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Mike Nelson here.
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i was just thinking about this wayne gretzky post about how quind wanted to buy drugs online:

"oh hey internet its me, fatlord. can i please buy four pounds of weed so i never have to go outside. i will fling the money out the window at 4:06 pm. please heave the weed at me. i’ll be the one in the window thinking gay shit about stupid crap."
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atheism is the easiest religion to troll
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tpaine posted:

this place is like school in the summertime


sorry your stuck with me for now, athiest nerd.

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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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i dont think you hate arabs tpaine. i think you don't care about anything other than your bitterness and how much smarter you are than everybody, so discounting their suffering and your allegiance with assholes is a perfectly acceptable loss if it allows you to still lol at how dumb they are for praying to a god that won't save them as the bombs hit
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mission accomplished.
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i always assumed tpaine and goatstein were the same person
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"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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tpaine you have forgotten the first law of misanthropy, that despite your gnosis of it you remain a human and as subject to the same cruelties, insanities and ignorance. there is no group identity that cannot trigger the mind-destroying tribalist instinct. you have seen yourself as more than you are and have fallen. by schopenhauer's hammer i banish you to malibu beach
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mustang is trying to hit us where it hurts by driving tpaine from the forum
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ya i hacked him. owned again tpaine
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I am a Christian but this is a communist forum and atheism is a basic tenet of communism.

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tpaine posted:

who would hack goatstein and do it in such a boring way? oh wait, i forgot, it could be any the fuck other poster here

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goat: it's very important to examine positions like atheism in cultural contexts? it can lead to supporting some very problematic positions vis a vis islam. also trans people are insane nutjobs who need to be medicated into submission lmao
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c_man posted:

goat: it's very important to examine positions like atheism in cultural contexts? it can lead to supporting some very problematic positions vis a vis islam. also trans people are insane nutjobs who need to be medicated into submission lmao



tpaine & goat

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roseweird posted:

gay



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tpaine posted:

but no i just really hate arabs and want them to die and my years-long gimmick of being an atheist and wishing death on us Soldiers is a weird psyop cover for this fact


i always read stuff on here and try to incorporate it into my own thought process because i don't like reading "books" (i went into the sciences) and i assume everyone here delves into leftist theory in their own lives enough that i can have a sufficient idea of what it really means to be progressive.

certainly to say that there is a god is an unscientific and simply illogical statement, but the same hold trues for the disbelief in a god. you reach a barrier here if you merely ignore the problem and say there may or may not be a god: what do you do about others who retain their belief?

letting people hold on to their faith is not logical and may breed irrational thought within the populace. but, afaik, socialism is about the ultimate expression of the diversity of humanity through their freedom from capitalism. for many, religion is an inextricable part of their culture and identity. i can certainly find solidarity with my socialist comrades when we meet to discuss theory (i don't do this lol), but say i was arab (im not); how do i find camaraderie with my arab brethren if not through the rituals which we mutually perform, what makes us arab? yes we may speak the same language, have the same dances / songs, eat the same type of cuisine, but no central, communal meeting point exists for us past the masjid and few fundamentally shared cultural behaviors exist between us past our prayers.

what is the purpose of the revolution? is it to interpret these customs in a non-theistic way, to find a new "centrality" for innumerable, yet distinct, populations, or to forbid people to behave in any way that even allows a little unscientific though to creep in?

idk :p

(edit: im pretty low on the tier of personal revolutionary progress, so any explanation is welcome.)

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also, are all of you really alcoholics?
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does anyone who knows about theology know/care about gould's non-overlapping magisteria business?
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gwarp posted:

also, are all of you really alcoholics?



if only

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gwarp posted:

also, are all of you really alcoholics?

modern drunkards perhaps. I don't see any indication of alcoholism on this forum

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God is not false, god is dead. A true atheist critiques religion, which in the age of capital is bourgeois liberalism. Also, the enlightenment conception of science is the religion of the modern atheist, as seen in obsession over NASA but also the D&D obsession with total knowledge. Critique religion in all of its forms, but understand that feudal remnants like christianity and islam can act as the opiate of the masses while liberalism can only be oppressive. Richard Dawkins is perhaps the most religious man of our age.