in my demographic!

It's implied, and I think some Popes have written about this, and a lot of the theologians I study under think the same way, that Paradise isn't a 'place' of any sort, but rather a state of being - a return to the closest possible state as we are to "Pure Act", which is the Christian God. That would necessarily mean a complete loss of self, but I'm pretty sure that Christians are supposed to care more about other people than themselves.

The Catholic perspective on the afterlife would be terrifying for most people.

"Ohhhh nooooo, I'm going to lose all my sense of self! But I like being me!"

I'm not sure what the perspectives of the other major religions are, but they're probably similar, like Nirvana for Budhhism.

As for myself, like I said earlier, it doesn't really matter. The question of whether there is or is not an afterlife is immaterial, since what happens while we're alive is the whole point of being alive.

Yeah, I think Holy Mittens found that report in Legends mode.

We also know that an elf called Iwo shot and killed the elf that ate Cacame's wife, but beyond that, we don't know much.

Except that Cacame was apparently married when he was 16.

To quote Guerilla Medic, of Boatmurdered:

All burn.

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