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17 comments
August 29, 2011 at 11:09 am
Ben Hoffman
God throws a temper tantrum if you mock him. What a baby. :)
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August 29, 2011 at 11:10 am
Ben Hoffman
Uh, oh… I think I just mocked him.
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August 29, 2011 at 11:25 am
The Arbourist
Noooooooooooo…..repent before it is too late!
Or don’t :)
*g*
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August 29, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Ben Hoffman
Being trapped in “heaven” with a bunch of religious nuts sounds like hell to me. :)
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August 30, 2011 at 6:21 pm
Alan Scott
I will pray for you two . I can’t think of any two who need it more.
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August 30, 2011 at 6:24 pm
The Arbourist
I’ll think for you Alan. Seems only fair. :)
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August 31, 2011 at 7:58 am
Ben Hoffman
I wonder if Alan still believes in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. :)
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August 31, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Alan Scott
The Arbourist ,
” I’ll think for you Alan. Seems only fair. ”
Well I’ve held up my end of that bargain . Nothing bad happened to you, so my prayer was answered .
Mr. Hoffman ,
” I wonder if Alan still believes in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. ”
The Tooth Fairy did okay by me financially. My teeth fetched top dollar, when a dollar was worth a dollar . Santa used to kiss Mom by the Christmas tree. I think he was my real Dad . I’m almost as fat now as he was .
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September 1, 2011 at 12:01 am
Mystro
” Nothing bad happened to you, so my prayer was answered .”
Hey, and I just prayed to Kaasunga, the great Dutch Cheese God that you don’t get your brain eaten by mutant-space-zombies tonight. If you make it to tomorrow, I guess that means Kaasunga is real and is protecting you because he answered my prayer. You’re welcome!
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September 1, 2011 at 5:35 am
Alan Scott
Mystro,
“We are weak watery beings swimming in a sea of uncertainty.”
I will take any prayers and help I can get . Unlike you, things happen to me that are out of my control . It must be great to be you and have no worries.
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September 1, 2011 at 10:12 am
Ben Hoffman
Unlike you, things happen to me that are out of my control .
It must be horrible thinking you don’t have control over your own life. Then again, it takes away all self-responsibility when you believe that some supernatural being controls everything.
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September 2, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Alan Scott
Mr. Hoffman ,
” It must be horrible thinking you don’t have control over your own life. ”
No it is not horrible . I survived two separate head on car collisions a few years back . I had no control over how those turned out . I have survived long enough to raise up two kids, when close relatives younger than me have contracted cancers and brain tumors . I have no control that I was more fortunate than them .
” Then again, it takes away all self-responsibility when you believe that some supernatural being controls everything. ” No God helps those that help themselves. As opposed to Obamabots who have no self responsibility because Uncle Sam or Uncle Barak will still feed, cloth, and doctor them no matter how stupid they are .
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September 2, 2011 at 11:55 pm
Ben Hoffman
No God helps those that help themselves.
How does he do that?
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September 3, 2011 at 8:43 am
Alan Scott
Mr. Hoffman ,
” ” No God helps those that help themselves.”
How does he do that? ”
He gives you brains, strength, and opportunities. He gives no guarantees. It is up to you to make the most of your circumstances. I know people retired and on disability who sit around and complain about everything, do very little for themselves and nothing for others . The ones with the ambition to get to the polls and actually vote, do not vote Republican.
I also know people who are more severely disabled, who are wearing out their electric wheel chairs, going out meeting people, volunteering, and constantly pushing the physical limits of their lives. Funny, they do not tend to be raging Atheists .
I am a fan of Benjamin Franklin and his capitalist philosophies, so clearly stated in Poor Richards Almanac. These were written to instruct the poor and lower middle classes of colonial America. I cannot find any big government welfare advice there .
” Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. ”
I realize you do not farm corn. The thought applies to your business.
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September 3, 2011 at 2:41 pm
The Arbourist
He gives you brains, strength, and opportunities. He gives no guarantees.
Tough luck if you’re born with serious cognitive defects, cause I guess god wanted you that way. Check. Nice god.
I know people retired and on disability who sit around and complain about everything, do very little for themselves and nothing for others
I know people who troll progressive blogs and make inane comments and assertions based on little more than hot air. What is your point?
The ones with the ambition to get to the polls and actually vote, do not vote Republican.
Their is much to be said about the wisdom of the elderly.
Funny, they do not tend to be raging Atheists .
Most people are not ‘raging Atheists’ but rather content to let the deluded clutch at the mystical straws of their religion and go about their business. One gets tired of calling the foolish on their folly. :)
These were written to instruct the poor and lower middle classes of colonial America. I cannot find any big government welfare advice there .
The nostalgia for the bitter times of revolutionary America is somewhat confounding. The poor and middle classes, the majority of people already worked hard and were certainly not lazy (in general). Extolling them to work harder was not exactly a flash of genius.
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September 3, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Bleatmop
” Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. ”
One wonders how those who work 3 jobs at minimum wage just to stay might “plough deeper” while all us sluggards sleep.
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September 4, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Alan Scott
The Arbourist ,
” Tough luck if you’re born with serious cognitive defects, cause I guess god wanted you that way. Check. Nice god. ”
It’s worse than that . In the Book of Job, God allows the devil to kill Job’s entire family and ruin him, all on a bet.
What is the difference between your belief and mine? You glorify science on your board. Man invented science . Man is arguably the most powerful creature that has ever existed . Yet even you must admit that man is not all powerful. One day he will go extinct.
I can go out my front door and choose to crush a bug on the sidewalk with my big foot. I am a God to the bug . You and I , as humans are the most powerful creatures on earth, yet we are bugs waiting for some big foot to make us a stain on the sidewalk.
You choose to believe that the guy with the big shoes is a brainless idiot . You can call him luck, chance, or fate . That big foot stepping on you might be a stroke, or an asteroid. If it is an asteroid you and your science are no more powerful than the dinosaurs were .
I choose to believe that Mr. big shoes is a benevolent God who has chosen not to flatten me yet . One day he will. Why or when I won’t know . I can hope to wake up either in Heaven or in the eighth circle of hell . You on the other hand will have to wait billions of years until the universe stops expanding, collapses, has another big bang, and recreates you. I am not that patient .
” The nostalgia for the bitter times of revolutionary America is somewhat confounding. The poor and middle classes, the majority of people already
worked hard and were certainly not lazy (in general). Extolling them to work harder was not exactly a flash of genius. ”
A minor point of correction . Poor Richard’s Almanac was pre Revolutionary . Great Britain was the overtaxing Barak Obama Central authority of the time . If you read Franklin’s autobiography you will find that he rose to wealth following his own advice . Much of it he leaned the hard way .
It’s true that some lower classes were quite virtuous. Yet Franklin found that often many remained trapped in their class because of their vices . He sought to help them. We Conservatives are happy to follow in his big footsteps .
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