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01-18-2008, 12:26 AM
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might i add, so many of you are so blind-folded. i do feel bad for you.
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here we are now with the falling sky & the rain. we're awakening. here we are now with the desperate youth in pain. we're awakening. maybe it's called ambition, when your talking in your sleep, about a dream. we're awakening.
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01-18-2008, 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by The Backward OX
Hahahaha. Welcome to WritingForums.com
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=D>your funny. clever one.
there is a place in this forum made just for debate. why don't you check it out, kid?
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here we are now with the falling sky & the rain. we're awakening. here we are now with the desperate youth in pain. we're awakening. maybe it's called ambition, when your talking in your sleep, about a dream. we're awakening.
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01-18-2008, 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by mythologicalrealities
Yes, because a post about religious differences that I typed up in about 5 minutes, and something I actually work on WRITING are similar things.
Oh, and btw, I believe that technically, serious readers do like doing a writers work for them. A good writer leaves things to the imagination.
Maybe you should work on your wording, yourself.
And it's pathetic that you counted how many words there were until the end of the sentence. And most "serious readers" do actually read sentences, they don't critically look over every single word.
Stories mainly focus on the storyline. People who read stories like to do this as well.
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You used the word incorrectly. Get over it.
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01-18-2008, 12:58 AM
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You used the word incorrectly. Get over it.
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Exactly. It's no big deal. That was my point in the first place... |
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01-18-2008, 01:08 AM
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Give up now mate. The poster eats roots shoots and leaves, and more particularly is female and so will always have the last word.
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01-18-2008, 01:42 AM
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Christians are Nazis of the spiritual world.
They will kill all unbelievers on the Judgement Day.
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01-18-2008, 02:32 AM
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Edit: On second thought, and after reading Ox's post, I withdraw my comments and sagaciously wash my hands of this thread.
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Last edited by Matt3483 : 01-18-2008 at 02:42 AM.
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01-18-2008, 03:40 AM
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Originally Posted by thefallingsky&therain
wow.
why does everyone in here think EVERYTHING has to be a debate? i didn't ask to be bashed or for Jesus to be bashed. i was just reccomending a good book. after all, this IS a thread for BOOKS. and the title for this-the what if Christ didn't come to earth until today-that's a part of the book. the book itself is called Eli. someome PLEASE lock this thread. it's full of drama and immaturity. nice, guys..
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Lock the thread because you don't like how it's turned out? Sorry, it doesn't work that way.
This thread turned into a debate because you started it with a question, therefore begging an answer. This thread is what you made it.
For future reference, if you want to recommend a book, tell us why. What did you like about it, why should we read it, that kind of stuff. You told us nothing.
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A fiery car crash hurls TV journalist Conrad Davis into another world exactly like ours except for one detail — Jesus Christ did not come 2,000 years ago, but today.
Starting with angels heralding a birth in the back of a motel laundry room, the skeptical Davis watches the gospel unfold in today's society as a Messiah in T-shirt and blue jeans heals, raises people from the dead, and speaks such startling truths that he captures the heart of a nation.
But the young man's actions and his criticism of the religious establishment earn him enemies as ruthless as they are powerful.
An intense and thought-provoking novel, Eli strips away religious tradition to present Jesus fresh and unvarnished. With gripping immediacy, Bill Myers weaves a story whose truth will refresh your faith.
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That tells us more. I had to google it to find out what you left out. Still don't know why you liked it though. Is it well written? Well plotted? Do you like it because it's evangelical tone chimes with your own beliefs? Or because it challenges them? Why? |
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01-18-2008, 07:03 AM
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This subject was guaranteed (at least as of the title) to draw fire. Even so, I'm disappointed that the level of discourse is so low.
Please discuss the book. I weary of hackneyed attacks on religion simply because someone brings up the word 'Jesus'. A civil discourse is possible, please attempt it.
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01-18-2008, 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Truth-Teller
Christians are Nazis of the spiritual world.
They will kill all unbelievers on the Judgement Day.
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You, sunshine, are right out of order.
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Originally Posted by Olly Buckle
The ways of the world are twisty and unknowable, the only way to be sure you are not caught out in something you regret is not to do things you may regret.
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01-18-2008, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Malone
You really think Christians stopped persecuting people that didn't believe what they do hundreds of years ago? I think there are some abortion clinics that would argue differently...
And as to the German killing Jew argument, it wasn't quite the Germans that wanted to kill Jews, it was the Nazi party, and yes, they still want to kill all Jews.
I honestly don't like or trust Germans anyways, but if you're going to accuse an entire nation of Mass Murder, at least get the particulars correct.
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Ha! My point exactly. How can you judge a single country or religion on what a certain group did in the past? The Germans, Christians, Muslims, the Soviets all have killed millions of people for different purposes but we don't label them as genocide states today, now do we?
And it's also stupid to think that religious organizations are the best at killing non-believers. How about the Nazis killing Jews, homosexuals, and Gepsys? I think that death toll was 11 million. The Soviet Union killed almost 7 million people in the Great Purge and the Holodomor during the 1930s and they were an atheist society that persecuted religions. The common denominator here isn't belief systems folks, its people. People kill people, its human nature. Sadly humans are the only species on the planet that do this ( killing in war and genocide I mean).
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Originally Posted by Backwards OX
Are you omnipotent? Can you get inside others' heads? For all we know, a great many Germans may still want to kill all the Jews.
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I think we can safely assume that since we haven't had Holocaust number 2 yet, that the vast majority of Germans do not want to kill Jewish citizens. Meh, they might still hate them but that is a whole different different story and is still probably not the case. Generalizations of groups of people are usually wrong in general.
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01-19-2008, 06:59 AM
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Truth Teller said,
[Christians are Nazis of the spiritual world.
They will kill all unbelievers on the Judgement Day.]
You'd better believe it dude, your sorry ass will fry man, you will scream until you toncils fall out and then puke all over them. Your lips will burn off, your teeth will fall out your ting-a-ling will shrivel up your eeys will melt in the sockets. It will be gross man and all you will hear is the sound of miullions like you all moaning and groaning with no peace and no hope. And all you will see is the beauty of Christ a millian billion eons away and you will be in deep shit man, and if you complain it will get worse and the rest of them will turn on you. And you will cry and sob and feel stupid that you never knew.
You sorry spectre of a human being.
regards
ieuan
p.s. read 'The Book of Revelation' man.
p.p.s. It's the last book in the Bible.
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01-19-2008, 07:15 AM
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Revelation was written while John was living in a cave and consuming large amounts of hallucigens. Nero exiled him, so 666 is a thinly veiled reference to Nero, not the devil. It's all just some guy tripping his ass off. Yet you've decided to base your life on it...
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01-19-2008, 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by ieuan
Truth Teller said,
[Christians are Nazis of the spiritual world.
They will kill all unbelievers on the Judgement Day.]
You'd better believe it dude, your sorry ass will fry man, you will scream until you toncils fall out and then puke all over them. Your lips will burn off, your teeth will fall out your ting-a-ling will shrivel up your eeys will melt in the sockets. It will be gross man and all you will hear is the sound of miullions like you all moaning and groaning with no peace and no hope. And all you will see is the beauty of Christ a millian billion eons away and you will be in deep shit man, and if you complain it will get worse and the rest of them will turn on you. And you will cry and sob and feel stupid that you never knew.
You sorry spectre of a human being.
regards
ieuan
p.s. read 'The Book of Revelation' man.
p.p.s. It's the last book in the Bible.
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Give a Christian an inch and he'll take a mile. F*ck me, these are the types that are supposed to turn the other cheek, love thy neighbour and all the rest of that crap.
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01-19-2008, 08:26 AM
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Okay, this is not a thread of whether Christians are like Nazis and is getting more offensive, not less. Closed.
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